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Food Pipe Removal Without Rebuilding

Rhode Island rates for HCPCS 43124

Removal of all or most of the food pipe without building a new route for food during the same operation. The upper end of the remaining food pipe is brought out through an opening in the side of the neck so that saliva can drain into a small bag. Nutrition is given another way until a later operation reconnects the digestive tract, if one is possible.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Food Pipe Removal Without Rebuilding cost?

$8,560

Typical total for the visit. In Rhode Island, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $8,560 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $5,012 to the doctor who performs it, and $3,548 to the hospital or surgery center where it takes place. Done somewhere without a facility charge, you pay only the first.

These are rates insurers have negotiated with providers, not the amount a patient is billed. What you owe depends on your plan's deductible and coinsurance. Based on rates published by 4 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$5,012$3,981 to $5,012
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$3,548$1,660 to $5,129

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $3,548 · 10th to 90th $603 to $6,607Professionalmedian $5,012 · 10th to 90th $3,467 to $5,754
$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $3,548professional $5,012

Distribution of negotiated rates across all payers (price axis is log-scale). Each curve is scaled to its own total: facility and professional rates are different services, shown together to compare where they cluster. Small sample; interpret with caution. Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3,715.35
Median
$3,715.35
Typical High
$3,981.07
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3,467.37
Median
$5,011.87
Typical High
$5,011.87
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$4,168.69
Median
$4,897.79
Typical High
$7,413.10
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$676.08
Median
$676.08
Typical High
$676.08
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,454.71
Median
$5,011.87
Typical High
$8,709.64
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$575.44
Median
$2,238.72
Typical High
$7,244.36
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,818.38
Median
$4,265.80
Typical High
$8,128.31

Where Rhode Island sits

The same service costs 6.1 times more in Maine than in Maryland. Every bar is a state, most expensive first. Touch or drag across it to read any state, then open that state for its carriers and full range.

Physician feeFacility fee

Rhode Island· 34th of 50

$8,560

$5,012 physician + $3,548 facility

ME $27,065MD $4,418

Median negotiated rate in each state, from every insurer that publishes one. States where no insurer publishes a rate for this service are not shown.