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Procedure price report · Colonoscopy and biopsy

Colonoscopy through a stoma with stretching of narrowing

CPT 44405the billing code this page is about

A scope is passed through a surgical opening in the abdominal wall into the colon and a narrowed segment is widened with a balloon or dilator.

Hospitals typically charge $1,450 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 524 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,764. Most fall between $681 and $3,344 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
524
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 524 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
$300$866$1,450$3,124$4,566

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 15× what the cheapest tenth charges ($300 vs $4,566).

How the prices are spread

$209 – $285: 19 hospitals$209$285 – $390: 18 hospitals$390 – $534: 13 hospitals$390$534 – $730: 35 hospitals$730 – $998: 43 hospitals$730$998 – $1,364: 69 hospitals$1,364 – $1,866: 85 hospitals$1,364$1,866 – $2,551: 54 hospitals$2,551 – $3,488: 66 hospitals$2,551$3,488 – $4,770: 73 hospitals$3,488median $1,450price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (475 of 524 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$209$28519
$285$39018
$390$53413
$534$73035
$730$99843
$998$1,36469
$1,364$1,86685
$1,866$2,55154
$2,551$3,48866
$3,488$4,77073

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$1,223
Median cash price$1,450
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.19×

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 $1,450.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $1,708 across 10 hospitalsWA$1,708Idaho: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $1,415 across 25 hospitalsIL$1,415Wisconsin: median $1,172 across 13 hospitalsWI$1,172Michigan: median $251 across 26 hospitalsMI$251New York: median $1,395 across 23 hospitalsNY$1,395Massachusetts: median $3,310 across 18 hospitalsMA$3,310Oregon: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 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 $1,369 across 16 hospitalsIA$1,369Indiana: median $911 across 18 hospitalsIN$911Ohio: median $3,156 across 53 hospitalsOH$3,156Pennsylvania: median $1,223 across 30 hospitalsPA$1,223New Jersey: median $3,156 across 35 hospitalsNJ$3,156Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $4,732 across 53 hospitalsCA$4,732Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $749 across 10 hospitalsMO$749Kentucky: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 9 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: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $300 across 17 hospitalsOK$300Louisiana: median $1,020 across 10 hospitalsLA$1,020Mississippi: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceGAHawaii: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceHITexas: median $1,522 across 21 hospitalsTX$1,522Florida: median $3,344 across 25 hospitalsFL$3,344
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,450. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA53$4,732+226%$2,386 – $4,732
Florida FL25$3,344+131%$1,276 – $4,407
Massachusetts MA18$3,310+128%$1,713 – $3,661
New Jersey NJ35$3,156+118%$1,306 – $5,339
Ohio OH53$3,156+118%$1,301 – $3,526
Washington WA10$1,708+18%$812 – $2,798
Texas TX21$1,522+5%$1,196 – $2,190
Illinois IL25$1,415−2%$595 – $2,611
New York NY23$1,395−4%$596 – $1,494
Iowa IA16$1,369−6%$1,369 – $1,369
Pennsylvania PA30$1,223−16%$117 – $2,539
Wisconsin WI13$1,172−19%$1,172 – $1,523
Louisiana LA10$1,020−30%$608 – $1,409
Indiana IN18$911−37%$595 – $1,232
Missouri MO10$749−48%$582 – $3,018
Oklahoma OK17$300−79%$300 – $2,178
Michigan MI26$251−83%$209 – $1,186
Tennessee TN9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not 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
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 $1,450.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care452$1,518$762 – $3,526
Children’s9fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access59$1,172$362 – $3,234
Ownership
For-profit46$1,301$760 – $3,222
Government79$1,522$960 – $3,344
Non-profit395$1,415$620 – $3,474
System affiliation
Part of a system449$1,522$750 – $3,526
Independent75$1,152$471 – $2,178

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,000
Median cash price$1,450
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

362 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,831 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,028; most fall between $625 and $3,526.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 362 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
$300$866$1,831$3,291$4,732

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 16× what the cheapest tenth charges ($300 vs $4,732).

Of the 395 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 362 gave a usable cash price; 14 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 19 a list price only.

How complete is this

524 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 573 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted524
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here35
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 code573

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 PR Colonoscopy Stoma W/Balloon Dilation.

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 stretching of narrowing (CPT 44405) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-44405-colonoscopy-through-a-stoma-with-stretching-of-narrowing