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Procedure price report · Other OR upper GI therapeutic procedures

Esophagus lengthening added to another operation

CPT 43338the billing code this page is about

An added step in which part of the upper stomach is used to lengthen a short esophagus; it is billed only alongside the main operation, never by itself.

Hospitals typically charge $248 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 136 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $549. Most fall between $140 and $4,627 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
136
States
31
Filings dated
Jun 2024 – Aug 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 23, 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 136 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
$82$159$248$656$6,838

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 83× what the cheapest tenth charges ($82 vs $6,838).

How the prices are spread

$56 – $91: 9 hospitals$56$91 – $147: 17 hospitals$147 – $237: 32 hospitals$147$237 – $384: 18 hospitals$384 – $620: 19 hospitals$384$620 – $1,002: 3 hospitals$1,002 – $1,619: 0 hospitals$1,002$1,619 – $2,617: 0 hospitals$2,617 – $4,231: 2 hospitals$2,617$4,231 – $6,838: 29 hospitals$4,231median $248price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (129 of 136 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$56$919
$91$14717
$147$23732
$237$38418
$384$62019
$620$1,0023
$1,002$1,6190
$1,619$2,6170
$2,617$4,2312
$4,231$6,83829

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $248.

Alaska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMTNorth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureILWisconsin: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWIMichigan: median $159 across 12 hospitalsMI$159New York: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNYMassachusetts: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMAOregon: median $205 across 10 hospitalsOR$205Nevada: 2 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: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIAIndiana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceINOhio: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: median $56 across 14 hospitalsPA$56New Jersey: median $5,110 across 12 hospitalsNJ$5,110Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $6,838 across 21 hospitalsCA$6,838Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMOKentucky: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceKSArkansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSCOklahoma: median $186 across 10 hospitalsOK$186Louisiana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceLAMississippi: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMSAlabama: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceGAHawaii: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceHITexas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTXFlorida: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $248. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA21$6,838+2657%$6,838 – $6,838
New Jersey NJ12$5,110+1960%$4,350 – $5,855
Oregon OR10$205−17%$205 – $306
Oklahoma OK10$186−25%$186 – $186
Michigan MI12$159−36%$144 – $194
Pennsylvania PA14$56−77%$42 – $536
New York NY7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Illinois IL6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Iowa IA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Texas TX3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT1not 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 $248.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care124$258$140 – $5,339
Children’s3fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access9fewer than 20 hospitals
Ownership
For-profit12fewer than 20 hospitals
Government15fewer than 20 hospitals
Non-profit109$306$140 – $5,855
System affiliation
Part of a system117$248$140 – $5,419
Independent19fewer than 20 hospitals

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$345
Median cash price$248
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

103 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $220 and the average of the middle 60% is $275; most fall between $128 and $786.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 103 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
$75$140$220$481$6,838

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 92× what the cheapest tenth charges ($75 vs $6,838).

Of the 114 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 103 gave a usable cash price; 9 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 2 a list price only.

How complete is this

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

What the 162 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted136
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here15
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 — excluded10
Hospitals that filed this code162

Sections not shown for this setting

  • Against Medicare: Medicare has no separately payable national outpatient (OPPS) rate for this code, so there is nothing honest to compare against.
  • 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 23, 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 OR upper GI therapeutic procedures family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Esophagus Lengthening.

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 lengthening added to another operation (CPT 43338) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-43338-esophagus-lengthening-added-to-another-operation