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Procedure price report · Upper gastrointestinal endoscopy, biopsy

Upper endoscopy with placement of a feeding tube or catheter

CPT 43241the billing code this page is about

A flexible scope is passed through the mouth to the upper small intestine and a tube or catheter is positioned inside the digestive tract during the exam.

Hospitals typically charge $1,676 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,017 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,581. Most fall between $410 and $2,978 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,017
States
49
Filings dated
Aug 2022 – 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 1,017 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
$257$574$1,676$2,581$4,576

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 18× what the cheapest tenth charges ($257 vs $4,576).

How the prices are spread

$194 – $271: 58 hospitals$194$271 – $381: 79 hospitals$381 – $534: 58 hospitals$381$534 – $748: 73 hospitals$748 – $1,050: 87 hospitals$748$1,050 – $1,472: 73 hospitals$1,472 – $2,064: 132 hospitals$1,472$2,064 – $2,894: 199 hospitals$2,894 – $4,058: 77 hospitals$2,894$4,058 – $5,691: 82 hospitals$4,058median $1,676price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (918 of 1,017 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$194$27158
$271$38179
$381$53458
$534$74873
$748$1,05087
$1,050$1,47273
$1,472$2,064132
$2,064$2,894199
$2,894$4,05877
$4,058$5,69182

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$1,960
Median cash price$1,676
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.86×

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 $1,676.

Alaska: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $364 across 16 hospitalsWA$364Idaho: median $3,590 across 13 hospitalsID$3,590Montana: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $1,735 across 45 hospitalsMN$1,735Illinois: median $689 across 38 hospitalsIL$689Wisconsin: median $906 across 34 hospitalsWI$906Michigan: median $743 across 32 hospitalsMI$743New York: median $1,578 across 37 hospitalsNY$1,578Massachusetts: median $4,259 across 23 hospitalsMA$4,259Oregon: median $387 across 22 hospitalsOR$387Nevada: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $358 across 28 hospitalsIA$358Indiana: median $761 across 24 hospitalsIN$761Ohio: median $2,503 across 60 hospitalsOH$2,503Pennsylvania: median $2,224 across 48 hospitalsPA$2,224New Jersey: median $2,531 across 39 hospitalsNJ$2,531Connecticut: median $3,456 across 11 hospitalsCT$3,456Rhode Island: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $2,704 across 73 hospitalsCA$2,704Utah: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $1,260 across 19 hospitalsCO$1,260Nebraska: median $336 across 12 hospitalsNE$336Missouri: median $900 across 26 hospitalsMO$900Kentucky: median $340 across 14 hospitalsKY$340West Virginia: median $354 across 19 hospitalsWV$354Virginia: median $1,921 across 17 hospitalsVA$1,921Maryland: 2 hospitals 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: median $1,676 across 12 hospitalsNM$1,676Kansas: median $825 across 19 hospitalsKS$825Arkansas: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $806 across 26 hospitalsTN$806North Carolina: median $1,569 across 11 hospitalsNC$1,569South Carolina: median $1,996 across 18 hospitalsSC$1,996Oklahoma: median $233 across 17 hospitalsOK$233Louisiana: median $658 across 24 hospitalsLA$658Mississippi: median $1,528 across 17 hospitalsMS$1,528Alabama: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $2,105 across 36 hospitalsGA$2,105Hawaii: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $1,138 across 56 hospitalsTX$1,138Florida: median $2,486 across 37 hospitalsFL$2,486
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,676. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Massachusetts MA23$4,259+154%$1,795 – $5,890
Idaho ID13$3,590+114%$975 – $4,686
Connecticut CT11$3,456+106%$800 – $6,226
California CA73$2,704+61%$1,975 – $4,217
New Jersey NJ39$2,531+51%$2,201 – $5,419
Ohio OH60$2,503+49%$2,038 – $5,672
Florida FL37$2,486+48%$1,635 – $5,691
Pennsylvania PA48$2,224+33%$1,043 – $3,414
Georgia GA36$2,105+26%$2,036 – $2,239
South Carolina SC18$1,996+19%$873 – $1,996
Virginia VA17$1,921+15%$806 – $2,353
Minnesota MN45$1,735+4%$394 – $2,479
New Mexico NM12$1,6760%$1,084 – $2,671
New York NY37$1,578−6%$695 – $2,245
North Carolina NC11$1,569−6%$692 – $1,706
Mississippi MS17$1,528−9%$645 – $2,140
Colorado CO19$1,260−25%$336 – $2,350
Texas TX56$1,138−32%$574 – $1,918
Wisconsin WI34$906−46%$873 – $3,063
Missouri MO26$900−46%$426 – $1,989
Kansas KS19$825−51%$225 – $1,807
Tennessee TN26$806−52%$282 – $1,093
Indiana IN24$761−55%$340 – $1,179
Michigan MI32$743−56%$719 – $1,590
Illinois IL38$689−59%$340 – $2,253
Louisiana LA24$658−61%$433 – $1,225
Oregon OR22$387−77%$257 – $3,786
Washington WA16$364−78%$267 – $3,023
Iowa IA28$358−79%$280 – $475
West Virginia WV19$354−79%$148 – $2,341
Kentucky KY14$340−80%$183 – $7,617
Nebraska NE12$336−80%$287 – $693
Oklahoma OK17$233−86%$233 – $2,862
Alabama AL9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD2not 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 $1,676.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care794$1,954$574 – $3,095
Children’s19fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access200$693$284 – $1,922
Ownership
For-profit98$1,912$656 – $3,025
Government171$1,225$327 – $2,488
Non-profit744$1,735$421 – $3,063
System affiliation
Part of a system829$1,897$534 – $3,095
Independent188$770$283 – $2,382

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,882
Median cash price$1,676
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

709 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,735 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,686; most fall between $430 and $3,159.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 709 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
$280$658$1,735$2,738$4,613

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 16× what the cheapest tenth charges ($280 vs $4,613).

Of the 766 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 709 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 35 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,017 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (26%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,092 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,017
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here47
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded26
Hospitals that filed this code1,092

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 24, 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 Egd Intraluminal Tube/Catheter Insertion.

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, “Upper endoscopy with placement of a feeding tube or catheter (CPT 43241) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-43241-upper-endoscopy-with-placement-of-a-feeding-tube-or-catheter