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Procedure price report · Upper gastrointestinal endoscopy, biopsy

Esophagus scope exam with removal of lining tissue

CPT 43211the billing code this page is about

A flexible scope is passed through the mouth and an area of abnormal esophageal lining is lifted and cut away in one piece.

Hospitals typically charge $2,245 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 428 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,252. Most fall between $671 and $3,868 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
428
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 428 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
$384$1,135$2,245$3,484$4,940

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($384 vs $4,940).

How the prices are spread

$265 – $361: 13 hospitals$265$361 – $492: 26 hospitals$492 – $671: 25 hospitals$492$671 – $914: 10 hospitals$914 – $1,245: 32 hospitals$914$1,245 – $1,697: 18 hospitals$1,697 – $2,313: 77 hospitals$1,697$2,313 – $3,152: 73 hospitals$3,152 – $4,296: 77 hospitals$3,152$4,296 – $5,855: 36 hospitals$4,296median $2,245price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (387 of 428 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$265$36113
$361$49226
$492$67125
$671$91410
$914$1,24532
$1,245$1,69718
$1,697$2,31377
$2,313$3,15273
$3,152$4,29677
$4,296$5,85536

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$1,960
Median cash price$2,245
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.15×

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 $2,245.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: 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: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 6 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: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $2,247 across 20 hospitalsIL$2,247Wisconsin: median $2,365 across 21 hospitalsWI$2,365Michigan: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: median $2,245 across 21 hospitalsNY$2,245Massachusetts: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 4 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: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIAIndiana: median $1,833 across 15 hospitalsIN$1,833Ohio: median $3,157 across 41 hospitalsOH$3,157Pennsylvania: median $1,961 across 24 hospitalsPA$1,961New Jersey: median $4,350 across 27 hospitalsNJ$4,350Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $3,484 across 50 hospitalsCA$3,484Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $1,627 across 10 hospitalsMO$1,627Kentucky: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 1 hospital 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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $421 across 10 hospitalsTN$421North Carolina: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: median $2,668 across 14 hospitalsSC$2,668Oklahoma: median $384 across 12 hospitalsOK$384Louisiana: median $1,010 across 11 hospitalsLA$1,010Mississippi: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $1,766 across 15 hospitalsGA$1,766Hawaii: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $1,183 across 23 hospitalsTX$1,183Florida: median $2,386 across 19 hospitalsFL$2,386
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,245. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ27$4,350+94%$2,102 – $5,741
California CA50$3,484+55%$1,222 – $3,965
Ohio OH41$3,157+41%$2,535 – $3,837
South Carolina SC14$2,668+19%$2,328 – $2,668
Florida FL19$2,386+6%$1,348 – $3,543
Wisconsin WI21$2,365+5%$2,108 – $2,365
Illinois IL20$2,2470%$181 – $4,972
New York NY21$2,2450%$615 – $2,245
Pennsylvania PA24$1,961−13%$137 – $4,677
Indiana IN15$1,833−18%$1,580 – $2,463
Georgia GA15$1,766−21%$1,766 – $1,766
Missouri MO10$1,627−28%$365 – $3,152
Texas TX23$1,183−47%$648 – $1,183
Louisiana LA11$1,010−55%$593 – $1,196
Tennessee TN10$421−81%$226 – $1,273
Oklahoma OK12$384−83%$384 – $384
Michigan MI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Iowa IA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO4not 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
Arizona AZ3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV1not 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 $2,245.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care361$2,245$795 – $3,880
Children’s9fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access55$2,365$556 – $3,414
Ownership
For-profit39$1,766$656 – $2,455
Government53$2,245$1,183 – $3,253
Non-profit333$2,365$662 – $3,965
System affiliation
Part of a system381$2,328$996 – $3,910
Independent47$1,271$414 – $3,013

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$4,105
Median cash price$2,245
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

315 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,365 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,425; most fall between $648 and $3,965.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 315 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
$381$1,010$2,365$3,837$4,940

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($381 vs $4,940).

Of the 347 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 315 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 23 a list price only.

How complete is this

428 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (11%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 455 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted428
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here15
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded11
Hospitals that filed this code455

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 PR Esophagoscopy Flexible Transoral Mucosal Resexn.

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, “Esophagus scope exam with removal of lining tissue (CPT 43211) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-43211-esophagus-scope-exam-with-removal-of-lining-tissue