Open gastrostomy tube placement for newborn feeding

Hospitals report these codes with terse, inconsistent chargemaster text. This plain-English title was written by an AI model from that text and has not been reviewed by a person, so it can be wrong. The prices on this page come straight from hospital filings and do not depend on it.

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Original text from hospital filings

Place gastrostomy tube

Payers reporting CPT 43831

63 payers file a negotiated rate for this code. Each is shown once, under the terms the most hospitals file it under; rates under different terms (billing class, payment method, setting) are never blended, so open a payer to see them all. Figures are hospital-level averages; the median is across hospitals.

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1	Aetna fee schedule · outpatient · +23 other terms	436	$1,017	$2,361	$78.57 – $33,603
2	UnitedHealthcare case rate · outpatient · +24 other terms	422	$3,087	$3,315	$1.00 – $16,800
3	Blue Cross Blue Shield fee schedule · outpatient · +21 other terms	339	$1,670	$2,278	$1.00 – $18,025
4	Humana fee schedule · outpatient · +20 other terms	307	$945.16	$1,389	$1.00 – $12,772
5	Cigna case rate · outpatient · +18 other terms	220	$6,841	$12,097	$0.70 – $40,673
6	Molina fee schedule · outpatient · +14 other terms	153	$983.13	$1,112	$1.00 – $5,091
7	WellCare fee schedule · outpatient · +11 other terms	144	$948.88	$1,086	$107.27 – $4,358
8	Oscar case rate · outpatient · +12 other terms	129	$3,743	$3,164	$1,377 – $7,454
9	Anthem fee schedule · outpatient · +15 other terms	122	$1,117	$1,729	$387.06 – $7,441
10	Kaiser fee schedule · outpatient · +9 other terms	94	$1,270	$1,615	$387.06 – $6,493
11	Healthcare Highways case rate · outpatient · +1 other terms	76	$2,738	$2,728	$2,000 – $4,259
12	Devoted fee schedule · outpatient · +7 other terms	69	$950.78	$905.84	$591.34 – $1,059
13	Ambetter facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +12 other terms	68	$1,614	$1,888	$853.60 – $8,313
14	Optum fee schedule · outpatient · +11 other terms	53	$860.83	$1,046	$591.34 – $3,348
15	Superior Healthplan case rate · outpatient · +3 other terms	38	$948.00	$958.06	$929.00 – $1,409
16	Bcbs Tx fee schedule · outpatient · +4 other terms	32	$1,162	$1,206	$613.02 – $3,262
17	Caresource facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +11 other terms	32	$1,396	$1,667	$568.24 – $8,040
18	Clover fee schedule · outpatient · +6 other terms	31	$1,025	$1,366	$818.65 – $4,442
19	Medica case rate · outpatient · +8 other terms	28	$2,307	$2,223	$887.66 – $3,220
20	Tricare fee schedule · outpatient · +11 other terms	26	$822.88	$1,533	$720.14 – $5,140
21	Bcbs La fee schedule · outpatient · +1 other terms	25	$1,955	$1,938	$569.90 – $2,957
22	Medicare fee schedule · outpatient · +8 other terms	24	$591.34	$1,077	$532.82 – $4,231
23	MultiPlan fee schedule · outpatient · +14 other terms	22	$1,454	$1,442	$880.35 – $1,454
24	First Health fee schedule · outpatient · +13 other terms	20	$947.15	$1,036	$583.16 – $1,847
25	Regence professional · fee schedule · outpatient · +9 other terms	20	$287.16	$317.27	$94.73 – $1,521

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