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Keyhole Creation Of A Small Bowel Opening

Utah 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?

$6,493

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $6,493 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $468 to the doctor who performs it, and $6,026 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$468$69.18 to $550
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$6,026$3,548 to $11,220

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $6,026 · 10th to 90th $851 to $15,136Professionalmedian $468 · 10th to 90th $49 to $724
$50$200$1K$5K$20Kfacility $6,026professional $468

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
$851.14
Median
$4,570.88
Typical High
$9,772.37
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$645.65
Median
$851.14
Typical High
$851.14
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$3,467.37
Median
$3,630.78
Typical High
$3,630.78
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$758.58
Median
$794.33
Typical High
$1,096.48
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$48.98
Median
$446.68
Typical High
$575.44
Regence BlueShield
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$9,120.11
Median
$12,022.64
Typical High
$17,378.01
Regence BlueShield
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$812.83
Median
$954.99
Typical High
$1,071.52
Select Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,258.93
Median
$1,258.93
Typical High
$1,258.93
Select Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$691.83
Median
$1,148.15
Typical High
$1,348.96
U of Utah Health Plan
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$512.86
Median
$933.25
Typical High
$2,454.71
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$2,398.83
Median
$5,370.32
Typical High
$15,848.93
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$588.84
Median
$660.69
Typical High
$1,202.26
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
$467.74
Median
$602.56
Typical High
$602.56

Where Utah 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

Utah· 13th of 51

$6,493

$468 physician + $6,026 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.