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Feeding Opening Made From Stomach Tissue

Nationwide rates for HCPCS 43832

Creates a lasting feeding opening from the stomach to the skin by rolling a strip of the stomach wall into a channel and bringing it out through the abdominal wall. Nutrition can then be given straight into the stomach when swallowing is unsafe or impossible. It is done through an open abdominal incision.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Feeding Opening Made From Stomach Tissue cost?

$5,983

Typical total for the visit. Nationwide, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $5,983 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $1,413 to the doctor who performs it, and $4,571 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 53 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$1,413$1,047 to $2,188
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$4,571$1,622 to $9,333

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $4,571 · 10th to 90th $1,072 to $14,125Professionalmedian $1,413 · 10th to 90th $912 to $3,548
$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10K$20Kfacility $4,571professional $1,413

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
$1,096.48
Median
$4,168.69
Typical High
$12,022.64
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3,467.37
Median
$9,120.11
Typical High
$16,982.44
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$501.19
Median
$1,737.80
Typical High
$8,128.31
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
AS · PA/NP assist
Typical Low
$173.78
Median
$173.78
Typical High
$173.78
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$575.44
Median
$2,818.38
Typical High
$9,549.93

What it costs in each state

The same service costs 6.7 times more in California 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

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CA $10,621MD $1,585

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.