A Colonoscopy Runs $175 to $7,684
$175 to $7,684 typical commercial rate, diagnostic colonoscopy (CPT 45378)
Across 145 hospitals reporting 3 or more commercial payers, the median negotiated rate for a diagnostic colonoscopy is $2,306. GENEVA GENERAL HOSPITAL posts $175. CAPITAL HEALTH - HOPEWELL posts $7,684. The 90th-percentile hospital charges 6.7x the 10th-percentile. The distribution below shows a long tail of high prices, not a cluster around a fair rate.
Method: Per-hospital price is the median of per-payer medians, commercial rates only, 3+ distinct payers, no data-quality flags (n=145). All figures and the histogram are recomputed from the current corpus on each data refresh.
Verification: Verified by phone; source rows archived — The top of this range is independently verified: in July 2026 Capital Health's own estimate line quoted $7,684 billed to Aetna, matching the rate in the hospital's current price file to the dollar. Source rows archived.
Data: recomputed on data refresh; verification July 2026. Source: each hospital's CMS-mandated machine-readable file (45 CFR 180).