SelfPayRates — hospital cash prices, from the source

Colonoscopy, diagnostic in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH

Cash prices at 7 facilities across 5 cities for code 45378, as an outpatient — the setting a self-pay patient normally buys. Collected Sep 23, 2026; the hospital files themselves were last updated between — and —.

HospitalCash price List priceOffFile date
Boston Medical Center Brighton BOSTON, MA
HC Colorectal Scn; Hi Risk Ind
$609.30 $1,354.00 55%
file
Boston Medical Center Brighton BOSTON, MA
HC Colonoscopy Flx Dx W/Collj Spec When Pfrmd
$609.30 $1,354.00 55%
file
Boston Medical Center South BROCKTON, MA
HC Colonoscopy Flx Dx W/Collj Spec When Pfrmd
$793.18 $1,762.62 55%
file
Boston Medical Center South BROCKTON, MA
HC Colorectal Scn; Hi Risk Ind
$793.18 $1,762.62 55%
file
Boston Medical Center BOSTON, MA
HC Colorectal Scn; Hi Risk Ind
$1,454.40 $3,232.00 55%
file
Boston Medical Center BOSTON, MA
HC Colonoscopy Flx Dx W/Collj Spec When Pfrmd
$1,454.40 $3,232.00 55%
file
Cambridge Health Alliance CAMBRIDGE, MA
HC Diagnostic Colonoscopy Flexible
$1,646.00 $1,646.00
file
Lowell General Hospital LOWELL, MA
HC Colonoscopy Flx Dx W/Collj Spec When Pfrmd - Co
$1,714.30 $2,449.00 30%
file
Tufts Medical Center BOSTON, MA
HC Colonoscopy Flx Dx W/Collj Spec When Pfrmd - Co
$1,810.90 $2,587.00 30%
file
MELROSEWAKEFIELD HEALTHCARE MELROSE, MA
HC Colonoscopy Flx Dx W/Collj Spec When Pfrmd - Co
$2,524.90 $3,607.00 30%
file
Cambridge Health Alliance CAMBRIDGE, MA
HC Diagnostic Colonoscopy Flexible
$3,510.55 $3,510.55
file

Outpatient: lowest $609.30, median $1,454.40, highest $3,510.55 — a 5.8× difference within the same market.

As an inpatient, the same code is billed by 7 facilities here, median $1,454.40. Inpatient and outpatient prices are not comparable and are kept on separate pages: the inpatient charge covers admission, not the same purchase.

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