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Removal of a Bile Drainage Tube

Louisiana rates for HCPCS 47537

Takes out a drainage tube that had been placed through the skin into the bile ducts inside the liver. Live x-ray pictures are used first to check that bile now drains the normal way, and the tube is then withdrawn and the small skin opening dressed. It is done once the blockage, leak or infection the tube was treating has settled.

Rates data updated October 2026.

How much does Removal of a Bile Drainage Tube cost?

$1,000

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,000 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $324 to the doctor who performs it, and $676 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$324$135 to $603
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$676$513 to $1,549

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $676 · 10th to 90th $93 to $2,399Professionalmedian $324 · 10th to 90th $100 to $741
$100$200$500$1K$2K$5Kfacility $676professional $324

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
$398.11
Median
$1,288.25
Typical High
$3,467.37
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$134.90
Median
$389.05
Typical High
$630.96
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
52 · Reduced service
Typical Low
$67.61
Median
$134.90
Typical High
$309.03
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$26.92
Median
$54.95
Typical High
$125.89
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$100.00
Median
$204.17
Typical High
$467.74
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$19.95
Median
$40.74
Typical High
$93.33
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$13.49
Median
$27.54
Typical High
$63.10
BCBS Louisiana
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$537.03
Median
$870.96
Typical High
$2,290.87
BCBS Louisiana
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$125.89
Median
$186.21
Typical High
$741.31
Christus
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$93.33
Median
$93.33
Typical High
$93.33
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$501.19
Median
$676.08
Typical High
$1,148.15
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$95.50
Median
$295.12
Typical High
$741.31
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$446.68
Median
$954.99
Typical High
$2,951.21
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$89.13
Median
$338.84
Typical High
$645.65

Where Louisiana sits

The same service costs 4.5 times more in New York than in Alabama. 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

Louisiana· 43rd of 51

$1,000

$324 physician + $676 facility

NY $3,101AL $693

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.