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Procedure price report · Upper gastrointestinal endoscopy, biopsy

Upper endoscopy with stent placement

CPT 43266the billing code this page is about

A scope is passed through the mouth into the esophagus, stomach or upper small intestine and a tube-shaped stent is placed to hold a narrowed area open, including any dilation done at the same time.

Hospitals typically charge $3,930 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 936 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $4,153. Most fall between $838 and $7,855 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
936
States
49
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 936 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
$399$1,320$3,930$7,044$11,881

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 30× what the cheapest tenth charges ($399 vs $11,881).

How the prices are spread

$296 – $446: 57 hospitals$296$446 – $671: 72 hospitals$671 – $1,011: 32 hospitals$671$1,011 – $1,523: 48 hospitals$1,523 – $2,295: 64 hospitals$1,523$2,295 – $3,456: 67 hospitals$3,456 – $5,207: 179 hospitals$3,456$5,207 – $7,844: 183 hospitals$7,844 – $11,816: 93 hospitals$7,844$11,816 – $17,799: 49 hospitals$11,816median $3,930price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (844 of 936 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$296$44657
$446$67172
$671$1,01132
$1,011$1,52348
$1,523$2,29564
$2,295$3,45667
$3,456$5,207179
$5,207$7,844183
$7,844$11,81693
$11,816$17,79949

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$6,202
Median cash price$3,930
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.63×

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 $3,930.

Alaska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $3,914 across 14 hospitalsWA$3,914Idaho: median $10,515 across 11 hospitalsID$10,515Montana: 4 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 $5,035 across 38 hospitalsMN$5,035Illinois: median $1,752 across 31 hospitalsIL$1,752Wisconsin: median $1,383 across 36 hospitalsWI$1,383Michigan: median $462 across 33 hospitalsMI$462New York: median $6,202 across 38 hospitalsNY$6,202Massachusetts: median $6,664 across 24 hospitalsMA$6,664Oregon: median $391 across 12 hospitalsOR$391Nevada: 6 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 $549 across 20 hospitalsIA$549Indiana: median $494 across 25 hospitalsIN$494Ohio: median $4,379 across 62 hospitalsOH$4,379Pennsylvania: median $7,000 across 45 hospitalsPA$7,000New Jersey: median $6,839 across 38 hospitalsNJ$6,839Connecticut: median $18,734 across 13 hospitalsCT$18,734Rhode Island: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $4,720 across 81 hospitalsCA$4,720Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $2,079 across 16 hospitalsCO$2,079Nebraska: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $4,454 across 20 hospitalsMO$4,454Kentucky: median $4,110 across 11 hospitalsKY$4,110West Virginia: median $302 across 14 hospitalsWV$302Virginia: median $7,384 across 12 hospitalsVA$7,384Maryland: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: median $3,105 across 13 hospitalsNM$3,105Kansas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $2,293 across 20 hospitalsTN$2,293North Carolina: median $4,881 across 14 hospitalsNC$4,881South Carolina: median $4,356 across 24 hospitalsSC$4,356Oklahoma: median $454 across 17 hospitalsOK$454Louisiana: median $3,452 across 23 hospitalsLA$3,452Mississippi: median $3,930 across 11 hospitalsMS$3,930Alabama: median $6,452 across 14 hospitalsAL$6,452Georgia: median $2,718 across 33 hospitalsGA$2,718Hawaii: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $3,572 across 61 hospitalsTX$3,572Florida: median $6,945 across 33 hospitalsFL$6,945
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $3,930. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Connecticut CT13$18,734+377%$4,279 – $20,428
Idaho ID11$10,515+168%$3,626 – $10,986
Virginia VA12$7,384+88%$7,384 – $11,881
Pennsylvania PA45$7,000+78%$3,774 – $9,244
Florida FL33$6,945+77%$5,293 – $13,130
New Jersey NJ38$6,839+74%$5,419 – $7,943
Massachusetts MA24$6,664+70%$4,596 – $18,483
Alabama AL14$6,452+64%$1,010 – $8,523
New York NY38$6,202+58%$819 – $7,578
Minnesota MN38$5,035+28%$2,198 – $5,503
North Carolina NC14$4,881+24%$2,143 – $6,338
California CA81$4,720+20%$3,674 – $7,769
Missouri MO20$4,454+13%$984 – $11,771
Ohio OH62$4,379+11%$2,780 – $10,938
South Carolina SC24$4,356+11%$4,356 – $10,603
Kentucky KY11$4,110+5%$303 – $23,903
Mississippi MS11$3,9300%$2,746 – $3,930
Washington WA14$3,9140%$388 – $7,810
Texas TX61$3,572−9%$1,596 – $6,068
Louisiana LA23$3,452−12%$2,252 – $4,967
New Mexico NM13$3,105−21%$2,307 – $5,081
Georgia GA33$2,718−31%$2,718 – $7,001
Tennessee TN20$2,293−42%$241 – $2,859
Colorado CO16$2,079−47%$1,818 – $4,245
Illinois IL31$1,752−55%$390 – $4,629
Wisconsin WI36$1,383−65%$1,206 – $7,695
Iowa IA20$549−86%$477 – $641
Indiana IN25$494−87%$303 – $779
Michigan MI33$462−88%$262 – $6,169
Oklahoma OK17$454−88%$454 – $6,773
Oregon OR12$391−90%$391 – $9,650
West Virginia WV14$302−92%$221 – $1,924
Hawaii HI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not 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 $3,930.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care784$4,279$1,206 – $8,100
Children’s17fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access130$1,383$384 – $6,478
Ownership
For-profit103$5,081$1,818 – $9,296
Government132$4,000$895 – $8,158
Non-profit696$3,857$809 – $7,695
System affiliation
Part of a system796$4,000$1,019 – $7,855
Independent140$3,563$455 – $7,809

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$6,560
Median cash price$3,930
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

638 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $3,674 and the average of the middle 60% is $3,804; most fall between $724 and $7,233.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 638 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
$391$1,206$3,674$6,664$10,986

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 28× what the cheapest tenth charges ($391 vs $10,986).

Of the 702 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 638 gave a usable cash price; 30 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 34 a list price only.

How complete is this

936 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (24%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,019 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted936
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here54
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded2
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded26
Hospitals that filed this code1,019

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 Egd Endoscopic Stent Placement W/Wire& Dilation.

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 stent placement (CPT 43266) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-43266-upper-endoscopy-with-stent-placement