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

Unlisted procedure on the esophagus

CPT 43499the billing code this page is about

Used for an esophagus operation that has no specific billing code of its own; the surgical report describes what was actually done.

Hospitals typically charge $1,676 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 652 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,848. Most fall between $695 and $3,762 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
652
States
47
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 652 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
$429$889$1,676$3,288$5,200

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($429 vs $5,200).

How the prices are spread

$292 – $402: 35 hospitals$292$402 – $555: 35 hospitals$555 – $765: 52 hospitals$555$765 – $1,055: 52 hospitals$1,055 – $1,455: 95 hospitals$1,055$1,455 – $2,007: 94 hospitals$2,007 – $2,767: 64 hospitals$2,007$2,767 – $3,815: 80 hospitals$3,815 – $5,261: 61 hospitals$3,815$5,261 – $7,255: 31 hospitals$5,261median $1,676price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (599 of 652 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$292$40235
$402$55535
$555$76552
$765$1,05552
$1,055$1,45595
$1,455$2,00794
$2,007$2,76764
$2,767$3,81580
$3,815$5,26161
$5,261$7,25531

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$927
Median cash price$1,676
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.81×

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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVTNew Hampshire: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $1,292 across 19 hospitalsWA$1,292Idaho: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMTNorth Dakota: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $1,567 across 27 hospitalsIL$1,567Wisconsin: median $292 across 20 hospitalsWI$292Michigan: median $1,200 across 12 hospitalsMI$1,200New York: median $1,109 across 30 hospitalsNY$1,109Massachusetts: median $2,467 across 14 hospitalsMA$2,467Oregon: median $2,562 across 14 hospitalsOR$2,562Nevada: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $1,471 across 10 hospitalsIA$1,471Indiana: median $1,183 across 20 hospitalsIN$1,183Ohio: median $5,200 across 35 hospitalsOH$5,200Pennsylvania: median $1,046 across 42 hospitalsPA$1,046New Jersey: median $2,301 across 38 hospitalsNJ$2,301Connecticut: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $3,018 across 61 hospitalsCA$3,018Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $1,464 across 12 hospitalsCO$1,464Nebraska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $2,125 across 13 hospitalsMO$2,125Kentucky: median $1,046 across 14 hospitalsKY$1,046West Virginia: median $1,359 across 14 hospitalsWV$1,359Virginia: median $1,216 across 13 hospitalsVA$1,216Maryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: median $1,139 across 14 hospitalsNC$1,139South Carolina: median $653 across 15 hospitalsSC$653Oklahoma: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOKLouisiana: median $636 across 14 hospitalsLA$636Mississippi: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $2,069 across 22 hospitalsGA$2,069Hawaii: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $700 across 61 hospitalsTX$700Florida: median $3,336 across 30 hospitalsFL$3,336
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
Ohio OH35$5,200+210%$2,681 – $6,298
Florida FL30$3,336+99%$1,335 – $4,360
California CA61$3,018+80%$1,361 – $3,202
Oregon OR14$2,562+53%$1,073 – $4,547
Massachusetts MA14$2,467+47%$1,950 – $2,785
New Jersey NJ38$2,301+37%$1,104 – $4,881
Missouri MO13$2,125+27%$588 – $3,482
Georgia GA22$2,069+23%$2,069 – $3,305
Illinois IL27$1,567−7%$1,100 – $3,595
Iowa IA10$1,471−12%$662 – $1,553
Colorado CO12$1,464−13%$1,255 – $3,761
West Virginia WV14$1,359−19%$285 – $3,443
Washington WA19$1,292−23%$738 – $2,684
Virginia VA13$1,216−27%$1,163 – $1,223
Michigan MI12$1,200−28%$292 – $1,247
Indiana IN20$1,183−29%$686 – $1,599
North Carolina NC14$1,139−32%$733 – $7,092
New York NY30$1,109−34%$1,012 – $3,034
Pennsylvania PA42$1,046−38%$332 – $1,767
Kentucky KY14$1,046−38%$800 – $3,765
Texas TX61$700−58%$404 – $3,750
South Carolina SC15$653−61%$653 – $1,651
Louisiana LA14$636−62%$305 – $1,103
Wisconsin WI20$292−83%$292 – $1,774
Tennessee TN9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oklahoma OK6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY1not 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 care556$1,692$720 – $3,762
Children’s19fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access76$1,412$544 – $2,125
Ownership
For-profit75$1,744$697 – $4,360
Government90$1,749$1,080 – $3,579
Non-profit486$1,634$653 – $3,761
System affiliation
Part of a system559$1,703$686 – $3,765
Independent93$1,471$800 – $3,750

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,168
Median cash price$1,676
Cash as a share of list, median hospital56%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 44%. 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

437 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,799 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,845; most fall between $636 and $3,765.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 437 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
$387$697$1,799$3,106$5,200

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($387 vs $5,200).

Of the 482 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 437 gave a usable cash price; 18 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 27 a list price only.

How complete is this

652 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (16%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 699 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted652
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here21
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 — excluded25
Hospitals that filed this code699

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 lower GI therapeutic procedures family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as PR Takedown Nissen Fundoplication C/T 49000.

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, “Unlisted procedure on the esophagus (CPT 43499) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-43499-unlisted-procedure-on-the-esophagus