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Procedure price report · Other gastrointestinal diagnostic procedures

Bile duct scope exam through an existing tube tract

CPT 47552the billing code this page is about

A scope is passed through a T-tube tract or other established opening to inspect the bile ducts, with or without taking a specimen for testing.

Hospitals typically charge $4,354 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 741 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $4,396. Most fall between $1,424 and $8,035 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
741
States
50
Filings dated
Jun 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 741 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
$706$1,739$4,354$7,309$9,609

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 14× what the cheapest tenth charges ($706 vs $9,609).

How the prices are spread

$508 – $705: 33 hospitals$508$705 – $978: 37 hospitals$978 – $1,357: 35 hospitals$978$1,357 – $1,883: 53 hospitals$1,883 – $2,613: 85 hospitals$1,883$2,613 – $3,626: 45 hospitals$3,626 – $5,031: 91 hospitals$3,626$5,031 – $6,980: 118 hospitals$6,980 – $9,684: 133 hospitals$6,980$9,684 – $13,437: 37 hospitals$9,684median $4,354price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (667 of 741 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$508$70533
$705$97837
$978$1,35735
$1,357$1,88353
$1,883$2,61385
$2,613$3,62645
$3,626$5,03191
$5,031$6,980118
$6,980$9,684133
$9,684$13,43737

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$6,614
Median cash price$4,354
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.66×

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 $4,354.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $4,542 across 27 hospitalsWA$4,542Idaho: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $2,288 across 40 hospitalsIL$2,288Wisconsin: median $4,546 across 19 hospitalsWI$4,546Michigan: median $3,320 across 12 hospitalsMI$3,320New York: median $7,384 across 37 hospitalsNY$7,384Massachusetts: median $4,329 across 12 hospitalsMA$4,329Oregon: median $4,466 across 10 hospitalsOR$4,466Nevada: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $706 across 16 hospitalsIA$706Indiana: median $1,025 across 31 hospitalsIN$1,025Ohio: median $6,614 across 54 hospitalsOH$6,614Pennsylvania: median $7,649 across 41 hospitalsPA$7,649New Jersey: median $6,819 across 34 hospitalsNJ$6,819Connecticut: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $7,000 across 51 hospitalsCA$7,000Utah: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $3,766 across 24 hospitalsCO$3,766Nebraska: median $2,811 across 10 hospitalsNE$2,811Missouri: median $2,085 across 12 hospitalsMO$2,085Kentucky: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $3,262 across 26 hospitalsVA$3,262Maryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $8,383 across 11 hospitalsAZ$8,383New Mexico: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: median $1,789 across 24 hospitalsNC$1,789South Carolina: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $458 across 15 hospitalsOK$458Louisiana: median $2,740 across 15 hospitalsLA$2,740Mississippi: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $3,739 across 36 hospitalsGA$3,739Hawaii: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $1,428 across 49 hospitalsTX$1,428Florida: median $5,152 across 55 hospitalsFL$5,152
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $4,354. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Arizona AZ11$8,383+93%$7,944 – $8,383
Pennsylvania PA41$7,649+76%$5,145 – $9,769
New York NY37$7,384+70%$1,042 – $8,640
California CA51$7,000+61%$5,039 – $8,966
New Jersey NJ34$6,819+57%$4,350 – $7,507
Ohio OH54$6,614+52%$2,687 – $18,657
Florida FL55$5,152+18%$2,184 – $10,252
Wisconsin WI19$4,546+4%$2,300 – $6,589
Washington WA27$4,542+4%$2,908 – $6,924
Oregon OR10$4,466+3%$4,038 – $5,307
Massachusetts MA12$4,329−1%$1,340 – $9,469
Colorado CO24$3,766−13%$2,485 – $7,947
Georgia GA36$3,739−14%$2,096 – $4,216
Michigan MI12$3,320−24%$3,320 – $8,902
Virginia VA26$3,262−25%$2,149 – $8,363
Nebraska NE10$2,811−35%$629 – $3,108
Louisiana LA15$2,740−37%$1,417 – $5,084
Illinois IL40$2,288−47%$636 – $8,211
Missouri MO12$2,085−52%$845 – $4,373
North Carolina NC24$1,789−59%$1,717 – $2,682
Texas TX49$1,428−67%$1,137 – $6,238
Indiana IN31$1,025−76%$644 – $1,654
Iowa IA16$706−84%$706 – $2,036
Oklahoma OK15$458−89%$458 – $2,571
Mississippi MS9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY1not 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 $4,354.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care679$4,498$1,525 – $8,081
Children’s9fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access49$1,492$706 – $6,589
Ownership
For-profit64$3,766$1,053 – $8,383
Government99$3,588$1,137 – $6,920
Non-profit574$4,501$1,507 – $8,132
System affiliation
Part of a system657$4,466$1,525 – $8,132
Independent84$3,983$755 – $6,920

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$7,163
Median cash price$4,354
Cash as a share of list, median hospital56%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 44%. 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

584 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $4,216 and the average of the middle 60% is $4,341; most fall between $1,467 and $8,326.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 584 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
$706$1,789$4,216$7,360$9,769

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 14× what the cheapest tenth charges ($706 vs $9,769).

Of the 632 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 584 gave a usable cash price; 23 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 25 a list price only.

How complete is this

741 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (19%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 801 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted741
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here29
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 — excluded30
Hospitals that filed this code801

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 gastrointestinal diagnostic procedures family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Biliary Endo Prq T-Tube Dx W/Collect Spec Brush.

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 scope exam through an existing tube tract (CPT 47552) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-47552-bile-duct-scope-exam-through-an-existing-tube-tract