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Procedure price report · Other OR gastrointestinal therapeutic procedures

Balloon widening of a bile duct, each duct treated

CPT 47542the billing code this page is about

A balloon is inflated inside a narrowed bile duct or the opening into the intestine to stretch it open; billed once for each duct or opening dilated, in addition to the main procedure.

Hospitals typically charge $1,827 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,281 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,099. Most fall between $813 and $4,072 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,281
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 1,281 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
$454$996$1,827$3,716$5,258

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($454 vs $5,258).

How the prices are spread

$241 – $336: 36 hospitals$241$336 – $469: 47 hospitals$469 – $656: 78 hospitals$469$656 – $916: 77 hospitals$916 – $1,279: 162 hospitals$916$1,279 – $1,787: 159 hospitals$1,787 – $2,497: 159 hospitals$1,787$2,497 – $3,488: 142 hospitals$3,488 – $4,873: 195 hospitals$3,488$4,873 – $6,807: 103 hospitals$4,873median $1,827price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,158 of 1,281 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$241$33636
$336$46947
$469$65678
$656$91677
$916$1,279162
$1,279$1,787159
$1,787$2,497159
$2,497$3,488142
$3,488$4,873195
$4,873$6,807103

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $1,827.

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: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $1,274 across 33 hospitalsWA$1,274Idaho: median $3,716 across 12 hospitalsID$3,716Montana: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $1,827 across 28 hospitalsMN$1,827Illinois: median $1,953 across 51 hospitalsIL$1,953Wisconsin: median $1,854 across 52 hospitalsWI$1,854Michigan: median $1,551 across 53 hospitalsMI$1,551New York: median $601 across 30 hospitalsNY$601Massachusetts: median $2,030 across 22 hospitalsMA$2,030Oregon: median $859 across 23 hospitalsOR$859Nevada: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $1,274 across 21 hospitalsIA$1,274Indiana: median $1,476 across 34 hospitalsIN$1,476Ohio: median $2,684 across 75 hospitalsOH$2,684Pennsylvania: median $1,564 across 56 hospitalsPA$1,564New Jersey: median $4,500 across 32 hospitalsNJ$4,500Connecticut: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $2,231 across 122 hospitalsCA$2,231Utah: median $3,716 across 23 hospitalsUT$3,716Colorado: median $2,998 across 32 hospitalsCO$2,998Nebraska: median $1,356 across 17 hospitalsNE$1,356Missouri: median $1,919 across 29 hospitalsMO$1,919Kentucky: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $702 across 31 hospitalsVA$702Maryland: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $1,691 across 22 hospitalsAZ$1,691New Mexico: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: median $464 across 11 hospitalsAR$464Tennessee: median $596 across 32 hospitalsTN$596North Carolina: median $2,795 across 35 hospitalsNC$2,795South Carolina: median $1,147 across 26 hospitalsSC$1,147Oklahoma: median $1,198 across 19 hospitalsOK$1,198Louisiana: median $1,338 across 17 hospitalsLA$1,338Mississippi: median $610 across 11 hospitalsMS$610Alabama: median $1,686 across 12 hospitalsAL$1,686Georgia: median $1,613 across 50 hospitalsGA$1,613Hawaii: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $2,317 across 106 hospitalsTX$2,317Florida: median $1,799 across 67 hospitalsFL$1,799
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,827. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ32$4,500+146%$2,084 – $6,479
Idaho ID12$3,716+103%$1,700 – $4,430
Utah UT23$3,716+103%$3,716 – $4,372
Colorado CO32$2,998+64%$1,401 – $8,325
North Carolina NC35$2,795+53%$902 – $3,233
Ohio OH75$2,684+47%$996 – $5,051
Texas TX106$2,317+27%$1,489 – $4,105
California CA122$2,231+22%$931 – $3,792
Massachusetts MA22$2,030+11%$390 – $4,883
Illinois IL51$1,953+7%$759 – $4,438
Missouri MO29$1,919+5%$951 – $3,648
Wisconsin WI52$1,854+1%$1,551 – $4,815
Minnesota MN28$1,8270%$1,036 – $5,411
Florida FL67$1,799−2%$954 – $3,722
Arizona AZ22$1,691−7%$1,381 – $6,497
Alabama AL12$1,686−8%$658 – $5,301
Georgia GA50$1,613−12%$1,157 – $4,102
Pennsylvania PA56$1,564−14%$742 – $5,077
Michigan MI53$1,551−15%$541 – $4,776
Indiana IN34$1,476−19%$977 – $2,421
Nebraska NE17$1,356−26%$867 – $2,575
Louisiana LA17$1,338−27%$206 – $2,119
Washington WA33$1,274−30%$1,026 – $3,526
Iowa IA21$1,274−30%$1,133 – $3,249
Oklahoma OK19$1,198−34%$723 – $6,119
South Carolina SC26$1,147−37%$1,147 – $4,469
Oregon OR23$859−53%$241 – $3,858
Virginia VA31$702−62%$461 – $1,167
Mississippi MS11$610−67%$474 – $1,734
New York NY30$601−67%$159 – $3,173
Tennessee TN32$596−67%$454 – $841
Arkansas AR11$464−75%$338 – $1,523
Connecticut CT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not 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 $1,827.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,123$1,799$762 – $4,050
Children’s34$3,792$1,476 – $8,444
Critical access115$1,812$626 – $3,906
Ownership
For-profit104$1,867$723 – $4,270
Government137$1,471$586 – $3,295
Non-profit1,031$1,841$841 – $4,118
System affiliation
Part of a system1,154$1,853$841 – $4,105
Independent127$1,700$378 – $3,578

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,318
Median cash price$1,827
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

1,050 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,865 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,151; most fall between $846 and $4,102.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,050 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
$482$1,031$1,865$3,716$5,142

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($482 vs $5,142).

Of the 1,136 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,050 gave a usable cash price; 33 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 52 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,281 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (32%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,431 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,281
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here60
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 — excluded89
Hospitals that filed this code1,431

Sections not shown for this setting

  • Against Medicare: Medicare has no separately payable national outpatient (OPPS) rate for this code, so there is nothing honest to compare against.
  • 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 Balloon Dilat Biliary Duct/Ampulla Prq Each Duct.

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.

Download this page’s figures: JSON · CSV. Aggregates only — the per-hospital prices are on the compare tool.

Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Balloon widening of a bile duct, each duct treated (CPT 47542) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-47542-balloon-widening-of-a-bile-duct-each-duct-treated