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Keyhole Creation Of A Small Bowel Opening

Connecticut rates for HCPCS 44186

Uses a camera and instruments passed through small abdominal incisions to bring a loop of the small intestine up and create an opening for a tube through the abdominal wall. The tube allows feeding directly into the intestine, or lets pressure out when the gut above is blocked. The abdomen is not opened with a large incision.

Rates data updated October 2026.

How much does Keyhole Creation Of A Small Bowel Opening cost?

$8,510

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $8,510 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $1,096 to the doctor who performs it, and $7,413 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$1,096$871 to $1,445
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$7,413$4,467 to $11,220

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $7,413 · 10th to 90th $1,175 to $16,218Professionalmedian $1,096 · 10th to 90th $617 to $1,698
$500$1K$2K$5K$10K$20Kfacility $7,413professional $1,096

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
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$4,570.88
Median
$7,943.28
Typical High
$13,489.63
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$645.65
Median
$977.24
Typical High
$977.24
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,122.02
Median
$15,848.93
Typical High
$18,620.87
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$602.56
Median
$1,318.26
Typical High
$1,737.80
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
62 · Two surgeons
Typical Low
$371.54
Median
$812.83
Typical High
$1,096.48
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
80 · Assistant surgeon
Typical Low
$93.33
Median
$208.93
Typical High
$281.84
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
AS · PA/NP assist
Typical Low
$83.18
Median
$181.97
Typical High
$245.47
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,000.00
Median
$6,165.95
Typical High
$7,762.47
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$794.33
Median
$891.25
Typical High
$1,412.54
ConnectiCare
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$794.33
Median
$977.24
Typical High
$1,071.52
Health New England
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$147.91
Median
$147.91
Typical High
$1,230.27
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,122.02
Median
$7,943.28
Typical High
$15,488.17
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$588.84
Median
$1,023.29
Typical High
$2,290.87
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
78 · Unplanned return to OR
Typical Low
$446.68
Median
$676.08
Typical High
$676.08

Where Connecticut sits

The same service costs 5.3 times more in Colorado than in Montana. 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

Connecticut· 5th of 51

$8,510

$1,096 physician + $7,413 facility

CO $11,104MT $2,095

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.