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Procedure price report · Nonoperative removal of foreign body

Colonoscopy through a stoma to remove a foreign object

CPT 44390the billing code this page is about

Exam of the colon using a flexible scope passed through a surgical opening in the abdominal wall, with removal of a swallowed or retained object.

Hospitals typically charge $1,099 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 472 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,422. Most fall between $661 and $3,104 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
472
States
45
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 472 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
$414$730$1,099$2,472$4,015

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($414 vs $4,015).

How the prices are spread

$291 – $384: 23 hospitals$291$384 – $508: 17 hospitals$508 – $672: 42 hospitals$508$672 – $888: 40 hospitals$888 – $1,173: 107 hospitals$888$1,173 – $1,551: 40 hospitals$1,551 – $2,049: 23 hospitals$1,551$2,049 – $2,709: 60 hospitals$2,709 – $3,580: 32 hospitals$2,709$3,580 – $4,732: 51 hospitals$3,580median $1,099price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (435 of 472 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$291$38423
$384$50817
$508$67242
$672$88840
$888$1,173107
$1,173$1,55140
$1,551$2,04923
$2,049$2,70960
$2,709$3,58032
$3,580$4,73251

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$950
Median cash price$1,099
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.16×

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 $1,099.

Alaska: 4 hospitals 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: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $1,051 across 11 hospitalsWA$1,051Idaho: 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 $647 across 13 hospitalsIL$647Wisconsin: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: median $516 across 23 hospitalsMI$516New York: median $1,079 across 24 hospitalsNY$1,079Massachusetts: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $971 across 16 hospitalsIA$971Indiana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $3,104 across 37 hospitalsOH$3,104Pennsylvania: median $1,044 across 34 hospitalsPA$1,044New Jersey: median $2,472 across 28 hospitalsNJ$2,472Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $2,288 across 55 hospitalsCA$2,288Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 1 hospital 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: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 2 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 $1,091 across 13 hospitalsTN$1,091North Carolina: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: median $2,287 across 17 hospitalsSC$2,287Oklahoma: median $344 across 16 hospitalsOK$344Louisiana: median $610 across 12 hospitalsLA$610Mississippi: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $891 across 25 hospitalsGA$891Hawaii: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceHITexas: median $1,362 across 29 hospitalsTX$1,362Florida: median $1,170 across 15 hospitalsFL$1,170
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,099. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Ohio OH37$3,104+183%$972 – $3,230
New Jersey NJ28$2,472+125%$1,010 – $5,339
California CA55$2,288+108%$1,190 – $4,732
South Carolina SC17$2,287+108%$2,287 – $2,287
Texas TX29$1,362+24%$671 – $1,362
Florida FL15$1,170+6%$915 – $4,388
Tennessee TN13$1,091−1%$445 – $1,261
New York NY24$1,079−2%$542 – $1,161
Washington WA11$1,051−4%$730 – $2,389
Pennsylvania PA34$1,044−5%$140 – $2,575
Iowa IA16$971−12%$971 – $971
Georgia GA25$891−19%$891 – $4,015
Illinois IL13$647−41%$291 – $1,477
Louisiana LA12$610−44%$255 – $1,454
Michigan MI23$516−53%$516 – $964
Oklahoma OK16$344−69%$344 – $1,940
Massachusetts MA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV1not 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 $1,099.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care414$1,115$671 – $3,104
Children’s9fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access45$980$497 – $2,509
Ownership
For-profit48$929$535 – $2,509
Government77$1,252$891 – $2,619
Non-profit343$1,087$640 – $3,179
System affiliation
Part of a system402$1,106$671 – $3,161
Independent70$1,046$584 – $2,205

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,512
Median cash price$1,099
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

348 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,362 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,569; most fall between $671 and $3,179.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 348 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
$404$745$1,362$2,635$4,225

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 10× what the cheapest tenth charges ($404 vs $4,225).

Of the 378 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 348 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 17 a list price only.

How complete is this

472 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 506 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted472
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here20
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 — excluded13
Hospitals that filed this code506

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 5, 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 Nonoperative removal of foreign body family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as PR Colonoscopy Thru Stoma,Foreign Body.

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, “Colonoscopy through a stoma to remove a foreign object (CPT 44390) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-44390-colonoscopy-through-a-stoma-to-remove-a-foreign-object