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
HB=ESOPHAGOSCOPY FLEX TRANSNASAL W/BX
Based on 272–1,082 billing samples across every hospital reporting.
Low
$12
Average
$2.0k
Median
$1.5k
High
$14.6k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
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| 1 | Childrens Hospital Colorado Aurora, CO | $5.0k | $5.0k | $1.5k | 30% | 95–176 | $114 – $7.1k |
| 2 | Phoenix Children's Hospital Phoenix, AZ | $2.2k | $2.4k | $2.4k | 103% | 58–76 | $120 – $8.4k |
| 3 | Nationwide Children's Hospital Columbus, OH | $1.2k | $1.4k | $1.1k | 76% | 48–120 | $98 – $2.8k |
| 4 | Duke University Hospital Durham, NC | $902 | $1.2k | $571 | 50% | 9–90 | $681 – $3.0k |
| 5 | Duke University Hospital Raleigh, NC | $902 | $1.2k | $571 | 50% | 9–90 | $681 – $3.0k |
| 6 | Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, MA | $762 | $896 | $638 | 71% | 7–70 | $163 – $2.3k |
| 7 | North Carolina Baptist Hospital Winston Salem, NC | $356 | $596 | $702 | 118% | 6–60 | $91 – $4.1k |
| 8 | Arkansas Childrens Hospital Little Rock, AR | $1.2k | $1.9k | $1.4k | 72% | 6–60 | $848 – $4.2k |
| 9 | Methodist Lebonheur Childrens Hosp MEMPHIS, TN | $859 | $2.3k | $2.5k | 109% | 5–50 | $250 – $8.3k |
| 10 | Hmh Hospitals Corporation Hackensack, NJ | $2.8k | $3.5k | $3.2k | 91% | 5–50 | $205 – $16.8k |
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