The hospital charged a total of $19,206 for the procedure, including physician fees. The insurer negotiated the price to $5,816 and paid $1,979, leaving a patient share of $4,047.

The hospital charged a total of $19,206 for the procedure, including physician fees. The insurer negotiated the price to $5,816 and paid $1,979, leaving a patient share of $4,047.

A screening colonoscopy in the hospital setting is about 65% more expensive than an ASC. Same standards often apply for orthopedic and spine. At my ASC in South Illinois, we charge $150 for self-pay ...

The Jeopardy! host shared photos and videos from the hospital prep room before she underwent the standard procedure. “It’s not terribly fun getting older,” she wrote.

Then I started to research the cost.” He asked the hospital what it charges for a diagnostic colonoscopy and was told he’d been sent a cost estimate through his online patient portal prior to the ...

He went in for a colonoscopy. His Chicago hospital charged $19,000 for two. A man in Chicago with a troubling symptom underwent a common procedure at Northwestern Memorial Hospital.