CPT code 44379: Small bowel enteroscopy, endoscopic stent placement2026 Medicare rate & RVUs in Connecticut

In Connecticut, Medicare pays $376.28 for 44379 in a facility. There’s no office rate.

Check a contract rate as a % of Medicare · 44379 nationwide

Medicare allowed amount for participating (non-QP) physicians, before deductible, coinsurance and claim adjustments. Not a patient’s bill or a hospital charge.

What 44379 covers

An endoscopist advances an enteroscope beyond the second portion of the duodenum to examine the small intestine and place an endoscopic stent. The service may be performed by a gastroenterologist or another appropriately trained endoscopist in a hospital or ambulatory endoscopy setting to open a narrowed segment or relieve an obstruction. Predilation performed to facilitate stent placement is included in the service.

Choose this code when the documented intervention is endoscopic stent placement, rather than diagnostic examination or tissue sampling alone. The procedure report should support the extent of enteroscopy, the treated site and reason for stenting, and placement of the stent. This minor procedure has a 0-day global period, so same-day preoperative and postoperative care is included. When related endoscopies are performed together, endoscopy family pricing applies. Modifier 50 is not appropriate. Assistant-at-surgery payment requires documented medical necessity; co-surgeons and team surgery are not permitted.

This summary was written with AI assistance from CMS physician fee schedule data and checked against the CMS billing rules shown here. Rates on this page come directly from CMS files.

How Connecticut compares for 44379

Across 109 of 109 payment localities, the facility rate for 44379 runs from $332.65 in Arkansas to $472.46 in Alaska. Connecticut pays $376.28. The RVUs are the same everywhere; the geographic indexes change the dollars.

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44379 rates by state

Office rate range in each state. Select a state to see its payment localities.

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How the 44379 rate is calculated

Each of 44379’s three RVUs is multiplied by a geographic index (GPCI) for the payment locality, added up, and multiplied by the conversion factor. Drag the indexes or enter a ZIP to see what moves the rate.

Payment rules and modifiers for 44379

The CMS indicators that decide how 44379 is paid alongside other services.

What modifiers do to the payment

When to use modifier 51

Codes related to 44379

Related codes aren’t interchangeable: bill the code that matches the service performed.

How 44379 has changed in Connecticut

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Where the Connecticut rate applies

Connecticut is a Medicare payment area, not a city. Our Census mapping connects it to 215 cities and communities in Connecticut. Some span more than one payment area; confirm with the service ZIP.

• Ansonia
• Ball Pond
• Baltic
• Bantam
• Bethel
• Bethlehem Village
• Bigelow Corners
• Blue Hills

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Where these rates come from

FeeBase calculates base physician payments from CMS work, practice-expense and malpractice RVUs, adjusted by each locality’s geographic indexes and the conversion factor. Services without a published rate are labeled, never given a made-up amount. Amounts are Medicare allowed amounts before claim adjustments: not a patient’s bill or a commercial rate.

CMS RVU26D · effective Oct 1, 2026 through the day before Jan 1, 2027

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