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Procedure price report · Other OR gastrointestinal therapeutic procedures

Stone or debris removal from bile ducts or gallbladder

CPT 47544the billing code this page is about

Stones or debris are removed from the bile ducts or gallbladder through a catheter tract in the skin; reported in addition to the main procedure and includes imaging guidance.

Hospitals typically charge $2,379 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,210 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,492. Most fall between $937 and $4,452 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,210
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 1,210 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
$466$1,248$2,379$3,936$5,929

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($466 vs $5,929).

How the prices are spread

$268 – $375: 33 hospitals$268$375 – $524: 43 hospitals$524 – $733: 39 hospitals$524$733 – $1,026: 84 hospitals$1,026 – $1,436: 79 hospitals$1,026$1,436 – $2,009: 167 hospitals$2,009 – $2,811: 217 hospitals$2,009$2,811 – $3,933: 183 hospitals$3,933 – $5,503: 157 hospitals$3,933$5,503 – $7,699: 89 hospitals$5,503median $2,379price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,091 of 1,210 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$268$37533
$375$52443
$524$73339
$733$1,02684
$1,026$1,43679
$1,436$2,009167
$2,009$2,811217
$2,811$3,933183
$3,933$5,503157
$5,503$7,69989

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $2,379.

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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $1,755 across 28 hospitalsWA$1,755Idaho: median $3,843 across 11 hospitalsID$3,843Montana: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $4,714 across 21 hospitalsMN$4,714Illinois: median $2,319 across 51 hospitalsIL$2,319Wisconsin: median $3,228 across 41 hospitalsWI$3,228Michigan: median $2,278 across 53 hospitalsMI$2,278New York: median $845 across 31 hospitalsNY$845Massachusetts: median $2,030 across 13 hospitalsMA$2,030Oregon: median $2,976 across 26 hospitalsOR$2,976Nevada: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $2,429 across 20 hospitalsIA$2,429Indiana: median $1,696 across 36 hospitalsIN$1,696Ohio: median $3,030 across 84 hospitalsOH$3,030Pennsylvania: median $1,982 across 45 hospitalsPA$1,982New Jersey: median $5,741 across 31 hospitalsNJ$5,741Connecticut: 5 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 $3,738 across 111 hospitalsCA$3,738Utah: median $2,725 across 23 hospitalsUT$2,725Colorado: median $2,720 across 30 hospitalsCO$2,720Nebraska: median $1,069 across 17 hospitalsNE$1,069Missouri: median $2,577 across 25 hospitalsMO$2,577Kentucky: median $2,283 across 10 hospitalsKY$2,283West Virginia: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $1,735 across 31 hospitalsVA$1,735Maryland: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $1,408 across 25 hospitalsAZ$1,408New Mexico: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: median $664 across 10 hospitalsAR$664Tennessee: median $841 across 34 hospitalsTN$841North Carolina: median $1,298 across 28 hospitalsNC$1,298South Carolina: median $1,778 across 20 hospitalsSC$1,778Oklahoma: median $550 across 20 hospitalsOK$550Louisiana: median $1,360 across 24 hospitalsLA$1,360Mississippi: median $1,166 across 15 hospitalsMS$1,166Alabama: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $2,691 across 42 hospitalsGA$2,691Hawaii: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $1,990 across 99 hospitalsTX$1,990Florida: median $2,379 across 69 hospitalsFL$2,379
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,379. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ31$5,741+141%$3,786 – $7,943
Minnesota MN21$4,714+98%$3,022 – $5,073
Idaho ID11$3,843+62%$2,997 – $12,942
California CA111$3,738+57%$2,040 – $5,072
Wisconsin WI41$3,228+36%$2,006 – $3,295
Ohio OH84$3,030+27%$1,780 – $6,146
Oregon OR26$2,976+25%$459 – $4,684
Utah UT23$2,725+15%$2,725 – $3,205
Colorado CO30$2,720+14%$1,969 – $7,182
Georgia GA42$2,691+13%$2,246 – $5,849
Missouri MO25$2,577+8%$1,481 – $4,340
Iowa IA20$2,429+2%$1,184 – $2,769
Florida FL69$2,3790%$1,107 – $4,689
Illinois IL51$2,319−3%$1,659 – $3,422
Kentucky KY10$2,283−4%$466 – $4,578
Michigan MI53$2,278−4%$162 – $5,426
Massachusetts MA13$2,030−15%$335 – $6,367
Texas TX99$1,990−16%$1,248 – $3,488
Pennsylvania PA45$1,982−17%$1,054 – $3,624
South Carolina SC20$1,778−25%$1,778 – $4,406
Washington WA28$1,755−26%$1,352 – $4,776
Virginia VA31$1,735−27%$825 – $3,379
Indiana IN36$1,696−29%$1,378 – $3,394
Arizona AZ25$1,408−41%$1,125 – $8,498
Louisiana LA24$1,360−43%$298 – $2,266
North Carolina NC28$1,298−45%$706 – $1,690
Mississippi MS15$1,166−51%$488 – $1,832
Nebraska NE17$1,069−55%$751 – $2,097
New York NY31$845−64%$302 – $2,804
Tennessee TN34$841−65%$722 – $878
Arkansas AR10$664−72%$248 – $2,723
Oklahoma OK20$550−77%$255 – $3,753
North Dakota ND9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK3not 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
South Dakota SD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not 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 $2,379.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,068$2,363$935 – $4,452
Children’s30$3,520$1,755 – $5,301
Critical access105$2,278$878 – $4,034
Ownership
For-profit99$2,306$809 – $4,034
Government131$1,690$777 – $3,158
Non-profit973$2,429$1,045 – $4,578
System affiliation
Part of a system1,080$2,422$1,024 – $4,486
Independent130$1,906$397 – $3,750

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$4,166
Median cash price$2,379
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

999 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,429 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,590; most fall between $1,045 and $4,495.

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
$546$1,352$2,429$4,034$6,182

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($546 vs $6,182).

Of the 1,091 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 999 gave a usable cash price; 39 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

1,210 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (31%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,365 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,210
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here61
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 — excluded93
Hospitals that filed this code1,365

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 Removal Biliary Duct &/Glbldr Calculi Perq Rs&I.

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, “Stone or debris removal from bile ducts or gallbladder (CPT 47544) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-47544-stone-or-debris-removal-from-bile-ducts-or-gallbladder