Outpatient procedure · APC 5153 · Surgery or procedure

Level 3 Airway Endoscopy

In 2024, Medicare and patients paid an average of $1,594 per procedure at 912 hospitals. Half of hospitals averaged between $1,462 and $1,655.

Also known as: Bronchoscopy

National figures, 2024

Average payment per case: $1,594
Typical range (middle half of hospitals): $1,462–$1,655
Medicare’s share: $1,26479% of the payment
Average billed charge: $12,314
Hospitals reporting: 91239,301 procedures

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904 hospitals reported at least 11 Medicare procedures for this in 2024; showing 601–650. Download as CSV

Medicare payments per case for Level 3 Airway Endoscopy by hospital, 2024
Hospital	Cases	Average payment	vs national average	Medicare paid	Billed charge
Mainehealth Maine Medical CenterPortland, ME · CCN 200009	62	$1,595	About average	$1,271	$4,580
Mainehealth Mid Coast HospitalBrunswick, ME · CCN 200021	21	$1,595	About average	$1,271	$5,827
York HospitalYork, ME · CCN 200020	21	$1,595	About average	$1,270	$5,971
M Health Fairview University Of Mn Medical CenterMinneapolis, MN · CCN 240080	95	$1,596	About average	$1,272	$9,652
Mosaic Life Care At St JosephSaint Joseph, MO · CCN 260006	48	$1,597	About average	$1,272	$9,022
Ascension Columbia St Marys Hospital MilwaukeeMilwaukee, WI · CCN 520051	23	$1,597	About average	$1,272	$16,055
Mayo Clinic Health System-Franciscan Medical Center IncLa Crosse, WI · CCN 520004	45	$1,599	About average	$1,274	$4,576
Northwestern Lake Forest HospitalLake Forest, IL · CCN 140130	12	$1,602	About average	$1,276	$20,316
Advocate Good Shepherd HospitalBarrington, IL · CCN 140291	29	$1,602	About average	$1,273	$8,783
Northwest Community Hospital 1Arlington Heights, IL · CCN 140252	135	$1,603	About average	$1,271	$4,970
Winchester Medical CenterWinchester, VA · CCN 490005	19	$1,605	About average	$1,265	$6,134
Park Nicollet Methodist HospitalSaint Louis Park, MN · CCN 240053	76	$1,605	About average	$1,273	$11,034
Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical CenterBoise, ID · CCN 130007	37	$1,607	About average	$1,274	$3,437
Reston Hospital CenterReston, VA · CCN 490107	18	$1,608	About average	$1,281	$18,819
University Of Colorado Hospital AuthorityAurora, CO · CCN 060024	167	$1,609	About average	$1,278	$12,123
Banner Thunderbird Medical CenterGlendale, AZ · CCN 030089	29	$1,610	About average	$1,273	$9,100
Blessing HospitalQuincy, IL · CCN 140015	60	$1,610	About average	$1,283	$11,313
Essentia Health St Mary's Medical CenterDuluth, MN · CCN 240002	15	$1,610	About average	$1,283	$11,042
Advocate Lutheran General HospitalPark Ridge, IL · CCN 140223	15	$1,611	About average	$1,284	$15,281
Edward HospitalNaperville, IL · CCN 140231	24	$1,611	About average	$1,284	$14,487
Elmhurst Memorial HospitalElmhurst, IL · CCN 140200	20	$1,611	About average	$1,284	$15,279
Northwestern Medicine MCHenryMchenry, IL · CCN 140116	44	$1,611	About average	$1,284	$11,039
Palos Community HospitalPalos Heights, IL · CCN 140062	61	$1,611	About average	$1,284	$16,157
Saint Joseph Medical CenterJoliet, IL · CCN 140007	23	$1,611	About average	$1,284	$23,156
Silver Cross Hospital And Medical CentersNew Lenox, IL · CCN 140213	42	$1,611	About average	$1,284	$6,345
Uchicago Medicine AdventHealth HinsdaleHinsdale, IL · CCN 140122	16	$1,611	About average	$1,284	$9,676
Crozer Chester Medical CenterUpland, PA · CCN 390180	22	$1,611	About average	$1,284	$17,520
Rush Oak Park HospitalOak Park, IL · CCN 140063	16	$1,611	About average	$1,280	$11,185
Morris Hospital & Healthcare CentersMorris, IL · CCN 140101	13	$1,612	About average	$1,274	$13,665
Thomas Jefferson University HospitalPhiladelphia, PA · CCN 390174	444	$1,612	About average	$1,282	$4,286
Kootenai HealthCoeur D'Alene, ID · CCN 130049	31	$1,613	About average	$1,285	$7,788
Deaconess Medical CenterSpokane, WA · CCN 500044	15	$1,613	About average	$1,267	$9,248
Banner Baywood Medical CenterMesa, AZ · CCN 030088	33	$1,615	About average	$1,277	$8,945
UCH-Memorial Health SystemColorado Springs, CO · CCN 060022	38	$1,616	About average	$1,287	$14,577
Centura Health-St Anthony HospitalLakewood, CO · CCN 060015	15	$1,616	About average	$1,287	$28,756
Community HospitalGrand Junction, CO · CCN 060054	11	$1,616	About average	$1,287	$10,074
National Jewish HealthDenver, CO · CCN 060107	80	$1,616	About average	$1,287	$6,158
Parkview Medical Center, IncPueblo, CO · CCN 060020	18	$1,616	About average	$1,287	$22,563
UCHealth Highlands Ranch HospitalHighlands Ranch, CO · CCN 060132	11	$1,616	About average	$1,287	$20,484
Phelps County Regional Medical CenterRolla, MO · CCN 260017	18	$1,618	About average	$1,289	$7,894
Hannibal Regional HospitalHannibal, MO · CCN 260025	28	$1,618	About average	$1,287	$29,306
Flagler HospitalSaint Augustine, FL · CCN 100090	46	$1,618	About average	$1,283	$14,669
Banner Gateway Medical CenterGilbert, AZ · CCN 030122	36	$1,618	About average	$1,280	$13,572
Norton-King's Daughters' HealthMadison, IN · CCN 150069	42	$1,620	About average	$1,291	$11,588
Memorial HospitalLogansport, IN · CCN 150072	12	$1,621	About average	$1,269	$598
Abbott Northwestern HospitalMinneapolis, MN · CCN 240057	12	$1,622	About average	$1,293	$14,681
M Health Fairview St John's HospitalMaplewood, MN · CCN 240210	12	$1,622	About average	$1,293	$8,460
North Memorial Health HospitalRobbinsdale, MN · CCN 240001	15	$1,622	About average	$1,293	$5,976
Regions HospitalSaint Paul, MN · CCN 240106	27	$1,622	About average	$1,293	$6,076
Ridgeview Medical CenterWaconia, MN · CCN 240056	18	$1,622	About average	$1,288	$1,393

National trend

Average payment and billed charge per procedure, and how many Medicare procedures were reported each year.

Average payment
Average billed charge

2020: 30,421 procedures at 802 hospitals · 2021: 32,037 procedures at 798 hospitals · 2022: 32,640 procedures at 802 hospitals · 2023: 34,442 procedures at 848 hospitals · 2024: 39,301 procedures at 912 hospitals

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National average payment and billed charge for Level 3 Airway Endoscopy
Year of care	Average payment	Average billed charge
2020	$1,422	$9,990
2021	$1,494	$10K
2022	$1,515	$11K
2023	$1,566	$12K
2024	$1,594	$12K

By state, 2024

Case-weighted average payment across each state’s reporting hospitals, lowest first.

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Average payment by state for Level 3 Airway Endoscopy, 2024
State	Hospitals	Cases	Average payment	Typical range
Vermont	4	141	$737	$697–$846
Nebraska	7	402	$1,286	$1,283–$1,529
Tennessee	16	773	$1,317	$1,397–$1,462
Arizona	22	1,098	$1,334	$1,622–$1,655
Mississippi	14	873	$1,369	$1,333–$1,404
Kansas	12	693	$1,375	$1,438–$1,492
Louisiana	19	825	$1,380	$1,411–$1,438
Ohio	45	1,652	$1,381	$1,401–$1,476
Alabama	17	899	$1,404	$1,364–$1,407
West Virginia	10	392	$1,421	$1,403–$1,476
Oklahoma	14	513	$1,426	$1,423–$1,462
South Carolina	25	1,287	$1,443	$1,429–$1,464
Arkansas	16	483	$1,449	$1,430–$1,472
Kentucky	15	570	$1,456	$1,406–$1,496
Georgia	29	1,094	$1,473	$1,436–$1,547
Missouri	23	798	$1,482	$1,453–$1,528
Virginia	31	1,225	$1,491	$1,461–$1,571
Idaho	6	228	$1,492	$1,487–$1,630
Michigan	32	1,032	$1,503	$1,485–$1,516
Texas	67	2,256	$1,508	$1,473–$1,547
North Carolina	24	1,120	$1,510	$1,477–$1,528
Utah	7	296	$1,511	$1,478–$1,520
Florida	67	3,132	$1,513	$1,523–$1,537
Iowa	10	438	$1,521	$1,453–$1,514
Indiana	29	776	$1,527	$1,513–$1,546
New Hampshire	5	261	$1,535	$1,534–$1,658
Montana	6	206	$1,539	$1,571–$1,661
Maine	5	142	$1,552	$1,479–$1,595
New Mexico	6	173	$1,558	$1,484–$1,502
Wisconsin	15	681	$1,569	$1,522–$1,592
Illinois	38	1,535	$1,569	$1,569–$1,611
Pennsylvania	37	1,972	$1,594	$1,516–$1,637
South Dakota	7	259	$1,596	$1,576–$1,648
North Dakota	4	234	$1,604	$1,588–$1,620
Colorado	11	444	$1,611	$1,602–$1,616
Minnesota	15	629	$1,640	$1,588–$1,622
Delaware	3	132	$1,695	$1,696–$1,705
Washington	19	886	$1,716	$1,671–$1,784
Rhode Island	4	74	$1,722	$1,722–$1,722
District of Columbia	4	91	$1,727	$1,724–$1,737
Alaska	1	20	$1,752	$1,752–$1,752
Nevada	7	143	$1,770	$1,737–$1,818
Massachusetts	26	1,793	$1,814	$1,815–$1,823
New Jersey	20	616	$1,818	$1,777–$1,863
Oregon	9	383	$1,824	$1,762–$1,781
New York	29	1,232	$1,858	$1,800–$1,912
Connecticut	5	152	$1,907	$1,893–$1,912
Hawaii	3	81	$1,973	$1,952–$2,021
California	72	4,166	$2,134	$2,087–$2,235

About these numbers

Average payment is what Medicare paid plus the patient’s deductible and coinsurance (and any other insurer), averaged over the hospital’s Medicare cases. It covers the hospital’s part of the care; doctors bill separately. For outpatient procedures it is Medicare’s allowed amount, which leaves out extra “outlier” payments for unusually costly cases; those are shown under the hospital name where CMS reported any, and included in the CSV. Billed charges are the hospital’s list prices, which few patients pay.

Medicare sets its payments by formula, adjusting for local wages, teaching programs, the share of low-income patients and unusually costly cases. Those adjustments drive most differences between hospitals, so a lower payment doesn’t mean better or worse care, and Medicare patients’ own costs usually vary much less than the totals. Private insurance pays different, usually higher, prices.

Source: CMS Medicare Outpatient Hospitals by Provider and Service (Medicare fee-for-service claims). CMS omits hospitals with fewer than 11 procedures. More in the glossary.