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Placement of a Bile Duct Stent

Pennsylvania 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?

$1,096

Typical physician fee. In Pennsylvania, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,096 for this service. Most negotiated rates run $912 to $1,778.

Few insurers publish rates for this combination, so treat this figure as a rough guide.

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 3 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

How much rates vary

Professionalmedian $1,096 · 10th to 90th $851 to $2,630
$5$20$100$500$2Kprofessional $1,096

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. Small sample; interpret with caution. Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,584.89
Median
$2,187.76
Typical High
$2,754.23
Geisinger
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$933.25
Median
$933.25
Typical High
$933.25
Oscar Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$851.14
Median
$912.01
Typical High
$1,148.15

Where Pennsylvania 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.

Pennsylvania· 32nd of 44

$1,096

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.