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Procedure price report · Upper gastrointestinal endoscopy, biopsy

Esophagus exam with a rigid scope and biopsy

CPT 43193the billing code this page is about

A rigid scope is passed through the mouth to view the esophagus and take one or more tissue samples for testing; the single price covers any number of samples.

Hospitals typically charge $1,453 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 399 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,750. Most fall between $311 and $4,286 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
399
States
47
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 399 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
$195$418$1,453$3,839$5,741

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 29× what the cheapest tenth charges ($195 vs $5,741).

How the prices are spread

$171 – $244: 32 hospitals$171$244 – $348: 36 hospitals$348 – $497: 40 hospitals$348$497 – $710: 22 hospitals$710 – $1,013: 33 hospitals$710$1,013 – $1,446: 16 hospitals$1,446 – $2,063: 22 hospitals$1,446$2,063 – $2,945: 51 hospitals$2,945 – $4,202: 40 hospitals$2,945$4,202 – $5,998: 69 hospitals$4,202median $1,453price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (361 of 399 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$171$24432
$244$34836
$348$49740
$497$71022
$710$1,01333
$1,013$1,44616
$1,446$2,06322
$2,063$2,94551
$2,945$4,20240
$4,202$5,99869

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$1,960
Median cash price$1,453
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.74×

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 $1,453.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $652 across 21 hospitalsIL$652Wisconsin: median $892 across 22 hospitalsWI$892Michigan: median $438 across 16 hospitalsMI$438New York: median $2,245 across 24 hospitalsNY$2,245Massachusetts: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $421 across 17 hospitalsIA$421Indiana: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $725 across 15 hospitalsOH$725Pennsylvania: median $129 across 18 hospitalsPA$129New Jersey: median $2,531 across 29 hospitalsNJ$2,531Connecticut: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $3,484 across 49 hospitalsCA$3,484Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: median $388 across 10 hospitalsNE$388Missouri: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 7 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: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNMKansas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: median $4,286 across 15 hospitalsSC$4,286Oklahoma: median $279 across 12 hospitalsOK$279Louisiana: median $1,377 across 12 hospitalsLA$1,377Mississippi: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTXFlorida: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,453. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
South Carolina SC15$4,286+195%$2,328 – $4,286
California CA49$3,484+140%$1,453 – $5,998
New Jersey NJ29$2,531+74%$2,102 – $5,339
New York NY24$2,245+55%$421 – $2,245
Louisiana LA12$1,377−5%$850 – $1,698
Wisconsin WI22$892−39%$892 – $4,654
Ohio OH15$725−50%$206 – $3,778
Illinois IL21$652−55%$173 – $5,498
Michigan MI16$438−70%$326 – $2,639
Iowa IA17$421−71%$421 – $421
Nebraska NE10$388−73%$382 – $437
Oklahoma OK12$279−81%$279 – $279
Pennsylvania PA18$129−91%$105 – $3,880
Florida FL9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Texas TX5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA1not 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 $1,453.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care332$2,020$353 – $4,286
Children’s8fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access58$720$229 – $4,654
Ownership
For-profit37$1,921$382 – $3,334
Government55$1,480$299 – $3,027
Non-profit306$1,402$311 – $4,627
System affiliation
Part of a system332$1,960$382 – $4,627
Independent67$554$292 – $2,266

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,372
Median cash price$1,453
Cash as a share of list, median hospital65%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 35%. 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

266 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $892 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,650; most fall between $279 and $4,286.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 266 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
$175$311$892$3,839$5,998

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 34× what the cheapest tenth charges ($175 vs $5,998).

Of the 293 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 266 gave a usable cash price; 9 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 18 a list price only.

How complete is this

399 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (10%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 435 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted399
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here25
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 — excluded9
Hospitals that filed this code435

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 PR Esophagoscopy Rigid Transoral With Biopsy.

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.

Download this page’s figures: JSON · CSV. Aggregates only — the per-hospital prices are on the compare tool.

Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Esophagus exam with a rigid scope and biopsy (CPT 43193) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-43193-esophagus-exam-with-a-rigid-scope-and-biopsy