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Procedure price report · Other OR lower GI therapeutic procedures

Stitched repair of the tissue holding the bowel

CPT 44850the billing code this page is about

Open abdominal surgery to close a tear or defect in the mesentery, the tissue sheet supporting the intestine; billed when done on its own.

Hospitals typically charge $1,698 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 252 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,753. Most fall between $1,088 and $3,140 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
252
States
45
Filings dated
Mar 2023 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 23, 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 252 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
$764$1,180$1,698$2,513$4,627

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($764 vs $4,627).

How the prices are spread

$506 – $641: 4 hospitals$506$641 – $811: 15 hospitals$811 – $1,026: 11 hospitals$811$1,026 – $1,299: 37 hospitals$1,299 – $1,644: 41 hospitals$1,299$1,644 – $2,081: 54 hospitals$2,081 – $2,633: 17 hospitals$2,081$2,633 – $3,333: 18 hospitals$3,333 – $4,218: 14 hospitals$3,333$4,218 – $5,339: 17 hospitals$4,218median $1,698price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (228 of 252 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$506$6414
$641$81115
$811$1,02611
$1,026$1,29937
$1,299$1,64441
$1,644$2,08154
$2,081$2,63317
$2,633$3,33318
$3,333$4,21814
$4,218$5,33917

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $1,698.

Alaska: 3 hospitals 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: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 2 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 $3,652 across 14 hospitalsMN$3,652Illinois: median $1,299 across 11 hospitalsIL$1,299Wisconsin: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: median $1,630 across 24 hospitalsMI$1,630New York: median $1,491 across 16 hospitalsNY$1,491Massachusetts: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMAOregon: median $1,831 across 14 hospitalsOR$1,831Nevada: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $1,830 across 15 hospitalsIA$1,830Indiana: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $1,862 across 13 hospitalsOH$1,862Pennsylvania: median $548 across 16 hospitalsPA$548New Jersey: median $5,110 across 14 hospitalsNJ$5,110Connecticut: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCAUtah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 3 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: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 2 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 $1,568 across 10 hospitalsOK$1,568Louisiana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTXFlorida: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,698. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ14$5,110+201%$3,986 – $6,311
Minnesota MN14$3,652+115%$1,724 – $3,652
Ohio OH13$1,862+10%$1,161 – $3,149
Oregon OR14$1,831+8%$1,377 – $2,046
Iowa IA15$1,830+8%$1,830 – $1,830
Michigan MI24$1,630−4%$1,061 – $1,698
Oklahoma OK10$1,568−8%$1,568 – $1,568
New York NY16$1,491−12%$898 – $1,901
Illinois IL11$1,299−23%$1,180 – $1,830
Pennsylvania PA16$548−68%$464 – $3,429
California CA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Texas TX5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT2not 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
Nebraska NE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA1not 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
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN1not 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 $1,698.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care194$1,675$1,061 – $3,077
Children’s7fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access50$1,724$1,180 – $3,652
Ownership
For-profit17fewer than 20 hospitals
Government41$1,630$1,140 – $2,126
Non-profit193$1,698$1,068 – $3,149
System affiliation
Part of a system184$1,698$1,088 – $3,402
Independent68$1,605$1,000 – $2,256

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,265
Median cash price$1,698
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

148 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,568 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,545; most fall between $1,068 and $2,115.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 148 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
$801$1,180$1,568$1,970$2,957

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 3.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($801 vs $2,957).

Of the 173 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 148 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 7 a list price only.

How complete is this

252 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (6%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 294 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted252
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here37
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 — excluded4
Hospitals that filed this code294

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 23, 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 Other OR lower GI therapeutic procedures family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Suture Mesentery Separate Procedure.

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.

Download this page’s figures: JSON · CSV. Aggregates only — the per-hospital prices are on the compare tool.

Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Stitched repair of the tissue holding the bowel (CPT 44850) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-44850-stitched-repair-of-the-tissue-holding-the-bowel