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Untwisting a Blocked Bowel Through Surgery

Minnesota rates for HCPCS 44050

Opens the abdomen to relieve a bowel that has become blocked by twisting on itself, telescoping into itself, or slipping through an internal gap. The surgeon frees and untwists the bowel by hand and then checks that its blood supply recovers. It is done urgently, because a trapped loop can lose its blood supply and die.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Untwisting a Blocked Bowel Through Surgery cost?

$3,631

Typical facility fee. In Minnesota, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $3,631 for this service. Most negotiated rates run $2,399 to $7,586.

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.

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $3,631 · 10th to 90th $1,000 to $17,378
$1K$2K$5K$10K$20Kfacility $3,631

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
$851.14
Median
$851.14
Typical High
$6,606.93
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$5,623.41
Median
$11,481.54
Typical High
$26,302.68
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,041.74
Median
$3,162.28
Typical High
$8,709.64
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
22 · Increased work
Typical Low
$1,862.09
Median
$1,862.09
Typical High
$1,862.09
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
AS · PA/NP assist
Typical Low
$154.88
Median
$154.88
Typical High
$154.88
Health Partners
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,398.83
Median
$3,090.30
Typical High
$6,760.83
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$851.14
Median
$1,318.26
Typical High
$2,691.53
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$794.33
Median
$3,311.31
Typical High
$8,511.38

Where Minnesota sits

The same service costs 14.5 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.

Minnesota· 26th of 50

$3,631

ME $13,183ND $912

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.