Outpatient procedure · APC 5302 · Surgery or procedure

Level 2 Upper GI Procedures

In 2024, Medicare and patients paid an average of $1,815 per procedure at 1,991 hospitals. Half of hospitals averaged between $1,651 and $1,880.

Also known as: Upper endoscopy, EGD

National figures, 2024

Average payment per case: $1,815
Typical range (middle half of hospitals): $1,651–$1,880
Medicare’s share: $1,44580% of the payment
Average billed charge: $13,589
Hospitals reporting: 1,991208,333 procedures

Hospitals in South Carolina

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Average payment across these 39 hospitals: $1,625National $1,815 · South Carolina $1,625
Median hospital: $1,626
Lowest to highest: $1,457–$1,777
Medicare procedures: 4,850

39 hospitals reported at least 11 Medicare procedures for this in 2024. Download as CSV

Medicare payments per case for Level 2 Upper GI Procedures by hospital, 2024
Hospital	Cases	Average payment	vs national average	Medicare paid	Billed charge
Coastal Carolina HospitalHardeeville, SC · CCN 420101	30	$1,457	20% below the national average	$1,128	$18,657
Piedmont Medical CenterRock Hill, SC · CCN 420002	24	$1,504	17% below the national average	$1,154	$13,230
McLeod Health ClarendonManning, SC · CCN 420109	25	$1,534	15% below the national average	$1,204	$13,992
Conway Medical CenterConway, SC · CCN 420049	262	$1,539	15% below the national average	$1,229	$12,275
Prisma Health Greer Memorial HospitalSpartanburg, SC · CCN 420033	323	$1,580	13% below the national average	$1,274	$14,253
Roper HospitalCharleston, SC · CCN 420087	16	$1,590	12% below the national average	$1,267	$8,801
Prisma Health Tuomey HospitalSumter, SC · CCN 420070	74	$1,595	12% below the national average	$1,262	$11,138
McLeod Regional Medical Center-Pee DeeFlorence, SC · CCN 420051	541	$1,595	12% below the national average	$1,266	$13,872
Lexington Medical CenterWest Columbia, SC · CCN 420073	202	$1,596	12% below the national average	$1,264	$8,348
Prisma Health Baptist Easley HospitalEasley, SC · CCN 420015	32	$1,600	12% below the national average	$1,277	$10,509
Tidelands Waccamaw Community HospitalMurrells Inlet, SC · CCN 420098	195	$1,601	12% below the national average	$1,288	$11,460
MUSC Medical CenterCharleston, SC · CCN 420004 · +$182 outlier payments per case	670	$1,603	12% below the national average	$1,274	$16,260
Trident Medical CenterCharleston, SC · CCN 420079	70	$1,604	12% below the national average	$1,270	$22,715
Carolina Pines Regional Medical CenterHartsville, SC · CCN 420010	16	$1,608	11% below the national average	$1,264	$13,518
Aiken Regional Medical CenterAiken, SC · CCN 420082	35	$1,611	11% below the national average	$1,277	$13,912
St Francis-DowntownGreenville, SC · CCN 420023	204	$1,617	11% below the national average	$1,284	$19,022
Prisma Health Greenville Memorial HospitalGreenville, SC · CCN 420078	473	$1,619	11% below the national average	$1,289	$14,289
Prisma Health Patewood HospitalGreenville, SC · CCN 420102	71	$1,622	11% below the national average	$1,317	$14,871
Mount Pleasant HospitalMount Pleasant, SC · CCN 420104	75	$1,624	10% below the national average	$1,293	$8,851
Bon Secours-St Francis Xavier HospitalCharleston, SC · CCN 420065	171	$1,626	10% below the national average	$1,287	$9,407
Grand Strand Regional Medical CenterMyrtle Beach, SC · CCN 420085	47	$1,630	10% below the national average	$1,302	$29,779
MUSC Health Florence Medical CenterFlorence, SC · CCN 420091	39	$1,630	10% below the national average	$1,301	$26,299
McLeod Loris HospitalLoris, SC · CCN 420105	77	$1,630	10% below the national average	$1,300	$12,895
KershawHealthCamden, SC · CCN 420048	13	$1,635	About average	$1,309	$21,352
Prisma Health BaptistColumbia, SC · CCN 420086	21	$1,635	About average	$1,307	$12,503
Prisma Health Richland HospitalColumbia, SC · CCN 420018	73	$1,635	About average	$1,304	$12,590
Pelham Medical CenterGreer, SC · CCN 420103	78	$1,638	About average	$1,308	$12,121
Prisma Health Hillcrest HospitalSimpsonville, SC · CCN 420037	86	$1,641	About average	$1,325	$15,949
Tidelands Georgetown Memorial HospitalGeorgetown, SC · CCN 420020	73	$1,642	About average	$1,317	$10,661
Novant Health Hilton Head Medical CenterHilton Head Island, SC · CCN 420080	30	$1,645	About average	$1,316	$18,610
Roper St Francis Hospital-Berkeley IncSummerville, SC · CCN 420110	15	$1,649	About average	$1,314	$9,823
MUSC Health Lancaster Medical CenterLancaster, SC · CCN 420036	49	$1,688	About average	$1,349	$32,581
MUSC Health Columbia Medical Center DowntownColumbia, SC · CCN 420026	27	$1,692	About average	$1,348	$14,628
Anmed HealthAnderson, SC · CCN 420027	143	$1,697	About average	$1,344	$15,857
Self Regional HealthcareGreenwood, SC · CCN 420071	36	$1,711	About average	$1,357	$9,184
Beaufort County Memorial HospitalBeaufort, SC · CCN 420067	114	$1,733	About average	$1,381	$6,625
Prisma Health Oconee Memorial HospitalSeneca, SC · CCN 420009	62	$1,754	About average	$1,411	$12,480
Colleton Medical CenterWalterboro, SC · CCN 420030	20	$1,758	About average	$1,405	$14,832
Spartanburg Medical CenterSpartanburg, SC · CCN 420007	338	$1,777	About average	$1,413	$12,203

National trend

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

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2020: 186,493 procedures at 2,033 hospitals · 2021: 203,386 procedures at 2,103 hospitals · 2022: 198,293 procedures at 2,035 hospitals · 2023: 202,554 procedures at 2,007 hospitals · 2024: 208,333 procedures at 1,991 hospitals

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National average payment and billed charge for Level 2 Upper GI Procedures
Year of care	Average payment	Average billed charge
2020	$1,545	$11K
2021	$1,624	$11K
2022	$1,646	$12K
2023	$1,719	$13K
2024	$1,815	$14K

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 2 Upper GI Procedures, 2024
State	Hospitals	Cases	Average payment	Typical range
Vermont	6	377	$1,027	$845–$993
Mississippi	27	1,517	$1,477	$1,550–$1,595
Alabama	43	4,221	$1,560	$1,518–$1,586
Louisiana	32	2,348	$1,585	$1,580–$1,599
Tennessee	41	4,358	$1,593	$1,566–$1,621
West Virginia	17	1,850	$1,594	$1,551–$1,613
Ohio	88	8,558	$1,607	$1,602–$1,657
South Carolina	39	4,850	$1,625	$1,601–$1,643
Oklahoma	36	3,876	$1,632	$1,608–$1,654
Arkansas	23	1,701	$1,633	$1,605–$1,713
Iowa	24	2,336	$1,637	$1,628–$1,735
Kentucky	44	3,946	$1,639	$1,604–$1,680
Kansas	29	3,078	$1,651	$1,620–$1,726
Missouri	50	6,250	$1,657	$1,645–$1,713
Utah	24	2,774	$1,674	$1,659–$1,704
Michigan	63	5,044	$1,680	$1,658–$1,725
Texas	147	13,129	$1,687	$1,651–$1,732
North Carolina	62	6,724	$1,687	$1,656–$1,708
Georgia	69	5,427	$1,689	$1,616–$1,754
Virginia	53	7,105	$1,691	$1,631–$1,760
Nebraska	16	1,614	$1,699	$1,672–$1,723
Florida	132	13,872	$1,708	$1,706–$1,724
Indiana	56	5,387	$1,712	$1,691–$1,734
New Mexico	13	914	$1,729	$1,657–$1,775
Maine	11	1,038	$1,741	$1,678–$1,782
Wisconsin	52	4,716	$1,748	$1,708–$1,776
Pennsylvania	87	9,237	$1,762	$1,699–$1,820
Idaho	12	1,421	$1,765	$1,712–$1,831
Illinois	84	9,354	$1,792	$1,758–$1,822
North Dakota	6	1,160	$1,794	$1,761–$1,857
South Dakota	7	1,422	$1,801	$1,759–$1,900
Montana	9	1,328	$1,811	$1,769–$1,874
Colorado	36	3,352	$1,819	$1,803–$1,811
New Hampshire	13	2,049	$1,858	$1,805–$1,894
Wyoming	7	210	$1,859	$1,892–$1,911
Arizona	38	4,351	$1,861	$1,833–$1,856
Minnesota	28	4,454	$1,861	$1,792–$1,826
Delaware	5	721	$1,902	$1,896–$1,909
District of Columbia	5	1,155	$1,918	$1,910–$1,942
Rhode Island	8	696	$1,919	$1,918–$1,931
Washington	42	4,083	$1,935	$1,897–$2,000
Alaska	5	323	$2,004	$1,964–$2,103
New Jersey	49	4,740	$2,013	$1,992–$2,111
Oregon	21	1,674	$2,019	$1,971–$2,011
Nevada	14	807	$2,030	$2,007–$2,038
Massachusetts	49	8,033	$2,031	$2,019–$2,043
New York	87	10,807	$2,088	$2,017–$2,141
Connecticut	21	2,140	$2,108	$2,093–$2,141
Hawaii	7	441	$2,151	$2,136–$2,266
California	154	17,365	$2,420	$2,335–$2,439

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.