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Placement of a Bile Duct Stent

California rates for HCPCS 47511

This covers placement of a stent within the bile duct system to help keep it open, performed under imaging guidance through the skin and into the liver's bile duct system. It is used in patients who have a blocked bile duct, often due to a tumor, gallstone, or scarring. The stent helps bile drain properly past the blocked or narrowed area.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Placement of a Bile Duct Stent cost?

$5,888

Typical negotiated rate. In California, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $5,888 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $2,818 from a physician practice, and about $5,888 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$2,818$2,818 to $3,020
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$5,888$3,981 to $8,318

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $5,888 · 10th to 90th $3,311 to $13,804Professionalmedian $2,818 · 10th to 90th $832 to $3,020
$100$500$2K$10Kfacility $5,888professional $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
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3,630.78
Median
$6,025.60
Typical High
$13,803.84
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$912.01
Median
$2,187.76
Typical High
$2,754.23
Kaiser Permanente
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$128.82
Median
$398.11
Typical High
$831.76
Lucent Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$12,882.50
Median
$50,118.72
Typical High
$50,118.72
Lucent Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,818.38
Median
$2,818.38
Typical High
$3,019.95
Optum
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$54.95
Median
$54.95
Typical High
$70.79
Providence
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$512.86
Median
$831.76
Typical High
$1,288.25

Where California sits

The same service costs 26.9 times more in Indiana than in Illinois. 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 44

$5,888

IN $9,333IL $347

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.