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Procedure price report · Upper gastrointestinal endoscopy, biopsy

Exam of the ileum through a stoma with stent placement

CPT 44384the billing code this page is about

A flexible scope is passed through an ileostomy opening and a stent is placed to hold a narrowed part of the intestine open.

Hospitals typically charge $2,395 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 382 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,652. Most fall between $741 and $5,220 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
382
States
44
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 382 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
$324$988$2,395$4,312$6,737

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 21× what the cheapest tenth charges ($324 vs $6,737).

How the prices are spread

$206 – $295: 12 hospitals$206$295 – $424: 35 hospitals$424 – $608: 4 hospitals$424$608 – $873: 14 hospitals$873 – $1,252: 21 hospitals$873$1,252 – $1,797: 22 hospitals$1,797 – $2,578: 75 hospitals$1,797$2,578 – $3,700: 56 hospitals$3,700 – $5,309: 54 hospitals$3,700$5,309 – $7,617: 55 hospitals$5,309median $2,395price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (348 of 382 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$206$29512
$295$42435
$424$6084
$608$87314
$873$1,25221
$1,252$1,79722
$1,797$2,57875
$2,578$3,70056
$3,700$5,30954
$5,309$7,61755

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$1,960
Median cash price$2,395
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.22×

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 $2,395.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $2,193 across 17 hospitalsIL$2,193Wisconsin: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: median $2,499 across 11 hospitalsMI$2,499New York: median $2,245 across 21 hospitalsNY$2,245Massachusetts: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceORNevada: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $388 across 16 hospitalsIA$388Indiana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $3,279 across 24 hospitalsOH$3,279Pennsylvania: median $2,224 across 16 hospitalsPA$2,224New Jersey: median $3,786 across 24 hospitalsNJ$3,786Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $3,812 across 54 hospitalsCA$3,812Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 3 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: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceARTennessee: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: median $1,755 across 14 hospitalsSC$1,755Oklahoma: median $324 across 13 hospitalsOK$324Louisiana: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $2,900 across 17 hospitalsGA$2,900Hawaii: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $6,055 across 17 hospitalsTX$6,055Florida: median $5,220 across 13 hospitalsFL$5,220
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,395. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Texas TX17$6,055+153%$2,993 – $6,055
Florida FL13$5,220+118%$796 – $6,847
California CA54$3,812+59%$2,461 – $6,737
New Jersey NJ24$3,786+58%$2,100 – $5,741
Ohio OH24$3,279+37%$741 – $3,854
Georgia GA17$2,900+21%$2,900 – $2,900
Michigan MI11$2,499+4%$198 – $2,639
New York NY21$2,245−6%$1,960 – $2,278
Pennsylvania PA16$2,224−7%$1,887 – $3,574
Illinois IL17$2,193−8%$1,531 – $2,611
South Carolina SC14$1,755−27%$1,755 – $5,285
Iowa IA16$388−84%$388 – $388
Oklahoma OK13$324−86%$324 – $2,341
Louisiana LA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not 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 $2,395.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care333$2,438$937 – $5,285
Children’s9fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access38$1,013$340 – $4,686
Ownership
For-profit34$2,341$656 – $4,686
Government63$2,291$796 – $5,220
Non-profit283$2,461$741 – $5,339
System affiliation
Part of a system333$2,499$796 – $5,285
Independent49$2,146$496 – $4,036

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$4,110
Median cash price$2,395
Cash as a share of list, median hospital56%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 44%. 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

270 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,900 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,674; most fall between $388 and $5,672.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 270 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
$215$656$2,900$4,686$6,737

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 31× what the cheapest tenth charges ($215 vs $6,737).

Of the 292 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 270 gave a usable cash price; 14 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 8 a list price only.

How complete is this

382 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (10%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 432 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted382
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here39
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 — excluded10
Hospitals that filed this code432

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 Upper gastrointestinal endoscopy, biopsy family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Ileoscopy Stoma W/Plmt of Endoscopic Stent.

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, “Exam of the ileum through a stoma with stent placement (CPT 44384) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-44384-exam-of-the-ileum-through-a-stoma-with-stent-placement