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Procedure price report · Other OR gastrointestinal therapeutic procedures

Gallbladder drain placed through the skin

CPT 47490the billing code this page is about

Using imaging for guidance, a needle and drainage tube are passed through the skin into the gallbladder to drain it; includes the imaging and catheter placement.

Hospitals typically charge $3,568 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,951 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $3,674. Most fall between $1,798 and $5,992 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,951
States
50
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 1,951 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
$910$2,118$3,568$5,377$8,241

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($910 vs $8,241).

How the prices are spread

$556 – $747: 69 hospitals$556$747 – $1,002: 50 hospitals$1,002 – $1,345: 71 hospitals$1,002$1,345 – $1,805: 111 hospitals$1,805 – $2,423: 176 hospitals$1,805$2,423 – $3,252: 260 hospitals$3,252 – $4,364: 383 hospitals$3,252$4,364 – $5,858: 324 hospitals$5,858 – $7,862: 183 hospitals$5,858$7,862 – $10,552: 133 hospitals$7,862median $3,568price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,760 of 1,951 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$556$74769
$747$1,00250
$1,002$1,34571
$1,345$1,805111
$1,805$2,423176
$2,423$3,252260
$3,252$4,364383
$4,364$5,858324
$5,858$7,862183
$7,862$10,552133

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$3,658
Median cash price$3,568
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.98×

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 $3,568.

Alaska: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $3,532 across 10 hospitalsME$3,532Vermont: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $2,151 across 12 hospitalsNH$2,151Washington: median $4,569 across 46 hospitalsWA$4,569Idaho: median $5,456 across 14 hospitalsID$5,456Montana: median $525 across 19 hospitalsMT$525North Dakota: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $3,114 across 42 hospitalsMN$3,114Illinois: median $2,797 across 86 hospitalsIL$2,797Wisconsin: median $2,645 across 75 hospitalsWI$2,645Michigan: median $3,567 across 67 hospitalsMI$3,567New York: median $4,176 across 79 hospitalsNY$4,176Massachusetts: median $4,841 across 38 hospitalsMA$4,841Oregon: median $4,580 across 37 hospitalsOR$4,580Nevada: median $2,683 across 13 hospitalsNV$2,683Wyoming: 5 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 $3,123 across 28 hospitalsIA$3,123Indiana: median $2,767 across 57 hospitalsIN$2,767Ohio: median $3,534 across 104 hospitalsOH$3,534Pennsylvania: median $4,207 across 101 hospitalsPA$4,207New Jersey: median $4,632 across 55 hospitalsNJ$4,632Connecticut: median $5,377 across 15 hospitalsCT$5,377Rhode Island: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $5,204 across 157 hospitalsCA$5,204Utah: median $3,277 across 26 hospitalsUT$3,277Colorado: median $3,316 across 37 hospitalsCO$3,316Nebraska: median $2,335 across 19 hospitalsNE$2,335Missouri: median $3,537 across 48 hospitalsMO$3,537Kentucky: median $3,449 across 22 hospitalsKY$3,449West Virginia: median $3,387 across 20 hospitalsWV$3,387Virginia: median $3,220 across 38 hospitalsVA$3,220Maryland: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $2,607 across 34 hospitalsAZ$2,607New Mexico: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $3,104 across 19 hospitalsKS$3,104Arkansas: median $2,165 across 14 hospitalsAR$2,165Tennessee: median $1,245 across 41 hospitalsTN$1,245North Carolina: median $2,053 across 49 hospitalsNC$2,053South Carolina: median $3,862 across 39 hospitalsSC$3,862Oklahoma: median $1,858 across 32 hospitalsOK$1,858Louisiana: median $3,358 across 33 hospitalsLA$3,358Mississippi: median $2,400 across 30 hospitalsMS$2,400Alabama: median $2,990 across 26 hospitalsAL$2,990Georgia: median $3,573 across 62 hospitalsGA$3,573Hawaii: median $3,239 across 13 hospitalsHI$3,239Texas: median $3,563 across 145 hospitalsTX$3,563Florida: median $3,542 across 87 hospitalsFL$3,542
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $3,568. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Idaho ID14$5,456+53%$3,067 – $8,630
Connecticut CT15$5,377+51%$3,630 – $9,263
California CA157$5,204+46%$3,293 – $9,236
Massachusetts MA38$4,841+36%$2,538 – $8,158
New Jersey NJ55$4,632+30%$3,906 – $10,873
Oregon OR37$4,580+28%$973 – $6,705
Washington WA46$4,569+28%$2,243 – $6,196
Pennsylvania PA101$4,207+18%$3,066 – $6,426
New York NY79$4,176+17%$1,563 – $7,756
South Carolina SC39$3,862+8%$2,611 – $5,372
Georgia GA62$3,5730%$2,557 – $6,310
Michigan MI67$3,5670%$628 – $5,550
Texas TX145$3,5630%$2,037 – $5,752
Florida FL87$3,542−1%$1,924 – $7,753
Missouri MO48$3,537−1%$1,901 – $4,182
Ohio OH104$3,534−1%$2,809 – $6,719
Maine ME10$3,532−1%$1,844 – $6,303
Kentucky KY22$3,449−3%$2,152 – $5,138
West Virginia WV20$3,387−5%$789 – $4,115
Louisiana LA33$3,358−6%$1,957 – $6,745
Colorado CO37$3,316−7%$1,915 – $5,318
Utah UT26$3,277−8%$2,824 – $3,323
Hawaii HI13$3,239−9%$1,778 – $4,421
Virginia VA38$3,220−10%$2,091 – $4,327
Iowa IA28$3,123−12%$841 – $5,909
Minnesota MN42$3,114−13%$821 – $5,433
Kansas KS19$3,104−13%$1,083 – $4,779
Alabama AL26$2,990−16%$2,080 – $6,419
Illinois IL86$2,797−22%$1,338 – $5,228
Indiana IN57$2,767−22%$1,152 – $4,456
Nevada NV13$2,683−25%$1,338 – $3,894
Wisconsin WI75$2,645−26%$1,785 – $4,496
Arizona AZ34$2,607−27%$1,549 – $8,148
Mississippi MS30$2,400−33%$1,370 – $2,757
Nebraska NE19$2,335−35%$1,397 – $3,166
Arkansas AR14$2,165−39%$1,547 – $4,421
New Hampshire NH12$2,151−40%$300 – $4,643
North Carolina NC49$2,053−42%$713 – $3,013
Oklahoma OK32$1,858−48%$1,424 – $3,203
Tennessee TN41$1,245−65%$1,027 – $2,813
Montana MT19$525−85%$457 – $3,027
North Dakota ND9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD4not 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 $3,568.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,697$3,657$1,957 – $6,122
Children’s36$4,779$2,093 – $10,224
Critical access209$2,489$695 – $5,305
Ownership
For-profit219$3,660$1,879 – $8,148
Government252$2,707$946 – $4,970
Non-profit1,471$3,640$1,915 – $5,954
System affiliation
Part of a system1,666$3,607$1,901 – $6,004
Independent285$3,321$973 – $5,898

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$6,318
Median cash price$3,568
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

1,531 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $3,607 and the average of the middle 60% is $3,753; most fall between $1,879 and $6,177.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,531 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
$1,027$2,208$3,607$5,436$8,320

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,027 vs $8,320).

Of the 1,639 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,531 gave a usable cash price; 43 carried a plausibility flag, 1 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

1,951 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (49%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,098 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,951
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here76
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded69
Hospitals that filed this code2,098

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 OR gastrointestinal therapeutic procedures family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Cholecystostomy Prq W/Imaging & Catheter Plmt.

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, “Gallbladder drain placed through the skin (CPT 47490) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-47490-gallbladder-drain-placed-through-the-skin