Introduction of gastrointestinal tube

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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Provider: anthropic
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Generated: October 20, 2026

Original text from hospital filings

Intro GI Tube Past Stomach

Payers reporting CPT 44500

Payer pricing summary

Low

$23

Average

$1.1k

Median

$1.0k

High

$3.6k

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1	UnitedHealthcare fee schedule · outpatient · +37 other terms	552	$968	$1.4k	$2.0k	141%	—	$1 – $27.6k
2	Aetna fee schedule · outpatient · +36 other terms	500	$985	$1.8k	$3.1k	172%	—	$1 – $33.6k
3	Blue Cross Blue Shield fee schedule · outpatient · +33 other terms	392	$1.3k	$1.8k	$1.9k	106%	—	$1 – $18.0k
4	Humana fee schedule · outpatient · +30 other terms	367	$908	$777	$762	98%	—	$1 – $12.8k
5	Cigna case rate · outpatient · +32 other terms	321	$3.2k	$5.0k	$6.5k	130%	—	$1 – $40.7k
6	Molina fee schedule · outpatient · +31 other terms	219	$672	$629	$492	78%	—	$1 – $3.6k
7	WellCare fee schedule · outpatient · +19 other terms	168	$939	$941	$527	56%	—	$18 – $4.4k
8	Anthem fee schedule · outpatient · +28 other terms	132	$641	$470	$1.1k	225%	—	$17 – $6.6k
9	Oscar case rate · outpatient · +22 other terms	130	$3.0k	$2.5k	$1.1k	42%	—	$1.4k – $7.5k
10	Kaiser fee schedule · outpatient · +25 other terms	105	$1.2k	$1.4k	$1.3k	97%	—	$1 – $6.5k
11	MultiPlan fee schedule · outpatient · +24 other terms	88	$1.2k	$1.4k	$290	21%	—	$21 – $2.4k
12	Ambetter facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +19 other terms	86	$1.7k	$1.8k	$912	50%	—	$27 – $8.3k
13	Devoted facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +17 other terms	72	$924	$1.0k	$542	54%	—	$858 – $5.0k
14	Aetna Better Health fee schedule · outpatient · +20 other terms	67	$423	$409	$150	37%	—	$14 – $992
15	Optum fee schedule · outpatient · +23 other terms	66	$858	$921	$608	66%	—	$18 – $3.3k
16	Caresource fee schedule · outpatient · +18 other terms	61	$941	$878	$812	92%	—	$1 – $4.4k
17	Highmark facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +18 other terms	60	$1.0k	$1.1k	$1.0k	92%	—	$17 – $4.2k
18	Healthcare Highways case rate · outpatient · +5 other terms	59	$2.2k	$1.9k	$607	32%	—	$1.2k – $4.3k
19	Amerihealth Caritas facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +14 other terms	48	$161	$505	$1.2k	245%	—	$22 – $9.7k
20	First Health fee schedule · outpatient · +23 other terms	47	$947	$875	$509	58%	—	$18 – $2.1k
21	Tricare fee schedule · outpatient · +20 other terms	44	$873	$1.0k	$1.1k	111%	—	$466 – $5.1k
22	Superior Healthplan case rate · outpatient · +7 other terms	38	$948	$952	$62	6%	—	$929 – $1.4k
23	Cigna Healthspring fee schedule · outpatient · +9 other terms	33	$858	$766	$256	33%	—	$352 – $984
24	Clover fee schedule · outpatient · +10 other terms	32	$1.0k	$1.3k	$968	74%	—	$819 – $4.4k
25	Medica case rate · outpatient · +22 other terms	28	$2.3k	$2.3k	$798	34%	—	$888 – $3.2k

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