Cost

At Center for Health and Cancer Prevention, if you pay for the procedure on the day it is done, we apply a same-day discount that is much less than you would pay at the hospital or most other practices (when we last checked we were the lowest cost in the US). This discount is applied for anyone that pays for the procedure the same day, be they insurance companies, patients with insurance, or patients that have no insurance.

The full cost for a procedure, with the discount applied, is $975.00 and that includes the physician charge, the facility charge, the anesthesia, and the nurse anesthetist.

The only thing not included in the cost would be the cost of the lab should we find something during the procedure and need to have it tested. In that case, it would be an additional $65.00 per test. This is done through a separate business called Pathology Laboratory (or Aurora Diagnostics), and you would receive a separate bill from them after your procedure was complete.

• If you are getting a colonoscopy sooner than 10 years, even if it is just for preventative reasons such as personal or family history of colon cancer, your insurance company may not cover the full amount of your procedure and might put some, or all, of the procedure cost towards your deductible.
• If you have Medicare and have a screening colonoscopy, but we find a polyp (a small clump of cells that may or may not be cancerous) or take a biopsy during the procedure, Medicare considers the procedure to be diagnostic and will cover everything except for 20% of the procedure cost, which will then go towards your deductible.

If you have Medicare, your colonoscopy is also likely to be at no cost to you, unless you have one of the exceptions listed above.

If you have a secondary, or supplemental insurance, in addition to your Medicare plan, you will likely not have to pay much, if anything, even if a polyp or biopsy is taken.