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Keyhole Creation Of A Small Bowel Opening

Virginia 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?

$7,164

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $7,164 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $708 to the doctor who performs it, and $6,457 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 8 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$708$646 to $794
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$6,457$2,455 to $10,965

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $6,457 · 10th to 90th $759 to $15,849Professionalmedian $708 · 10th to 90th $589 to $891
$500$1K$2K$5K$10K$20Kfacility $6,457professional $708

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
$758.58
Median
$7,413.10
Typical High
$15,488.17
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$741.31
Median
$758.58
Typical High
$870.96
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$8,511.38
Median
$11,220.18
Typical High
$12,589.25
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$602.56
Median
$724.44
Typical High
$870.96
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
62 · Two surgeons
Typical Low
$380.19
Median
$446.68
Typical High
$549.54
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
80 · Assistant surgeon
Typical Low
$95.50
Median
$114.82
Typical High
$138.04
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
AS · PA/NP assist
Typical Low
$85.11
Median
$100.00
Typical High
$120.23
CareFirst
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$645.65
Median
$707.95
Typical High
$831.76
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$707.95
Median
$3,090.30
Typical High
$5,754.40
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$602.56
Median
$691.83
Typical High
$954.99
Kaiser Permanente
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$602.56
Median
$691.83
Typical High
$1,071.52
Medcost
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$831.76
Median
$1,023.29
Typical High
$1,023.29
Medcost
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$741.31
Median
$831.76
Typical High
$1,202.26
Medcost
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$467.74
Median
$467.74
Typical High
$912.01
Sentara
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$575.44
Median
$2,454.71
Typical High
$10,715.19
Sentara
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$602.56
Median
$724.44
Typical High
$1,096.48
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$2,570.40
Median
$10,000.00
Typical High
$25,118.86
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$478.63
Median
$616.60
Typical High
$1,071.52
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
$512.86
Median
$512.86
Typical High
$537.03

Where Virginia 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

Virginia· 9th of 51

$7,164

$708 physician + $6,457 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.