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Procedure price report · Upper gastrointestinal endoscopy, biopsy

Esophagus scope exam with growth removal by snare

CPT 43217the billing code this page is about

A flexible scope is passed through the mouth and a polyp, tumor or other lesion is removed with a wire loop snare.

Hospitals typically charge $1,712 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 520 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,761. Most fall between $645 and $3,148 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
520
States
47
Filings dated
Mar 2023 – 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 520 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
$298$745$1,712$2,880$4,686

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 16× what the cheapest tenth charges ($298 vs $4,686).

How the prices are spread

$212 – $293: 26 hospitals$212$293 – $406: 17 hospitals$406 – $563: 23 hospitals$406$563 – $780: 43 hospitals$780 – $1,081: 67 hospitals$780$1,081 – $1,499: 32 hospitals$1,499 – $2,077: 58 hospitals$1,499$2,077 – $2,878: 88 hospitals$2,878 – $3,988: 75 hospitals$2,878$3,988 – $5,527: 48 hospitals$3,988median $1,712price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (477 of 520 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$212$29326
$293$40617
$406$56323
$563$78043
$780$1,08167
$1,081$1,49932
$1,499$2,07758
$2,077$2,87888
$2,878$3,98875
$3,988$5,52748

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$1,960
Median cash price$1,712
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.87×

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 $1,712.

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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $866 across 13 hospitalsWA$866Idaho: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $1,053 across 24 hospitalsIL$1,053Wisconsin: median $1,659 across 22 hospitalsWI$1,659Michigan: median $651 across 26 hospitalsMI$651New York: median $2,245 across 23 hospitalsNY$2,245Massachusetts: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 9 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: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $986 across 18 hospitalsIA$986Indiana: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $2,874 across 44 hospitalsOH$2,874Pennsylvania: median $1,961 across 26 hospitalsPA$1,961New Jersey: median $3,786 across 28 hospitalsNJ$3,786Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $3,120 across 49 hospitalsCA$3,120Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $167 across 11 hospitalsWV$167Virginia: median $2,281 across 11 hospitalsVA$2,281Maryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 1 hospital 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: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: median $2,880 across 17 hospitalsSC$2,880Oklahoma: median $262 across 13 hospitalsOK$262Louisiana: median $822 across 10 hospitalsLA$822Mississippi: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $809 across 23 hospitalsGA$809Hawaii: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $915 across 18 hospitalsTX$915Florida: median $2,167 across 19 hospitalsFL$2,167
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,712. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ28$3,786+121%$2,102 – $5,419
California CA49$3,120+82%$2,298 – $5,527
South Carolina SC17$2,880+68%$2,630 – $2,880
Ohio OH44$2,874+68%$914 – $3,438
Virginia VA11$2,281+33%$1,176 – $2,353
New York NY23$2,245+31%$450 – $2,245
Florida FL19$2,167+27%$1,850 – $3,322
Pennsylvania PA26$1,961+15%$107 – $3,207
Wisconsin WI22$1,659−3%$1,659 – $3,148
Illinois IL24$1,053−39%$431 – $3,133
Iowa IA18$986−42%$765 – $986
Texas TX18$915−47%$915 – $1,838
Washington WA13$866−49%$379 – $3,385
Louisiana LA10$822−52%$593 – $1,252
Georgia GA23$809−53%$809 – $2,742
Michigan MI26$651−62%$651 – $1,659
Oklahoma OK13$262−85%$262 – $2,222
West Virginia WV11$167−90%$162 – $258
Missouri MO9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not 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 $1,712.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care425$1,961$655 – $3,246
Children’s8fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access84$915$387 – $3,148
Ownership
For-profit51$1,712$623 – $2,768
Government83$1,553$767 – $2,630
Non-profit383$1,801$601 – $3,358
System affiliation
Part of a system438$1,912$656 – $3,322
Independent82$1,094$378 – $2,483

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,695
Median cash price$1,712
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

364 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,659 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,771; most fall between $548 and $3,322.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 364 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
$289$767$1,659$3,120$5,176

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 18× what the cheapest tenth charges ($289 vs $5,176).

Of the 395 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 364 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 16 a list price only.

How complete is this

520 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 — counted520
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here34
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 — excluded14
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 Upper gastrointestinal endoscopy, biopsy family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Esophagoscopy Flexib Lesion Removal Tumor Snare.

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 growth removal by snare (CPT 43217) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-43217-esophagus-scope-exam-with-growth-removal-by-snare