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Procedure price report · Upper gastrointestinal endoscopy, biopsy

Endoscopy of the small intestine beyond the stomach

CPT 44360the billing code this page is about

A flexible scope is passed through the mouth past the upper duodenum to examine the small intestine, with or without collecting cells by brushing or washing.

Hospitals typically charge $1,942 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 985 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,875. Most fall between $538 and $3,414 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
985
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 985 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
$302$774$1,942$2,946$5,046

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 17× what the cheapest tenth charges ($302 vs $5,046).

How the prices are spread

$201 – $281: 37 hospitals$201$281 – $392: 79 hospitals$392 – $548: 34 hospitals$392$548 – $765: 44 hospitals$765 – $1,069: 56 hospitals$765$1,069 – $1,493: 77 hospitals$1,493 – $2,086: 186 hospitals$1,493$2,086 – $2,914: 177 hospitals$2,914 – $4,069: 97 hospitals$2,914$4,069 – $5,684: 101 hospitals$4,069median $1,942price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (888 of 985 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$201$28137
$281$39279
$392$54834
$548$76544
$765$1,06956
$1,069$1,49377
$1,493$2,086186
$2,086$2,914177
$2,914$4,06997
$4,069$5,684101

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$1,960
Median cash price$1,942
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 $1,942.

Alaska: 3 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: median $876 across 10 hospitalsNH$876Washington: median $3,108 across 18 hospitalsWA$3,108Idaho: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 6 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 $1,781 across 32 hospitalsMN$1,781Illinois: median $1,041 across 35 hospitalsIL$1,041Wisconsin: median $1,581 across 31 hospitalsWI$1,581Michigan: median $705 across 33 hospitalsMI$705New York: median $1,738 across 45 hospitalsNY$1,738Massachusetts: median $3,489 across 27 hospitalsMA$3,489Oregon: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $363 across 19 hospitalsIA$363Indiana: median $2,099 across 25 hospitalsIN$2,099Ohio: median $2,870 across 71 hospitalsOH$2,870Pennsylvania: median $2,267 across 50 hospitalsPA$2,267New Jersey: median $2,531 across 41 hospitalsNJ$2,531Connecticut: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $3,432 across 71 hospitalsCA$3,432Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $2,393 across 21 hospitalsCO$2,393Nebraska: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $1,912 across 35 hospitalsMO$1,912Kentucky: median $1,698 across 18 hospitalsKY$1,698West Virginia: median $387 across 10 hospitalsWV$387Virginia: median $629 across 12 hospitalsVA$629Maryland: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: median $1,442 across 11 hospitalsAR$1,442Tennessee: median $905 across 16 hospitalsTN$905North Carolina: median $1,587 across 15 hospitalsNC$1,587South Carolina: median $2,029 across 21 hospitalsSC$2,029Oklahoma: median $199 across 18 hospitalsOK$199Louisiana: median $938 across 25 hospitalsLA$938Mississippi: median $1,855 across 15 hospitalsMS$1,855Alabama: median $2,688 across 15 hospitalsAL$2,688Georgia: median $1,942 across 34 hospitalsGA$1,942Hawaii: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $1,918 across 60 hospitalsTX$1,918Florida: median $1,975 across 34 hospitalsFL$1,975
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,942. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Massachusetts MA27$3,489+80%$2,111 – $5,629
California CA71$3,432+77%$1,227 – $5,046
Washington WA18$3,108+60%$274 – $4,109
Ohio OH71$2,870+48%$2,038 – $5,672
Alabama AL15$2,688+38%$1,029 – $6,434
New Jersey NJ41$2,531+30%$2,201 – $5,181
Colorado CO21$2,393+23%$1,859 – $5,076
Pennsylvania PA50$2,267+17%$1,843 – $3,574
Indiana IN25$2,099+8%$302 – $3,308
South Carolina SC21$2,029+5%$1,675 – $2,037
Florida FL34$1,975+2%$1,451 – $3,879
Georgia GA34$1,9420%$1,497 – $2,161
Texas TX60$1,918−1%$920 – $2,045
Missouri MO35$1,912−2%$358 – $2,141
Mississippi MS15$1,855−4%$738 – $1,855
Minnesota MN32$1,781−8%$902 – $2,788
New York NY45$1,738−10%$380 – $2,278
Kentucky KY18$1,698−13%$302 – $7,617
North Carolina NC15$1,587−18%$724 – $2,434
Wisconsin WI31$1,581−19%$919 – $3,200
Arkansas AR11$1,442−26%$713 – $1,555
Illinois IL35$1,041−46%$304 – $1,949
Louisiana LA25$938−52%$566 – $1,404
Tennessee TN16$905−53%$159 – $1,261
New Hampshire NH10$876−55%$157 – $1,891
Michigan MI33$705−64%$533 – $1,903
Virginia VA12$629−68%$95 – $2,353
West Virginia WV10$387−80%$150 – $985
Iowa IA19$363−81%$348 – $634
Oklahoma OK18$199−90%$199 – $1,950
Connecticut CT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not 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 $1,942.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care823$1,997$656 – $3,432
Children’s18fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access139$1,219$322 – $2,788
Ownership
For-profit101$1,950$992 – $3,119
Government148$1,653$567 – $2,566
Non-profit731$1,975$533 – $3,432
System affiliation
Part of a system817$1,997$728 – $3,432
Independent168$1,276$306 – $2,884

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,349
Median cash price$1,942
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

668 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,950 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,958; most fall between $419 and $3,879.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 668 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
$282$755$1,950$3,200$5,130

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 18× what the cheapest tenth charges ($282 vs $5,130).

Of the 736 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 668 gave a usable cash price; 28 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 40 a list price only.

How complete is this

985 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (25%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,070 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted985
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here49
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded4
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded31
Hospitals that filed this code1,070

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 Endoscopy Upper Small Intestine.

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.

Download this page’s figures: JSON · CSV. Aggregates only — the per-hospital prices are on the compare tool.

Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Endoscopy of the small intestine beyond the stomach (CPT 44360) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-44360-endoscopy-of-the-small-intestine-beyond-the-stomach