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Dye injection to X-ray an existing abdominal tube

CPT 49465the billing code this page is about

Injection of contrast dye through an existing feeding or colon tube placed through the skin, with imaging to check the tube's position and path.

Hospitals typically charge $416 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,212 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $440. Most fall between $226 and $785 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,212
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 2,212 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
$153$247$416$695$1,137

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($153 vs $1,137).

How the prices are spread

$110 – $145: 85 hospitals$110$145 – $191: 132 hospitals$191 – $252: 260 hospitals$191$252 – $333: 322 hospitals$333 – $439: 260 hospitals$333$439 – $579: 295 hospitals$579 – $764: 294 hospitals$579$764 – $1,008: 190 hospitals$1,008 – $1,331: 69 hospitals$1,008$1,331 – $1,756: 85 hospitals$1,331median $416price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,992 of 2,212 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$110$14585
$145$191132
$191$252260
$252$333322
$333$439260
$439$579295
$579$764294
$764$1,008190
$1,008$1,33169
$1,331$1,75685

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$244
Median cash price$416
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.71×

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 $416.

Alaska: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $427 across 13 hospitalsME$427Vermont: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $198 across 11 hospitalsNH$198Washington: median $427 across 50 hospitalsWA$427Idaho: median $465 across 14 hospitalsID$465Montana: median $227 across 16 hospitalsMT$227North Dakota: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $517 across 60 hospitalsMN$517Illinois: median $430 across 95 hospitalsIL$430Wisconsin: median $423 across 83 hospitalsWI$423Michigan: median $311 across 74 hospitalsMI$311New York: median $342 across 81 hospitalsNY$342Massachusetts: median $552 across 36 hospitalsMA$552Oregon: median $377 across 38 hospitalsOR$377Nevada: median $337 across 14 hospitalsNV$337Wyoming: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $652 across 11 hospitalsSD$652Iowa: median $374 across 38 hospitalsIA$374Indiana: median $496 across 73 hospitalsIN$496Ohio: median $677 across 113 hospitalsOH$677Pennsylvania: median $420 across 107 hospitalsPA$420New Jersey: median $327 across 53 hospitalsNJ$327Connecticut: median $490 across 19 hospitalsCT$490Rhode Island: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $702 across 164 hospitalsCA$702Utah: median $374 across 27 hospitalsUT$374Colorado: median $377 across 44 hospitalsCO$377Nebraska: median $348 across 32 hospitalsNE$348Missouri: median $407 across 55 hospitalsMO$407Kentucky: median $387 across 34 hospitalsKY$387West Virginia: median $433 across 13 hospitalsWV$433Virginia: median $310 across 48 hospitalsVA$310Maryland: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $281 across 34 hospitalsAZ$281New Mexico: median $302 across 12 hospitalsNM$302Kansas: median $298 across 28 hospitalsKS$298Arkansas: median $203 across 25 hospitalsAR$203Tennessee: median $176 across 51 hospitalsTN$176North Carolina: median $248 across 63 hospitalsNC$248South Carolina: median $476 across 42 hospitalsSC$476Oklahoma: median $228 across 39 hospitalsOK$228Louisiana: median $258 across 38 hospitalsLA$258Mississippi: median $183 across 34 hospitalsMS$183Alabama: median $348 across 29 hospitalsAL$348Georgia: median $461 across 72 hospitalsGA$461Hawaii: median $386 across 14 hospitalsHI$386Texas: median $583 across 159 hospitalsTX$583Florida: median $565 across 102 hospitalsFL$565
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $416. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA164$702+69%$276 – $1,675
Ohio OH113$677+62%$365 – $1,240
South Dakota SD11$652+57%$640 – $697
Texas TX159$583+40%$282 – $822
Florida FL102$565+36%$277 – $960
Massachusetts MA36$552+32%$270 – $1,052
Minnesota MN60$517+24%$269 – $582
Indiana IN73$496+19%$184 – $932
Connecticut CT19$490+18%$338 – $858
South Carolina SC42$476+14%$284 – $492
Idaho ID14$465+12%$218 – $675
Georgia GA72$461+11%$299 – $911
West Virginia WV13$433+4%$302 – $628
Illinois IL95$430+3%$199 – $659
Washington WA50$427+2%$300 – $692
Maine ME13$427+2%$186 – $677
Wisconsin WI83$423+2%$251 – $615
Pennsylvania PA107$420+1%$267 – $1,307
Missouri MO55$407−2%$195 – $813
Kentucky KY34$387−7%$235 – $1,348
Hawaii HI14$386−7%$194 – $844
Oregon OR38$377−10%$207 – $721
Colorado CO44$377−10%$210 – $664
Utah UT27$374−10%$374 – $440
Iowa IA38$374−10%$266 – $570
Alabama AL29$348−16%$245 – $660
Nebraska NE32$348−16%$209 – $479
New York NY81$342−18%$244 – $682
Nevada NV14$337−19%$128 – $885
New Jersey NJ53$327−21%$268 – $4,350
Michigan MI74$311−25%$184 – $810
Virginia VA48$310−26%$228 – $728
New Mexico NM12$302−28%$154 – $613
Kansas KS28$298−29%$169 – $529
Arizona AZ34$281−33%$112 – $5,855
Louisiana LA38$258−38%$132 – $416
North Carolina NC63$248−40%$192 – $391
Oklahoma OK39$228−45%$184 – $493
Montana MT16$227−46%$118 – $380
Arkansas AR25$203−51%$84 – $335
New Hampshire NH11$198−53%$39 – $725
Mississippi MS34$183−56%$147 – $631
Tennessee TN51$176−58%$111 – $307
North Dakota ND9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE6not 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 $416.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,830$427$232 – $805
Children’s50$424$220 – $1,194
Critical access323$364$184 – $687
Ownership
For-profit228$465$238 – $1,133
Government301$307$195 – $641
Non-profit1,674$429$227 – $788
System affiliation
Part of a system1,885$428$228 – $805
Independent327$350$183 – $696

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$731
Median cash price$416
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

1,673 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $449 and the average of the middle 60% is $464; most fall between $228 and $792.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,673 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
$159$251$449$702$1,133

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($159 vs $1,133).

Of the 1,789 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,673 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 76 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,212 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (56%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,373 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,212
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here73
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded8
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded79
Hospitals that filed this code2,373

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 diagnostic radiology and related techniques family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Contrast Injection Perq Radiologic Eval 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, “Dye injection to X-ray an existing abdominal tube (CPT 49465) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-49465-dye-injection-to-x-ray-an-existing-abdominal-tube