CashPrice · what hospitals actually charge cash-pay patients — normalized from the federal price-transparency files

Upper Endoscopy (EGD, diagnostic) — cash price without insurance

Median cash price · 38 hospitals · CPT/HCPCS 43235
$1,418.88

The median cash price for Upper Endoscopy (EGD, diagnostic) is $1,418.88, based on the stated self-pay prices 32 hospitals publish in their federal price-transparency files. Across all 38 hospitals we cover, prices run $426–$16,158.25.

Source: each hospital's CMS price-transparency file (45 CFR 180). Verified .
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6 of 38 hospitals don't publish a stated cash price for this procedure — those rows show their lowest negotiated rate as an estimated floor (est.), the realistic best case a cash-pay patient could ask to match.

Cash price by hospital

HospitalCash priceGross chargeFile dated
Henry Ford Hospital
Detroit, MI
$66.44 est. 2025-06-28
Temple University Hospital
Philadelphia, PA
$175.31 est. 2026-04-13
Baylor University Medical Center
Dallas, TX
$334.95 est. 2026-02-18
Houston Methodist Hospital
Houston, TX
$426 cash $852 2026-04-01
WVU Hospitals
Morgantown, WV
$474.67 cash $949.34 3/30/2026
Tampa General Hospital
Tampa, FL
$501.90 cash $1,434 2026-04-01
Cleveland Clinic Main Campus
Cleveland, OH
$543.40 cash $836 2026-06-16
Duke University Hospital
Durham, NC
$553 cash $1,106 04/01/2026
Banner University Medical Center Phoenix
Phoenix, AZ
$586.96 est. 2026-03-02
Stanford Health Care
Palo Alto, CA
$626 cash $1,252 2026-04-01
NYU Langone Tisch Hospital
New York, NY
$635.38 cash $3,344.09 2026-01-01
Scripps Green Hospital
San Diego, CA
$725.40 cash $2,901.60 2026-03-30
Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla
San Diego, CA
$725.40 cash $2,901.60 2026-03-30
UCSF Medical Center
San Francisco, CA
$868.80 cash $2,896 2026-04-01
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Los Angeles, CA
$936.62 cash $1,440.95 2025-11-26
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA
$938 cash $938 2026-02-10
HMH Hospitals Corporation (Hackensack)
Hackensack, NJ
$1,037.75 cash $4,476 2025-12-31
Montefiore Medical Center
New York, NY
$1,115.07 cash $1,705 2026-04-01
Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital (Dartmouth)
Lebanon, NH
$1,146.58 cash $3,747 1/1/2026
UC Irvine Medical Center
Orange, CA
$1,166.53 est. 2026-04-01
Dignity Health St Josephs Hospital and Medical Center
Phoenix, AZ
$1,382.08 cash $3,618 2026-02-28
Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center
Houston, TX
$1,455.68 cash $4,549 2026-04-01
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Boston, MA
$1,551.75 cash $2,069 2026-04-01
Froedtert Hospital
Milwaukee, WI
$1,554.30 cash $2,826 2025-12-31
University of Michigan Health
Ann Arbor, MI
$1,618.40 cash $4,046 3/31/2026
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
New York, NY
$1,645 cash $1,645 2025-12-01
Brigham and Womens Hospital
Boston, MA
$1,815.75 cash $2,421 2026-03-27
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, MA
$1,815.75 cash $2,421 2026-03-27
Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital
Chicago, IL
$2,019.50 cash $2,885 4/1/2026
OSF HealthCare
Peoria, IL
$2,138.40 cash $3,564 2026-03-31
University of Chicago Medical Center
Chicago, IL
$2,216 cash $2,216 2026-04-01
OHSU Hospital
Portland, OR
$2,229.50 cash $3,430 2026-03-23
University Hospitals Health System
Cleveland, OH
$2,523 cash $3,364 2025-05-16
Providence Alaska Medical Center
Anchorage, AK
$2,598.95 est. 2026-04-01
Sharp Chula Vista Medical Center
San Diego, CA
$2,668.50 cash $3,558 04/01/2026
Kaiser Permanente Oakland Medical Center
Oakland, CA
$3,707.20 cash $6,620 4/1/2026
Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center
Livingston, NJ
$6,839 cash 2026-03-04
Seattle Children's Hospital
Seattle, WA
$16,158.25 cash 03/31/2026

"Cash price" = the hospital's published discounted_cash self-pay rate. "Gross charge" = the sticker price before any discount — what cash-pay patients are first billed and can negotiate down toward the cash rate.

Paying cash? Ask the hospital's billing office for the "self-pay" or "prompt-pay" rate and bring the figure above — it's a published ceiling you can negotiate from, not a fixed quote. Free-standing imaging centers and ASCs are frequently cheaper than hospital outpatient departments for the same code.

How to use this

If you're paying cash for Upper Endoscopy (EGD, diagnostic), the hospital's published self-pay price is a ceiling you can negotiate from, not a fixed quote. Bring the figure above (and the source file) to billing and ask for the cash / prompt-pay rate. Free-standing imaging centers and ASCs are often well below hospital outpatient rates.

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