Colonoscopy With Polyp Removal Cost in Texas
Colonoscopy w/lesion removal
$1,446Hospital outpatient total2026 Medicare, physician + facility- ✓Your ZIP's wage-adjusted hospital and surgery centre rates
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- ✓The add-on codes that typically land on the bill
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Texas Medicare physician rate (2026)
-1.1% vs nationalAverage of 8 localities. Office range $468.74–$517.74.
What the whole procedure costs
The rate above is the physician’s fee on its own. The facility bills separately, and for most procedures the facility is the larger half of the bill. These are 2026 national Medicare amounts.
Choosing a surgery centre over a hospital saves about $566 on the Medicare allowed amount for colonoscopy with polyp removal. Ask whether your procedure can be done at an ambulatory surgery centre.
This is Medicare's separate payment to the facility on top of the physician's fee. Medicare allowed amounts are not what an uninsured patient is charged, and not a quote. Private plans typically allow more.
Your ZIP in Texas
With so many Texas localities, check your exact ZIP: Houston, Dallas-Fort Worth, Austin, the Galveston and Beaumont coast, San Antonio, El Paso, the Valley, and rural West Texas can all price differently.
What colonoscopy with polyp removal costs at hospitals near you
Everything above is a national average. The hospital you pick in Texas moves the bill more than anything else you control.
Rates for your ZIP, 5 named hospitals with CMS ratings, the add-on codes, and the scheduler script.
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What these numbers are
Every figure on this page is a 2026 Medicare allowed amount: the physician line comes from the Physician Fee Schedule adjusted by geographic practice-cost indices, and the facility totals come from the CMS hospital outpatient (OPPS) and ambulatory surgery centre rates. None of them is a hospital chargemaster price, your insurer's contracted rate, or a quote. Anesthesia, pathology, imaging reads and follow-up care are billed under their own codes when they apply, and an inpatient stay is paid a different way again. In Texas the office and hospital physician lines for this CPT differ by $272.27.
National vs Texas
Where Texas ranks for this CPT
CPT 45385 by Texas locality
| Locality | Office |
|---|---|
| austin | $517.74 |
| houston | $505.27 |
| dallas | $497.60 |
| galveston | $495.94 |
| fort worth | $494.48 |
| brazoria | $494.45 |
| rest of texas | $481.32 |
| beaumont | $468.74 |
PE GPCI ranges from 0.910 to 1.058 in Texas. That index is why the same CPT is not one price statewide.
Colonoscopy With Polyp Removal and how Texas is priced
Texas is carved into grouped metro localities rather than priced statewide: Houston, Dallas, Fort Worth, Austin, Galveston, Beaumont, and Brazoria each carry their own locality, and the enormous remainder of the state shares rest-of-state pricing. The big-city localities approve higher amounts than rural Texas, with Houston and Dallas at the top of the state's range. Uniquely, several smaller Gulf Coast areas kept their own localities from an earlier era, which is why Galveston and Beaumont are priced separately from Houston. San Antonio and El Paso, despite their size, fall under rest-of-state factors.
Texas contains several of the largest medical complexes in the world, most famously in Houston, plus deep hospital markets in Dallas-Fort Worth, San Antonio, and Austin. At the other extreme, West Texas and the Panhandle include counties with no physician at all, and rural hospital closures have hit Texas harder than almost any state. Border communities from El Paso to the Rio Grande Valley have distinct markets, and some residents cross into Mexico for lower-cost dental and pharmacy care.
This procedure: This colonoscopy code means the physician found one or more polyps and removed them using a snare, a thin wire loop that lassoes the polyp and cuts it free, often with cauterizing current. Snare removal is the standard technique for larger polyps and is the step that gives colonoscopy its cancer-preventing power, since removing precancerous polyps stops them from progressing. The patient experience is unchanged from any colonoscopy: prep, IV sedation, a 20 to 45 minute procedure, and same-day discharge.
What Is Colonoscopy With Polyp Removal?
This colonoscopy code means the physician found one or more polyps and removed them using a snare, a thin wire loop that lassoes the polyp and cuts it free, often with cauterizing current. Snare removal is the standard technique for larger polyps and is the step that gives colonoscopy its cancer-preventing power, since removing precancerous polyps stops them from progressing. The patient experience is unchanged from any colonoscopy: prep, IV sedation, a 20 to 45 minute procedure, and same-day discharge.
What Affects the Cost
- –Every removed polyp goes to pathology in its own container, and each container is a separate lab charge.
- –The physician fee for snare polypectomy is the highest of the common colonoscopy codes, above both biopsy (45380) and diagnostic (45378).
- –Facility setting remains the biggest overall cost lever, with hospitals charging far more than endoscopy centers.
- –Separately billed anesthesia adds its own professional fee.
- –Large or complex polyps may require advanced removal techniques or clips to close the site, which can add device and procedure charges.
- –Finding polyps shortens your recommended interval to the next colonoscopy, pulling that future cost closer.
Questions to Ask Before Booking
- 1.If polyps are removed during my screening, will the procedure still be billed with the preventive modifier at no cost share to me?
- 2.What will the pathology lab charge per polyp, and is that lab in network?
- 3.For Medicare: what percentage coinsurance applies to polyp removal during a screening this year?
- 4.If you find a large polyp needing a special technique or clips, how does the cost change?
- 5.How soon will I need my next colonoscopy if polyps are found, and will that one count as screening or surveillance for coverage?
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Colonoscopy With Polyp Removal in Texas: questions
The 2026 Medicare physician office rate for CPT 45385 averages $494.44 across 8 Texas localities, from $468.74 in BEAUMONT to $517.74 in AUSTIN. The hospital physician rate averages $222.17. Enter a ZIP for the exact locality.
Yes. CMS splits Texas into 8 payment localities. For this CPT the office physician fee spans $49.00 from the lowest to highest locality. With so many Texas localities, check your exact ZIP: Houston, Dallas-Fort Worth, Austin, the Galveston and Beaumont coast, San Antonio, El Paso, the Valley, and rural West Texas can all price differently.
After the Part B deductible, coinsurance is usually 20% of the allowed amount: about $99 for the office physician line or $44 for the hospital physician line in Texas. Medigap may cover that 20%. This is not the hospital facility fee.
No. $494.44 is only the physician's share. Adding Medicare's facility payment brings the total to about $1,446 in a hospital outpatient department, or about $880 at an ambulatory surgery centre. Anesthesia, pathology and other codes billed the same day are extra. Texas ranks #29 of 51 states on the physician line (within 2% of the national office rate of $500.01).