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Colonoscopy to Decompress the Bowel

Minnesota 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?

$1,226

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,226 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $468 to the doctor who performs it, and $759 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$468$372 to $676
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$759$437 to $1,585

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $759 · 10th to 90th $229 to $2,951Professionalmedian $468 · 10th to 90th $245 to $912
$200$500$1K$2K$5Kfacility $759professional $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
$229.09
Median
$229.09
Typical High
$229.09
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$229.09
Median
$229.09
Typical High
$354.81
BCBS Minnesota
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$602.56
Median
$1,905.46
Typical High
$4,466.84
BCBS Minnesota
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$354.81
Median
$467.74
Typical High
$776.25
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$398.11
Median
$616.60
Typical High
$1,174.90
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$398.11
Median
$575.44
Typical High
$977.24
Health Partners
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$354.81
Median
$575.44
Typical High
$1,000.00
Health Partners
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$398.11
Median
$524.81
Typical High
$870.96
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$426.58
Median
$1,230.27
Typical High
$3,467.37
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$275.42
Median
$537.03
Typical High
$1,862.09
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$776.25
Median
$1,659.59
Typical High
$4,265.80
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$263.03
Median
$446.68
Typical High
$912.01
10 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
Facility
Modifier
52 · Reduced service
Typical Low
$114.82
Median
$114.82
Typical High
$114.82
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$45.71
Median
$45.71
Typical High
$45.71
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$173.78
Median
$173.78
Typical High
$173.78
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$34.67
Median
$34.67
Typical High
$34.67
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$22.91
Median
$22.91
Typical High
$22.91
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
52 · Reduced service
Typical Low
$114.82
Median
$114.82
Typical High
$177.83
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$45.71
Median
$45.71
Typical High
$70.79
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$173.78
Median
$173.78
Typical High
$269.15
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$34.67
Median
$34.67
Typical High
$53.70
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$22.91
Median
$22.91
Typical High
$35.48

Where Minnesota 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

Minnesota· 38th of 51

$1,226

$468 physician + $759 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.