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Bile Duct Drain Placed Through The Skin

Mississippi rates for HCPCS 47533

Places a drainage tube into a blocked bile duct by passing a needle and then a catheter through the skin into the liver, with imaging used to find the duct and guide the tube. In this version the tube carries bile out of the body into a collection bag on the outside. It relieves jaundice and infection caused by bile that cannot drain normally.

Rates data updated October 2026.

How much does Bile Duct Drain Placed Through The Skin cost?

$2,479

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $2,479 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $741 to the doctor who performs it, and $1,738 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 5 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$741$437 to $1,698
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,738$1,175 to $3,020

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,738 · 10th to 90th $759 to $6,166Professionalmedian $741 · 10th to 90th $263 to $2,570
$50$200$1K$5Kfacility $1,738professional $741

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
$549.54
Median
$891.25
Typical High
$1,995.26
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$245.47
Median
$851.14
Typical High
$3,019.95
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
52 · Reduced service
Typical Low
$123.03
Median
$371.54
Typical High
$1,479.11
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$48.98
Median
$147.91
Typical High
$602.56
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$186.21
Median
$562.34
Typical High
$2,238.72
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$37.15
Median
$112.20
Typical High
$446.68
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$24.55
Median
$74.13
Typical High
$302.00
BCBS Mississippi
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,778.28
Median
$1,778.28
Typical High
$1,778.28
BCBS Mississippi
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$588.84
Median
$588.84
Typical High
$588.84
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$660.69
Median
$1,778.28
Typical High
$3,388.44
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$323.59
Median
$831.76
Typical High
$1,949.84
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$33.11
Median
$33.11
Typical High
$33.11
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$977.24
Median
$1,778.28
Typical High
$7,079.46
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$263.03
Median
$1,071.52
Typical High
$2,570.40

Where Mississippi sits

The same service costs 3.5 times more in Oklahoma than in Maryland. 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

Mississippi· 49th of 51

$2,479

$741 physician + $1,738 facility

OK $7,454MD $2,115

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.