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Creating A Path Through The Bile Ducts To The Bowel

West Virginia rates for HCPCS 47541

Using needles, wires and X-ray guidance, a route is made through the skin and liver into the bile ducts and onward into the small intestine. A wire left along that route lets a doctor working with a scope from the mouth find and enter a bile duct that could not be reached from below. Contrast pictures of the ducts are taken as part of the work.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Creating A Path Through The Bile Ducts To The Bowel cost?

$1,122

Typical facility fee. In West Virginia, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,122 for this service. Most negotiated rates run $331 to $1,122.

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 4 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,122 · 10th to 90th $331 to $1,622
$50$200$1K$5Kfacility $1,122

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
$331.13
Median
$1,122.02
Typical High
$1,412.54
CareSource
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$354.81
Median
$354.81
Typical High
$426.58
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$34.67
Median
$524.81
Typical High
$524.81
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,288.25
Median
$3,235.94
Typical High
$18,197.01

Where West Virginia sits

The same service costs 19.1 times more in Wyoming 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.

West Virginia· 49th of 50

$1,122

WY $13,183ME $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.