Surgery · procedure code 43239
Upper endoscopy cost in Arkansas
Forrest City, AR has 28 filings for Upper GI endoscopy with biopsy. We need 100 before we will publish a market figure, so this page shows Arkansas instead and says so. These are the rates plans published under federal law. Not billed charges, and nothing here is scaled, adjusted or estimated to stand in for the market we do not hold.
State market
Upper endoscopy
AR · procedure code 43239
We do not have a publishable distribution for Forrest City, AR, so this is the AR market instead. The label above says so on purpose.
Middle price
$335
Half of this market is above it, half below
Middle half spans
$219 to $515
2.4x from low to high
The expensive end
$738
What the priciest providers charge
Medicare reference · Arkansas (nearest published locality)
$368
Performed in an office
$114
Physician fee in a facility
Read this carefully. The facility figure is the physician fee only. When the same service happens in a hospital outpatient department, the hospital bills its own facility payment on top, and that amount is not in this dataset. So the lower number here does not mean the hospital is the cheaper site. It usually is not. We will not publish a total cost by site of service until we hold the facility payment.
Negotiated prices from published filings, reported only where the sample supports it. Statewide peer distribution, not a single-city sample. What plans have agreed to pay, not what a patient is billed. Filings as of July 20, 2026.
Reading it
What this distribution actually says.
The spread
The middle half of this market runs from $219 to $515, a 2.4x difference for the same procedure code in the same city. That gap is between contracts, not between quality.
Against Medicare
Medicare pays $368 for this service at its Arkansas locality. We do not turn that into a percentage here, because the price above is Arkansas and that Medicare figure is one locality inside it. Two different maps do not divide.
The expensive end
One in ten filings sits at or above $738. If a plan's network is weighted toward that end, the difference does not show up in a premium quote. It shows up in the claims.
How wide the data runs
The carriers that filed for this procedure in this market. What each plan has agreed to pay, side by side. These are prices, not bills, so they do not show how often anyone needs it.
The same service elsewhere
Upper endoscopy across other markets.
Same market
Other services in Forrest City, AR.
Put this in front of a client.
Every figure on this page carries its source, its scope and the date the corpus was built, so it survives being forwarded to someone who was not in the meeting.