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 Flexible Guide Wire Dilation
Based on 178–1,780 billing samples across every hospital reporting.
Low
$80
Average
$2.6k
Median
$2.3k
High
$16.6k
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| 1 | Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital Winfield, IL | $4.2k | $16.6k | $20.4k | 122% | 52–520 | $246 – $61.4k |
| 2 | Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital Lake Forest, IL | $3.3k | $4.3k | $2.9k | 66% | 28–280 | $1.1k – $10.2k |
| 3 | Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago, IL | $4.3k | $8.9k | $10.3k | 116% | 19–190 | $834 – $35.8k |
| 4 | Albany Medical Center Hospital Albany, NY | $375 | $1.1k | $1.4k | 125% | 16–160 | $81 – $6.0k |
| 5 | Mayo Clinic Rochester, MN | $8.7k | $5.7k | $3.8k | 66% | 6–60 | $110 – $9.6k |
| 6 | Barnes Jewish Hospital St. Louis, MO | $2.7k | $3.5k | $2.6k | 76% | 5–50 | $586 – $10.0k |
| 7 | Brigham and Women's Hospital Boston, MA | $2.3k | $2.1k | $707 | 33% | 5–50 | $1.3k – $2.9k |
| 8 | Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, MA | $2.2k | $1.9k | $372 | 19% | 5–50 | $1.3k – $2.3k |
| 9 | Duke University Hospital Durham, NC | $1.8k | $2.5k | $1.3k | 53% | 4–40 | $1.4k – $6.3k |
| 10 | Duke University Hospital Raleigh, NC | $1.8k | $2.5k | $1.3k | 53% | 4–40 | $1.4k – $6.3k |
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