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
HC X-RAY XM ESOPHAGUS 2CNTRST
Prices here combine facility and professional fees. See them separately →Experimental
Based on 9,660–22,557 billing samples across every hospital reporting.
Low
$34
Average
$427
Median
$305
High
$68.9k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | St. Peter's Health Helena, MT | $414 | $366 | $95 | 26% | 953–1,016 | $152 – $446 |
| 2 | Baptist Healthcare System Inc Elizabethtown, KY | $835 | $1.4k | $1.3k | 91% | 632 | $178 – $4.3k |
| 3 | National Jewish Health DENVER, CO | $429 | $424 | $203 | 48% | 559 | $185 – $715 |
| 4 | Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, MA | $305 | $402 | $213 | 53% | 418–571 | $201 – $773 |
| 5 | University of Virginia Medical Center Charlottesville, VA | $387 | $411 | $237 | 58% | 379–451 | $80 – $817 |
| 6 | Baptist Healthcare System Inc Grange, KY | $1.1k | $1.5k | $1.2k | 80% | 379–406 | $193 – $4.3k |
| 7 | Brigham and Women's Hospital Boston, MA | $215 | $377 | $215 | 57% | 338–482 | $201 – $773 |
| 8 | Salem Hospital Salem, MA | $211 | $319 | $168 | 53% | 244–316 | $207 – $644 |
| 9 | Barnes Jewish Hospital St. Louis, MO | $580 | $520 | $276 | 53% | 215–314 | $165 – $918 |
| 10 | Wentworth Douglass Hospital Dover, NH | $512 | $709 | $524 | 74% | 214–349 | $182 – $1.6k |
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