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Procedure price report · Colonoscopy and biopsy

Colonoscopy through a stoma with destruction of a growth

CPT 44401the billing code this page is about

Exam of the colon through a surgical opening in the abdominal wall, with a polyp or other lesion destroyed in place using heat, laser, or a similar method.

Hospitals typically charge $1,862 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 521 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,135. Most fall between $1,017 and $4,067 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
521
States
44
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 521 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
$739$1,196$1,862$3,464$5,463

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($739 vs $5,463).

How the prices are spread

$434 – $572: 10 hospitals$434$572 – $754: 18 hospitals$754 – $994: 40 hospitals$754$994 – $1,309: 68 hospitals$1,309 – $1,726: 86 hospitals$1,309$1,726 – $2,274: 38 hospitals$2,274 – $2,996: 62 hospitals$2,274$2,996 – $3,948: 62 hospitals$3,948 – $5,203: 53 hospitals$3,948$5,203 – $6,856: 35 hospitals$5,203median $1,862price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (472 of 521 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$434$57210
$572$75418
$754$99440
$994$1,30968
$1,309$1,72686
$1,726$2,27438
$2,274$2,99662
$2,996$3,94862
$3,948$5,20353
$5,203$6,85635

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$1,223
Median cash price$1,862
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.52×

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 $1,862.

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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $2,242 across 11 hospitalsWA$2,242Idaho: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $3,124 across 28 hospitalsIL$3,124Wisconsin: median $1,550 across 14 hospitalsWI$1,550Michigan: median $1,186 across 10 hospitalsMI$1,186New York: median $1,395 across 24 hospitalsNY$1,395Massachusetts: median $3,310 across 11 hospitalsMA$3,310Oregon: 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 $6,856 across 16 hospitalsIA$6,856Indiana: median $1,064 across 18 hospitalsIN$1,064Ohio: median $3,156 across 36 hospitalsOH$3,156Pennsylvania: median $1,560 across 34 hospitalsPA$1,560New Jersey: median $3,222 across 30 hospitalsNJ$3,222Connecticut: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $4,888 across 57 hospitalsCA$4,888Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $1,116 across 13 hospitalsTN$1,116North Carolina: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: median $2,340 across 18 hospitalsSC$2,340Oklahoma: median $396 across 15 hospitalsOK$396Louisiana: median $1,308 across 14 hospitalsLA$1,308Mississippi: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $1,017 across 17 hospitalsGA$1,017Hawaii: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $1,450 across 34 hospitalsTX$1,450Florida: median $3,344 across 21 hospitalsFL$3,344
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,862. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Iowa IA16$6,856+268%$3,538 – $6,856
California CA57$4,888+162%$1,531 – $7,297
Florida FL21$3,344+80%$2,037 – $4,407
Massachusetts MA11$3,310+78%$1,786 – $3,691
New Jersey NJ30$3,222+73%$1,306 – $5,339
Ohio OH36$3,156+69%$2,495 – $3,526
Illinois IL28$3,124+68%$1,664 – $4,067
South Carolina SC18$2,340+26%$1,631 – $2,340
Washington WA11$2,242+20%$1,023 – $3,615
Pennsylvania PA34$1,560−16%$1,177 – $2,539
Wisconsin WI14$1,550−17%$1,550 – $1,862
Texas TX34$1,450−22%$922 – $2,412
New York NY24$1,395−25%$606 – $1,420
Louisiana LA14$1,308−30%$750 – $1,829
Michigan MI10$1,186−36%$1,003 – $1,645
Tennessee TN13$1,116−40%$486 – $1,261
Indiana IN18$1,064−43%$931 – $2,888
Georgia GA17$1,017−45%$1,017 – $1,017
Oklahoma OK15$396−79%$396 – $2,178
Minnesota MN9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT1not 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 $1,862.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care445$1,779$1,017 – $4,067
Children’s6fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access68$1,862$1,235 – $3,405
Ownership
For-profit49$1,631$1,003 – $3,344
Government83$1,829$1,017 – $3,538
Non-profit387$1,862$1,017 – $4,407
System affiliation
Part of a system450$2,037$1,017 – $4,410
Independent71$1,468$739 – $2,694

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,484
Median cash price$1,862
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

367 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,340 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,377; most fall between $1,017 and $4,734.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 367 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
$739$1,262$2,340$3,759$6,856

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($739 vs $6,856).

Of the 401 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 367 gave a usable cash price; 18 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 16 a list price only.

How complete is this

521 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (13%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 567 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted521
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here32
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 code567

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 Colonoscopy and biopsy family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Colonoscopy Stoma Ablation Lesion.

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 with destruction of a growth (CPT 44401) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-44401-colonoscopy-through-a-stoma-with-destruction-of-a-growth