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Gallbladder Drain Placed Through The Skin

Massachusetts rates for HCPCS 47490

Places a drainage tube into the gallbladder through the skin of the abdomen, using ultrasound or X-ray to guide it, and covers the imaging as well as the tube placement. It is used to drain an infected or badly inflamed gallbladder in someone who is too unwell for the gallbladder to be removed straight away.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Gallbladder Drain Placed Through The Skin cost?

$2,818

Typical facility fee. In Massachusetts, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $2,818 for this service. Most negotiated rates run $457 to $4,898.

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 7 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $2,818 · 10th to 90th $339 to $7,079
$100$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $2,818

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
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$338.84
Median
$3,388.44
Typical High
$5,623.41
AllWays Health Partners
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$56.23
Median
$3,019.95
Typical High
$9,772.37
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$50.12
Median
$676.08
Typical High
$1,380.38
Fallon Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$275.42
Median
$426.58
Typical High
$3,311.31
Harvard Pilgrim
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$645.65
Median
$4,570.88
Typical High
$11,220.18
Mass General Brigham
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$56.23
Median
$3,019.95
Typical High
$9,772.37
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$645.65
Median
$4,570.88
Typical High
$10,232.93

Where Massachusetts sits

The same service costs 83.2 times more in Maine than in West Virginia. 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.

Massachusetts· 27th of 50

$2,818

ME $26,915WV $324

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.