CPT 44005–44979 codes: Surgery: digestive system

This range contains 130 CPT Category I codes in the 2026 CMS fee schedule data, 120 of which carry work RVUs. Select a code to see its full RVU breakdown, Medicare status and related codes.

  • CPT 44005 — Surgical loosening of scar tissue holding sections of bowel together (18.00 wRVUs)
  • CPT 44010 — Duodenotomy (13.90 wRVUs)
  • CPT 44015 — Add-on: intraop jejunostomy needle catheter (2.55 wRVUs)
  • CPT 44020 — Enterotomy with exploration or foreign body removal (15.81 wRVUs)
  • CPT 44021 — Enterotomy with intestinal decompression (15.90 wRVUs)
  • CPT 44025 — Colotomy with exploration or foreign body removal (16.10 wRVUs)
  • CPT 44050 — Untwisting or unblocking a section of bowel that is obstructed (15.13 wRVUs)
  • CPT 44055 — Ladd correction of intestinal malrotation (24.99 wRVUs)
  • CPT 44100 — Full-thickness intestinal biopsy (1.96 wRVUs)
  • CPT 44110 — Enterectomy with local excision, single lesion (13.69 wRVUs)
  • CPT 44111 — Enterectomy with local excision, multiple lesions (16.11 wRVUs)
  • CPT 44120 — Removal of part of the small intestine with rejoining of the ends (20.30 wRVUs)
  • CPT 44121 — Add-on: enterectomy with anastomosis (4.33 wRVUs)
  • CPT 44125 — Removing a portion of small bowel and forming a stoma opening (19.53 wRVUs)
  • CPT 44126 — Congenital enterectomy for atresia, no tapering (41.17 wRVUs)
  • CPT 44127 — Congenital enterectomy for atresia with tapering (48.07 wRVUs)
  • CPT 44128 — Add-on: additional resection during congenital enterectomy (4.33 wRVUs)
  • CPT 44130 — Connecting a piece of small bowel to another piece to bypass a problem area (21.56 wRVUs)
  • CPT 44132 — Enterectomy cadaver donor
  • CPT 44133 — Enterectomy live donor
  • CPT 44135 — Intestine transplnt cadaver
  • CPT 44136 — Intestine transplant live
  • CPT 44137 — Remove intestinal allograft
  • CPT 44139 — Surgical loosening of the colon during another abdominal procedure (add-on) (2.17 wRVUs)
  • CPT 44140 — Open partial removal of the colon with rejoining of the ends (22.03 wRVUs)
  • CPT 44141 — Open partial removal of the colon with creation of a colostomy (29.16 wRVUs)
  • CPT 44143 — Open partial removal of the colon with end colostomy and closure of the rectal stump (27.10 wRVUs)
  • CPT 44144 — Removing part of the colon and creating a stoma (29.16 wRVUs)
  • CPT 44145 — Removing a section of colon and reconnecting the ends (27.87 wRVUs)
  • CPT 44146 — Removing part of the colon with reconnection and coloanal pouch (34.42 wRVUs)
  • CPT 44147 — Partial colectomy, abdominoperineal approach (32.85 wRVUs)
  • CPT 44150 — Total abdominal colectomy with ileostomy (29.43 wRVUs)
  • CPT 44151 — Total colectomy with continent ileostomy (34.05 wRVUs)
  • CPT 44155 — Total proctocolectomy with ileostomy (33.56 wRVUs)
  • CPT 44156 — Total proctocolectomy with continent ileostomy (36.48 wRVUs)
  • CPT 44157 — Total proctocolectomy with ileoanal anastomosis (34.81 wRVUs)
  • CPT 44158 — Total proctocolectomy with J-pouch and ileoanal anastomosis (35.78 wRVUs)
  • CPT 44160 — Open removal of the last part of the small intestine and beginning of the colon (20.37 wRVUs)
  • CPT 44180 — Laparoscopic enterolysis of intestinal adhesions (14.89 wRVUs)
  • CPT 44186 — Laparoscopic jejunostomy (10.12 wRVUs)
  • CPT 44187 — Laparoscopic ileostomy or jejunostomy (16.97 wRVUs)
  • CPT 44188 — Laparoscopic colostomy (18.87 wRVUs)
  • CPT 44202 — Laparoscopic removal of part of the small intestine (22.81 wRVUs)
  • CPT 44203 — Add-on: lap small bowel resection, each additional (4.33 wRVUs)
  • CPT 44204 — Laparoscopic removal of part of the colon with rejoining of the ends (25.76 wRVUs)
  • CPT 44205 — Laparoscopic partial colectomy including the end of the small intestine (22.38 wRVUs)
  • CPT 44206 — Laparoscopic removal of part of the colon with stoma creation (29.05 wRVUs)
  • CPT 44207 — Laparoscopic removal of the left colon with rejoining down to the rectum (31.12 wRVUs)
  • CPT 44208 — Lap colectomy with coloproctostomy and ileostomy (33.14 wRVUs)
  • CPT 44210 — Lap total abdominal colectomy with ileostomy (29.34 wRVUs)
  • CPT 44211 — Lap total proctocolectomy with J-pouch, ileoanal anast (36.15 wRVUs)
  • CPT 44212 — Lap total proctocolectomy with ileostomy (33.72 wRVUs)
  • CPT 44213 — Add-on: laparoscopic mobilization of splenic flexure (3.41 wRVUs)
  • CPT 44227 — Laparoscopic reversal of a bowel opening on the abdomen (27.90 wRVUs)
  • CPT 44238 — Unlisted laps px intestine
  • CPT 44300 — Surgical creation of an opening from small bowel to the abdominal skin (13.41 wRVUs)
  • CPT 44310 — Open surgical creation of an ileostomy or jejunostomy (17.15 wRVUs)
  • CPT 44312 — Revision of ileostomy, local (9.19 wRVUs)
  • CPT 44314 — Revision of ileostomy, complex with laparotomy (16.32 wRVUs)
  • CPT 44316 — Continent ileostomy (Kock pouch) (23.00 wRVUs)
  • CPT 44320 — Colostomy or skin-level cecostomy (19.41 wRVUs)
  • CPT 44322 — Colostomy with multiple biopsies (12.99 wRVUs)
  • CPT 44340 — Surgical revision of a colostomy opening (9.05 wRVUs)
  • CPT 44345 — Complex revision of a colostomy involving reshaping of the abdominal wall (16.79 wRVUs)
  • CPT 44346 — Revision of colostomy with paracolostomy hernia repair (19.14 wRVUs)
  • CPT 44360 — Diagnostic small bowel enteroscopy beyond duodenum (2.43 wRVUs)
  • CPT 44361 — Small bowel enteroscopy with biopsy (2.70 wRVUs)
  • CPT 44363 — Small bowel enteroscopy with foreign body removal (3.31 wRVUs)
  • CPT 44364 — Small bowel enteroscopy with snare polypectomy (3.54 wRVUs)
  • CPT 44365 — Small bowel enteroscopy with cautery lesion removal (3.13 wRVUs)
  • CPT 44366 — Small bowel enteroscopy with control of bleeding (4.19 wRVUs)
  • CPT 44369 — Small bowel endoscopy with removal of growths (4.30 wRVUs)
  • CPT 44370 — Small bowel enteroscopy with stent placement (4.57 wRVUs)
  • CPT 44372 — Small bowel enteroscopy with jejunostomy tube placement (4.19 wRVUs)
  • CPT 44373 — Small bowel enteroscopy, conversion G to G-J tube (3.31 wRVUs)
  • CPT 44376 — Diagnostic deep small bowel enteroscopy (5.02 wRVUs)
  • CPT 44377 — Deep small bowel enteroscopy with biopsy (5.28 wRVUs)
  • CPT 44378 — Deep small bowel enteroscopy with control of bleeding (6.84 wRVUs)
  • CPT 44379 — Deep small bowel enteroscopy with stent placement (7.18 wRVUs)
  • CPT 44380 — Diagnostic ileoscopy through stoma (0.85 wRVUs)
  • CPT 44381 — Ileoscopy through stoma with balloon dilation (1.35 wRVUs)
  • CPT 44382 — Ileoscopy through stoma with biopsy (1.14 wRVUs)
  • CPT 44384 — Ileoscopy through stoma with stent placement (2.78 wRVUs)
  • CPT 44385 — Diagnostic endoscopy of ileoanal pouch (1.17 wRVUs)
  • CPT 44386 — Endoscopy of ileoanal pouch with biopsy (1.46 wRVUs)
  • CPT 44388 — Diagnostic colonoscopy through stoma (2.65 wRVUs)
  • CPT 44389 — Colonoscopy through a stoma with biopsy (2.94 wRVUs)
  • CPT 44390 — Colonoscopy through stoma with foreign body removal (3.65 wRVUs)
  • CPT 44391 — Colonoscopy done to stop active bleeding (4.02 wRVUs)
  • CPT 44392 — Colonoscopy with removal of polyps using a hot biopsy technique (3.44 wRVUs)
  • CPT 44394 — Colonoscopy with removal of polyps using a wire snare (3.93 wRVUs)
  • CPT 44401 — Colonoscopy through stoma with lesion ablation (4.23 wRVUs)
  • CPT 44402 — Colonoscopy through stoma with stent placement (4.58 wRVUs)
  • CPT 44403 — Colonoscopy through stoma with EMR (5.36 wRVUs)
  • CPT 44404 — Colonoscopy through stoma with submucosal injection (2.94 wRVUs)
  • CPT 44405 — Colonoscopy through stoma with balloon dilation (3.15 wRVUs)
  • CPT 44406 — Colonoscopy through stoma with endoscopic ultrasound (4.00 wRVUs)
  • CPT 44407 — Colonoscopy through stoma with EUS-guided FNA (4.84 wRVUs)
  • CPT 44408 — Colonoscopy through stoma with volvulus decompression (4.04 wRVUs)
  • CPT 44500 — Introduction of long GI tube (Miller-Abbott) (0.38 wRVUs)
  • CPT 44602 — Stitching a hole or tear in the small bowel (24.10 wRVUs)
  • CPT 44603 — Suture repair of small bowel, multiple perforations (27.46 wRVUs)
  • CPT 44604 — Suture repair of colon wound, no colostomy (17.71 wRVUs)
  • CPT 44605 — Suture repair of colon wound with colostomy (21.53 wRVUs)
  • CPT 44615 — Intestinal stricturoplasty (17.71 wRVUs)
  • CPT 44620 — Closure of enterostomy, small or large bowel (14.07 wRVUs)
  • CPT 44625 — Surgical closure of a bowel stoma with re-connection at the abdominal wall (16.85 wRVUs)
  • CPT 44626 — Surgical closure of a bowel stoma with re-connection through the abdomen (27.20 wRVUs)
  • CPT 44640 — Closure of intestinal cutaneous fistula (23.60 wRVUs)
  • CPT 44650 — Closure of enteroenteric or enterocolic fistula (24.49 wRVUs)
  • CPT 44660 — Closure of enterovesical fistula, no bowel resection (23.31 wRVUs)
  • CPT 44661 — Closure of enterovesical fistula with bowel resection (26.67 wRVUs)
  • CPT 44680 — Intestinal plication for obstruction (17.51 wRVUs)
  • CPT 44700 — Exclusion of small intestine from pelvis with sling (17.04 wRVUs)
  • CPT 44701 — Add-on: intraoperative colonic lavage (3.02 wRVUs)
  • CPT 44705 — Preparation of fecal microbiota for transplant (1.38 wRVUs)
  • CPT 44715 — Prepare donor intestine
  • CPT 44720 — Backbench prep of intestine allograft, venous (4.88 wRVUs)
  • CPT 44721 — Backbench prep of intestine allograft, arterial (6.83 wRVUs)
  • CPT 44799 — Unlisted px small intestine
  • CPT 44800 — Removal of a Meckel diverticulum from the small bowel (11.75 wRVUs)
  • CPT 44820 — Excision of mesenteric lesion (13.39 wRVUs)
  • CPT 44850 — Repair of a torn mesentery (bowel supporting tissue) (11.81 wRVUs)
  • CPT 44899 — Unlisted px meckel's dvrtclm
  • CPT 44900 — Open I&D of appendiceal abscess (12.26 wRVUs)
  • CPT 44950 — Open appendectomy (10.34 wRVUs)
  • CPT 44955 — Add-on: appendix removal performed during another abdominal surgery (1.49 wRVUs)
  • CPT 44960 — Removal of a ruptured appendix (14.14 wRVUs)
  • CPT 44970 — Laparoscopic appendectomy (9.21 wRVUs)
  • CPT 44979 — Unlisted laps px appendix

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