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Procedure price report · Other OR therapeutic procedures of urinary tract

Open freezing treatment of kidney growths

CPT 50250the billing code this page is about

Through an open incision, one or more kidney masses are destroyed by freezing, including ultrasound imaging used during the operation.

Hospitals typically charge $2,111 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 161 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,482. Most fall between $1,734 and $5,339 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
161
States
35
Filings dated
Jun 2024 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 23, 2026

Median: half of hospitals filed less, half more — and it is a price some hospital actually filed. Average of the middle 60%: the mean of the prices between the 20th and 80th percentiles. We never publish the plain average, the lowest or the highest price: the extremes in hospital price files are chargemaster artefacts, not prices anyone pays.

What hospitals charge, from cheapest to most expensive

Cash price percentiles, outpatient, across 161 hospitals. Each figure is a price a hospital filed. 10th: one in ten hospitals charges less; 25th: a quarter charge less; Median: half charge less; 75th: three quarters charge less; 90th: nine in ten charge less.
10th25thMedian75th90th
$1,250$1,747$2,111$3,965$5,966

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 4.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,250 vs $5,966).

How the prices are spread

$641 – $802: 5 hospitals$641$802 – $1,002: 0 hospitals$1,002 – $1,252: 4 hospitals$1,002$1,252 – $1,565: 9 hospitals$1,565 – $1,956: 19 hospitals$1,565$1,956 – $2,445: 55 hospitals$2,445 – $3,056: 13 hospitals$2,445$3,056 – $3,819: 7 hospitals$3,819 – $4,774: 6 hospitals$3,819$4,774 – $5,966: 27 hospitals$4,774median $2,111price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (145 of 161 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$641$8025
$802$1,0020
$1,002$1,2524
$1,252$1,5659
$1,565$1,95619
$1,956$2,44555
$2,445$3,05613
$3,056$3,8197
$3,819$4,7746
$4,774$5,96627

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $2,111.

Alaska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAKMaine: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMNIllinois: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureILWisconsin: median $5,966 across 12 hospitalsWI$5,966Michigan: median $2,082 across 14 hospitalsMI$2,082New York: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNYMassachusetts: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIAIndiana: median $653 across 19 hospitalsIN$653Ohio: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figurePANew Jersey: median $5,110 across 12 hospitalsNJ$5,110Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $2,111 across 23 hospitalsCA$2,111Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMOKentucky: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVAMaryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAZNew Mexico: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceKSArkansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSCOklahoma: median $2,007 across 10 hospitalsOK$2,007Louisiana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMSAlabama: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceALGeorgia: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTXFlorida: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,111. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Wisconsin WI12$5,966+183%$5,966 – $5,966
New Jersey NJ12$5,110+142%$4,350 – $5,855
California CA23$2,1110%$2,111 – $2,111
Michigan MI14$2,082−1%$1,576 – $5,966
Oklahoma OK10$2,007−5%$2,007 – $2,007
Indiana IN19$653−69%$483 – $1,734
Illinois IL8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Pennsylvania PA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New York NY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Iowa IA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Texas TX1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV1not enough hospitals filed a usable price

Hospitals like yours

The same distribution cut by the kind of hospital. Hospital type and ownership come from CMS; a hospital counts as part of a system when its price file is shared with at least one other hospital under the same brand. The national median is $2,111.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care130$2,111$1,734 – $4,350
Children’s3fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access27$2,082$762 – $5,966
Ownership
For-profit14fewer than 20 hospitals
Government15fewer than 20 hospitals
Non-profit131$2,111$1,734 – $5,419
System affiliation
Part of a system131$2,111$1,734 – $5,419
Independent30$2,482$1,803 – $3,965

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,674
Median cash price$2,111
Cash as a share of list, median hospital61%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 39%. The share is the median of each hospital’s own cash ÷ list ratio, over hospitals that filed both — not the ratio of the two medians above.

The same procedure, inpatient

115 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,111 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,216; most fall between $1,734 and $4,156.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 115 hospitals. Each figure is a price a hospital filed. 10th: one in ten hospitals charges less; 25th: a quarter charge less; Median: half charge less; 75th: three quarters charge less; 90th: nine in ten charge less.
10th25thMedian75th90th
$1,400$1,972$2,111$3,003$5,966

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 4.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,400 vs $5,966).

Of the 146 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 115 gave a usable cash price; 22 carried a plausibility flag, 2 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 7 a list price only.

How complete is this

161 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (4%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 200 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted161
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here30
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded2
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded7
Hospitals that filed this code200

Sections not shown for this setting

  • Against Medicare: Medicare has no separately payable national outpatient (OPPS) rate for this code, so there is nothing honest to compare against.
  • Since our last snapshot: there is no earlier snapshot at least 90 days older than this one yet.

We last checked these hospitals’ price files for changes between September 4, 2026 and September 23, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 23, 2026. The percentiles and averages use only the “counted” row.

Related procedures

Part of the Other OR therapeutic procedures of urinary tract family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Open Ablation 1/>Renal Mass Lesion Cryosurgical.

Method

Source
The machine-readable price files every U.S. hospital is required by CMS to publish, parsed per hospital. Nothing is surveyed, sampled or modelled.
What counts
One cash (self-pay) price per hospital for this code and setting. A hospital’s own filing can rule its number out — a placeholder, a “not applicable” note, a list price standing in for cash — and our plausibility checks can flag a price far below what every other hospital files. Both kinds are disclosed above and excluded from the statistics; on the compare tool a flagged price is still shown.
Statistics
Percentiles are discrete: each is a price some hospital filed. The average is the mean of the prices between the 20th and 80th percentiles. We never publish the plain mean, the minimum or the maximum. A state needs 10 hospitals and a segment 20 to show a figure; otherwise the row shows its count and no number. Medicare is the national unadjusted OPPS rate where one exists.
Names
Procedure names on these pages are our own plain-language titles, not the AMA’s copyrighted CPT descriptors. The code is the identity.

The full rules — sources, statistics, thresholds, limitations — are on the methodology page.

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Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Open freezing treatment of kidney growths (CPT 50250) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-50250-open-freezing-treatment-of-kidney-growths