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Procedure price report · Esophageal dilatation

Upper endoscopy with balloon stretching of the esophagus

CPT 43249the billing code this page is about

A flexible scope is passed through the mouth and a balloon under 30 mm across is inflated to widen a narrowed esophagus.

Hospitals typically charge $1,935 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,784 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,027. Most fall between $855 and $3,574 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,784
States
50
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 1,784 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
$428$1,030$1,935$3,144$5,414

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($428 vs $5,414).

How the prices are spread

$295 – $404: 76 hospitals$295$404 – $554: 74 hospitals$554 – $759: 94 hospitals$554$759 – $1,041: 115 hospitals$1,041 – $1,426: 170 hospitals$1,041$1,426 – $1,954: 279 hospitals$1,954 – $2,677: 299 hospitals$1,954$2,677 – $3,668: 249 hospitals$3,668 – $5,026: 133 hospitals$3,668$5,026 – $6,886: 117 hospitals$5,026median $1,935price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,606 of 1,784 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$295$40476
$404$55474
$554$75994
$759$1,041115
$1,041$1,426170
$1,426$1,954279
$1,954$2,677299
$2,677$3,668249
$3,668$5,026133
$5,026$6,886117

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$1,960
Median cash price$1,935
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.99×

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 $1,935.

Alaska: median $2,593 across 11 hospitalsAK$2,593Maine: median $806 across 10 hospitalsME$806Vermont: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $1,279 across 17 hospitalsNH$1,279Washington: median $1,906 across 57 hospitalsWA$1,906Idaho: median $2,456 across 19 hospitalsID$2,456Montana: median $434 across 20 hospitalsMT$434North Dakota: median $2,397 across 16 hospitalsND$2,397Minnesota: median $1,780 across 68 hospitalsMN$1,780Illinois: median $1,317 across 58 hospitalsIL$1,317Wisconsin: median $1,647 across 53 hospitalsWI$1,647Michigan: median $1,647 across 57 hospitalsMI$1,647New York: median $2,245 across 71 hospitalsNY$2,245Massachusetts: median $2,262 across 42 hospitalsMA$2,262Oregon: median $1,378 across 44 hospitalsOR$1,378Nevada: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $2,534 across 11 hospitalsSD$2,534Iowa: median $2,276 across 65 hospitalsIA$2,276Indiana: median $1,149 across 47 hospitalsIN$1,149Ohio: median $3,314 across 100 hospitalsOH$3,314Pennsylvania: median $2,695 across 78 hospitalsPA$2,695New Jersey: median $2,531 across 40 hospitalsNJ$2,531Connecticut: median $6,226 across 16 hospitalsCT$6,226Rhode Island: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $2,503 across 110 hospitalsCA$2,503Utah: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $1,417 across 31 hospitalsCO$1,417Nebraska: median $2,046 across 36 hospitalsNE$2,046Missouri: median $1,617 across 61 hospitalsMO$1,617Kentucky: median $1,036 across 23 hospitalsKY$1,036West Virginia: median $946 across 23 hospitalsWV$946Virginia: median $2,353 across 32 hospitalsVA$2,353Maryland: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $4,102 across 15 hospitalsAZ$4,102New Mexico: median $2,519 across 22 hospitalsNM$2,519Kansas: median $1,472 across 53 hospitalsKS$1,472Arkansas: median $692 across 21 hospitalsAR$692Tennessee: median $1,093 across 33 hospitalsTN$1,093North Carolina: median $2,191 across 25 hospitalsNC$2,191South Carolina: median $2,948 across 27 hospitalsSC$2,948Oklahoma: median $1,512 across 37 hospitalsOK$1,512Louisiana: median $891 across 33 hospitalsLA$891Mississippi: median $1,674 across 30 hospitalsMS$1,674Alabama: median $2,167 across 28 hospitalsAL$2,167Georgia: median $2,082 across 36 hospitalsGA$2,082Hawaii: median $1,736 across 10 hospitalsHI$1,736Texas: median $1,468 across 87 hospitalsTX$1,468Florida: median $2,809 across 61 hospitalsFL$2,809
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,935. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Connecticut CT16$6,226+222%$1,955 – $6,602
Arizona AZ15$4,102+112%$1,137 – $5,252
Ohio OH100$3,314+71%$1,915 – $5,672
South Carolina SC27$2,948+52%$1,588 – $3,380
Florida FL61$2,809+45%$2,091 – $5,202
Pennsylvania PA78$2,695+39%$1,442 – $4,420
Alaska AK11$2,593+34%$1,534 – $3,396
South Dakota SD11$2,534+31%$1,818 – $2,534
New Jersey NJ40$2,531+31%$2,102 – $5,339
New Mexico NM22$2,519+30%$1,257 – $4,723
California CA110$2,503+29%$1,087 – $3,959
Idaho ID19$2,456+27%$1,139 – $4,686
North Dakota ND16$2,397+24%$414 – $3,127
Virginia VA32$2,353+22%$943 – $4,914
Iowa IA65$2,276+18%$776 – $2,868
Massachusetts MA42$2,262+17%$1,483 – $4,731
New York NY71$2,245+16%$873 – $3,723
North Carolina NC25$2,191+13%$1,644 – $2,526
Alabama AL28$2,167+12%$1,504 – $6,975
Georgia GA36$2,082+8%$1,915 – $2,400
Nebraska NE36$2,046+6%$1,418 – $2,856
Washington WA57$1,906−1%$514 – $2,972
Minnesota MN68$1,780−8%$745 – $2,379
Hawaii HI10$1,736−10%$1,392 – $3,071
Mississippi MS30$1,674−13%$887 – $3,119
Michigan MI57$1,647−15%$499 – $2,639
Wisconsin WI53$1,647−15%$980 – $2,836
Missouri MO61$1,617−16%$740 – $3,777
Oklahoma OK37$1,512−22%$1,083 – $3,217
Kansas KS53$1,472−24%$354 – $2,284
Texas TX87$1,468−24%$813 – $3,249
Colorado CO31$1,417−27%$809 – $2,167
Oregon OR44$1,378−29%$340 – $3,668
Illinois IL58$1,317−32%$678 – $2,657
New Hampshire NH17$1,279−34%$272 – $1,732
Indiana IN47$1,149−41%$729 – $3,630
Tennessee TN33$1,093−44%$581 – $2,399
Kentucky KY23$1,036−46%$855 – $7,617
West Virginia WV23$946−51%$433 – $2,414
Louisiana LA33$891−54%$574 – $1,441
Maine ME10$806−58%$209 – $1,086
Arkansas AR21$692−64%$440 – $1,794
Montana MT20$434−78%$169 – $1,564
Nevada NV9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD5not 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 $1,935.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,231$2,167$1,093 – $4,085
Children’s20$1,794$682 – $3,074
Critical access527$1,515$476 – $2,717
Ownership
For-profit195$2,389$1,219 – $4,723
Government355$1,706$581 – $2,850
Non-profit1,228$1,972$845 – $3,698
System affiliation
Part of a system1,400$2,087$986 – $3,904
Independent384$1,418$400 – $2,779

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,200
Median cash price$1,935
Cash as a share of list, median hospital65%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 35%. 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

1,037 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,865 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,965; most fall between $855 and $3,317.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,037 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
$377$1,087$1,865$2,948$4,686

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($377 vs $4,686).

Of the 1,132 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,037 gave a usable cash price; 29 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 66 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,784 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (45%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,925 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,784
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here65
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded9
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded67
Hospitals that filed this code1,925

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 Esophageal dilatation family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Egd Balloon Dilation Esophagus <30 Mm Diam.

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 balloon stretching of the esophagus (CPT 43249) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-43249-upper-endoscopy-with-balloon-stretching-of-the-esophagus