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Stomach Opening to Place a Food Pipe Tube

Oklahoma rates for HCPCS 43510

Opens the stomach through an incision in the abdomen so the surgeon can stretch a narrowed esophagus from below and pass a tube through the narrowed section. The tube holds the passage open permanently so swallowed food and liquid can reach the stomach.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Stomach Opening to Place a Food Pipe Tube cost?

$1,023

Typical negotiated rate. In Oklahoma, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,023 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $977 from a physician practice, and about $1,479 from a hospital or other facility. The two figures are alternatives, not parts of one bill.

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.

Where it's billed changes the price

Billed byTypicalRange
Physician practiceA doctor's office, clinic or independent provider$977$912 to $1,148
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$1,479$1,023 to $2,951

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,479 · 10th to 90th $955 to $6,457Professionalmedian $977 · 10th to 90th $851 to $1,549
$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $1,479professional $977

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. Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,000.00
Median
$1,513.56
Typical High
$6,606.93
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$870.96
Median
$954.99
Typical High
$1,479.11
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$407.38
Median
$1,096.48
Typical High
$1,513.56
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$812.83
Median
$1,230.27
Typical High
$3,467.37
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$851.14
Median
$1,096.48
Typical High
$6,918.31
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$478.63
Median
$1,905.46
Typical High
$3,235.94
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$794.33
Median
$1,047.13
Typical High
$1,513.56

Where Oklahoma sits

The same service costs 2.3 times more in Minnesota than in Kentucky. 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.

Oklahoma· 39th of 51

$1,023

MN $2,188KY $955

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.