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Procedure price report · Sigmoidoscopy, proctoscopy, and anoscopy

Flexible sigmoidoscopy with stent placement

CPT 45347the billing code this page is about

A flexible scope examines the rectum and lower colon and a stent is placed through the scope to hold a narrowed segment open.

Hospitals typically charge $3,572 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 696 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $3,690. Most fall between $799 and $7,322 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
696
States
48
Filings dated
Jun 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 696 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
$354$1,183$3,572$6,595$10,986

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 31× what the cheapest tenth charges ($354 vs $10,986).

How the prices are spread

$271 – $407: 58 hospitals$271$407 – $612: 23 hospitals$612 – $921: 30 hospitals$612$921 – $1,385: 52 hospitals$1,385 – $2,083: 60 hospitals$1,385$2,083 – $3,132: 46 hospitals$3,132 – $4,710: 129 hospitals$3,132$4,710 – $7,083: 112 hospitals$7,083 – $10,651: 80 hospitals$7,083$10,651 – $16,017: 38 hospitals$10,651median $3,572price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (628 of 696 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$271$40758
$407$61223
$612$92130
$921$1,38552
$1,385$2,08360
$2,083$3,13246
$3,132$4,710129
$4,710$7,083112
$7,083$10,65180
$10,651$16,01738

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$6,202
Median cash price$3,572
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.58×

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 $3,572.

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: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $3,130 across 10 hospitalsWA$3,130Idaho: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $3,850 across 21 hospitalsMN$3,850Illinois: median $2,608 across 23 hospitalsIL$2,608Wisconsin: median $1,638 across 26 hospitalsWI$1,638Michigan: median $671 across 26 hospitalsMI$671New York: median $7,044 across 25 hospitalsNY$7,044Massachusetts: median $5,440 across 13 hospitalsMA$5,440Oregon: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 3 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 $389 across 18 hospitalsIA$389Indiana: median $507 across 22 hospitalsIN$507Ohio: median $4,379 across 49 hospitalsOH$4,379Pennsylvania: median $6,902 across 35 hospitalsPA$6,902New Jersey: median $6,595 across 37 hospitalsNJ$6,595Connecticut: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $4,217 across 65 hospitalsCA$4,217Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $3,437 across 14 hospitalsCO$3,437Nebraska: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $2,864 across 13 hospitalsMO$2,864Kentucky: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $2,683 across 21 hospitalsVA$2,683Maryland: 2 hospitals 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: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $2,859 across 13 hospitalsTN$2,859North Carolina: median $2,683 across 14 hospitalsNC$2,683South Carolina: median $9,673 across 19 hospitalsSC$9,673Oklahoma: median $252 across 15 hospitalsOK$252Louisiana: median $1,798 across 16 hospitalsLA$1,798Mississippi: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $1,401 across 22 hospitalsGA$1,401Hawaii: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $2,528 across 52 hospitalsTX$2,528Florida: median $5,975 across 30 hospitalsFL$5,975
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $3,572. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
South Carolina SC19$9,673+171%$4,640 – $9,673
New York NY25$7,044+97%$435 – $7,044
Pennsylvania PA35$6,902+93%$3,215 – $9,244
New Jersey NJ37$6,595+85%$5,419 – $7,855
Florida FL30$5,975+67%$3,367 – $8,054
Massachusetts MA13$5,440+52%$1,192 – $16,017
Ohio OH49$4,379+23%$3,314 – $17,799
California CA65$4,217+18%$3,692 – $6,509
Minnesota MN21$3,850+8%$367 – $5,057
Colorado CO14$3,437−4%$1,050 – $5,515
Washington WA10$3,130−12%$298 – $7,307
Missouri MO13$2,864−20%$1,396 – $10,339
Tennessee TN13$2,859−20%$170 – $2,859
North Carolina NC14$2,683−25%$1,248 – $7,112
Virginia VA21$2,683−25%$2,610 – $7,384
Illinois IL23$2,608−27%$293 – $11,609
Texas TX52$2,528−29%$1,183 – $3,572
Louisiana LA16$1,798−50%$1,461 – $2,605
Wisconsin WI26$1,638−54%$985 – $1,880
Georgia GA22$1,401−61%$1,198 – $1,557
Michigan MI26$671−81%$306 – $6,019
Indiana IN22$507−86%$293 – $726
Iowa IA18$389−89%$389 – $506
Oklahoma OK15$252−93%$252 – $5,643
Mississippi MS9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not 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 $3,572.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care603$3,709$1,118 – $7,487
Children’s7fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access82$1,183$343 – $6,530
Ownership
For-profit71$4,379$1,198 – $7,769
Government96$3,989$726 – $7,044
Non-profit525$3,572$862 – $7,384
System affiliation
Part of a system614$3,572$959 – $7,206
Independent82$2,339$381 – $7,554

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$5,747
Median cash price$3,572
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

503 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $3,367 and the average of the middle 60% is $3,330; most fall between $806 and $7,173.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 503 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
$293$1,183$3,367$5,975$10,986

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 37× what the cheapest tenth charges ($293 vs $10,986).

Of the 551 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 503 gave a usable cash price; 33 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 15 a list price only.

How complete is this

696 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 767 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted696
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here55
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 — excluded15
Hospitals that filed this code767

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 Sigmoidoscopy, proctoscopy, and anoscopy family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Sigmoidoscopy Flx Placement of Endoscopic Stent.

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, “Flexible sigmoidoscopy with stent placement (CPT 45347) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-45347-flexible-sigmoidoscopy-with-stent-placement