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 Eus Fine Needle Biopsy Aspiration Limited to the Esophagus
Based on 9,135–20,214 billing samples across every hospital reporting.
Low
$79
Average
$2.8k
Median
$2.6k
High
$19.4k
Filter by billing methodology
Showing prices across every billing methodology. Pick one in the filter above to narrow the chart. 1811 hospitals; the 90th percentile is 5.8× the 10th. Each bar is a price range and its height is how many hospitals fall in it. Hover a bar, or a row in the ladder, for details.
Click a bar to filter the hospitals table to that price range.
| # | Hospital | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Palos Community Hospital Palos Heights, IL | $6.0k | $7.3k | $5.4k | 74% | 2,109 | $1.1k – $17.8k |
| 2 | Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital Winfield, IL | $2.7k | $6.1k | $6.4k | 105% | 1,924 | $235 – $20.6k |
| 3 | Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago, IL | $5.5k | $7.2k | $6.1k | 84% | 1,557–1,566 | $798 – $20.6k |
| 4 | Mayo Clinic Rochester, MN | $6.8k | $4.8k | $3.2k | 67% | 597–1,038 | $80 – $54.8k |
| 5 | Fairview Health Services Minneapolis, MN | $694 | $1.0k | $1.1k | 104% | 340–493 | $155 – $5.8k |
| 6 | John Muir Health Walnut Creek, CA | $2.7k | $6.6k | $5.8k | 88% | 116–197 | $234 – $21.4k |
| 7 | FRANCISCAN ALLIANCE, INC. dba FRANCISCAN HEALTH INDIANAPOLIS INDIANAPOLIS, IN | $4.1k | $3.9k | $3.0k | 76% | 112–184 | $153 – $8.0k |
| 8 | Mercy Hospital Oklahoma City Inc City, OK | $1.8k | $2.0k | $676 | 34% | 105–177 | $158 – $4.0k |
| 9 | Eisenhower Medical Center Rancho Mirage, CA | $2.5k | $2.4k | $1.8k | 77% | 91–154 | $115 – $10.3k |
| 10 | Prisma Health Baptist Easley Hospital EASLEY, SC | $1.9k | $2.5k | $2.1k | 87% | 91–235 | $404 – $9.3k |
Ask Claude or any MCP client for CPT 43238 pricing at a specific hospital — see how to connect.