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
Single contrast X-ray of upper digestive tract
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Based on 11,632–39,892 billing samples across every hospital reporting.
Low
$18
Average
$524
Median
$359
High
$100.5k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
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| 1 | Baptist Healthcare System Inc Corbin, KY | $2.6k | $2.6k | $1.9k | 71% | 859 | $264 – $6.6k |
| 2 | Childrens Hospital Colorado Aurora, CO | $411 | $396 | $119 | 30% | 748–838 | $54 – $572 |
| 3 | Seattle Children's Hospital Seattle, WA | $126 | $424 | $422 | 100% | 548–863 | $22 – $1.1k |
| 4 | Baystate Medical Center Springfield, MA | $40 | $124 | $335 | 271% | 452–4,520 | $40 – $1.7k |
| 5 | St. Peter's Health Helena, MT | $517 | $450 | $129 | 29% | 405–522 | $164 – $573 |
| 6 | North Carolina Baptist Hospital Winston Salem, NC | $271 | $352 | $185 | 53% | 376–538 | $165 – $749 |
| 7 | North Carolina Baptist Hospital Bermuda Run, NC | $253 | $319 | $173 | 54% | 371–488 | $156 – $709 |
| 8 | Covenant Medical Center Inc Saginaw, MI | $114 | $157 | $135 | 86% | 330–384 | $29 – $630 |
| 9 | Baptist Healthcare System Inc. Louisville, KY | $1.4k | $2.1k | $1.9k | 86% | 290–317 | $107 – $6.6k |
| 10 | Carolinas Medical Center Charlotte, NC | $356 | $382 | $287 | 75% | 225–306 | $29 – $896 |
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