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Small bowel endoscopy with polyp removal by cautery

CPT 44365the billing code this page is about

A flexible scope is passed into the small intestine (not reaching the ileum) and a growth is removed using heated forceps or electrical cautery.

Hospitals typically charge $2,037 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 488 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,931. Most fall between $531 and $3,608 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
488
States
46
Filings dated
Jun 2024 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 24, 2026

Median: half of hospitals filed less, half more — and it is a price some hospital actually filed. Average of the middle 60%: the mean of the prices between the 20th and 80th percentiles. We never publish the plain average, the lowest or the highest price: the extremes in hospital price files are chargemaster artefacts, not prices anyone pays.

What hospitals charge, from cheapest to most expensive

Cash price percentiles, outpatient, across 488 hospitals. Each figure is a price a hospital filed. 10th: one in ten hospitals charges less; 25th: a quarter charge less; Median: half charge less; 75th: three quarters charge less; 90th: nine in ten charge less.
10th25thMedian75th90th
$310$713$2,037$3,153$4,686

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 15× what the cheapest tenth charges ($310 vs $4,686).

How the prices are spread

$203 – $283: 22 hospitals$203$283 – $394: 23 hospitals$394 – $550: 33 hospitals$394$550 – $768: 27 hospitals$768 – $1,072: 28 hospitals$768$1,072 – $1,496: 35 hospitals$1,496 – $2,087: 60 hospitals$1,496$2,087 – $2,913: 99 hospitals$2,913 – $4,064: 74 hospitals$2,913$4,064 – $5,672: 41 hospitals$4,064median $2,037price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (442 of 488 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$203$28322
$283$39423
$394$55033
$550$76827
$768$1,07228
$1,072$1,49635
$1,496$2,08760
$2,087$2,91399
$2,913$4,06474
$4,064$5,67241

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$1,960
Median cash price$2,037
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.04×

The Medicare figure is the national unadjusted OPPS rate for this code — what Medicare itself pays a hospital before local wage adjustment. It is a benchmark, not a price anyone is charged.

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $2,037.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $1,477 across 23 hospitalsIL$1,477Wisconsin: median $1,856 across 21 hospitalsWI$1,856Michigan: median $713 across 26 hospitalsMI$713New York: median $2,245 across 20 hospitalsNY$2,245Massachusetts: median $5,323 across 16 hospitalsMA$5,323Oregon: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceORNevada: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $460 across 17 hospitalsIA$460Indiana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $3,041 across 41 hospitalsOH$3,041Pennsylvania: median $1,160 across 25 hospitalsPA$1,160New Jersey: median $2,531 across 32 hospitalsNJ$2,531Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $2,167 across 57 hospitalsCA$2,167Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: median $3,111 across 12 hospitalsCO$3,111Nebraska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $1,483 across 10 hospitalsMO$1,483Kentucky: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $761 across 12 hospitalsTN$761North Carolina: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $251 across 13 hospitalsOK$251Louisiana: median $852 across 11 hospitalsLA$852Mississippi: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $1,852 across 30 hospitalsTX$1,852Florida: median $2,351 across 22 hospitalsFL$2,351
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,037. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Massachusetts MA16$5,323+161%$2,810 – $5,961
Colorado CO12$3,111+53%$2,357 – $5,076
Ohio OH41$3,041+49%$2,038 – $3,540
New Jersey NJ32$2,531+24%$2,102 – $5,181
Florida FL22$2,351+15%$1,896 – $4,359
New York NY20$2,245+10%$515 – $2,245
California CA57$2,167+6%$1,390 – $3,796
Wisconsin WI21$1,856−9%$1,856 – $3,674
Texas TX30$1,852−9%$818 – $1,893
Missouri MO10$1,483−27%$296 – $3,910
Illinois IL23$1,477−28%$310 – $3,395
Pennsylvania PA25$1,160−43%$116 – $2,267
Louisiana LA11$852−58%$716 – $1,145
Tennessee TN12$761−63%$193 – $1,261
Michigan MI26$713−65%$713 – $1,856
Iowa IA17$460−77%$435 – $460
Oklahoma OK13$251−88%$251 – $1,900
Georgia GA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY1not enough hospitals filed a usable price

Hospitals like yours

The same distribution cut by the kind of hospital. Hospital type and ownership come from CMS; a hospital counts as part of a system when its price file is shared with at least one other hospital under the same brand. The national median is $2,037.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care416$2,100$656 – $3,540
Children’s10fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access58$1,856$388 – $3,674
Ownership
For-profit44$1,900$527 – $3,540
Government72$1,896$637 – $3,111
Non-profit368$2,073$531 – $3,674
System affiliation
Part of a system418$2,151$668 – $3,685
Independent70$1,235$377 – $2,483

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,399
Median cash price$2,037
Cash as a share of list, median hospital60%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 40%. The share is the median of each hospital’s own cash ÷ list ratio, over hospitals that filed both — not the ratio of the two medians above.

The same procedure, inpatient

343 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,893 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,861; most fall between $443 and $3,685.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 343 hospitals. Each figure is a price a hospital filed. 10th: one in ten hospitals charges less; 25th: a quarter charge less; Median: half charge less; 75th: three quarters charge less; 90th: nine in ten charge less.
10th25thMedian75th90th
$251$531$1,893$3,189$4,686

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 19× what the cheapest tenth charges ($251 vs $4,686).

Of the 374 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 343 gave a usable cash price; 13 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 18 a list price only.

How complete is this

488 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (12%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 525 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted488
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here21
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded14
Hospitals that filed this code525

Sections not shown for this setting

  • Since our last snapshot: there is no earlier snapshot at least 90 days older than this one yet.

We last checked these hospitals’ price files for changes between September 4, 2026 and September 24, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 23, 2026. The percentiles and averages use only the “counted” row.

Related procedures

Part of the Other OR gastrointestinal therapeutic procedures family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Enteroscopy > 2nd Prtn W/Rmvl Lesion Cautery.

Method

Source
The machine-readable price files every U.S. hospital is required by CMS to publish, parsed per hospital. Nothing is surveyed, sampled or modelled.
What counts
One cash (self-pay) price per hospital for this code and setting. A hospital’s own filing can rule its number out — a placeholder, a “not applicable” note, a list price standing in for cash — and our plausibility checks can flag a price far below what every other hospital files. Both kinds are disclosed above and excluded from the statistics; on the compare tool a flagged price is still shown.
Statistics
Percentiles are discrete: each is a price some hospital filed. The average is the mean of the prices between the 20th and 80th percentiles. We never publish the plain mean, the minimum or the maximum. A state needs 10 hospitals and a segment 20 to show a figure; otherwise the row shows its count and no number. Medicare is the national unadjusted OPPS rate where one exists.
Names
Procedure names on these pages are our own plain-language titles, not the AMA’s copyrighted CPT descriptors. The code is the identity.

The full rules — sources, statistics, thresholds, limitations — are on the methodology page.

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Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Small bowel endoscopy with polyp removal by cautery (CPT 44365) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-44365-small-bowel-endoscopy-with-polyp-removal-by-cautery