# Colonoscopy with ultrasound in Atlanta, GA

Billing code `45391`. Prices for this code at 22 hospitals within 35 miles of Atlanta, taken from the machine-readable standard charge files each hospital is required to publish under the CMS Hospital Price Transparency Rule (45 CFR 180.50).

Source page: https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/atlanta/colonoscopy-with-ultrasound

Colonoscopy w/endoscope us

## Before quoting any figure below

- **Hospital charges only.** The surgeon, anaesthetist, radiologist and pathologist bill separately and appear in no hospital price file, by construction. Every figure below is part of a total, never the total.
- **A negotiated rate is not a bill.** It is what a hospital and an insurer agreed. What a patient owes depends on their deductible, coinsurance and out-of-pocket maximum.
- **Each hospital's figure is a median across its own plans.** The spread inside one hospital is often wider than the gap between two of them.
- **"not mentioned" is not $0.** It means this hospital's file does not label a row that way. Silence is not a statement that the charge does not exist.
- **A hospital absent from the table says nothing about its prices.** It may publish this code under a revenue or drug code this site cannot map to a procedure.

A procedure code is billed twice -- once by the hospital for its own costs, once by the doctor for their work -- and hospitals publish different sides of that split under the same code. Of the hospitals here, 11 publish a facility charge; 1 publish both, mixed together; 10 do not label which half the figure is.

## Typical price

|  | Amount |
|---|---|
| Cheapest tenth | $1,536 |
| Typical | $3,051 |
| Dearest tenth | $3,932 |

The cheapest and dearest tenth are the hospitals a tenth of the way in from each end, not the single cheapest and dearest. Every hospital, including both extremes, is in the table below.

That is a 3-fold difference for the same billing code, between hospitals within 35 miles of each other -- a gap between hospitals, not between treatments.

## Every hospital publishing this code

| Hospital | Where | CMS rating | Typical | Facility charge | Physician fee | Self-pay | Lowest | Highest | Plans on file |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grady Memorial Hospital | ATLANTA (6.1 mi) | 2/5 | see split | $2,062 | $248 | $3,502 | $245 | $5,612 | 86 |
| Northside Hospital Forsyth | CUMMING (29.4 mi) | 4/5 | $1,459 | not mentioned | not mentioned | not published | $328 | $50,000 | 107 |
| Northside Hospital Cherokee | CANTON (25.4 mi) | 4/5 | $1,459 | not mentioned | not mentioned | not published | $328 | $50,000 | 109 |
| WellStar Douglas Medical Center | DOUGLASVILLE (24.5 mi) | 3/5 | $2,228 | $2,228 | not mentioned | not published | $1,205 | $5,272 | 13 |
| WellStar Kennestone Regional Medical Center | MARIETTA (12.1 mi) | 4/5 | $2,249 | $2,249 | not mentioned | not published | $1,215 | $5,272 | 13 |
| WellStar Paulding Medical Center | HIRAM (23.5 mi) | 4/5 | $2,249 | $2,249 | not mentioned | not published | $1,215 | $5,272 | 13 |
| WellStar Cobb Medical Center | AUSTELL (15.4 mi) | 3/5 | $2,249 | $2,249 | not mentioned | not published | $1,215 | $5,272 | 13 |
| WellStar North Fulton Medical Center | ROSWELL (13.5 mi) | 2/5 | $2,249 | $2,249 | not mentioned | not published | $1,215 | $5,272 | 13 |
| Emory Hillandale Hospital | LITHONIA (16.0 mi) | 1/5 | $3,012 | $3,012 | not mentioned | $4,653 | $1,200 | $5,346 | 17 |
| Emory University Hospital | ATLANTA (3.6 mi) | 4/5 | $3,051 | $3,051 | not mentioned | $4,653 | $1,200 | $5,346 | 19 |
| Emory Decatur Hospital | DECATUR (4.8 mi) | 2/5 | $3,051 | $3,051 | not mentioned | $4,653 | $1,200 | $5,346 | 19 |
| Emory University Hospital Midtown | ATLANTA (4.7 mi) | 2/5 | $3,051 | $3,051 | not mentioned | $4,653 | $1,215 | $5,346 | 19 |
| Saint Joseph's Hospital of Atlanta | ATLANTA (3.2 mi) | 3/5 | $3,051 | $3,051 | not mentioned | $4,653 | $1,215 | $5,346 | 19 |
| Emory Johns Creek Hospital | JOHNS CREEK (17.9 mi) | 4/5 | $3,051 | $3,051 | not mentioned | $4,653 | $1,215 | $5,346 | 19 |
| Piedmont Rockdale Hospital | CONYERS (22.2 mi) | 3/5 | $3,070 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $1,270 | $510 | $4,234 | 18 |
| Piedmont Eastside Medical Center | SNELLVILLE (19.7 mi) | 2/5 | $3,141 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $1,412 | $917 | $4,705 | 18 |
| Piedmont Hospital | ATLANTA (3.0 mi) | 4/5 | $3,165 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $1,270 | $507 | $4,234 | 18 |
| Piedmont Henry Hospital | STOCKBRIDGE (21.0 mi) | 2/5 | $3,165 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $1,270 | $359 | $4,234 | 18 |
| Piedmont Fayette Hospital | FAYETTEVILLE (25.0 mi) | 3/5 | $3,165 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $1,270 | $409 | $4,234 | 18 |
| Northside Hospital Duluth | DULUTH (15.5 mi) | 4/5 | $4,017 | not mentioned | not mentioned | not published | $328 | $50,000 | 111 |
| Northside Hospital | ATLANTA (3.2 mi) | 3/5 | $4,102 | not mentioned | not mentioned | not published | $328 | $50,000 | 108 |
| Northside Hospital Gwinnett | LAWRENCEVILLE (25.8 mi) | 3/5 | $4,350 | not mentioned | not mentioned | not published | $328 | $50,000 | 111 |

## Self-pay

Self-pay is what the hospital charges someone paying themselves rather than through insurance. Paying self-pay usually does not count toward a deductible, so it can cost less for one service and more across a year. Every other figure here is what an insurer pays, not what a patient would.

At 5 of the 12 hospitals here that publish a self-pay price it is LOWER than what that same hospital typically accepts from an insurer; at the other 7 it is higher.

## Others in digestive health

- [Upper endoscopy (EGD) with biopsy](https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/upper-endoscopy-egd-with-biopsy) -- 92 hospitals, typically $2,106
- [Upper endoscopy (EGD), diagnostic](https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/upper-endoscopy-egd-diagnostic) -- 92 hospitals, typically $1,786
- [Colonoscopy with biopsy](https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/colonoscopy-with-biopsy) -- 90 hospitals, typically $2,246
- [Colonoscopy with polyp removal (snare)](https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/colonoscopy-with-polyp-removal-snare) -- 90 hospitals, typically $2,246
- [Gallbladder removal (laparoscopic)](https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/gallbladder-removal-laparoscopic) -- 69 hospitals, typically $5,799
- [Colonoscopy, diagnostic](https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/colonoscopy-diagnostic) -- 68 hospitals, typically $1,746
- [Groin hernia repair, age 5 and over](https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/groin-hernia-repair-age-5-and-over) -- 67 hospitals, typically $3,547
- [Tonsil and adenoid removal, under age 12](https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/tonsil-and-adenoid-removal-under-age-12) -- 53 hospitals, typically $5,997

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Compiled by Clearcharge (clearcharge.org) from each hospital's machine-readable standard-charge file. When quoting a figure, cite the source page above. The hospital files behind these figures state data through dates from 2026-01-01 to 2026-07-01; per-hospital staleness is flagged above.