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Procedure price report · Colonoscopy and biopsy

Colonoscopy through a stoma with mucosal resection

CPT 44403the billing code this page is about

Exam of the colon through a surgical opening in the abdominal wall, with removal of a lesion along with the surface lining layer of the bowel wall.

Hospitals typically charge $1,642 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 504 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,893. Most fall between $850 and $3,465 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
504
States
45
Filings dated
Dec 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 504 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
$525$960$1,642$3,016$4,693

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($525 vs $4,693).

How the prices are spread

$459 – $586: 39 hospitals$459$586 – $746: 13 hospitals$746 – $951: 46 hospitals$746$951 – $1,213: 47 hospitals$1,213 – $1,546: 71 hospitals$1,213$1,546 – $1,971: 52 hospitals$1,971 – $2,512: 34 hospitals$1,971$2,512 – $3,202: 63 hospitals$3,202 – $4,081: 59 hospitals$3,202$4,081 – $5,202: 34 hospitals$4,081median $1,642price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (458 of 504 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$459$58639
$586$74613
$746$95146
$951$1,21347
$1,213$1,54671
$1,546$1,97152
$1,971$2,51234
$2,512$3,20263
$3,202$4,08159
$4,081$5,20234

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$1,223
Median cash price$1,642
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.34×

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 $1,642.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: 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: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $2,535 across 16 hospitalsMN$2,535Illinois: median $1,033 across 22 hospitalsIL$1,033Wisconsin: median $1,819 across 24 hospitalsWI$1,819Michigan: median $1,645 across 14 hospitalsMI$1,645New York: median $1,395 across 22 hospitalsNY$1,395Massachusetts: median $3,310 across 16 hospitalsMA$3,310Oregon: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 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 $770 across 14 hospitalsIA$770Indiana: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $1,688 across 36 hospitalsOH$1,688Pennsylvania: median $1,360 across 33 hospitalsPA$1,360New Jersey: median $1,573 across 36 hospitalsNJ$1,573Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $3,016 across 53 hospitalsCA$3,016Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $497 across 14 hospitalsOK$497Louisiana: 8 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 $1,205 across 21 hospitalsGA$1,205Hawaii: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceHITexas: median $1,671 across 34 hospitalsTX$1,671Florida: median $2,470 across 25 hospitalsFL$2,470
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,642. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Massachusetts MA16$3,310+102%$2,440 – $3,661
California CA53$3,016+84%$1,531 – $5,202
Minnesota MN16$2,535+54%$927 – $2,535
Florida FL25$2,470+50%$1,642 – $3,598
Wisconsin WI24$1,819+11%$1,546 – $2,991
Ohio OH36$1,688+3%$1,368 – $3,526
Texas TX34$1,671+2%$922 – $1,674
Michigan MI14$1,6450%$866 – $2,991
New Jersey NJ36$1,573−4%$1,368 – $5,339
New York NY22$1,395−15%$1,395 – $1,494
Pennsylvania PA33$1,360−17%$201 – $2,222
Georgia GA21$1,205−27%$1,205 – $2,698
Illinois IL22$1,033−37%$525 – $3,482
Iowa IA14$770−53%$770 – $779
Oklahoma OK14$497−70%$497 – $2,178
Kentucky KY8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not 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
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 $1,642.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care445$1,521$815 – $3,465
Children’s6fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access50$2,535$802 – $3,234
Ownership
For-profit43$1,196$525 – $1,726
Government71$1,674$960 – $2,698
Non-profit387$1,674$860 – $3,497
System affiliation
Part of a system447$1,671$866 – $3,482
Independent57$1,338$736 – $2,218

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,129
Median cash price$1,642
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

373 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,688 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,983; most fall between $779 and $3,482.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 373 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
$525$922$1,688$3,234$4,734

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($525 vs $4,734).

Of the 410 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 373 gave a usable cash price; 15 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 22 a list price only.

How complete is this

504 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 550 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted504
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here31
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 — excluded14
Hospitals that filed this code550

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 W/Endoscopic Mucosal Rescj.

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 mucosal resection (CPT 44403) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-44403-colonoscopy-through-a-stoma-with-mucosal-resection