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Procedure price report · Other OR gastrointestinal therapeutic procedures

Bile duct stent placed through a new skin puncture

CPT 47539the billing code this page is about

New access is created through the skin into the bile ducts and a stent is placed to hold the duct open, with no separate drainage catheter left behind; includes imaging guidance.

Hospitals typically charge $6,839 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,199 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $7,156. Most fall between $3,840 and $12,568 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,199
States
50
Filings dated
Feb 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 1,199 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
$2,324$4,331$6,839$11,189$16,576

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($2,324 vs $16,576).

How the prices are spread

$1,509 – $1,971: 20 hospitals$1,509$1,971 – $2,575: 54 hospitals$2,575 – $3,363: 65 hospitals$2,575$3,363 – $4,393: 116 hospitals$4,393 – $5,738: 143 hospitals$4,393$5,738 – $7,494: 233 hospitals$7,494 – $9,789: 156 hospitals$7,494$9,789 – $12,786: 129 hospitals$12,786 – $16,700: 111 hospitals$12,786$16,700 – $21,814: 54 hospitals$16,700median $6,839price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,081 of 1,199 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$1,509$1,97120
$1,971$2,57554
$2,575$3,36365
$3,363$4,393116
$4,393$5,738143
$5,738$7,494233
$7,494$9,789156
$9,789$12,786129
$12,786$16,700111
$16,700$21,81454

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$6,176
Median cash price$6,839
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.11×

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 $6,839.

Alaska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $3,889 across 33 hospitalsWA$3,889Idaho: median $8,623 across 11 hospitalsID$8,623Montana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $4,255 across 49 hospitalsIL$4,255Wisconsin: median $8,230 across 28 hospitalsWI$8,230Michigan: median $4,914 across 31 hospitalsMI$4,914New York: median $6,930 across 43 hospitalsNY$6,930Massachusetts: median $7,466 across 14 hospitalsMA$7,466Oregon: median $6,240 across 27 hospitalsOR$6,240Nevada: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $11,495 across 16 hospitalsIA$11,495Indiana: median $4,702 across 32 hospitalsIN$4,702Ohio: median $9,695 across 80 hospitalsOH$9,695Pennsylvania: median $9,864 across 53 hospitalsPA$9,864New Jersey: median $6,770 across 51 hospitalsNJ$6,770Connecticut: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $11,350 across 120 hospitalsCA$11,350Utah: median $5,959 across 23 hospitalsUT$5,959Colorado: median $7,565 across 32 hospitalsCO$7,565Nebraska: median $4,847 across 14 hospitalsNE$4,847Missouri: median $7,728 across 26 hospitalsMO$7,728Kentucky: median $6,550 across 11 hospitalsKY$6,550West Virginia: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $7,794 across 31 hospitalsVA$7,794Maryland: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $2,905 across 19 hospitalsAZ$2,905New Mexico: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: median $3,853 across 12 hospitalsAR$3,853Tennessee: median $2,867 across 28 hospitalsTN$2,867North Carolina: median $3,866 across 30 hospitalsNC$3,866South Carolina: median $5,579 across 19 hospitalsSC$5,579Oklahoma: median $4,331 across 22 hospitalsOK$4,331Louisiana: median $5,461 across 21 hospitalsLA$5,461Mississippi: median $4,603 across 15 hospitalsMS$4,603Alabama: median $6,746 across 11 hospitalsAL$6,746Georgia: median $4,838 across 44 hospitalsGA$4,838Hawaii: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $6,085 across 110 hospitalsTX$6,085Florida: median $10,439 across 62 hospitalsFL$10,439
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $6,839. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Iowa IA16$11,495+68%$11,495 – $11,495
California CA120$11,350+66%$5,760 – $16,576
Florida FL62$10,439+53%$6,094 – $16,130
Pennsylvania PA53$9,864+44%$6,841 – $24,071
Ohio OH80$9,695+42%$4,286 – $17,445
Idaho ID11$8,623+26%$4,000 – $15,131
Wisconsin WI28$8,230+20%$6,491 – $10,242
Virginia VA31$7,794+14%$3,623 – $8,325
Missouri MO26$7,728+13%$5,007 – $10,847
Colorado CO32$7,565+11%$5,825 – $9,676
Massachusetts MA14$7,466+9%$6,524 – $12,394
New York NY43$6,930+1%$6,176 – $14,223
New Jersey NJ51$6,770−1%$4,881 – $7,822
Alabama AL11$6,746−1%$5,406 – $11,189
Kentucky KY11$6,550−4%$4,266 – $23,427
Oregon OR27$6,240−9%$3,122 – $14,151
Texas TX110$6,085−11%$4,848 – $9,069
Utah UT23$5,959−13%$5,959 – $7,011
South Carolina SC19$5,579−18%$3,840 – $7,252
Louisiana LA21$5,461−20%$3,848 – $7,236
Michigan MI31$4,914−28%$526 – $8,313
Nebraska NE14$4,847−29%$3,819 – $7,637
Georgia GA44$4,838−29%$4,820 – $15,527
Indiana IN32$4,702−31%$3,271 – $7,338
Mississippi MS15$4,603−33%$2,363 – $5,366
Oklahoma OK22$4,331−37%$692 – $7,039
Illinois IL49$4,255−38%$2,048 – $10,632
Washington WA33$3,889−43%$2,691 – $9,031
North Carolina NC30$3,866−43%$3,411 – $8,254
Arkansas AR12$3,853−44%$2,993 – $5,961
Arizona AZ19$2,905−58%$2,491 – $6,295
Tennessee TN28$2,867−58%$2,173 – $3,998
Hawaii HI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT1not 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 $6,839.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,086$6,858$3,840 – $12,518
Children’s30$5,847$2,356 – $14,375
Critical access77$6,240$4,760 – $12,716
Ownership
For-profit109$7,252$4,488 – $16,130
Government148$5,856$3,818 – $10,277
Non-profit936$6,885$3,819 – $12,518
System affiliation
Part of a system1,062$6,858$3,853 – $12,622
Independent137$6,350$2,993 – $11,395

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$13,089
Median cash price$6,839
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

937 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $7,069 and the average of the middle 60% is $7,585; most fall between $3,866 and $13,780.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 937 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
$2,525$4,355$7,069$11,984$16,793

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($2,525 vs $16,793).

Of the 1,006 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 937 gave a usable cash price; 25 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 43 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,199 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (30%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,297 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,199
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here48
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 — excluded49
Hospitals that filed this code1,297

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 Plmt Bile Duct Stent Prq New Access W/O Sep Cath.

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, “Bile duct stent placed through a new skin puncture (CPT 47539) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-47539-bile-duct-stent-placed-through-a-new-skin-puncture