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Procedure price report · Esophageal dilatation

Balloon widening of the esophagus with a rigid scope

CPT 43195the billing code this page is about

A rigid scope is passed through the mouth and a balloon is inflated to stretch open a narrowed esophagus.

Hospitals typically charge $2,434 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 391 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,649. Most fall between $336 and $5,151 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
391
States
45
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 391 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
$262$427$2,434$5,077$8,478

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 32× what the cheapest tenth charges ($262 vs $8,478).

How the prices are spread

$202 – $295: 36 hospitals$202$295 – $429: 44 hospitals$429 – $625: 21 hospitals$429$625 – $909: 16 hospitals$909 – $1,324: 22 hospitals$909$1,324 – $1,928: 19 hospitals$1,928 – $2,807: 22 hospitals$1,928$2,807 – $4,087: 39 hospitals$4,087 – $5,950: 91 hospitals$4,087$5,950 – $8,663: 47 hospitals$5,950median $2,434price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (357 of 391 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$202$29536
$295$42944
$429$62521
$625$90916
$909$1,32422
$1,324$1,92819
$1,928$2,80722
$2,807$4,08739
$4,087$5,95091
$5,950$8,66347

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$3,939
Median cash price$2,434
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.62×

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 $2,434.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 6 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: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $607 across 13 hospitalsIL$607Wisconsin: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: median $210 across 22 hospitalsMI$210New York: median $4,502 across 26 hospitalsNY$4,502Massachusetts: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIAIndiana: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $4,991 across 19 hospitalsOH$4,991Pennsylvania: median $2,224 across 19 hospitalsPA$2,224New Jersey: median $4,627 across 30 hospitalsNJ$4,627Connecticut: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $5,096 across 51 hospitalsCA$5,096Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 9 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: 3 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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $311 across 10 hospitalsTN$311North Carolina: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $305 across 12 hospitalsOK$305Louisiana: median $1,515 across 13 hospitalsLA$1,515Mississippi: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $980 across 12 hospitalsTX$980Florida: median $3,816 across 22 hospitalsFL$3,816
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,434. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA51$5,096+109%$1,453 – $8,478
Ohio OH19$4,991+105%$672 – $6,705
New Jersey NJ30$4,627+90%$4,211 – $5,339
New York NY26$4,502+85%$540 – $4,576
Florida FL22$3,816+57%$969 – $4,583
Pennsylvania PA19$2,224−9%$120 – $6,432
Louisiana LA13$1,515−38%$1,088 – $2,122
Texas TX12$980−60%$777 – $980
Illinois IL13$607−75%$262 – $14,810
Tennessee TN10$311−87%$167 – $3,635
Oklahoma OK12$305−87%$305 – $305
Michigan MI22$210−91%$210 – $378
Kentucky KY9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Iowa IA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT1not 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 $2,434.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care337$3,315$340 – $5,301
Children’s10fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access42$720$262 – $4,991
Ownership
For-profit34$3,441$305 – $5,826
Government61$3,708$518 – $4,519
Non-profit294$2,224$314 – $5,339
System affiliation
Part of a system317$3,635$340 – $5,301
Independent74$668$330 – $4,731

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,588
Median cash price$2,434
Cash as a share of list, median hospital56%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 44%. 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

249 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,807 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,444; most fall between $330 and $6,581.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 249 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
$262$389$1,807$5,096$8,478

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 32× what the cheapest tenth charges ($262 vs $8,478).

Of the 277 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 249 gave a usable cash price; 10 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

391 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 429 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted391
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here30
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded6
Hospitals that filed this code429

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 Esophageal dilatation family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Esophagoscopy Rigid Transoral Balloon Dilation.

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, “Balloon widening of the esophagus with a rigid scope (CPT 43195) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-43195-balloon-widening-of-the-esophagus-with-a-rigid-scope