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Procedure price report · Colonoscopy and biopsy

Colonoscopy through a stoma with injection treatment

CPT 44404the billing code this page is about

A scope is passed through a surgical opening in the abdominal wall into the colon and medication or another substance is injected into the bowel wall.

Hospitals typically charge $1,410 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 728 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,549. Most fall between $653 and $2,963 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
728
States
48
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 728 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
$405$761$1,410$2,495$4,278

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($405 vs $4,278).

How the prices are spread

$281 – $376: 30 hospitals$281$376 – $503: 49 hospitals$503 – $674: 35 hospitals$503$674 – $902: 64 hospitals$902 – $1,208: 109 hospitals$902$1,208 – $1,618: 82 hospitals$1,618 – $2,167: 83 hospitals$1,618$2,167 – $2,901: 88 hospitals$2,901 – $3,885: 77 hospitals$2,901$3,885 – $5,202: 54 hospitals$3,885median $1,410price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (671 of 728 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$281$37630
$376$50349
$503$67435
$674$90264
$902$1,208109
$1,208$1,61882
$1,618$2,16783
$2,167$2,90188
$2,901$3,88577
$3,885$5,20254

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$1,223
Median cash price$1,410
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.15×

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 $1,410.

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: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $2,034 across 12 hospitalsWA$2,034Idaho: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $1,057 across 31 hospitalsMN$1,057Illinois: median $1,637 across 35 hospitalsIL$1,637Wisconsin: median $1,650 across 31 hospitalsWI$1,650Michigan: median $405 across 23 hospitalsMI$405New York: median $1,191 across 36 hospitalsNY$1,191Massachusetts: median $2,962 across 10 hospitalsMA$2,962Oregon: median $753 across 11 hospitalsOR$753Nevada: 5 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 $980 across 17 hospitalsIA$980Indiana: median $606 across 21 hospitalsIN$606Ohio: median $2,495 across 42 hospitalsOH$2,495Pennsylvania: median $1,819 across 45 hospitalsPA$1,819New Jersey: median $2,360 across 36 hospitalsNJ$2,360Connecticut: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $3,016 across 67 hospitalsCA$3,016Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $629 across 19 hospitalsMO$629Kentucky: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $1,163 across 13 hospitalsVA$1,163Maryland: 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: median $3,016 across 10 hospitalsNM$3,016Kansas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $622 across 12 hospitalsTN$622North Carolina: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: median $2,456 across 18 hospitalsSC$2,456Oklahoma: median $281 across 16 hospitalsOK$281Louisiana: median $1,150 across 21 hospitalsLA$1,150Mississippi: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $1,085 across 26 hospitalsGA$1,085Hawaii: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $1,113 across 42 hospitalsTX$1,113Florida: median $2,719 across 31 hospitalsFL$2,719
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,410. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA67$3,016+114%$1,410 – $5,202
New Mexico NM10$3,016+114%$1,068 – $5,770
Massachusetts MA10$2,962+110%$1,099 – $3,310
Florida FL31$2,719+93%$2,037 – $4,361
Ohio OH42$2,495+77%$1,301 – $2,963
South Carolina SC18$2,456+74%$880 – $2,456
New Jersey NJ36$2,360+67%$1,387 – $5,110
Washington WA12$2,034+44%$979 – $2,584
Pennsylvania PA45$1,819+29%$129 – $2,539
Wisconsin WI31$1,650+17%$1,095 – $1,651
Illinois IL35$1,637+16%$421 – $1,962
New York NY36$1,191−16%$483 – $1,395
Virginia VA13$1,163−17%$114 – $1,463
Louisiana LA21$1,150−18%$608 – $1,654
Texas TX42$1,113−21%$715 – $1,816
Georgia GA26$1,085−23%$1,085 – $3,004
Minnesota MN31$1,057−25%$710 – $1,956
Iowa IA17$980−30%$980 – $980
Oregon OR11$753−47%$653 – $1,166
Missouri MO19$629−55%$421 – $2,720
Tennessee TN12$622−56%$334 – $1,496
Indiana IN21$606−57%$406 – $819
Michigan MI23$405−71%$405 – $1,645
Oklahoma OK16$281−80%$281 – $2,178
Colorado CO9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not 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
Maryland MD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not 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 $1,410.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care618$1,414$715 – $3,016
Children’s8fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access98$1,113$406 – $2,087
Ownership
For-profit65$1,196$412 – $2,400
Government103$1,395$789 – $2,719
Non-profit556$1,429$630 – $3,016
System affiliation
Part of a system630$1,457$715 – $3,004
Independent98$1,068$434 – $2,327

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,637
Median cash price$1,410
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

501 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,650 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,718; most fall between $726 and $3,016.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 501 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
$406$789$1,650$2,941$4,710

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($406 vs $4,710).

Of the 532 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 501 gave a usable cash price; 17 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 14 a list price only.

How complete is this

728 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (18%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 782 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted728
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) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded15
Hospitals that filed this code782

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 24, 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 PR Colonoscopy Stoma W/Submucosal Injection.

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 injection treatment (CPT 44404) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-44404-colonoscopy-through-a-stoma-with-injection-treatment