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Procedure price report · Other OR lower GI therapeutic procedures

Surgery to close an intestinal stoma

CPT 44620the billing code this page is about

Open operation to take down an opening in the abdominal wall from the small or large intestine and reconnect the bowel.

Hospitals typically charge $1,891 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 490 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,022. Most fall between $1,062 and $4,127 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
490
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 490 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
$694$1,199$1,891$3,250$5,340

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($694 vs $5,340).

How the prices are spread

$351 – $481: 11 hospitals$351$481 – $658: 12 hospitals$658 – $902: 19 hospitals$658$902 – $1,235: 61 hospitals$1,235 – $1,692: 78 hospitals$1,235$1,692 – $2,317: 104 hospitals$2,317 – $3,173: 58 hospitals$2,317$3,173 – $4,346: 36 hospitals$4,346 – $5,952: 47 hospitals$4,346$5,952 – $8,152: 16 hospitals$5,952median $1,891price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (442 of 490 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$351$48111
$481$65812
$658$90219
$902$1,23561
$1,235$1,69278
$1,692$2,317104
$2,317$3,17358
$3,173$4,34636
$4,346$5,95247
$5,952$8,15216

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $1,891.

Alaska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $1,658 across 15 hospitalsWA$1,658Idaho: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $2,649 across 22 hospitalsMN$2,649Illinois: median $2,133 across 25 hospitalsIL$2,133Wisconsin: median $4,473 across 32 hospitalsWI$4,473Michigan: median $1,873 across 33 hospitalsMI$1,873New York: median $1,379 across 26 hospitalsNY$1,379Massachusetts: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $2,124 across 19 hospitalsOR$2,124Nevada: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $2,134 across 32 hospitalsIA$2,134Indiana: median $1,062 across 13 hospitalsIN$1,062Ohio: median $1,242 across 16 hospitalsOH$1,242Pennsylvania: median $1,169 across 22 hospitalsPA$1,169New Jersey: median $5,741 across 21 hospitalsNJ$5,741Connecticut: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $1,250 across 14 hospitalsCA$1,250Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $1,293 across 10 hospitalsMO$1,293Kentucky: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $1,498 across 13 hospitalsWV$1,498Virginia: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 2 hospitals 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: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $1,320 across 14 hospitalsKS$1,320Arkansas: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 2 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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $1,815 across 11 hospitalsOK$1,815Louisiana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTXFlorida: median $4,127 across 11 hospitalsFL$4,127
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,891. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ21$5,741+204%$4,350 – $7,905
Wisconsin WI32$4,473+137%$4,473 – $6,511
Florida FL11$4,127+118%$1,400 – $9,159
Minnesota MN22$2,649+40%$1,450 – $4,128
Iowa IA32$2,134+13%$1,553 – $2,150
Illinois IL25$2,133+13%$1,062 – $4,129
Oregon OR19$2,124+12%$1,579 – $2,464
Michigan MI33$1,873−1%$1,194 – $1,917
Oklahoma OK11$1,815−4%$1,815 – $1,815
Washington WA15$1,658−12%$1,176 – $2,375
West Virginia WV13$1,498−21%$929 – $2,787
New York NY26$1,379−27%$811 – $2,540
Kansas KS14$1,320−30%$480 – $1,640
Missouri MO10$1,293−32%$1,230 – $1,523
California CA14$1,250−34%$729 – $2,532
Ohio OH16$1,242−34%$1,058 – $2,400
Pennsylvania PA22$1,169−38%$300 – $2,577
Indiana IN13$1,062−44%$1,008 – $2,679
Colorado CO9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Texas TX9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC1not 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 $1,891.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care306$1,873$1,028 – $4,128
Children’s8fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access175$1,917$1,062 – $4,005
Ownership
For-profit32$2,080$1,062 – $4,874
Government112$1,804$1,057 – $2,681
Non-profit345$1,917$1,040 – $4,129
System affiliation
Part of a system340$1,942$1,062 – $4,473
Independent150$1,741$1,006 – $2,857

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,562
Median cash price$1,891
Cash as a share of list, median hospital70%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 30%. 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

282 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,642 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,642; most fall between $909 and $2,485.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 282 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
$407$1,058$1,642$2,289$4,130

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 10× what the cheapest tenth charges ($407 vs $4,130).

Of the 320 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 282 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 21 a list price only.

How complete is this

490 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 571 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted490
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here50
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 — excluded30
Hospitals that filed this code571

Sections not shown for this setting

  • Against Medicare: Medicare has no separately payable national outpatient (OPPS) rate for this code, so there is nothing honest to compare against.
  • 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 Other OR lower GI therapeutic procedures family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Closure Enterostomy Lg/Small Intestine.

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, “Surgery to close an intestinal stoma (CPT 44620) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-44620-surgery-to-close-an-intestinal-stoma