Upper endoscopy with wire-guided dilation cost in Oklahoma City, OK
In Oklahoma City, OK, 3 hospitals list a cash price for upper endoscopy (EGD) with widening of the esophagus over a guide wire: from $371.50 to $3,124.61, with a median of $660.00. The lowest listed price is at OU Health - University of Oklahoma Medical Center|Oklahoma Childrens Hospital| OU Health Edmond Medical Center — $288.50 less than the median here. Across Oklahoma, the median is $515.75 at 10 hospitals.
Cash prices at 3 facilities across 2 cities for code 43248, as an outpatient — the setting a self-pay patient normally buys. Collected Sep 23, 2026; the hospital files themselves were last updated between Jun 12, 2026 and Jun 12, 2026.
Where each hospital's price falls
Each dot is one hospital's cash price on a scale from the lowest to the highest in Oklahoma City, OK.
Hospitals, cheapest first
| Hospital | Cash price | List price | Insurers pay | Off list | File date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OU Health - University of Oklahoma Medical Center|Oklahoma Childrens Hospital| OU Health Edmond Medical Center lowest Oklahoma City, OK INSERTION OF GUIDE WIRE WITH DILATION OF ESOPHAGUS USING A FLEXIBLE ENDOSCOPE | $371.50 | $3,715.00 | $448.00–$3,821.00 | 90% | — source file |
| Mercy Hospital Logan County Crescent, OK Egd Insert Guide Wire Dilator Passage Esophagus | $660.00 | $880.00 | $484.00 | 25% | Jun 12, 2026 source file |
| Mercy Hospital Logan County Crescent, OK Egd Insert Guide Wire Dilator Passage Esophagus | $660.00 | $880.00 | $484.00 | 25% | Jun 12, 2026 source file |
| Mercy Hospital Oklahoma City Oklahoma City, OK · (405) 755-1515 Egd Insert Guide Wire Dilator Passage Esophagus | $3,124.61 | $4,807.09 | $143.23–$1,667.93 | 35% | — source file |
Outpatient: lowest $371.50, median $660.00, highest $3,124.61 — a 8.4× difference within the same market.
As an inpatient, the same code is billed by 1 facility here, median $660.00. Inpatient and outpatient prices are not comparable and are kept on separate pages: the inpatient charge covers admission, not the same purchase.
Cash or insurance?
At 1 of 3 hospitals that publish insurer rates for this code here, the cash price is below the highest rate a health plan has negotiated, and at 1 it is below every plan's rate. If you have insurance but have not met your deductible, you usually pay your plan's negotiated rate, which falls somewhere in the "Insurers pay" column. Paying cash can cost less, but a cash payment usually does not count toward your deductible. Ask the hospital for both numbers before you book.
What it is
This code covers upper endoscopy in which a narrowed esophagus is stretched with dilators passed over a guide wire.
What the price covers
The facility price covers the endoscopy room, equipment and recovery. The doctor, sedation and any lab exam of tissue are usually billed separately.
1 row held back from this comparison
It is priced below $1 or below a tenth of the national median for code 43248 ($1,395.55). Such a line is almost always a physician's fee billed separately, an assistant's share or a placeholder — a real charge, but not the price of the procedure itself.
| OU Health - University of Oklahoma Medical Center|Oklahoma Childrens Hospital| OU Health Edmond Medical Center Oklahoma City, OKEGD GUIDE WIRE INSERTION | $107.96 | file |