# Upper endoscopy (EGD) with biopsy in GA

Billing code `43239`. Prices for this code at 92 hospitals in GA, 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/upper-endoscopy-egd-with-biopsy

Egd biopsy single/multiple

**Where this is done matters more than which hospital:** Upper endoscopy (EGD) with biopsy is a procedure a doctor's office can perform, and Medicare pays about 2.5x more for it at a hospital outpatient department than in an office. Every price below is a hospital's, and excludes the doctor's separate bill. Do not quote these as the cost of the procedure without saying which setting they describe.

## 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, 39 publish a facility charge; 11 publish both, mixed together; 42 do not label which half the figure is.

## Typical price

|  | Amount |
|---|---|
| Cheapest tenth | $681 |
| Typical | $2,106 |
| Dearest tenth | $3,848 |

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 6-fold difference for the same billing code -- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| St Marys Good Samaritan Hospital | GREENSBORO | 4/5 | see split | $159 | $61 | $7,076 | $44 | $927 | 2,974 |
| Ty Cobb Regional Medical Center | LAVONIA | 3/5 | see split | $4,369 | $61 | $5,274 | $44 | $4,369 | 3,065 |
| St Mary's Hospital | ATHENS | 1/5 | see split | $2,696 | $105 | $9,291 | $44 | $9,990 | 3,067 |
| Atrium Health Navicent Peach | BYRON | 1/5 | see split | $2,120 | $155 | not published | $148 | $2,664 | 21 |
| Grady Memorial Hospital | ATLANTA | 2/5 | see split | $1,291 | $211 | not published | $134 | $4,275 | 64 |
| Coffee Regional Medical Center | DOUGLAS | 3/5 | see split | $4,075 | $385 | not published | $211 | $9,891 | 188 |
| Memorial Hospital and Manor | BAINBRIDGE | 1/5 | $559 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $466 | $419 | $1,213 | 24 |
| Candler County Hospital | METTER | not rated | $564 | not mentioned | not mentioned | not published | $196 | $2,723 | 32 |
| Navicent Health Baldwin | MILLEDGEVILLE | 2/5 | see split | $927 | $144 | not published | $128 | $5,479 | 30 |
| Atrium Health Navicent the Medical Center | MACON | 2/5 | see split | $1,253 | $164 | not published | $128 | $5,079 | 38 |
| Dodge County Hospital | EASTMAN | not rated | $791 | not mentioned | not mentioned | not published | $100 | $1,700 | 12 |
| Optim Medical Center - Screven | SYLVANIA | not rated | $803 | $803 | not mentioned | $11,629 | $795 | $1,192 | 12 |
| Phoebe Sumter Medical Center | AMERICUS | 3/5 | $835 | $835 | not mentioned | not published | $795 | $1,391 | 7 |
| SGMC Health | VALDOSTA | 2/5 | $870 | $870 | not mentioned | $3,942 | $629 | $1,028 | 4 |
| Bacon County Hospital | ALMA | not rated | $892 | $892 | not mentioned | $2,432 | $26 | $1,248 | 5 |
| Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital | ALBANY | 2/5 | $917 | $917 | not mentioned | not published | $874 | $1,529 | 7 |
| Tanner Medical Center - Carrollton | CARROLLTON | 2/5 | $928 | $928 | not mentioned | $1,864 | $453 | $996 | 30 |
| Atrium Health Floyd Medical Center | ROME | 2/5 | $932 | $932 | not mentioned | not published | $914 | $1,827 | 15 |
| Southern Regional Medical Center | RIVERDALE | 1/5 | $932 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $905 | $740 | $2,297 | 41 |
| SGMC Berrien Campus | NASHVILLE | not rated | $949 | $949 | not mentioned | $3,942 | $791 | $1,186 | 3 |
| Jeff Davis Hospital | HAZLEHURST | not rated | $1,204 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $1,228 | $594 | $2,703 | 19 |
| Colquitt Regional Medical Center | MOULTRIE | 4/5 | $1,346 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $1,346 | $222 | $1,362 | 44 |
| Taylor Regional Hospital | HAWKINSVILLE | not rated | see split | $1,352 | $313 | $7,259 | $225 | $2,899 | 49 |
| AdventHealth Gordon | CALHOUN | 3/5 | $1,382 | $1,382 | not mentioned | not published | $903 | $2,246 | 11 |
| Northside Hospital Forsyth | CUMMING | 4/5 | $1,441 | not mentioned | not mentioned | not published | $476 | $50,000 | 107 |
| AdventHealth Murray | CHATSWORTH | 5/5 | $1,470 | $1,470 | not mentioned | not published | $844 | $2,246 | 8 |
| WellStar MCG Health, Affiliated with Med Col | AUGUSTA | 1/5 | $1,514 | $1,514 | not mentioned | $1,406 | $795 | $4,714 | 22 |
| East Georgia Regional Medical Center | STATESBORO | 3/5 | $1,546 | $1,546 | not mentioned | $4,080 | $327 | $12,843 | 41 |
| University Mcduffie County Regional Medical Center | THOMSON | not rated | $1,571 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $1,071 | $576 | $3,372 | 17 |
| Piedmont Augusta Hospital | AUGUSTA | 2/5 | $1,571 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $1,071 | $526 | $3,570 | 23 |
| Liberty Regional Medical Center | HINESVILLE | not rated | $1,611 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $7,216 | $1,555 | $6,352 | 6 |
| Chi Memorial Hospital- Georgia | RINGGOLD | 3/5 | $1,627 | not mentioned | not mentioned | not published | $167 | $2,470 | 21 |
| WellStar West Georgia Medical Center | LAGRANGE | 5/5 | $1,673 | $1,673 | not mentioned | $1,406 | $892 | $5,272 | 14 |
| WellStar Spalding Medical Center | GRIFFIN | 2/5 | $1,688 | $1,688 | not mentioned | $1,406 | $910 | $5,272 | 14 |
| WellStar Douglas Medical Center | DOUGLASVILLE | 3/5 | $1,694 | $1,694 | not mentioned | $1,406 | $913 | $5,272 | 13 |
| WellStar Paulding Medical Center | HIRAM | 4/5 | $1,704 | $1,704 | not mentioned | $1,406 | $921 | $5,272 | 13 |
| WellStar Kennestone Regional Medical Center | MARIETTA | 4/5 | $1,704 | $1,704 | not mentioned | $1,406 | $921 | $5,272 | 13 |
| WellStar Cobb Medical Center | AUSTELL | 3/5 | $1,704 | $1,704 | not mentioned | $1,406 | $921 | $5,272 | 13 |
| WellStar North Fulton Medical Center | ROSWELL | 2/5 | $1,704 | $1,704 | not mentioned | $1,406 | $921 | $5,272 | 13 |
| Emory Houston Hospital Warner Robins | WARNER ROBINS | 2/5 | $1,722 | $1,722 | not mentioned | not published | $812 | $5,346 | 13 |
| St Francis Hospital- Emory Healthcare | COLUMBUS | 3/5 | $1,746 | $1,746 | not mentioned | not published | $184 | $4,243 | 16 |
| St Joseph's Hospital - Savannah | SAVANNAH | 2/5 | $1,952 | $1,952 | not mentioned | not published | $795 | $5,217 | 24 |
| Candler Hospital | SAVANNAH | 2/5 | $1,952 | $1,952 | not mentioned | not published | $795 | $5,217 | 24 |
| Jefferson Hospital | LOUISVILLE | not rated | $1,960 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $1,738 | $1,272 | $2,694 | 20 |
| Mountain Lakes Medical Center | CLAYTON | not rated | $1,977 | $1,977 | not mentioned | $1,020 | $1,786 | $2,168 | 2 |
| Clinch Memorial Hospital | HOMERVILLE | not rated | $2,000 | $2,000 | not mentioned | $1,052 | $1,684 | $2,105 | 36 |
| Optim Medical Center - Tattnall | REIDSVILLE | not rated | $2,106 | $2,106 | not mentioned | $11,629 | $2,106 | $2,106 | 1 |
| Washington County Regional Medical Center | SANDERSVILLE | not rated | $2,175 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $2,362 | $777 | $3,922 | 25 |
| Hamilton Medical Center | DALTON | 3/5 | $2,219 | $2,219 | not mentioned | not published | $2,114 | $5,392 | 3 |
| AdventHealth Redmond | ROME | 4/5 | $2,246 | $2,246 | not mentioned | not published | $943 | $5,045 | 13 |
| Morgan Medical Center | MADISON | not rated | $2,400 | not mentioned | not mentioned | not published | $1,400 | $3,745 | 9 |
| Effingham Health System | SPRINGFIELD | not rated | $2,441 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $5,667 | $2,334 | $8,283 | 13 |
| Piedmont Columbus Regional Midtown | COLUMBUS | 2/5 | $2,531 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $1,071 | $516 | $3,570 | 20 |
| Tift Regional Medical Center | TIFTON | 3/5 | see split | $4,740 | $523 | not published | $166 | $11,238 | 33 |
| Piedmont Columbus Regional Northside | COLUMBUS | 5/5 | $2,678 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $1,071 | $415 | $3,570 | 19 |
| Emory Hillandale Hospital | LITHONIA | 1/5 | $2,912 | $2,912 | not mentioned | $5,045 | $910 | $5,346 | 17 |
| Tanner Medical Center Villa Rica | VILLA RICA | 3/5 | $2,968 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $2,968 | $1,075 | $4,601 | 17 |
| Emory Decatur Hospital | DECATUR | 2/5 | $3,051 | $3,051 | not mentioned | $5,045 | $910 | $5,346 | 19 |
| Emory Johns Creek Hospital | JOHNS CREEK | 4/5 | $3,051 | $3,051 | not mentioned | $5,045 | $921 | $5,346 | 19 |
| Emory University Hospital Midtown | ATLANTA | 2/5 | $3,051 | $3,051 | not mentioned | $5,045 | $921 | $5,346 | 19 |
| Emory University Hospital | ATLANTA | 4/5 | $3,051 | $3,051 | not mentioned | $5,045 | $910 | $5,346 | 19 |
| Saint Joseph's Hospital of Atlanta | ATLANTA | 3/5 | $3,051 | $3,051 | not mentioned | $5,045 | $921 | $5,346 | 19 |
| Piedmont Macon North Hospital | MACON | 4/5 | $3,127 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $1,389 | $426 | $4,168 | 17 |
| Piedmont Cartersville Medical Center | CARTERSVILLE | 3/5 | $3,127 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $1,389 | $546 | $4,631 | 19 |
| Coliseum Medical Centers | MACON | 3/5 | $3,127 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $1,389 | $317 | $4,586 | 17 |
| Doctors Hospital | AUGUSTA | 3/5 | $3,132 | not mentioned | not mentioned | not published | $1,150 | $7,512 | 195 |
| Piedmont Eastside Medical Center | SNELLVILLE | 2/5 | $3,141 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $1,389 | $903 | $4,586 | 18 |
| Memorial Health University Medical Center | SAVANNAH | 1/5 | $3,224 | not mentioned | not mentioned | not published | $1,150 | $7,512 | 209 |
| Piedmont Newton Hospital | COVINGTON | 3/5 | $3,230 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $1,389 | $475 | $3,936 | 17 |
| Piedmont Rockdale Hospital | CONYERS | 3/5 | $3,242 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $1,389 | $558 | $4,631 | 18 |
| Southwell Medical, a Campus of TRMC | ADEL | not rated | see split | $7,139 | $523 | not published | $166 | $14,563 | 32 |
| Piedmont Walton Hospital | MONROE | 4/5 | $3,293 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $1,389 | $436 | $4,631 | 15 |
| Piedmont Mountainside Hospital | JASPER | 4/5 | $3,293 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $1,389 | $503 | $4,631 | 15 |
| WellStar Sylvan Grove Medical Center | JACKSON | not rated | $3,339 | $3,339 | not mentioned | $1,406 | $1,694 | $5,272 | 6 |
| Memorial Health Meadows Hospital | VIDALIA | 5/5 | $3,348 | not mentioned | not mentioned | not published | $1,150 | $17,850 | 133 |
| Piedmont Newnan Hospital | NEWNAN | 4/5 | $3,370 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $1,389 | $436 | $4,631 | 18 |
| Piedmont Hospital | ATLANTA | 4/5 | $3,440 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $1,389 | $555 | $4,631 | 18 |
| Piedmont Henry Hospital | STOCKBRIDGE | 2/5 | $3,440 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $1,389 | $393 | $4,631 | 18 |
| Piedmont Fayette Hospital | FAYETTEVILLE | 3/5 | $3,440 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $1,389 | $448 | $4,631 | 18 |
| Piedmont Athens Regional Medical Center | ATHENS | 4/5 | $3,473 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $1,389 | $493 | $4,631 | 19 |
| Fairview Park Hospital | DUBLIN | 4/5 | $3,633 | not mentioned | not mentioned | not published | $1,150 | $7,512 | 227 |
| Northside Hospital Cherokee | CANTON | 4/5 | $3,740 | not mentioned | not mentioned | not published | $476 | $50,000 | 109 |
| Athur M Blank Hospital | ATLANTA | not rated | $3,860 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $5,632 | $2,407 | $5,632 | 28 |
| Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Scottish Rite | ATLANTA | not rated | $3,860 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $5,632 | $2,354 | $5,632 | 28 |
| Northside Hospital Duluth | DULUTH | 4/5 | $3,979 | not mentioned | not mentioned | not published | $228 | $50,000 | 111 |
| Northside Hospital | ATLANTA | 3/5 | $4,065 | not mentioned | not mentioned | not published | $476 | $50,000 | 108 |
| Memorial Satilla Health | WAYCROSS | 3/5 | $4,289 | not mentioned | not mentioned | not published | $1,150 | $7,512 | 166 |
| Northside Hospital Gwinnett | LAWRENCEVILLE | 3/5 | $4,314 | not mentioned | not mentioned | not published | $228 | $50,000 | 111 |
| Northeast Georgia Medical Center Habersham | DEMOREST | 3/5 | $5,306 | $5,306 | not mentioned | not published | $795 | $14,322 | 10 |
| Northeast Georgia Medical Center | GAINESVILLE | 3/5 | $8,563 | $8,563 | not mentioned | not published | $892 | $14,322 | 9 |
| Northeast Georgia Medical Center Lumpkin | DAHLONEGA | 5/5 | $8,563 | $8,563 | not mentioned | not published | $941 | $14,322 | 9 |
| NGMC Barrow | WINDER | 4/5 | $8,563 | $8,563 | not mentioned | not published | $910 | $14,322 | 9 |

## 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 31 of the 56 hospitals here that publish a self-pay price it is LOWER than what that same hospital typically accepts from an insurer; at the other 25 it is higher.

## The doctor's side, roughly

Nationally, Medicare allows about $165 for the clinician who performs or reads this service, across 16,703 billing providers in 2024. That is a separate bill from everything above and is NOT added to any figure on this page -- it is here to show the rough size of what a hospital price leaves out.

3 of these 92 hospitals have not published an updated price file in over a year, or do not say when they last did. Hospitals are required to update at least annually, so those figures may not reflect what they charge now: Jeff Davis Hospital, Jefferson Hospital, Tanner Medical Center Villa Rica.

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Every procedure with a published price in GA: https://clearcharge.org/price/ga
Prices that look wrong: info@clearcharge.org

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 2024-07-01 to 2026-07-28; per-hospital staleness is flagged above.