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Procedure price report · Other non-OR upper GI therapeutic procedures

Esophagus scope exam with control of bleeding

CPT 43227the billing code this page is about

A flexible scope is passed through the mouth and bleeding in the esophagus is stopped using methods such as heat, clips, injection or a banding device.

Hospitals typically charge $1,730 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 566 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,764. Most fall between $644 and $3,333 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
566
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 566 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
$366$751$1,730$2,946$5,320

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 15× what the cheapest tenth charges ($366 vs $5,320).

How the prices are spread

$270 – $371: 33 hospitals$270$371 – $510: 32 hospitals$510 – $701: 29 hospitals$510$701 – $964: 57 hospitals$964 – $1,324: 51 hospitals$964$1,324 – $1,820: 74 hospitals$1,820 – $2,501: 88 hospitals$1,820$2,501 – $3,437: 64 hospitals$3,437 – $4,723: 44 hospitals$3,437$4,723 – $6,490: 54 hospitals$4,723median $1,730price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (526 of 566 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$270$37133
$371$51032
$510$70129
$701$96457
$964$1,32451
$1,324$1,82074
$1,820$2,50188
$2,501$3,43764
$3,437$4,72344
$4,723$6,49054

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$1,960
Median cash price$1,730
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.88×

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 $1,730.

Alaska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 3 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 $1,201 across 15 hospitalsWA$1,201Idaho: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $1,324 across 10 hospitalsMN$1,324Illinois: median $1,398 across 27 hospitalsIL$1,398Wisconsin: median $1,740 across 22 hospitalsWI$1,740Michigan: median $727 across 29 hospitalsMI$727New York: median $1,190 across 32 hospitalsNY$1,190Massachusetts: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $1,283 across 16 hospitalsOR$1,283Nevada: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $1,519 across 18 hospitalsIA$1,519Indiana: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $2,549 across 28 hospitalsOH$2,549Pennsylvania: median $2,400 across 19 hospitalsPA$2,400New Jersey: median $4,350 across 28 hospitalsNJ$4,350Connecticut: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $3,484 across 56 hospitalsCA$3,484Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $1,111 across 19 hospitalsMO$1,111Kentucky: median $573 across 10 hospitalsKY$573West Virginia: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $1,457 across 10 hospitalsVA$1,457Maryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $1,093 across 14 hospitalsTN$1,093North Carolina: median $1,706 across 12 hospitalsNC$1,706South Carolina: median $5,522 across 18 hospitalsSC$5,522Oklahoma: median $270 across 12 hospitalsOK$270Louisiana: median $812 across 13 hospitalsLA$812Mississippi: median $1,560 across 16 hospitalsMS$1,560Alabama: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $915 across 19 hospitalsTX$915Florida: median $2,227 across 17 hospitalsFL$2,227
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,730. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
South Carolina SC18$5,522+219%$1,889 – $5,522
New Jersey NJ28$4,350+151%$2,102 – $5,855
California CA56$3,484+101%$2,028 – $6,490
Ohio OH28$2,549+47%$751 – $3,333
Pennsylvania PA19$2,400+39%$1,961 – $3,574
Florida FL17$2,227+29%$2,227 – $3,322
Wisconsin WI22$1,740+1%$1,052 – $1,740
North Carolina NC12$1,706−1%$1,183 – $2,713
Mississippi MS16$1,560−10%$1,085 – $1,702
Iowa IA18$1,519−12%$856 – $1,519
Virginia VA10$1,457−16%$110 – $2,353
Illinois IL27$1,398−19%$573 – $3,109
Minnesota MN10$1,324−23%$498 – $1,825
Oregon OR16$1,283−26%$297 – $1,691
Washington WA15$1,201−31%$432 – $3,253
New York NY32$1,190−31%$520 – $2,245
Missouri MO19$1,111−36%$368 – $2,463
Tennessee TN14$1,093−37%$236 – $1,162
Texas TX19$915−47%$915 – $1,918
Louisiana LA13$812−53%$435 – $1,182
Michigan MI29$727−58%$727 – $1,740
Kentucky KY10$573−67%$368 – $7,617
Oklahoma OK12$270−84%$270 – $270
Idaho ID9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not 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 $1,730.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care461$1,909$727 – $3,484
Children’s12fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access92$1,052$462 – $1,844
Ownership
For-profit53$1,706$573 – $3,200
Government85$1,736$717 – $2,633
Non-profit427$1,740$636 – $3,484
System affiliation
Part of a system470$1,807$727 – $3,484
Independent96$1,100$399 – $2,146

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,677
Median cash price$1,730
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

381 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,740 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,863; most fall between $573 and $3,548.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 381 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
$295$752$1,740$3,333$5,522

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 19× what the cheapest tenth charges ($295 vs $5,522).

Of the 422 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 381 gave a usable cash price; 22 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 19 a list price only.

How complete is this

566 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (14%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 621 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted566
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here40
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 code621

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 Other non-OR upper GI therapeutic procedures family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as PR Esophagoscopy,W/Control,Bleeding.

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 control of bleeding (CPT 43227) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-43227-esophagus-scope-exam-with-control-of-bleeding