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Procedure price report · Gastrostomy, temporary and permanent

Endoscopic conversion of stomach tube to intestinal tube

CPT 44373the billing code this page is about

A scope is passed through the mouth and down past the stomach and upper small intestine so an existing feeding tube in the stomach can be repositioned into the small bowel.

Hospitals typically charge $1,902 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 671 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,954. Most fall between $586 and $3,721 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
671
States
49
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 671 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
$346$796$1,902$3,282$5,481

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 16× what the cheapest tenth charges ($346 vs $5,481).

How the prices are spread

$278 – $378: 40 hospitals$278$378 – $514: 48 hospitals$514 – $699: 31 hospitals$514$699 – $950: 38 hospitals$950 – $1,292: 62 hospitals$950$1,292 – $1,757: 71 hospitals$1,757 – $2,389: 95 hospitals$1,757$2,389 – $3,248: 84 hospitals$3,248 – $4,416: 75 hospitals$3,248$4,416 – $6,004: 61 hospitals$4,416median $1,902price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (605 of 671 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$278$37840
$378$51448
$514$69931
$699$95038
$950$1,29262
$1,292$1,75771
$1,757$2,38995
$2,389$3,24884
$3,248$4,41675
$4,416$6,00461

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$1,960
Median cash price$1,902
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.97×

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 $1,902.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $745 across 25 hospitalsIL$745Wisconsin: median $1,990 across 20 hospitalsWI$1,990Michigan: median $1,011 across 27 hospitalsMI$1,011New York: median $2,245 across 23 hospitalsNY$2,245Massachusetts: median $3,737 across 10 hospitalsMA$3,737Oregon: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $484 across 18 hospitalsIA$484Indiana: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $2,717 across 30 hospitalsOH$2,717Pennsylvania: median $2,946 across 40 hospitalsPA$2,946New Jersey: median $3,986 across 34 hospitalsNJ$3,986Connecticut: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $3,721 across 66 hospitalsCA$3,721Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $1,684 across 12 hospitalsCO$1,684Nebraska: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $1,457 across 15 hospitalsMO$1,457Kentucky: median $1,676 across 16 hospitalsKY$1,676West Virginia: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $1,210 across 22 hospitalsVA$1,210Maryland: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $5,481 across 12 hospitalsAZ$5,481New Mexico: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $1,143 across 13 hospitalsTN$1,143North Carolina: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: median $3,027 across 18 hospitalsSC$3,027Oklahoma: median $313 across 18 hospitalsOK$313Louisiana: median $1,129 across 16 hospitalsLA$1,129Mississippi: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $1,496 across 22 hospitalsGA$1,496Hawaii: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $1,138 across 49 hospitalsTX$1,138Florida: median $3,322 across 32 hospitalsFL$3,322
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,902. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Arizona AZ12$5,481+188%$2,355 – $5,481
New Jersey NJ34$3,986+110%$2,102 – $6,249
Massachusetts MA10$3,737+96%$1,825 – $5,323
California CA66$3,721+96%$2,412 – $5,695
Florida FL32$3,322+75%$2,012 – $4,266
South Carolina SC18$3,027+59%$1,588 – $3,027
Pennsylvania PA40$2,946+55%$1,961 – $3,848
Ohio OH30$2,717+43%$705 – $3,490
New York NY23$2,245+18%$496 – $2,245
Wisconsin WI20$1,990+5%$1,990 – $2,848
Colorado CO12$1,684−11%$1,443 – $3,209
Kentucky KY16$1,676−12%$434 – $7,617
Georgia GA22$1,496−21%$1,496 – $3,153
Missouri MO15$1,457−23%$313 – $3,910
Virginia VA22$1,210−36%$1,187 – $1,678
Tennessee TN13$1,143−40%$201 – $1,261
Texas TX49$1,138−40%$669 – $1,838
Louisiana LA16$1,129−41%$801 – $1,903
Michigan MI27$1,011−47%$760 – $2,639
Illinois IL25$745−61%$434 – $1,949
Iowa IA18$484−75%$484 – $796
Oklahoma OK18$313−84%$313 – $817
Idaho ID9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not 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 $1,902.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care574$1,949$669 – $3,754
Children’s17fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access77$1,148$427 – $2,848
Ownership
For-profit62$1,961$700 – $4,924
Government99$1,689$633 – $3,290
Non-profit507$1,906$548 – $3,848
System affiliation
Part of a system564$1,990$669 – $3,848
Independent107$1,286$406 – $2,717

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,153
Median cash price$1,902
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

503 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,810 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,003; most fall between $496 and $3,860.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 503 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
$313$752$1,810$3,490$5,695

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 18× what the cheapest tenth charges ($313 vs $5,695).

Of the 560 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 503 gave a usable cash price; 30 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 27 a list price only.

How complete is this

671 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (17%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 745 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted671
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here52
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded21
Hospitals that filed this code745

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 Gastrostomy, temporary and permanent family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Enteroscopy > 2nd Prtn Conv Gstrst Tube.

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, “Endoscopic conversion of stomach tube to intestinal tube (CPT 44373) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-44373-endoscopic-conversion-of-stomach-tube-to-intestinal-tube