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Colonoscopy to Decompress the Bowel

Arizona rates for HCPCS 45393

Passes a flexible camera through the rectum into the colon to relieve a dangerously swollen or twisted section of bowel, letting trapped gas and fluid escape. A drainage tube can be left in place afterwards to stop the swelling returning. It is done urgently, because a stretched bowel wall can tear or lose its blood supply.

Rates data updated October 2026.

How much does Colonoscopy to Decompress the Bowel cost?

$1,424

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,424 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $275 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 6 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$275$240 to $347
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,148$661 to $2,570

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,148 · 10th to 90th $550 to $4,467Professionalmedian $275 · 10th to 90th $229 to $1,862
$200$500$1K$2K$5Kfacility $1,148professional $275

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
$977.24
Median
$3,090.30
Typical High
$6,760.83
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$229.09
Median
$229.09
Typical High
$354.81
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$194.98
Median
$194.98
Typical High
$213.80
BCBS Arizona
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$549.54
Median
$1,318.26
Typical High
$3,467.37
BCBS Arizona
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$275.42
Median
$275.42
Typical High
$426.58
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$616.60
Median
$794.33
Typical High
$3,311.31
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$245.47
Median
$257.04
Typical High
$389.05
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$346.74
Median
$954.99
Typical High
$3,630.78
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$239.88
Median
$323.59
Typical High
$1,862.09
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$501.19
Median
$1,174.90
Typical High
$4,897.79
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$229.09
Median
$263.03
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
$114.82
Median
$114.82
Typical High
$128.82
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$45.71
Median
$45.71
Typical High
$52.48
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$169.82
Median
$169.82
Typical High
$194.98
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$33.88
Median
$33.88
Typical High
$38.90
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$22.91
Median
$22.91
Typical High
$25.70

Where Arizona sits

The same service costs 5.6 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

Arizona· 29th of 51

$1,424

$275 physician + $1,148 facility

CO $4,320MT $769

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.