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Procedure price report · Upper gastrointestinal endoscopy, biopsy

Exam of a surgically made intestinal pouch, diagnostic

CPT 44385the billing code this page is about

A scope is used to examine a pouch built from small intestine after bowel surgery, with or without brushings or washings for testing.

Hospitals typically charge $1,161 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 822 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,310. Most fall between $466 and $2,509 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
822
States
50
Filings dated
Mar 2023 – 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 822 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
$295$576$1,161$2,184$3,408

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($295 vs $3,408).

How the prices are spread

$210 – $286: 29 hospitals$210$286 – $389: 44 hospitals$389 – $530: 80 hospitals$389$530 – $722: 50 hospitals$722 – $982: 98 hospitals$722$982 – $1,337: 113 hospitals$1,337 – $1,821: 88 hospitals$1,337$1,821 – $2,479: 112 hospitals$2,479 – $3,375: 82 hospitals$2,479$3,375 – $4,595: 54 hospitals$3,375median $1,161price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (750 of 822 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$210$28629
$286$38944
$389$53080
$530$72250
$722$98298
$982$1,337113
$1,337$1,82188
$1,821$2,479112
$2,479$3,37582
$3,375$4,59554

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$950
Median cash price$1,161
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 $1,161.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $1,058 across 13 hospitalsWA$1,058Idaho: median $2,506 across 10 hospitalsID$2,506Montana: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $929 across 37 hospitalsMN$929Illinois: median $690 across 34 hospitalsIL$690Wisconsin: median $820 across 33 hospitalsWI$820Michigan: median $719 across 29 hospitalsMI$719New York: median $1,104 across 39 hospitalsNY$1,104Massachusetts: median $2,172 across 21 hospitalsMA$2,172Oregon: median $510 across 18 hospitalsOR$510Nevada: 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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $491 across 18 hospitalsIA$491Indiana: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $2,386 across 56 hospitalsOH$2,386Pennsylvania: median $1,161 across 39 hospitalsPA$1,161New Jersey: median $3,786 across 36 hospitalsNJ$3,786Connecticut: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $2,184 across 64 hospitalsCA$2,184Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $1,528 across 13 hospitalsCO$1,528Nebraska: median $512 across 10 hospitalsNE$512Missouri: median $1,242 across 20 hospitalsMO$1,242Kentucky: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $77 across 11 hospitalsWV$77Virginia: median $1,131 across 22 hospitalsVA$1,131Maryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $549 across 13 hospitalsTN$549North Carolina: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: median $1,673 across 18 hospitalsSC$1,673Oklahoma: median $254 across 16 hospitalsOK$254Louisiana: median $566 across 20 hospitalsLA$566Mississippi: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $1,644 across 24 hospitalsGA$1,644Hawaii: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $1,488 across 55 hospitalsTX$1,488Florida: median $2,606 across 29 hospitalsFL$2,606
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,161. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ36$3,786+226%$1,074 – $5,899
Florida FL29$2,606+125%$2,160 – $3,408
Idaho ID10$2,506+116%$1,050 – $2,509
Ohio OH56$2,386+105%$1,319 – $3,010
California CA64$2,184+88%$1,130 – $4,284
Massachusetts MA21$2,172+87%$1,513 – $2,831
South Carolina SC18$1,673+44%$1,673 – $1,762
Georgia GA24$1,644+42%$1,267 – $2,183
Colorado CO13$1,528+32%$947 – $2,319
Texas TX55$1,488+28%$850 – $1,899
Missouri MO20$1,242+7%$428 – $1,694
Pennsylvania PA39$1,1610%$914 – $1,865
Virginia VA22$1,131−3%$414 – $1,726
New York NY39$1,104−5%$728 – $4,595
Washington WA13$1,058−9%$263 – $2,257
Minnesota MN37$929−20%$763 – $2,595
Wisconsin WI33$820−29%$466 – $2,228
Michigan MI29$719−38%$409 – $1,162
Illinois IL34$690−41%$308 – $2,547
Louisiana LA20$566−51%$376 – $1,119
Tennessee TN13$549−53%$242 – $1,261
Nebraska NE10$512−56%$146 – $745
Oregon OR18$510−56%$392 – $1,022
Iowa IA18$491−58%$491 – $503
Oklahoma OK16$254−78%$254 – $907
West Virginia WV11$77−93%$76 – $283
Indiana IN9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME3not 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 MD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not 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 $1,161.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care674$1,282$550 – $2,606
Children’s15fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access128$763$302 – $1,983
Ownership
For-profit70$1,176$550 – $1,980
Government113$1,031$417 – $2,257
Non-profit634$1,178$466 – $2,595
System affiliation
Part of a system704$1,264$491 – $2,595
Independent118$784$292 – $1,565

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,317
Median cash price$1,161
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

591 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,306 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,352; most fall between $491 and $2,428.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 591 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
$288$627$1,306$2,184$3,336

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($288 vs $3,336).

Of the 646 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 591 gave a usable cash price; 19 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 36 a list price only.

How complete is this

822 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (21%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 899 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted822
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here49
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 — excluded26
Hospitals that filed this code899

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 Ndsc Eval Intstinal Pouch Dx W/Collj Spec Spx.

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 a surgically made intestinal pouch, diagnostic (CPT 44385) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-44385-exam-of-a-surgically-made-intestinal-pouch-diagnostic