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Procedure price report · Colonoscopy and biopsy

Colonoscopy with placement of a stent

CPT 45389the billing code this page is about

Examination of the colon with a flexible scope during which a tube is placed to hold open a narrowed or blocked section of bowel.

Hospitals typically charge $3,536 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 722 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $3,716. Most fall between $849 and $7,206 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
722
States
49
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 722 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
$614$1,362$3,536$6,902$10,064

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 16× what the cheapest tenth charges ($614 vs $10,064).

How the prices are spread

$424 – $598: 38 hospitals$424$598 – $843: 69 hospitals$843 – $1,188: 25 hospitals$843$1,188 – $1,675: 44 hospitals$1,675 – $2,360: 48 hospitals$1,675$2,360 – $3,327: 59 hospitals$3,327 – $4,689: 149 hospitals$3,327$4,689 – $6,609: 70 hospitals$6,609 – $9,315: 110 hospitals$6,609$9,315 – $13,130: 41 hospitals$9,315median $3,536price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (653 of 722 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$424$59838
$598$84369
$843$1,18825
$1,188$1,67544
$1,675$2,36048
$2,360$3,32759
$3,327$4,689149
$4,689$6,60970
$6,609$9,315110
$9,315$13,13041

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$6,202
Median cash price$3,536
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.57×

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 $3,536.

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: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $5,604 across 12 hospitalsWA$5,604Idaho: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $4,837 across 21 hospitalsMN$4,837Illinois: median $3,372 across 28 hospitalsIL$3,372Wisconsin: median $2,758 across 26 hospitalsWI$2,758Michigan: median $725 across 26 hospitalsMI$725New York: median $7,044 across 34 hospitalsNY$7,044Massachusetts: median $16,017 across 16 hospitalsMA$16,017Oregon: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $733 across 21 hospitalsIA$733Indiana: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $4,379 across 46 hospitalsOH$4,379Pennsylvania: median $6,206 across 38 hospitalsPA$6,206New Jersey: median $6,839 across 38 hospitalsNJ$6,839Connecticut: 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 $4,090 across 69 hospitalsCA$4,090Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $2,886 across 13 hospitalsCO$2,886Nebraska: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $2,640 across 13 hospitalsMO$2,640Kentucky: 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 $7,070 across 11 hospitalsVA$7,070Maryland: 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 $3,331 across 10 hospitalsNM$3,331Kansas: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $2,859 across 15 hospitalsTN$2,859North Carolina: median $4,085 across 13 hospitalsNC$4,085South Carolina: median $3,530 across 14 hospitalsSC$3,530Oklahoma: median $473 across 15 hospitalsOK$473Louisiana: median $2,544 across 15 hospitalsLA$2,544Mississippi: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $1,557 across 23 hospitalsGA$1,557Hawaii: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $2,635 across 55 hospitalsTX$2,635Florida: median $8,754 across 32 hospitalsFL$8,754
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $3,536. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Massachusetts MA16$16,017+353%$3,204 – $18,483
Florida FL32$8,754+148%$3,989 – $10,265
Virginia VA11$7,070+100%$968 – $7,384
New York NY34$7,044+99%$1,649 – $9,188
New Jersey NJ38$6,839+93%$5,419 – $7,943
Pennsylvania PA38$6,206+76%$2,799 – $8,569
Washington WA12$5,604+58%$1,493 – $8,565
Minnesota MN21$4,837+37%$687 – $7,040
Ohio OH46$4,379+24%$2,659 – $4,489
California CA69$4,090+16%$1,938 – $4,876
North Carolina NC13$4,085+16%$841 – $5,345
South Carolina SC14$3,5300%$3,530 – $4,887
Illinois IL28$3,372−5%$805 – $5,860
New Mexico NM10$3,331−6%$2,547 – $4,839
Colorado CO13$2,886−18%$2,356 – $3,646
Tennessee TN15$2,859−19%$424 – $2,859
Wisconsin WI26$2,758−22%$1,850 – $2,758
Missouri MO13$2,640−25%$2,225 – $5,284
Texas TX55$2,635−25%$751 – $3,572
Louisiana LA15$2,544−28%$1,671 – $3,516
Georgia GA23$1,557−56%$1,557 – $3,599
Iowa IA21$733−79%$557 – $733
Michigan MI26$725−80%$640 – $6,019
Oklahoma OK15$473−87%$473 – $7,300
Kentucky KY9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY1not 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 $3,536.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care608$3,572$1,194 – $7,384
Children’s10fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access101$1,850$557 – $7,040
Ownership
For-profit70$3,971$880 – $8,569
Government112$3,718$726 – $7,300
Non-profit537$3,536$873 – $7,130
System affiliation
Part of a system634$3,572$880 – $7,173
Independent88$2,444$670 – $7,450

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$5,430
Median cash price$3,536
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

508 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $3,439 and the average of the middle 60% is $3,193; most fall between $805 and $7,040.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 508 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
$536$1,161$3,439$5,238$10,528

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 20× what the cheapest tenth charges ($536 vs $10,528).

Of the 557 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 508 gave a usable cash price; 29 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 20 a list price only.

How complete is this

722 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 791 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted722
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here47
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 — excluded21
Hospitals that filed this code791

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 Colonoscopy Flx With Endoscopic Stent Placement.

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 with placement of a stent (CPT 45389) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-45389-colonoscopy-with-placement-of-a-stent