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Procedure price report · Upper gastrointestinal endoscopy, biopsy

Rigid scope exam of the esophagus with injection

CPT 43192the billing code this page is about

Examination of the esophagus through the mouth with a rigid scope, including injection of medication or other substance into the esophagus wall.

Hospitals typically charge $1,887 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 324 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,875. Most fall between $339 and $4,627 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
324
States
43
Filings dated
Jun 2024 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 24, 2026

Median: half of hospitals filed less, half more — and it is a price some hospital actually filed. Average of the middle 60%: the mean of the prices between the 20th and 80th percentiles. We never publish the plain average, the lowest or the highest price: the extremes in hospital price files are chargemaster artefacts, not prices anyone pays.

What hospitals charge, from cheapest to most expensive

Cash price percentiles, outpatient, across 324 hospitals. Each figure is a price a hospital filed. 10th: one in ten hospitals charges less; 25th: a quarter charge less; Median: half charge less; 75th: three quarters charge less; 90th: nine in ten charge less.
10th25thMedian75th90th
$200$422$1,887$3,528$5,998

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 30× what the cheapest tenth charges ($200 vs $5,998).

How the prices are spread

$182 – $261: 24 hospitals$182$261 – $375: 29 hospitals$375 – $537: 32 hospitals$375$537 – $770: 18 hospitals$770 – $1,105: 13 hospitals$770$1,105 – $1,585: 16 hospitals$1,585 – $2,273: 45 hospitals$1,585$2,273 – $3,260: 33 hospitals$3,260 – $4,675: 34 hospitals$3,260$4,675 – $6,705: 50 hospitals$4,675median $1,887price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (294 of 324 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$182$26124
$261$37529
$375$53732
$537$77018
$770$1,10513
$1,105$1,58516
$1,585$2,27345
$2,273$3,26033
$3,260$4,67534
$4,675$6,70550

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$1,960
Median cash price$1,887
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.96×

The Medicare figure is the national unadjusted OPPS rate for this code — what Medicare itself pays a hospital before local wage adjustment. It is a benchmark, not a price anyone is charged.

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $1,887.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMTNorth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMNIllinois: median $700 across 20 hospitalsIL$700Wisconsin: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: median $364 across 11 hospitalsMI$364New York: median $2,245 across 22 hospitalsNY$2,245Massachusetts: median $5,890 across 11 hospitalsMA$5,890Oregon: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceORNevada: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $422 across 17 hospitalsIA$422Indiana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $725 across 15 hospitalsOH$725Pennsylvania: median $1,286 across 17 hospitalsPA$1,286New Jersey: median $3,986 across 24 hospitalsNJ$3,986Connecticut: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $3,484 across 48 hospitalsCA$3,484Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $281 across 12 hospitalsOK$281Louisiana: median $910 across 10 hospitalsLA$910Mississippi: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceGAHawaii: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTXFlorida: median $1,775 across 15 hospitalsFL$1,775
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,887. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Massachusetts MA11$5,890+212%$3,704 – $5,932
New Jersey NJ24$3,986+111%$2,100 – $5,741
California CA48$3,484+85%$1,453 – $5,998
New York NY22$2,245+19%$520 – $2,278
Florida FL15$1,775−6%$725 – $1,775
Pennsylvania PA17$1,286−32%$109 – $3,880
Louisiana LA10$910−52%$655 – $1,698
Ohio OH15$725−62%$339 – $6,705
Illinois IL20$700−63%$198 – $5,571
Iowa IA17$422−78%$422 – $422
Michigan MI11$364−81%$283 – $2,639
Oklahoma OK12$281−85%$281 – $281
Nebraska NE8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Texas TX4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY1not enough hospitals filed a usable price

Hospitals like yours

The same distribution cut by the kind of hospital. Hospital type and ownership come from CMS; a hospital counts as part of a system when its price file is shared with at least one other hospital under the same brand. The national median is $1,887.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care279$2,020$422 – $4,686
Children’s9fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access35$493$225 – $3,995
Ownership
For-profit32$1,511$281 – $2,328
Government40$1,934$484 – $2,558
Non-profit251$2,038$343 – $5,419
System affiliation
Part of a system272$2,073$364 – $5,110
Independent52$724$339 – $2,768

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,958
Median cash price$1,887
Cash as a share of list, median hospital59%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 41%. The share is the median of each hospital’s own cash ÷ list ratio, over hospitals that filed both — not the ratio of the two medians above.

The same procedure, inpatient

204 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,453 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,501; most fall between $281 and $3,778.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 204 hospitals. Each figure is a price a hospital filed. 10th: one in ten hospitals charges less; 25th: a quarter charge less; Median: half charge less; 75th: three quarters charge less; 90th: nine in ten charge less.
10th25thMedian75th90th
$198$283$1,453$3,484$5,998

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 30× what the cheapest tenth charges ($198 vs $5,998).

Of the 215 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 204 gave a usable cash price; 7 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 4 a list price only.

How complete is this

324 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (8%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 343 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted324
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here14
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded2
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded3
Hospitals that filed this code343

Sections not shown for this setting

  • Since our last snapshot: there is no earlier snapshot at least 90 days older than this one yet.

We last checked these hospitals’ price files for changes between September 4, 2026 and September 24, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 24, 2026. The percentiles and averages use only the “counted” row.

Related procedures

Part of the Upper gastrointestinal endoscopy, biopsy family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Esophagoscopy Rigid Transoral Inj Submucosal.

Method

Source
The machine-readable price files every U.S. hospital is required by CMS to publish, parsed per hospital. Nothing is surveyed, sampled or modelled.
What counts
One cash (self-pay) price per hospital for this code and setting. A hospital’s own filing can rule its number out — a placeholder, a “not applicable” note, a list price standing in for cash — and our plausibility checks can flag a price far below what every other hospital files. Both kinds are disclosed above and excluded from the statistics; on the compare tool a flagged price is still shown.
Statistics
Percentiles are discrete: each is a price some hospital filed. The average is the mean of the prices between the 20th and 80th percentiles. We never publish the plain mean, the minimum or the maximum. A state needs 10 hospitals and a segment 20 to show a figure; otherwise the row shows its count and no number. Medicare is the national unadjusted OPPS rate where one exists.
Names
Procedure names on these pages are our own plain-language titles, not the AMA’s copyrighted CPT descriptors. The code is the identity.

The full rules — sources, statistics, thresholds, limitations — are on the methodology page.

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Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Rigid scope exam of the esophagus with injection (CPT 43192) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-43192-rigid-scope-exam-of-the-esophagus-with-injection