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Procedure price report · Other non-OR lower GI therapeutic procedures

Removal of stool blockage or object under anesthesia

CPT 45915the billing code this page is about

Clearing hardened stool or a foreign object from the rectum while the patient is under anesthesia; billed when done as the only procedure.

Hospitals typically charge $1,382 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,436 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,495. Most fall between $515 and $3,122 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,436
States
50
Filings dated
Aug 2022 – 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 1,436 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
$379$610$1,382$2,729$4,757

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($379 vs $4,757).

How the prices are spread

$281 – $391: 82 hospitals$281$391 – $544: 158 hospitals$544 – $757: 120 hospitals$544$757 – $1,053: 148 hospitals$1,053 – $1,466: 197 hospitals$1,053$1,466 – $2,041: 170 hospitals$2,041 – $2,841: 157 hospitals$2,041$2,841 – $3,954: 133 hospitals$3,954 – $5,504: 98 hospitals$3,954$5,504 – $7,661: 49 hospitals$5,504median $1,382price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,312 of 1,436 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$281$39182
$391$544158
$544$757120
$757$1,053148
$1,053$1,466197
$1,466$2,041170
$2,041$2,841157
$2,841$3,954133
$3,954$5,50498
$5,504$7,66149

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$1,223
Median cash price$1,382
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.13×

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 $1,382.

Alaska: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $590 across 11 hospitalsME$590Vermont: median $490 across 11 hospitalsVT$490New Hampshire: median $542 across 12 hospitalsNH$542Washington: median $1,621 across 55 hospitalsWA$1,621Idaho: median $2,300 across 16 hospitalsID$2,300Montana: median $443 across 14 hospitalsMT$443North Dakota: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $1,057 across 45 hospitalsMN$1,057Illinois: median $1,209 across 54 hospitalsIL$1,209Wisconsin: median $1,446 across 41 hospitalsWI$1,446Michigan: median $1,187 across 52 hospitalsMI$1,187New York: median $1,494 across 72 hospitalsNY$1,494Massachusetts: median $3,078 across 32 hospitalsMA$3,078Oregon: median $906 across 45 hospitalsOR$906Nevada: median $1,314 across 11 hospitalsNV$1,314Wyoming: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $848 across 39 hospitalsIA$848Indiana: median $1,521 across 23 hospitalsIN$1,521Ohio: median $829 across 29 hospitalsOH$829Pennsylvania: median $1,382 across 56 hospitalsPA$1,382New Jersey: median $1,573 across 39 hospitalsNJ$1,573Connecticut: median $1,230 across 14 hospitalsCT$1,230Rhode Island: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $3,120 across 102 hospitalsCA$3,120Utah: median $394 across 27 hospitalsUT$394Colorado: median $1,179 across 29 hospitalsCO$1,179Nebraska: median $837 across 17 hospitalsNE$837Missouri: median $1,402 across 40 hospitalsMO$1,402Kentucky: median $403 across 28 hospitalsKY$403West Virginia: median $1,138 across 17 hospitalsWV$1,138Virginia: median $1,751 across 34 hospitalsVA$1,751Maryland: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: median $1,856 across 16 hospitalsNM$1,856Kansas: median $660 across 32 hospitalsKS$660Arkansas: median $550 across 16 hospitalsAR$550Tennessee: median $734 across 15 hospitalsTN$734North Carolina: median $538 across 31 hospitalsNC$538South Carolina: median $774 across 28 hospitalsSC$774Oklahoma: median $424 across 31 hospitalsOK$424Louisiana: median $697 across 29 hospitalsLA$697Mississippi: median $551 across 16 hospitalsMS$551Alabama: median $2,832 across 19 hospitalsAL$2,832Georgia: median $2,700 across 24 hospitalsGA$2,700Hawaii: median $2,815 across 12 hospitalsHI$2,815Texas: median $1,825 across 112 hospitalsTX$1,825Florida: median $3,193 across 44 hospitalsFL$3,193
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,382. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL44$3,193+131%$825 – $10,109
California CA102$3,120+126%$1,239 – $7,661
Massachusetts MA32$3,078+123%$1,306 – $3,661
Alabama AL19$2,832+105%$604 – $5,546
Hawaii HI12$2,815+104%$1,749 – $4,713
Georgia GA24$2,700+95%$1,211 – $4,862
Idaho ID16$2,300+66%$486 – $3,234
New Mexico NM16$1,856+34%$1,118 – $3,560
Texas TX112$1,825+32%$1,020 – $2,585
Virginia VA34$1,751+27%$1,146 – $1,986
Washington WA55$1,621+17%$650 – $2,954
New Jersey NJ39$1,573+14%$1,368 – $5,419
Indiana IN23$1,521+10%$359 – $2,322
New York NY72$1,494+8%$677 – $3,488
Wisconsin WI41$1,446+5%$984 – $1,814
Missouri MO40$1,402+1%$517 – $3,031
Pennsylvania PA56$1,3820%$168 – $2,539
Nevada NV11$1,314−5%$974 – $4,106
Connecticut CT14$1,230−11%$1,159 – $2,346
Illinois IL54$1,209−13%$400 – $4,406
Michigan MI52$1,187−14%$376 – $1,645
Colorado CO29$1,179−15%$579 – $1,769
West Virginia WV17$1,138−18%$260 – $3,687
Minnesota MN45$1,057−24%$555 – $1,187
Oregon OR45$906−34%$587 – $2,448
Iowa IA39$848−39%$493 – $1,498
Nebraska NE17$837−39%$563 – $1,213
Ohio OH29$829−40%$464 – $2,509
South Carolina SC28$774−44%$774 – $3,873
Tennessee TN15$734−47%$297 – $3,927
Louisiana LA29$697−50%$387 – $1,334
Kansas KS32$660−52%$410 – $1,769
Maine ME11$590−57%$390 – $1,180
Mississippi MS16$551−60%$416 – $2,818
Arkansas AR16$550−60%$504 – $1,547
New Hampshire NH12$542−61%$201 – $1,322
North Carolina NC31$538−61%$439 – $1,675
Vermont VT11$490−65%$319 – $3,558
Montana MT14$443−68%$290 – $1,071
Oklahoma OK31$424−69%$424 – $2,404
Kentucky KY28$403−71%$329 – $3,368
Utah UT27$394−72%$394 – $437
Alaska AK9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD2not 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 $1,382.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,061$1,531$618 – $3,634
Children’s30$1,187$551 – $3,100
Critical access342$731$426 – $1,743
Ownership
For-profit130$1,856$579 – $4,478
Government260$932$468 – $2,593
Non-profit1,043$1,440$518 – $3,124
System affiliation
Part of a system1,142$1,468$557 – $3,348
Independent294$910$414 – $1,936

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,315
Median cash price$1,382
Cash as a share of list, median hospital65%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 35%. 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

999 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,414 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,556; most fall between $518 and $3,140.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 999 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
$385$618$1,414$2,815$4,734

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($385 vs $4,734).

Of the 1,088 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 999 gave a usable cash price; 25 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 64 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,436 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (36%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,566 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,436
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) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded5
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded70
Hospitals that filed this code1,566

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 Other non-OR lower GI therapeutic procedures family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Rmvl Fecal Impaction/FB Spx Under Anes.

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, “Removal of stool blockage or object under anesthesia (CPT 45915) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-45915-removal-of-stool-blockage-or-object-under-anesthesia