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Procedure price report · Gastrostomy, temporary and permanent

Stomach feeding tube placed through the skin with imaging

CPT 49440the billing code this page is about

Placement of a feeding tube into the stomach through the skin of the abdomen, using X-ray or other imaging guidance, including the tube position check.

Hospitals typically charge $2,070 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,073 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,167. Most fall between $1,062 and $3,722 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,073
States
50
Filings dated
Aug 2022 – 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 2,073 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
$629$1,231$2,070$3,330$5,197

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($629 vs $5,197).

How the prices are spread

$451 – $594: 81 hospitals$451$594 – $783: 93 hospitals$783 – $1,031: 123 hospitals$783$1,031 – $1,359: 192 hospitals$1,359 – $1,791: 201 hospitals$1,359$1,791 – $2,360: 431 hospitals$2,360 – $3,110: 293 hospitals$2,360$3,110 – $4,098: 215 hospitals$4,098 – $5,400: 148 hospitals$4,098$5,400 – $7,116: 90 hospitals$5,400median $2,070price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,867 of 2,073 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$451$59481
$594$78393
$783$1,031123
$1,031$1,359192
$1,359$1,791201
$1,791$2,360431
$2,360$3,110293
$3,110$4,098215
$4,098$5,400148
$5,400$7,11690

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$1,960
Median cash price$2,070
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.06×

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 $2,070.

Alaska: median $2,842 across 10 hospitalsAK$2,842Maine: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $484 across 10 hospitalsNH$484Washington: median $2,605 across 54 hospitalsWA$2,605Idaho: median $2,664 across 15 hospitalsID$2,664Montana: median $1,414 across 18 hospitalsMT$1,414North Dakota: median $2,286 across 11 hospitalsND$2,286Minnesota: median $1,888 across 54 hospitalsMN$1,888Illinois: median $1,942 across 86 hospitalsIL$1,942Wisconsin: median $1,826 across 74 hospitalsWI$1,826Michigan: median $1,608 across 67 hospitalsMI$1,608New York: median $2,245 across 79 hospitalsNY$2,245Massachusetts: median $2,548 across 36 hospitalsMA$2,548Oregon: median $2,351 across 40 hospitalsOR$2,351Nevada: median $2,087 across 10 hospitalsNV$2,087Wyoming: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $2,591 across 10 hospitalsSD$2,591Iowa: median $1,766 across 35 hospitalsIA$1,766Indiana: median $1,466 across 59 hospitalsIN$1,466Ohio: median $3,020 across 106 hospitalsOH$3,020Pennsylvania: median $2,923 across 92 hospitalsPA$2,923New Jersey: median $2,531 across 54 hospitalsNJ$2,531Connecticut: median $3,512 across 18 hospitalsCT$3,512Rhode Island: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $2,503 across 168 hospitalsCA$2,503Utah: median $2,607 across 26 hospitalsUT$2,607Colorado: median $1,692 across 42 hospitalsCO$1,692Nebraska: median $1,605 across 23 hospitalsNE$1,605Missouri: median $1,912 across 51 hospitalsMO$1,912Kentucky: median $1,939 across 21 hospitalsKY$1,939West Virginia: median $2,206 across 15 hospitalsWV$2,206Virginia: median $1,909 across 48 hospitalsVA$1,909Maryland: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $1,535 across 36 hospitalsAZ$1,535New Mexico: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $1,800 across 25 hospitalsKS$1,800Arkansas: median $1,232 across 19 hospitalsAR$1,232Tennessee: median $598 across 49 hospitalsTN$598North Carolina: median $1,487 across 42 hospitalsNC$1,487South Carolina: median $2,188 across 38 hospitalsSC$2,188Oklahoma: median $1,062 across 38 hospitalsOK$1,062Louisiana: median $1,491 across 33 hospitalsLA$1,491Mississippi: median $933 across 40 hospitalsMS$933Alabama: median $1,792 across 25 hospitalsAL$1,792Georgia: median $3,116 across 72 hospitalsGA$3,116Hawaii: median $1,656 across 12 hospitalsHI$1,656Texas: median $1,966 across 163 hospitalsTX$1,966Florida: median $3,370 across 101 hospitalsFL$3,370
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,070. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Connecticut CT18$3,512+70%$2,334 – $4,674
Florida FL101$3,370+63%$1,727 – $5,286
Georgia GA72$3,116+51%$1,885 – $6,234
Ohio OH106$3,020+46%$1,806 – $5,672
Pennsylvania PA92$2,923+41%$1,775 – $5,644
Alaska AK10$2,842+37%$2,339 – $3,396
Idaho ID15$2,664+29%$1,956 – $4,686
Utah UT26$2,607+26%$2,607 – $3,067
Washington WA54$2,605+26%$1,110 – $3,697
South Dakota SD10$2,591+25%$1,563 – $2,591
Massachusetts MA36$2,548+23%$1,757 – $3,934
New Jersey NJ54$2,531+22%$2,100 – $5,419
California CA168$2,503+21%$1,299 – $4,400
Oregon OR40$2,351+14%$755 – $4,319
North Dakota ND11$2,286+10%$1,520 – $2,582
New York NY79$2,245+8%$853 – $4,104
West Virginia WV15$2,206+7%$605 – $3,680
South Carolina SC38$2,188+6%$1,763 – $3,390
Nevada NV10$2,087+1%$534 – $3,233
Texas TX163$1,966−5%$1,472 – $3,727
Illinois IL86$1,942−6%$914 – $3,537
Kentucky KY21$1,939−6%$838 – $3,387
Missouri MO51$1,912−8%$985 – $2,248
Virginia VA48$1,909−8%$1,143 – $2,669
Minnesota MN54$1,888−9%$1,244 – $2,634
Wisconsin WI74$1,826−12%$1,000 – $2,144
Kansas KS25$1,800−13%$925 – $2,773
Alabama AL25$1,792−13%$974 – $2,167
Iowa IA35$1,766−15%$685 – $2,295
Colorado CO42$1,692−18%$1,161 – $3,419
Hawaii HI12$1,656−20%$1,332 – $2,876
Michigan MI67$1,608−22%$1,151 – $2,639
Nebraska NE23$1,605−22%$1,133 – $2,639
Arizona AZ36$1,535−26%$872 – $7,992
Louisiana LA33$1,491−28%$861 – $2,732
North Carolina NC42$1,487−28%$889 – $2,342
Indiana IN59$1,466−29%$250 – $3,628
Montana MT18$1,414−32%$618 – $2,345
Arkansas AR19$1,232−40%$679 – $2,251
Oklahoma OK38$1,062−49%$922 – $2,179
Mississippi MS40$933−55%$658 – $1,918
Tennessee TN49$598−71%$501 – $927
New Hampshire NH10$484−77%$248 – $1,274
New Mexico NM9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY6not 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 $2,070.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,731$2,108$1,110 – $3,841
Children’s50$2,397$1,415 – $4,262
Critical access283$1,857$685 – $2,800
Ownership
For-profit245$2,178$1,139 – $5,030
Government291$1,727$725 – $3,049
Non-profit1,528$2,133$1,100 – $3,613
System affiliation
Part of a system1,749$2,108$1,108 – $3,838
Independent324$1,802$722 – $3,200

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,501
Median cash price$2,070
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

1,568 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,126 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,281; most fall between $1,133 and $3,862.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,568 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
$737$1,319$2,126$3,448$5,289

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($737 vs $5,289).

Of the 1,695 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,568 gave a usable cash price; 54 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 72 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,073 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (52%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,240 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,073
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here86
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded5
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded75
Hospitals that filed this code2,240

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 Gastrostomy, temporary and permanent family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Insert Gastrostomy Tube Percutaneous.

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, “Stomach feeding tube placed through the skin with imaging (CPT 49440) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-49440-stomach-feeding-tube-placed-through-the-skin-with-imaging