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Procedure price report · Other non-OR gastrointestinal therapeutic procedures

Clearing a blocked feeding or colon tube

CPT 49460the billing code this page is about

Mechanical clearing of material blocking an existing stomach, small intestine, or colon tube by any method, with imaging guidance to confirm the tube is open.

Hospitals typically charge $1,064 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,377 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,112. Most fall between $568 and $1,978 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,377
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 1,377 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
$357$662$1,064$1,768$2,992

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($357 vs $2,992).

How the prices are spread

$214 – $292: 45 hospitals$214$292 – $397: 55 hospitals$397 – $541: 91 hospitals$397$541 – $737: 167 hospitals$737 – $1,004: 222 hospitals$737$1,004 – $1,368: 257 hospitals$1,368 – $1,863: 164 hospitals$1,368$1,863 – $2,538: 111 hospitals$2,538 – $3,457: 84 hospitals$2,538$3,457 – $4,710: 62 hospitals$3,457median $1,064price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,258 of 1,377 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$214$29245
$292$39755
$397$54191
$541$737167
$737$1,004222
$1,004$1,368257
$1,368$1,863164
$1,863$2,538111
$2,538$3,45784
$3,457$4,71062

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$927
Median cash price$1,064
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.15×

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 $1,064.

Alaska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $1,165 across 43 hospitalsWA$1,165Idaho: median $1,873 across 10 hospitalsID$1,873Montana: median $1,027 across 14 hospitalsMT$1,027North Dakota: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $819 across 31 hospitalsMN$819Illinois: median $1,389 across 46 hospitalsIL$1,389Wisconsin: median $665 across 40 hospitalsWI$665Michigan: median $1,056 across 36 hospitalsMI$1,056New York: median $1,109 across 54 hospitalsNY$1,109Massachusetts: median $1,245 across 16 hospitalsMA$1,245Oregon: median $1,280 across 34 hospitalsOR$1,280Nevada: median $986 across 10 hospitalsNV$986Wyoming: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $1,648 across 18 hospitalsIA$1,648Indiana: median $710 across 48 hospitalsIN$710Ohio: median $1,750 across 68 hospitalsOH$1,750Pennsylvania: median $1,295 across 65 hospitalsPA$1,295New Jersey: median $1,251 across 46 hospitalsNJ$1,251Connecticut: median $1,064 across 10 hospitalsCT$1,064Rhode Island: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $1,768 across 127 hospitalsCA$1,768Utah: median $943 across 26 hospitalsUT$943Colorado: median $1,246 across 31 hospitalsCO$1,246Nebraska: median $361 across 12 hospitalsNE$361Missouri: median $1,047 across 21 hospitalsMO$1,047Kentucky: median $3,198 across 18 hospitalsKY$3,198West Virginia: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $672 across 33 hospitalsVA$672Maryland: 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 $623 across 21 hospitalsAZ$623New Mexico: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $834 across 11 hospitalsKS$834Arkansas: median $501 across 10 hospitalsAR$501Tennessee: median $422 across 34 hospitalsTN$422North Carolina: median $722 across 33 hospitalsNC$722South Carolina: median $1,224 across 29 hospitalsSC$1,224Oklahoma: median $513 across 26 hospitalsOK$513Louisiana: median $550 across 16 hospitalsLA$550Mississippi: median $390 across 20 hospitalsMS$390Alabama: median $916 across 13 hospitalsAL$916Georgia: median $1,111 across 51 hospitalsGA$1,111Hawaii: median $979 across 11 hospitalsHI$979Texas: median $833 across 111 hospitalsTX$833Florida: median $1,183 across 76 hospitalsFL$1,183
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,064. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Kentucky KY18$3,198+201%$558 – $3,765
Idaho ID10$1,873+76%$802 – $2,526
California CA127$1,768+66%$935 – $4,415
Ohio OH68$1,750+65%$620 – $3,283
Iowa IA18$1,648+55%$655 – $1,777
Illinois IL46$1,389+31%$893 – $1,792
Pennsylvania PA65$1,295+22%$459 – $2,977
Oregon OR34$1,280+20%$688 – $1,942
New Jersey NJ46$1,251+18%$1,039 – $4,500
Colorado CO31$1,246+17%$449 – $1,362
Massachusetts MA16$1,245+17%$804 – $2,548
South Carolina SC29$1,224+15%$877 – $1,464
Florida FL76$1,183+11%$816 – $1,969
Washington WA43$1,165+10%$637 – $1,446
Georgia GA51$1,111+4%$950 – $1,720
New York NY54$1,109+4%$857 – $1,980
Connecticut CT10$1,0640%$736 – $2,262
Michigan MI36$1,056−1%$585 – $2,780
Missouri MO21$1,047−2%$815 – $1,804
Montana MT14$1,027−3%$263 – $1,134
Nevada NV10$986−7%$337 – $2,652
Hawaii HI11$979−8%$846 – $2,418
Utah UT26$943−11%$802 – $943
Alabama AL13$916−14%$809 – $1,071
Kansas KS11$834−22%$277 – $2,723
Texas TX111$833−22%$679 – $2,316
Minnesota MN31$819−23%$664 – $1,004
North Carolina NC33$722−32%$330 – $1,191
Indiana IN48$710−33%$284 – $1,316
Virginia VA33$672−37%$317 – $1,163
Wisconsin WI40$665−37%$501 – $1,083
Arizona AZ21$623−41%$229 – $6,029
Louisiana LA16$550−48%$399 – $1,411
Oklahoma OK26$513−52%$83 – $728
Arkansas AR10$501−53%$250 – $1,550
Tennessee TN34$422−60%$280 – $753
Mississippi MS20$390−63%$286 – $476
Nebraska NE12$361−66%$320 – $638
South Dakota SD8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not 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 $1,064.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,226$1,083$614 – $2,012
Children’s31$959$420 – $1,557
Critical access114$842$432 – $1,777
Ownership
For-profit128$979$662 – $2,607
Government185$941$614 – $1,541
Non-profit1,058$1,087$555 – $2,055
System affiliation
Part of a system1,216$1,064$585 – $2,006
Independent161$991$494 – $1,864

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,847
Median cash price$1,064
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

1,093 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,047 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,120; most fall between $558 and $1,980.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,093 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
$361$655$1,047$1,768$2,827

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($361 vs $2,827).

Of the 1,169 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,093 gave a usable cash price; 31 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 45 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,377 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (35%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,479 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,377
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here50
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded2
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded49
Hospitals that filed this code1,479

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 non-OR gastrointestinal therapeutic procedures family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Obstructive Material Removal From GI Tube.

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, “Clearing a blocked feeding or colon tube (CPT 49460) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-49460-clearing-a-blocked-feeding-or-colon-tube