CPT 43020
Hospitals report these codes with terse, inconsistent chargemaster text. This plain-English title was written by an AI model from that text and has not been reviewed by a person, so it can be wrong. The prices on this page come straight from hospital filings and do not depend on it.
Original text from hospital filings
Incision of esophagus
Low
$538
Average
$1.8k
Median
$1.5k
High
$8.3k
Each payer's average rate across its hospitals, under the methodology and billing class chosen below.
61 payers; the 90th percentile is 3.3× the 10th. Each bar is a price range and its height is how many payers fall in it. Hover a bar, or a row in the ladder, for details.
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| 1 | UnitedHealthcare case rate · outpatient · +23 other terms | 426 | $3.1k | $3.4k | $2.0k | 61% | — | $1 – $16.8k |
| 2 | Aetna fee schedule · outpatient · +20 other terms | 403 | $1.7k | $2.9k | $3.6k | 124% | — | $77 – $33.6k |
| 3 | Blue Cross Blue Shield fee schedule · outpatient · +19 other terms | 326 | $2.8k | $3.4k | $2.6k | 78% | — | $1 – $28.5k |
| 4 | Cigna case rate · outpatient · +17 other terms | 308 | $3.0k | $4.8k | $6.5k | 135% | — | $678 – $40.7k |
| 5 | Humana fee schedule · outpatient · +18 other terms | 287 | $1.5k | $1.8k | $1.1k | 58% | — | $1 – $12.8k |
| 6 | Molina fee schedule · outpatient · +13 other terms | 146 | $1.5k | $1.7k | $813 | 49% | — | $1 – $3.6k |
| 7 | WellCare fee schedule · outpatient · +8 other terms | 132 | $1.6k | $1.7k | $564 | 33% | — | $100 – $4.4k |
| 8 | Oscar case rate · outpatient · +11 other terms | 130 | $3.0k | $2.7k | $986 | 36% | — | $1.4k – $7.5k |
| 9 | Anthem fee schedule · outpatient · +13 other terms | 122 | $1.8k | $2.1k | $2.0k | 95% | — | $549 – $11.4k |
| 10 | Kaiser fee schedule · outpatient · +9 other terms | 94 | $1.9k | $2.5k | $1.8k | 72% | — | $495 – $10.9k |
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