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Small Bowel Scope Through Stoma With Stent

California rates for HCPCS 44383

An examination of the small intestine with a flexible lighted tube passed through a stoma, the surgically created opening on the abdominal wall. A stent — a short expanding tube — is placed across a narrowed section of bowel to hold the passage open.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Small Bowel Scope Through Stoma With Stent cost?

$4,266

Typical negotiated rate. In California, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $4,266 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $1,698 from a physician practice, and about $4,365 from a hospital or other facility. The two figures are alternatives, not parts of one bill.

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.

Where it's billed changes the price

Billed byTypicalRange
Physician practiceA doctor's office, clinic or independent provider$1,698$1,698 to $1,862
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$4,365$2,951 to $5,754

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $4,365 · 10th to 90th $2,239 to $12,882Professionalmedian $1,698 · 10th to 90th $282 to $1,862
$100$500$2K$10Kfacility $4,365professional $1,698

Distribution of negotiated rates across all payers (price axis is log-scale). Each curve is scaled to its own total: facility and professional rates are different services, shown together to compare where they cluster. Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,570.40
Median
$4,365.16
Typical High
$12,882.50
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$257.04
Median
$616.60
Typical High
$776.25
Kaiser Permanente
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$128.82
Median
$257.04
Typical High
$831.76
Lucent Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$7,762.47
Median
$50,118.72
Typical High
$50,118.72
Lucent Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,698.24
Median
$1,698.24
Typical High
$1,862.09
Optum
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$54.95
Median
$54.95
Typical High
$70.79
Providence
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$181.97
Median
$239.88
Typical High
$588.84

Where California sits

The same service costs 53.7 times more in Indiana than in Florida. 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.

California· 3rd of 43

$4,266

IN $10,000FL $186

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.