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Best-value hospitals for colonoscopy with polyp removal.

Ranked on a composite of cash-pay price (low is good) and CMS Care Compare rating (high is good). The top of this list is where price and quality both work in your favor. National rankings. CPT code 45385.

1
Houston Methodist Hospital
Houston, TX
5/5 CMS
$485
2
NYU Langone Tisch Hospital
New York, NY
5/5 CMS
$499
3
Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla
La Jolla, CA
5/5 CMS
$846
4
Torrance Memorial Medical Center
Torrance, CA
4/5 CMS
$468
5
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, OH
5/5 CMS
$1,278
6
Cedars-Sinai Marina del Rey Hospital
Marina del Rey, CA
4/5 CMS
$656
7
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Nashville, TN
4/5 CMS
$705
8
Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas
Dallas, TX
4/5 CMS
$761
9
Jefferson Regional Medical Center
Jefferson Hills, PA
3/5 CMS
$38
10
John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital
Chicago, IL
3/5 CMS
$433

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This list filters to hospitals with a CMS rating. The full procedure page covers every hospital with prices for colonoscopy with polyp removal, including pediatric and specialty hospitals not rated by CMS.

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How "best value" is computed.

Each hospital gets two ranks: one by cash-pay price (cheapest = rank 1) and one by CMS overall rating (highest = rank 1). The two are summed; the lowest sum is the best value. Ties broken by price.

Hospitals without a published CMS rating (specialty, pediatric, cancer-only) are excluded from this ranking because the composite would be meaningless. They show up on the procedure overview page instead.

This is one heuristic. Some patients reasonably weight rating heavier than price, others the reverse. The comparison tool lets you sort by price-only, rating-only, or this same composite, and add your insurance for plan-specific numbers.