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Lengthening the Food Pipe in Keyhole Surgery

Montana rates for HCPCS 43283

Creates extra length of food pipe by shaping a narrow tube from the top of the stomach, so the junction between food pipe and stomach can sit below the diaphragm without being pulled tight. It is performed through small abdominal incisions as part of a larger operation on the food pipe or the diaphragm opening. It is billed in addition to the main procedure.

Rates data updated October 2026.

How much does Lengthening the Food Pipe in Keyhole Surgery cost?

$491

Typical total for the visit. In Montana, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $491 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $245 to the doctor who performs it, and $245 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 6 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$245$170 to $251
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$245$240 to $263

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $245 · 10th to 90th $229 to $631Professionalmedian $245 · 10th to 90th $79 to $288
$100$200$500$1Kfacility $245professional $245

Distribution of negotiated rates across all payers (price axis is log-scale). Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$147.91
Median
$446.68
Typical High
$446.68
BCBS Montana
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$208.93
Median
$245.47
Typical High
$245.47
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$245.47
Median
$245.47
Typical High
$245.47
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$208.93
Median
$245.47
Typical High
$269.15
MountainHealth Co-op
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$229.09
Median
$239.88
Typical High
$275.42
MountainHealth Co-op
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$158.49
Median
$239.88
Typical High
$257.04
Providence
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$245.47
Median
$245.47
Typical High
$245.47
Providence
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$79.43
Median
$229.09
Typical High
$251.19
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$602.56
Median
$954.99
Typical High
$1,862.09
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$229.09
Median
$269.15
Typical High
$316.23
1 more rate with less common billing modifiers

A modifier changes what was billed, for example a reduced or repeated service. Each of these modifiers carries under 10% of the published rates for this code. Modifier combinations, and modifiers with fewer than 30 rates for a carrier, are not listed.

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$107.15
Median
$338.84
Typical High
$338.84

Where Montana sits

The same service costs 29.9 times more in Colorado than in Texas. 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

Montana· 50th of 51

$491

$245 physician + $245 facility

CO $14,663TX $490

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.