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
Gastric restrictive procedure, without gastric bypass, for morbid obesity; vertical-banded gastroplasty
Argyle, TX
Price type
Medical City Argyle’s median price of $10.9k is 199% above the median hospital's median price ($3.6k), higher than 87% of the 1,186 hospitals reporting CPT 43842. The highlighted bar is where this hospital falls; shaded is the middle 50% of hospitals.
Last updated: Mar 1, 2026
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