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 Esphgoscopy Flex W/Band Ligation Esophgl Varices
Based on 73–730 billing samples across every hospital reporting.
Low
$76
Average
$2.6k
Median
$2.3k
High
$13.2k
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| 1 | Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital Winfield, IL | $3.9k | $4.8k | $3.7k | 77% | 52–520 | $419 – $12.9k |
| 2 | Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago, IL | $3.0k | $4.6k | $3.8k | 82% | 19–190 | $561 – $12.9k |
| 3 | Barnes Jewish Hospital St. Louis, MO | $2.7k | $3.5k | $2.6k | 75% | 1–10 | $625 – $10.0k |
| 4 | State Of Mississippi-university Of Mississippi Medical Center JACKSON, MS | $3.1k | $2.7k | $995 | 36% | 1–10 | $1.4k – $4.3k |
| 5 | St. Anthony Shawnee Hospital, Inc Shawnee, OK | $1.9k | $2.2k | $1.1k | 49% | — | $213 – $4.1k |
| 6 | Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital - Needham Needham, MA | $3.0k | $2.7k | $1.0k | 38% | — | $1.1k – $3.9k |
| 7 | Lewisgale Hospital Montgomery CHRISTIANSBURG, VA | $3.7k | $4.0k | $1.3k | 32% | — | $2.0k – $7.7k |
| 8 | Ingalls Memorial Hospital Harvey, IL | $2.2k | $2.3k | $1.0k | 45% | — | $946 – $3.9k |
| 9 | USA Health University Hospital Mobile, AL | $145 | $455 | $502 | 110% | — | $123 – $1.6k |
| 10 | Fairview Health Services Edina, MN | $609 | $1.3k | $1.3k | 102% | — | $94 – $5.7k |
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