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Keyhole Creation Of A Small Bowel Opening

Kentucky 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?

$4,318

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $4,318 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $603 to the doctor who performs it, and $3,715 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 7 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$603$513 to $794
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$3,715$1,349 to $7,244

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $3,715 · 10th to 90th $794 to $12,303Professionalmedian $603 · 10th to 90th $457 to $891
$50$200$1K$5Kfacility $3,715professional $603

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
$630.96
Median
$794.33
Typical High
$8,511.38
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$630.96
Median
$645.65
Typical High
$794.33
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$776.25
Median
$776.25
Typical High
$776.25
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,995.26
Median
$5,495.41
Typical High
$13,489.63
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$457.09
Median
$537.03
Typical High
$851.14
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
62 · Two surgeons
Typical Low
$288.40
Median
$338.84
Typical High
$537.03
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
80 · Assistant surgeon
Typical Low
$72.44
Median
$85.11
Typical High
$138.04
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
AS · PA/NP assist
Typical Low
$63.10
Median
$74.13
Typical High
$120.23
CareSource
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$512.86
Median
$616.60
Typical High
$954.99
CareSource
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$588.84
Median
$758.58
Typical High
$1,000.00
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$34.67
Median
$1,096.48
Typical High
$3,630.78
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$616.60
Median
$707.95
Typical High
$3,388.44
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$33.11
Median
$33.11
Typical High
$33.11
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$977.24
Median
$1,862.09
Typical High
$7,943.28
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$602.56
Median
$794.33
Typical High
$1,000.00
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
$457.09
Typical High
$562.34

Where Kentucky 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

Kentucky· 38th of 51

$4,318

$603 physician + $3,715 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.