Outpatient / APC 5313

APC 5313 · 923 hospitals · 38,262 services

Level 3 Lower GI Procedures

Hospital outpatient departments billed Medicare for 38,262 services in APC 5313 in 2024. They charged an average of $19,230; Medicare allowed $2,692 — a ratio of 7.1 to 1 — and paid $2,165 of it, the patient's coinsurance making up most of the rest. Average charges ranged from $3,822 to $100,283 across hospitals.

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  1. 1Average charge $19,230
  2. 2Medicare allowed $2,692
  3. 3Reporting hospitals 923
  4. 4Services 38,262

By state

The average charge for this service was highest in Florida ($31,766) and lowest in Rhode Island ($7,678). The allowed amount is set by Medicare's outpatient fee schedule, adjusted for local wages, so it varies much less.

Florida$31,766Nevada$30,970Alabama$24,754Alaska$24,588Texas$24,408California$23,564Arizona$22,554Virginia$21,924Georgia$21,564Pennsylvania$21,098New Jersey$20,698South Carolina$20,405
Average charge for APC 5313, 12 highest-charging states, bars to scale. Source: CMS DY2024.
StateServicesAvg chargeAvg allowed
Florida2,652$31,766$2,506
Nevada150$30,970$3,007
Alabama428$24,754$2,272
Alaska37$24,588$2,987
Texas2,152$24,408$2,483
California3,780$23,564$3,543
Arizona612$22,554$2,732
Virginia1,475$21,924$2,499
Georgia981$21,564$2,446
Pennsylvania1,923$21,098$2,585
New Jersey1,311$20,698$2,981
South Carolina1,078$20,405$2,349
New York2,515$19,738$3,064
Mississippi330$19,537$2,278
Colorado465$19,380$2,663
Illinois1,664$18,618$2,631
Oklahoma518$18,135$2,379
Kentucky616$17,615$2,394
New Hampshire223$17,382$2,748
Kansas447$16,774$2,411
Louisiana464$16,675$2,310
Tennessee723$16,648$2,318
District of Columbia188$16,487$2,782
Indiana859$16,418$2,532
Delaware198$16,360$2,795
Ohio1,402$15,868$2,362
Nebraska250$15,767$2,465
Arkansas376$15,305$2,430
Wisconsin697$15,298$2,502
North Carolina1,132$15,227$2,481
Hawaii74$14,853$3,126
Wyoming38$14,814$2,814
Washington854$14,762$2,864
New Mexico191$14,641$2,438
Connecticut422$14,449$3,101
Missouri857$14,384$2,444
Oregon294$14,199$2,912
Idaho135$13,369$2,551
Michigan1,123$13,294$2,467
West Virginia374$13,068$2,346
South Dakota266$12,682$2,622
North Dakota305$12,444$2,633
Iowa466$11,979$2,414
Utah188$11,872$2,431
Maine248$11,749$2,569
Vermont108$11,668$1,405
Minnesota776$11,549$2,703
Montana135$11,375$2,660
Massachusetts1,684$10,355$2,976
Rhode Island74$7,678$2,799

Highest average charges

HospitalChargeAllowed
Good Samaritan Hospital
San Jose, CA
$100,283$3,743
Adventhealth Heart of Florida
Davenport, FL
$99,933$2,543
HCA Florida Jfk Hospital
Atlantis, FL
$99,045$2,399
Adventhealth Ocala
Ocala, FL
$78,574$2,544
Grandview Medical Center
Birmingham, AL
$76,713$2,335
Henrico Doctors' Hospital
Richmond, VA
$73,669$2,439
Tricities Hospital
Hopewell, VA
$73,386$2,443
Cjw Medical Center
Richmond, VA
$69,259$2,417
HCA Florida Ocala Hospital
Ocala, FL
$67,958$2,462
Capital Health Medical Center - Hopewell
Pennington, NJ
$63,793$2,939

Lowest average charges

HospitalChargeAllowed
Camc Charleston Surgical Hospital
Charleston, WV
$3,822$2,380
Umass Memorial Health-Milford Regional Medical Ctr
Milford, MA
$3,959$3,013
South Shore Hospital
South Weymouth, MA
$4,259$2,923
Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital - Needham
Needham, MA
$4,397$3,015
Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital-Milton Inc
Milton, MA
$4,923$2,943
New England Baptist Hospital
Boston, MA
$5,233$2,886
St Elizabeth's Medical Center
Brighton, MA
$5,789$2,898
Boston Medical Center Corporation-
Boston, MA
$5,802$3,015
Black Hills Surgical Hospital LLC
Rapid City, SD
$5,889$2,632
Inova Mount Vernon Hospital
Alexandria, VA
$5,978$2,632

An APC groups services of similar cost, so a hospital's average mixes the specific procedures it does most. Charges are list prices; the allowed amount is the fee-schedule total that Medicare and the patient together pay the hospital.

Source: CMS Medicare Outpatient Hospitals — by Provider and Service / by Geography and Service, data year 2024. Checked 2026-10-24. Methodology.