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Procedure price report · Other non-OR therapeutic procedures of urinary tract

Exchange of an internal ureter stent through the skin

CPT 50382the billing code this page is about

An internal stent in the ureter is removed and a new one placed through a skin puncture in the back, using X-ray guidance.

Hospitals typically charge $3,202 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,337 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $3,390. Most fall between $1,689 and $5,796 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,337
States
50
Filings dated
Feb 2024 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 24, 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 1,337 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
$1,201$2,038$3,202$5,053$8,378

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,201 vs $8,378).

How the prices are spread

$695 – $915: 26 hospitals$695$915 – $1,204: 53 hospitals$1,204 – $1,585: 88 hospitals$1,204$1,585 – $2,086: 113 hospitals$2,086 – $2,746: 201 hospitals$2,086$2,746 – $3,615: 202 hospitals$3,615 – $4,758: 188 hospitals$3,615$4,758 – $6,263: 170 hospitals$6,263 – $8,244: 87 hospitals$6,263$8,244 – $10,852: 77 hospitals$8,244median $3,202price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,205 of 1,337 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$695$91526
$915$1,20453
$1,204$1,58588
$1,585$2,086113
$2,086$2,746201
$2,746$3,615202
$3,615$4,758188
$4,758$6,263170
$6,263$8,24487
$8,244$10,85277

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$2,136
Median cash price$3,202
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.50×

The Medicare figure is the national unadjusted OPPS rate for this code — what Medicare itself pays a hospital before local wage adjustment. It is a benchmark, not a price anyone is charged.

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $3,202.

Alaska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $1,986 across 34 hospitalsWA$1,986Idaho: median $4,318 across 11 hospitalsID$4,318Montana: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $2,627 across 36 hospitalsMN$2,627Illinois: median $3,141 across 58 hospitalsIL$3,141Wisconsin: median $2,275 across 48 hospitalsWI$2,275Michigan: median $2,266 across 54 hospitalsMI$2,266New York: median $2,481 across 53 hospitalsNY$2,481Massachusetts: median $5,406 across 23 hospitalsMA$5,406Oregon: median $3,495 across 26 hospitalsOR$3,495Nevada: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $2,695 across 20 hospitalsIA$2,695Indiana: median $1,740 across 40 hospitalsIN$1,740Ohio: median $4,900 across 77 hospitalsOH$4,900Pennsylvania: median $3,709 across 70 hospitalsPA$3,709New Jersey: median $4,350 across 49 hospitalsNJ$4,350Connecticut: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $4,298 across 103 hospitalsCA$4,298Utah: median $2,878 across 23 hospitalsUT$2,878Colorado: median $2,345 across 28 hospitalsCO$2,345Nebraska: median $2,215 across 15 hospitalsNE$2,215Missouri: median $3,025 across 26 hospitalsMO$3,025Kentucky: median $3,126 across 10 hospitalsKY$3,126West Virginia: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $3,144 across 27 hospitalsVA$3,144Maryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $2,289 across 27 hospitalsAZ$2,289New Mexico: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $1,251 across 27 hospitalsTN$1,251North Carolina: median $1,654 across 28 hospitalsNC$1,654South Carolina: median $4,891 across 28 hospitalsSC$4,891Oklahoma: median $1,361 across 27 hospitalsOK$1,361Louisiana: median $2,429 across 21 hospitalsLA$2,429Mississippi: median $1,465 across 14 hospitalsMS$1,465Alabama: median $3,578 across 12 hospitalsAL$3,578Georgia: median $6,775 across 49 hospitalsGA$6,775Hawaii: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $3,220 across 105 hospitalsTX$3,220Florida: median $3,848 across 70 hospitalsFL$3,848
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $3,202. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Georgia GA49$6,775+112%$3,137 – $10,980
Massachusetts MA23$5,406+69%$2,571 – $7,323
Ohio OH77$4,900+53%$3,670 – $7,096
South Carolina SC28$4,891+53%$4,469 – $6,200
New Jersey NJ49$4,350+36%$2,269 – $8,300
Idaho ID11$4,318+35%$4,000 – $5,304
California CA103$4,298+34%$2,777 – $8,378
Florida FL70$3,848+20%$2,619 – $7,656
Pennsylvania PA70$3,709+16%$2,137 – $4,697
Alabama AL12$3,578+12%$2,489 – $3,802
Oregon OR26$3,495+9%$1,499 – $4,995
Texas TX105$3,220+1%$2,089 – $5,478
Virginia VA27$3,144−2%$2,226 – $3,503
Illinois IL58$3,141−2%$1,602 – $5,978
Kentucky KY10$3,126−2%$1,016 – $8,226
Missouri MO26$3,025−6%$1,649 – $3,931
Utah UT23$2,878−10%$2,878 – $3,386
Iowa IA20$2,695−16%$1,782 – $5,006
Minnesota MN36$2,627−18%$2,257 – $4,340
New York NY53$2,481−22%$1,217 – $4,711
Louisiana LA21$2,429−24%$1,272 – $3,764
Colorado CO28$2,345−27%$1,868 – $5,188
Arizona AZ27$2,289−29%$1,559 – $11,279
Wisconsin WI48$2,275−29%$1,201 – $3,808
Michigan MI54$2,266−29%$1,429 – $4,709
Nebraska NE15$2,215−31%$1,597 – $3,554
Washington WA34$1,986−38%$1,491 – $5,254
Indiana IN40$1,740−46%$1,049 – $3,867
North Carolina NC28$1,654−48%$693 – $2,107
Mississippi MS14$1,465−54%$1,228 – $2,817
Oklahoma OK27$1,361−57%$411 – $2,909
Tennessee TN27$1,251−61%$679 – $2,492
Connecticut CT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not 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 $3,202.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,196$3,220$1,783 – $5,978
Children’s24$5,671$1,693 – $9,158
Critical access110$2,788$1,201 – $4,709
Ownership
For-profit132$3,486$1,895 – $8,725
Government159$2,424$1,251 – $4,661
Non-profit1,039$3,386$1,783 – $5,652
System affiliation
Part of a system1,188$3,274$1,755 – $5,978
Independent149$2,810$1,355 – $5,139

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$5,509
Median cash price$3,202
Cash as a share of list, median hospital60%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 40%. 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

1,059 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $3,386 and the average of the middle 60% is $3,513; most fall between $1,693 and $6,025.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,059 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
$1,201$2,064$3,386$5,191$8,378

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,201 vs $8,378).

Of the 1,123 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,059 gave a usable cash price; 18 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 45 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,337 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (34%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,428 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,337
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here36
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded2
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded52
Hospitals that filed this code1,428

Sections not shown for this setting

  • 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 24, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 24, 2026. The percentiles and averages use only the “counted” row.

Related procedures

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

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Rmvl & Rplcmt Intly Dwelling Ureteral Stent Prq.

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, “Exchange of an internal ureter stent through the skin (CPT 50382) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-50382-exchange-of-an-internal-ureter-stent-through-the-skin