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Top 20 hospitals by gastroenterology procedure volume
Gastrointestinal (GI) conditions are common and, usually, relatively mild. Issues of the stomach, esophagus, intestines, and other gastroenterological concerns are listed as the primary diagnosis for about 66.4 million ambulatory care visits annually.
What is gastroenterology?
Gastroenterology is the field of medicine that focuses on treating complications and illnesses related to the human digestive system. Gastroenterology is supported and enabled by a wide range of pharmaceutical therapies and medical devices, including intragastric balloons, duodenoscopes, band ligators, and more.
What is a gastroenterologist?
Gastroenterologists study and treat afflictions and structural changes of the GI tract, including the esophagus, stomach, intestines, rectum, pancreas gallbladder, and liver.
In 2024, more than 18,700 gastroenterologists were actively practicing in the U.S.
Most gastroenterology procedures are performed as outpatient care. If you’re selling medical devices, supplies, or pharmaceutical therapies into the gastroenterology market, you can find sales opportunities by identifying hospitals and other outpatient care facilities with high volumes of gastroenterology procedures.
Below, we’ve compiled a list of 20 hospitals ranked by relative volume of outpatient gastroenterology procedures.
| Rank | Definitive ID | Hospital | City | State | % total procedures | Explore dataset |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3120 | Cleveland Clinic Main Campus | Cleveland | OH | 9.43% | Explore |
| 2 | 588 | Stanford Hospital - 300 Pasteur Dr | Stanford | CA | 5.04% | Explore |
| 3 | 2096 | University Hospital | Ann Arbor | MI | 4.03% | Explore |
| 4 | 2837 | The Mount Sinai Hospital (AKA Mount Sinai Medical Center) | New York | NY | 3.61% | Explore |
| 5 | 1365 | IU Health Methodist Hospital | Indianapolis | IN | 2.79% | Explore |
| 6 | 2191 | Mayo Clinic Hospital - Saint Marys Campus | Rochester | MN | 2.39% | Explore |
| 7 | 4039 | Doctors Hospital at Renaissance Health (AKA DHR Health) | Edinburg | TX | 1.16% | Explore |
| 8 | 4127 | CHRISTUS Mother Frances Hospital - Tyler | Tyler | TX | 1.03% | Explore |
| 9 | 1979 | Boston Childrens Hospital | Boston | MA | 0.98% | Explore |
| 10 | 1970 | Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center | Boston | MA | 0.86% | Explore |
| 11 | 550 | UC San Diego Medical Center | San Diego | CA | 0.82% | Explore |
| 12 | 776 | Cleveland Clinic Florida - Weston (AKA Weston Hospital) | Weston | FL | 0.79% | Explore |
| 13 | 5576 | Cincinnati Childrens Burnet Campus | Cincinnati | OH | 0.78% | Explore |
| 14 | 178 | Mayo Clinic Hospital - Arizona | Phoenix | AZ | 0.78% | Explore |
| 15 | 2111 | Henry Ford Hospital | Detroit | MI | 0.73% | Explore |
| 16 | 3158 | University of Cincinnati Medical Center (FKA University Hospital) | Cincinnati | OH | 0.61% | Explore |
| 17 | 998 | Piedmont Atlanta Hospital (AKA Piedmont Hospital) | Atlanta | GA | 0.61% | Explore |
| 18 | 718 | Hartford Hospital | Hartford | CT | 0.60% | Explore |
| 19 | 207 | Banner - University Medical Center Tucson (FKA University of Arizona Medical Center) | Tucson | AZ | 0.59% | Explore |
| 20 | 430 | Cedars-Sinai Medical Center | Los Angeles | CA | 0.58% | Explore |
Fig 1. Analysis of outpatient hospital procedure data from the Atlas All-Payor Claims Dataset for 2023, the most recent full year of data available. Data is sourced from multiple medical claims clearinghouses. Data accessed September 2024.
Which hospitals performed the most gastroenterology procedures?
According to our medical claims dataset, the Cleveland Clinic Main Campus in Cleveland, Ohio, performed 9.43% of outpatient gastroenterology procedures in 2023, putting them in the No. 1 position on our list.
In second is Stanford Hospital in Stanford, California, with 5.04% outpatient gastroenterology procedures.
University Hospital in Ann Arbor, Michigan, takes third place on our list with 4.03% of total procedures.
Altogether, these 20 hospitals performed 90,694 outpatient gastroenterology procedures in 2021.
What are the most common GI procedures?
In recent years, the most common procedures treating GI conditions included liver elastography, breath hydrogen/methane test, GI tract imaging (via capsule endoscopy), esophagus motility study, and anorectal manometry.
Most of these procedures seek to examine otherwise inaccessible parts of the GI tract through the use of medical devices like wired or wireless cameras, ultrasound, and pressure-sensitive instruments.
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