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Bile Duct Stent Placed Through the Skin

Virginia rates for HCPCS 47539

Places a stent, a short tube that props a blocked bile duct open, by passing a needle through the skin into the bile ducts inside the liver under live X-ray guidance. A fresh route into the duct system is created during the same session. Reopening the duct lets bile drain again and relieves jaundice, itching and pain.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Bile Duct Stent Placed Through the Skin cost?

$3,388

Typical facility fee. In Virginia, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $3,388 for this service. Most negotiated rates run $550 to $6,310.

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 $3,236 · 10th to 90th $468 to $10,000Professionalmedian $4,898 · 10th to 90th $3,715 to $10,000
$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10K$20Kfacility $3,236professional $4,898

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
$489.78
Median
$5,248.07
Typical High
$8,317.64
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$9,772.37
Median
$11,220.18
Typical High
$12,302.69
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$524.81
Median
$3,801.89
Typical High
$4,677.35
Kaiser Permanente
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3,715.35
Median
$4,677.35
Typical High
$7,943.28
Medcost
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$10,964.78
Median
$10,964.78
Typical High
$10,964.78
Medcost
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$436.52
Median
$3,801.89
Typical High
$7,762.47
Sentara
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$416.87
Median
$575.44
Typical High
$4,786.30
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,570.40
Median
$11,748.98
Typical High
$26,915.35

Where Virginia sits

The same service costs 26.3 times more in Indiana than in Maine. 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.

Virginia· 42nd of 50

$3,388

IN $18,197ME $692

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.