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Converting a Stomach Feeding Tube to a Bowel Tube

Louisiana rates for HCPCS 44373

A long flexible scope is passed deep into the small intestine, and an existing feeding tube that ends in the stomach is converted so that feed is delivered further along, into the small bowel. It is used when feeding into the stomach causes vomiting or when stomach contents are coming back up toward the lungs. The opening already present in the skin is used, so no new opening is made.

Rates data updated October 2026.

How much does Converting a Stomach Feeding Tube to a Bowel Tube cost?

$1,417

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,417 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $269 to the doctor who performs it, and $1,148 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 5 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$269$214 to $309
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,148$933 to $2,399

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,148 · 10th to 90th $537 to $3,388Professionalmedian $269 · 10th to 90th $191 to $324
$200$500$1K$2K$5Kfacility $1,148professional $269

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
$446.68
Median
$1,513.56
Typical High
$3,548.13
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$269.15
Median
$275.42
Typical High
$309.03
BCBS Louisiana
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$954.99
Median
$1,445.44
Typical High
$3,388.44
BCBS Louisiana
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$251.19
Median
$309.03
Typical High
$309.03
Christus
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$39.81
Median
$39.81
Typical High
$39.81
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$501.19
Median
$794.33
Typical High
$1,584.89
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$190.55
Median
$223.87
Typical High
$346.74
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$446.68
Median
$954.99
Typical High
$3,467.37
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$158.49
Median
$213.80
Typical High
$363.08
5 more rates 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
52 · Reduced service
Typical Low
$134.90
Median
$138.04
Typical High
$154.88
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$53.70
Median
$54.95
Typical High
$61.66
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$199.53
Median
$208.93
Typical High
$229.09
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$39.81
Median
$41.69
Typical High
$46.77
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$26.92
Median
$27.54
Typical High
$30.90

Where Louisiana sits

The same service costs 7.0 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

Louisiana· 33rd of 51

$1,417

$269 physician + $1,148 facility

CO $4,147MT $590

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.