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

Removal of an internal ureter stent through the skin

CPT 50384the billing code this page is about

An internally placed ureter stent is taken out through a skin puncture in the back, using X-ray guidance.

Hospitals typically charge $2,927 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,405 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $3,158. Most fall between $1,561 and $5,573 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,405
States
50
Filings dated
Dec 2023 – 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 1,405 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
$1,049$1,889$2,927$4,900$6,908

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,049 vs $6,908).

How the prices are spread

$549 – $727: 21 hospitals$549$727 – $962: 18 hospitals$962 – $1,273: 99 hospitals$962$1,273 – $1,685: 100 hospitals$1,685 – $2,230: 143 hospitals$1,685$2,230 – $2,951: 258 hospitals$2,951 – $3,906: 212 hospitals$2,951$3,906 – $5,170: 170 hospitals$5,170 – $6,844: 170 hospitals$5,170$6,844 – $9,058: 74 hospitals$6,844median $2,927price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,265 of 1,405 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$549$72721
$727$96218
$962$1,27399
$1,273$1,685100
$1,685$2,230143
$2,230$2,951258
$2,951$3,906212
$3,906$5,170170
$5,170$6,844170
$6,844$9,05874

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$2,136
Median cash price$2,927
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.37×

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 $2,927.

Alaska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 3 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 $3,202 across 37 hospitalsWA$3,202Idaho: median $5,304 across 11 hospitalsID$5,304Montana: 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 $2,146 across 39 hospitalsMN$2,146Illinois: median $2,490 across 58 hospitalsIL$2,490Wisconsin: median $2,570 across 60 hospitalsWI$2,570Michigan: median $2,517 across 53 hospitalsMI$2,517New York: median $2,424 across 52 hospitalsNY$2,424Massachusetts: median $2,571 across 16 hospitalsMA$2,571Oregon: median $3,220 across 24 hospitalsOR$3,220Nevada: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $2,203 across 19 hospitalsIA$2,203Indiana: median $1,922 across 41 hospitalsIN$1,922Ohio: median $4,900 across 80 hospitalsOH$4,900Pennsylvania: median $3,549 across 70 hospitalsPA$3,549New Jersey: median $2,733 across 49 hospitalsNJ$2,733Connecticut: 8 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 $3,864 across 111 hospitalsCA$3,864Utah: median $3,212 across 23 hospitalsUT$3,212Colorado: median $3,553 across 32 hospitalsCO$3,553Nebraska: median $1,126 across 14 hospitalsNE$1,126Missouri: median $2,535 across 30 hospitalsMO$2,535Kentucky: median $2,321 across 10 hospitalsKY$2,321West Virginia: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $3,274 across 32 hospitalsVA$3,274Maryland: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $1,943 across 28 hospitalsAZ$1,943New Mexico: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $1,319 across 34 hospitalsTN$1,319North Carolina: median $1,654 across 37 hospitalsNC$1,654South Carolina: median $4,545 across 30 hospitalsSC$4,545Oklahoma: median $1,361 across 24 hospitalsOK$1,361Louisiana: median $1,528 across 20 hospitalsLA$1,528Mississippi: median $1,465 across 19 hospitalsMS$1,465Alabama: median $2,145 across 12 hospitalsAL$2,145Georgia: median $6,160 across 54 hospitalsGA$6,160Hawaii: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $2,404 across 110 hospitalsTX$2,404Florida: median $4,655 across 70 hospitalsFL$4,655
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,927. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Georgia GA54$6,160+110%$4,181 – $11,328
Idaho ID11$5,304+81%$2,566 – $5,304
Ohio OH80$4,900+67%$2,983 – $7,096
Florida FL70$4,655+59%$2,290 – $7,656
South Carolina SC30$4,545+55%$4,000 – $5,366
California CA111$3,864+32%$2,299 – $6,675
Colorado CO32$3,553+21%$2,025 – $5,468
Pennsylvania PA70$3,549+21%$2,137 – $6,318
Virginia VA32$3,274+12%$1,762 – $3,634
Oregon OR24$3,220+10%$406 – $4,995
Utah UT23$3,212+10%$3,212 – $3,778
Washington WA37$3,202+9%$1,516 – $4,639
New Jersey NJ49$2,733−7%$2,269 – $6,690
Massachusetts MA16$2,571−12%$1,404 – $6,876
Wisconsin WI60$2,570−12%$2,275 – $3,646
Missouri MO30$2,535−13%$1,696 – $3,508
Michigan MI53$2,517−14%$238 – $3,546
Illinois IL58$2,490−15%$1,150 – $5,103
New York NY52$2,424−17%$1,439 – $4,711
Texas TX110$2,404−18%$1,753 – $6,202
Kentucky KY10$2,321−21%$971 – $8,226
Iowa IA19$2,203−25%$2,203 – $3,730
Minnesota MN39$2,146−27%$1,388 – $2,983
Alabama AL12$2,145−27%$1,696 – $2,765
Arizona AZ28$1,943−34%$1,222 – $6,792
Indiana IN41$1,922−34%$1,080 – $3,366
North Carolina NC37$1,654−43%$693 – $2,849
Louisiana LA20$1,528−48%$858 – $3,480
Mississippi MS19$1,465−50%$978 – $1,742
Oklahoma OK24$1,361−54%$371 – $2,430
Tennessee TN34$1,319−55%$1,028 – $9,427
Nebraska NE14$1,126−62%$1,086 – $1,491
Arkansas AR9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not 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 $2,927.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,256$2,935$1,626 – $5,741
Children’s30$4,523$1,561 – $8,224
Critical access112$2,608$1,269 – $4,534
Ownership
For-profit123$3,331$1,715 – $6,792
Government172$2,277$1,272 – $3,897
Non-profit1,103$3,091$1,643 – $5,492
System affiliation
Part of a system1,256$2,983$1,626 – $5,741
Independent149$2,577$1,432 – $4,848

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$5,132
Median cash price$2,927
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

1,114 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $3,115 and the average of the middle 60% is $3,326; most fall between $1,536 and $6,025.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,114 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
$1,067$1,824$3,115$5,103$7,180

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,067 vs $7,180).

Of the 1,182 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,114 gave a usable cash price; 21 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 46 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,405 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (36%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,497 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,405
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here37
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded54
Hospitals that filed this code1,497

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 Removal Indwelling 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, “Removal of an internal ureter stent through the skin (CPT 50384) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-50384-removal-of-an-internal-ureter-stent-through-the-skin