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Procedure price report · Esophageal dilatation

Esophagus scope exam with stretching from below

CPT 43213the billing code this page is about

A flexible scope is passed through the mouth and a narrowed part of the esophagus is stretched with a balloon or dilator worked back from the far side, including any x-ray guidance used.

Hospitals typically charge $2,102 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 501 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,105. Most fall between $883 and $3,786 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
501
States
48
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 501 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
$446$1,099$2,102$3,376$5,323

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($446 vs $5,323).

How the prices are spread

$275 – $374: 11 hospitals$275$374 – $509: 28 hospitals$509 – $693: 27 hospitals$509$693 – $943: 17 hospitals$943 – $1,284: 37 hospitals$943$1,284 – $1,747: 68 hospitals$1,747 – $2,378: 88 hospitals$1,747$2,378 – $3,237: 68 hospitals$3,237 – $4,406: 55 hospitals$3,237$4,406 – $5,998: 62 hospitals$4,406median $2,102price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (461 of 501 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$275$37411
$374$50928
$509$69327
$693$94317
$943$1,28437
$1,284$1,74768
$1,747$2,37888
$2,378$3,23768
$3,237$4,40655
$4,406$5,99862

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$1,960
Median cash price$2,102
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.07×

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 $2,102.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 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: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $2,555 across 25 hospitalsIL$2,555Wisconsin: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWIMichigan: median $1,381 across 21 hospitalsMI$1,381New York: median $2,245 across 27 hospitalsNY$2,245Massachusetts: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 9 hospitals 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: median $2,994 across 18 hospitalsIA$2,994Indiana: median $164 across 16 hospitalsIN$164Ohio: median $2,102 across 22 hospitalsOH$2,102Pennsylvania: median $1,382 across 31 hospitalsPA$1,382New Jersey: median $2,531 across 34 hospitalsNJ$2,531Connecticut: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $3,484 across 55 hospitalsCA$3,484Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $2,210 across 11 hospitalsCO$2,210Nebraska: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 8 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: 2 hospitals 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: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 4 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 $4,285 across 16 hospitalsSC$4,285Oklahoma: median $425 across 15 hospitalsOK$425Louisiana: median $1,366 across 11 hospitalsLA$1,366Mississippi: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $1,615 across 16 hospitalsGA$1,615Hawaii: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $1,413 across 28 hospitalsTX$1,413Florida: median $2,355 across 24 hospitalsFL$2,355
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,102. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
South Carolina SC16$4,285+104%$1,396 – $4,285
California CA55$3,484+66%$1,222 – $5,998
Iowa IA18$2,994+42%$1,745 – $2,994
Illinois IL25$2,555+22%$652 – $5,181
New Jersey NJ34$2,531+20%$2,100 – $5,110
Florida FL24$2,355+12%$2,281 – $3,322
New York NY27$2,245+7%$889 – $2,278
Colorado CO11$2,210+5%$2,145 – $2,377
Ohio OH22$2,1020%$2,038 – $3,825
Georgia GA16$1,615−23%$1,615 – $1,615
Texas TX28$1,413−33%$578 – $1,967
Pennsylvania PA31$1,382−34%$173 – $3,574
Michigan MI21$1,381−34%$1,104 – $1,902
Louisiana LA11$1,366−35%$780 – $1,698
Oklahoma OK15$425−80%$425 – $2,302
Indiana IN16$164−92%$150 – $351
Massachusetts MA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT1not 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 $2,102.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care436$2,102$886 – $3,704
Children’s11fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access52$1,463$520 – $3,910
Ownership
For-profit48$1,712$886 – $2,768
Government76$2,044$1,285 – $3,152
Non-profit375$2,102$666 – $4,285
System affiliation
Part of a system427$2,102$886 – $3,910
Independent74$1,904$544 – $3,376

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,743
Median cash price$2,102
Cash as a share of list, median hospital55%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 45%. 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

334 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,102 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,340; most fall between $984 and $4,285.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 334 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
$467$1,182$2,102$3,484$5,836

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($467 vs $5,836).

Of the 387 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 334 gave a usable cash price; 17 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 36 a list price only.

How complete is this

501 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (13%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 569 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted501
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) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded29
Hospitals that filed this code569

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 Esophageal dilatation family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Esophagoscopy Retrograde Dilate Balloon/Other.

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 stretching from below (CPT 43213) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-43213-esophagus-scope-exam-with-stretching-from-below