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Procedure price report · Upper gastrointestinal endoscopy, biopsy

Flexible scope exam of the esophagus with injection

CPT 43201the billing code this page is about

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

Hospitals typically charge $1,458 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 656 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,617. Most fall between $592 and $3,199 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
656
States
49
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 656 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
$287$628$1,458$2,704$5,265

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 18× what the cheapest tenth charges ($287 vs $5,265).

How the prices are spread

$170 – $246: 28 hospitals$170$246 – $355: 19 hospitals$355 – $512: 44 hospitals$355$512 – $740: 83 hospitals$740 – $1,069: 54 hospitals$740$1,069 – $1,543: 81 hospitals$1,543 – $2,229: 71 hospitals$1,543$2,229 – $3,219: 123 hospitals$3,219 – $4,649: 49 hospitals$3,219$4,649 – $6,714: 62 hospitals$4,649median $1,458price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (614 of 656 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$170$24628
$246$35519
$355$51244
$512$74083
$740$1,06954
$1,069$1,54381
$1,543$2,22971
$2,229$3,219123
$3,219$4,64949
$4,649$6,71462

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$1,960
Median cash price$1,458
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 $1,458.

Alaska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $1,628 across 12 hospitalsWA$1,628Idaho: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $891 across 12 hospitalsMN$891Illinois: median $702 across 26 hospitalsIL$702Wisconsin: median $1,943 across 27 hospitalsWI$1,943Michigan: median $408 across 20 hospitalsMI$408New York: median $2,245 across 26 hospitalsNY$2,245Massachusetts: median $5,323 across 15 hospitalsMA$5,323Oregon: median $738 across 14 hospitalsOR$738Nevada: 5 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: median $592 across 20 hospitalsIA$592Indiana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $3,030 across 54 hospitalsOH$3,030Pennsylvania: median $2,267 across 28 hospitalsPA$2,267New Jersey: median $2,531 across 32 hospitalsNJ$2,531Connecticut: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $2,704 across 57 hospitalsCA$2,704Utah: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $1,215 across 11 hospitalsCO$1,215Nebraska: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $702 across 12 hospitalsMO$702Kentucky: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $793 across 14 hospitalsVA$793Maryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 5 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: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $1,093 across 13 hospitalsTN$1,093North Carolina: median $1,706 across 10 hospitalsNC$1,706South Carolina: median $2,467 across 18 hospitalsSC$2,467Oklahoma: median $170 across 14 hospitalsOK$170Louisiana: median $1,005 across 21 hospitalsLA$1,005Mississippi: median $1,143 across 10 hospitalsMS$1,143Alabama: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $809 across 21 hospitalsGA$809Hawaii: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $936 across 37 hospitalsTX$936Florida: median $1,368 across 36 hospitalsFL$1,368
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,458. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Massachusetts MA15$5,323+265%$2,297 – $5,629
Ohio OH54$3,030+108%$1,627 – $3,973
California CA57$2,704+85%$1,249 – $6,714
New Jersey NJ32$2,531+74%$2,102 – $5,181
South Carolina SC18$2,467+69%$871 – $2,467
Pennsylvania PA28$2,267+56%$931 – $4,418
New York NY26$2,245+54%$339 – $2,245
Wisconsin WI27$1,943+33%$610 – $2,848
North Carolina NC10$1,706+17%$1,077 – $2,210
Washington WA12$1,628+12%$469 – $3,253
Florida FL36$1,368−6%$1,301 – $2,640
Colorado CO11$1,215−17%$903 – $1,871
Mississippi MS10$1,143−22%$628 – $1,357
Tennessee TN13$1,093−25%$284 – $1,143
Louisiana LA21$1,005−31%$555 – $1,866
Texas TX37$936−36%$680 – $1,161
Minnesota MN12$891−39%$249 – $1,469
Georgia GA21$809−45%$809 – $2,742
Virginia VA14$793−46%$69 – $2,353
Oregon OR14$738−49%$469 – $762
Illinois IL26$702−52%$259 – $3,142
Missouri MO12$702−52%$617 – $1,403
Iowa IA20$592−59%$493 – $595
Michigan MI20$408−72%$208 – $1,902
Oklahoma OK14$170−88%$170 – $1,933
Idaho ID7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not 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 $1,458.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care544$1,706$610 – $3,253
Children’s13fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access96$738$385 – $3,001
Ownership
For-profit64$1,301$623 – $2,768
Government96$1,417$593 – $2,569
Non-profit493$1,477$592 – $3,269
System affiliation
Part of a system555$1,751$610 – $3,269
Independent101$823$285 – $2,355

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,742
Median cash price$1,458
Cash as a share of list, median hospital60%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 40%. 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

459 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,357 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,618; most fall between $592 and $3,269.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 459 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
$265$617$1,357$3,001$5,629

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 21× what the cheapest tenth charges ($265 vs $5,629).

Of the 489 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 459 gave a usable cash price; 15 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 15 a list price only.

How complete is this

656 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (17%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 711 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted656
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here38
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded2
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded14
Hospitals that filed this code711

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 23, 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 Flexible Transoral W Submucous Inj.

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, “Flexible scope exam of the esophagus with injection (CPT 43201) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-43201-flexible-scope-exam-of-the-esophagus-with-injection