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Feeding Tube Placed Into The Small Bowel In Surgery

South Dakota rates for HCPCS 44015

Places a tube or fine catheter directly into the jejunum, part of the small intestine, during an abdominal operation, so liquid feed can be given straight into the bowel afterwards. It allows a person to be fed even when the stomach cannot be used. It is done as part of the operation already under way and billed in addition to it.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Feeding Tube Placed Into The Small Bowel In Surgery cost?

$234

Typical facility fee. In South Dakota, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $234 for this service. Most negotiated rates run $178 to $269.

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 5 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $245 · 10th to 90th $135 to $4,365Professionalmedian $234 · 10th to 90th $166 to $309
$100$200$500$1K$2Kfacility $245professional $234

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
$138.04
Median
$4,365.16
Typical High
$4,365.16
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$131.83
Median
$223.87
Typical High
$398.11
Midlands
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$309.03
Median
$316.23
Typical High
$316.23
Sanford Health Plan
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$165.96
Median
$229.09
Typical High
$269.15
Sanford Health Plan
Setting
Professional
Modifier
80 · Assistant surgeon
Typical Low
$54.95
Median
$54.95
Typical High
$54.95
Sanford Health Plan
Setting
Professional
Modifier
AS · PA/NP assist
Typical Low
$54.95
Median
$54.95
Typical High
$54.95
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,995.26
Median
$1,995.26
Typical High
$1,995.26

Where South Dakota sits

The same service costs 95.5 times more in Maine than in North Dakota. 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.

South Dakota· 40th of 50

$234

ME $13,183ND $138

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.