SelfPayRates — hospital cash prices, from the source

Colonoscopy with endoscopic ultrasound in Pittsburgh, PA

Cash prices at 8 facilities across 5 cities for code 45391, as an outpatient — the setting a self-pay patient normally buys. Collected Sep 23, 2026; the hospital files themselves were last updated between Mar 6, 2026 and Apr 14, 2026.

HospitalCash price List priceOffFile date
WEST PENN ALLEGHENY HEALTH SYSTEM INC MONROEVILLE, PA
PR COLSC FLX W/NDSC US XM RCTM ET AL LMTD&ADJ STRUX
$156.64 $712.00 78% Apr 14, 2026
file
CANONSBURG GENERAL HOSPITAL CANONSBURG, PA
PR COLSC FLX W/NDSC US XM RCTM ET AL LMTD&ADJ STRUX
$156.64 $712.00 78% Apr 14, 2026
file
ALLE-KISKI MEDICAL CENTER NATRONA HEIGHTS, PA
PR COLSC FLX W/NDSC US XM RCTM ET AL LMTD&ADJ STRUX
$163.76 $712.00 77% Apr 14, 2026
file
WEST PENN ALLEGHENY HEALTH SYSTEM INC PITTSBURGH, PA
PR COLSC FLX W/NDSC US XM RCTM ET AL LMTD&ADJ STRUX
$170.88 $712.00 76% Apr 14, 2026
file
WEST PENN ALLEGHENY HEALTH SYSTEM INC WEXFORD, PA
PR COLSC FLX W/NDSC US XM RCTM ET AL LMTD&ADJ STRUX
$185.12 $712.00 74% Apr 14, 2026
file
WEST PENN ALLEGHENY HEALTH SYSTEM INC PITTSBURGH, PA
PR COLSC FLX W/NDSC US XM RCTM ET AL LMTD&ADJ STRUX
$192.24 $712.00 73% Apr 14, 2026
file
UPMC Mercy PITTSBURGH, PA
COLONOSCOPY WITH USN
$2,457.60 $4,096.00 40%
file
UPMC Passavant - McCandless PITTSBURGH, PA
HC COLONOSCOPY WITH USN
$3,750.60 $6,251.00 40%
file
UPMC Presbyterian PITTSBURGH, PA
COLONOSCOPY WITH USN
$4,123.20 $6,872.00 40% Mar 6, 2026
file

Outpatient: lowest $156.64, median $185.12, highest $4,123.20 — a 26.3× difference within the same market.

As an inpatient, the same code is billed by 3 facilities here, median $3,750.60. Inpatient and outpatient prices are not comparable and are kept on separate pages: the inpatient charge covers admission, not the same purchase.

1 row held back from this comparison

It is priced below $1 or below a tenth of the national median for code 45391 ($1,563.00). 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.

JEFFERSON REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER JEFFERSON HILLS, PA
PR COLSC FLX W/NDSC US XM RCTM ET AL LMTD&ADJ STRUX
$135.28 file

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