Price Comparison
Surgery Center Price
$500-$1,500
Ambulatory / outpatient facility
Hospital Price
$1,500-$4,000
Inpatient hospital facility
Real prices from our database
Not an estimate. These figures come from actual hospital-disclosed cash prices and insurer-negotiated rates for CPT 45378 (Diagnostic colonoscopy) in FairVisitHealth's price-transparency corpus.
Typical cash price
$1,571
Most fall between $1,250 and $2,150 (25th–75th percentile)
Based on 1,578 hospital-disclosed cash prices
Your negotiation target
$338
Median rate insurers actually pay for the same code
Across 37,767 insurer-negotiated rates — ask providers to match it
Facility + procedure. Anesthesia and pathology (if polyps are removed) may be billed separately.
Source: FairVisitHealth analysis of 1,578 hospital-disclosed cash prices and 37,767 insurer-negotiated rates for CPT 45378, from CMS hospital price-transparency machine-readable files and insurer Transparency-in-Coverage files. Data as of July 2026.