Surgery and procedures CPT 43248 Connecticut Outpatient

Upper endoscopy with wire-guided dilation cost in Connecticut

In Connecticut, 6 hospitals publish a cash price for upper endoscopy (EGD) with widening of the esophagus over a guide wire: from $2,563.65 to $3,758.00, with a median of $3,288.15. The lowest price is at St Vincent's Medical Center (Bridgeport). The highest price is 1.5× the lowest.

The median here, $3,288.15, is 94% above the US median of $1,698.96.
That is 3.5× Medicare's 2026 national rate for the same service ($926.63).
Connecticut ranks 38th of 39 states by median, cheapest first.
6 of 6 hospitals list a cash price equal to their full list price, with no self-pay discount.

Connecticut law (C.G.S. §19a-673): if you are uninsured, your income is at or below 250% of the federal poverty level and Medicaid has turned you down, a hospital and the clinicians billing through it may collect no more than the cost of your care (its charges times its cost-to-charge ratio), which is usually well below its list price. Ask the billing office to apply it. Other states' laws.

Outpatient cash prices, one line per hospital — its lowest listed price for code 43248. Prices for both sides of the body and inpatient prices are not mixed in. Collected Sep 27, 2026. See them on a map

Lowest$2,563.65St Vincent's Medical Center

Median$3,288.15half of hospitals charge less

Highest$3,758.00in Connecticut

Lowest saves$724.50vs the median

Hospitals in Connecticut, cheapest first

Hospital	Cash price	List price	File date
St Vincent's Medical Center lowest Bridgeport · Bridgeport, CT HC EDG INSERT GUIDE WIRE DILATOR PASSAGE ESOPHAGUS	$2,563.65	$2,563.65	Apr 1, 2026 source file
Manchester Memorial Hospital Manchester · Manchester, CT UGI ENDO GUIDEWIRE INSERTION	$2,951.02	$2,951.02	Apr 1, 2026 source file
The William W Backus Hospital Norwich · Norwich, CT HC EDG INSERT GUIDE WIRE DILATOR PASSAGE ESOPHAGUS	$3,288.00	$3,288.00	Apr 1, 2026 source file
Midstate Medical Center Meriden · Meriden, CT HC EDG INSERT GUIDE WIRE DILATOR PASSAGE ESOPHAGUS	$3,288.29	$3,288.29	Apr 1, 2026 source file
The Hospital of Central Connecticut New Britain · New Britain, CT HC EDG INSERT GUIDE WIRE DILATOR PASSAGE ESOPHAGUS	$3,288.29	$3,288.29	Apr 1, 2026 source file
Hartford Hospital Hartford · Hartford, CT HC EDG INSERT GUIDE WIRE DILATOR PASSAGE ESOPHAGUS	$3,758.00	$3,758.00	Apr 1, 2026 source file

Hospital The hospital that published the price, its city and the line exactly as written in its price file.

Cash price The hospital's own price for a patient paying without insurance (“discounted cash” in its price file). Hospitals must publish it under federal law, 45 CFR 180.50. Call to confirm it before booking. More

List price The hospital's full chargemaster price (“gross charge”) before any discount. Almost nobody pays it; the gap to the cash price shows what the self-pay discount is worth. More

File date When the hospital last updated its price file, as the file says itself. A dash means the file gives no date.

No cash discount This line's cash price equals the hospital's full list price. Many hospitals still reduce bills for uninsured patients: ask the billing office for its self-pay discount in writing. More

Check the item The description in the hospital file looks like a supply or device (a catheter, a brace, an implant), not this procedure. The hospital may have filed it under the wrong code: ask before relying on this price.

By metro area

Each metro page compares every listing, including prices for both sides of the body.

Metro area	Hospitals	Lowest	Median
Bridgeport, CT	1	$2,563.65	$2,563.65
Hartford, CT	1	$3,758.00	$3,758.00
Manchester, CT	1	$2,951.02	$2,951.02
Meriden, CT	1	$3,288.29	$3,288.29
New Britain, CT	1	$3,288.29	$3,288.29
Norwich, CT	1	$3,288.00	$3,288.00

Market A metro area (as the Census Bureau defines it) or, outside metro areas, a town. Each links to every hospital price there.

Hospitals How many hospitals publish a cash price for this code here. Each hospital counts once, at its lowest outpatient cash price.

Lowest The lowest cash price among those hospitals.

Median The middle cash price: half of the hospitals charge less, half charge more. One price per hospital. More

What upper endoscopy with wire-guided dilation is, what the price covers and why prices differ: Upper endoscopy with wire-guided dilation explained.

Upper endoscopy (EGD) with widening of the esophagus over a guide wire in other states

Median cash price across the state's hospitals.