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

Exchange of a ureter stent through the urethra

CPT 50385the billing code this page is about

An internal ureter stent is removed and replaced by working through the urethra with X-ray guidance, without using a scope.

Hospitals typically charge $2,643 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 652 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,740. Most fall between $1,238 and $4,496 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
652
States
49
Filings dated
Jun 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 652 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
$687$1,470$2,643$4,176$6,609

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($687 vs $6,609).

How the prices are spread

$361 – $492: 20 hospitals$361$492 – $669: 11 hospitals$669 – $911: 14 hospitals$669$911 – $1,240: 55 hospitals$1,240 – $1,688: 52 hospitals$1,240$1,688 – $2,298: 80 hospitals$2,298 – $3,128: 131 hospitals$2,298$3,128 – $4,259: 115 hospitals$4,259 – $5,797: 47 hospitals$4,259$5,797 – $7,892: 63 hospitals$5,797median $2,643price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (588 of 652 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$361$49220
$492$66911
$669$91114
$911$1,24055
$1,240$1,68852
$1,688$2,29880
$2,298$3,128131
$3,128$4,259115
$4,259$5,79747
$5,797$7,89263

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$2,136
Median cash price$2,643
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.24×

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 $2,643.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $1,284 across 28 hospitalsWA$1,284Idaho: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $2,382 across 14 hospitalsMN$2,382Illinois: median $3,673 across 31 hospitalsIL$3,673Wisconsin: median $2,976 across 23 hospitalsWI$2,976Michigan: median $1,444 across 25 hospitalsMI$1,444New York: median $2,424 across 29 hospitalsNY$2,424Massachusetts: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 5 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 $2,643 across 13 hospitalsIA$2,643Indiana: median $687 across 26 hospitalsIN$687Ohio: median $4,788 across 31 hospitalsOH$4,788Pennsylvania: median $2,410 across 35 hospitalsPA$2,410New Jersey: median $3,786 across 37 hospitalsNJ$3,786Connecticut: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $4,234 across 52 hospitalsCA$4,234Utah: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $1,886 across 18 hospitalsCO$1,886Nebraska: median $2,062 across 10 hospitalsNE$2,062Missouri: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $3,202 across 19 hospitalsVA$3,202Maryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $1,356 across 12 hospitalsTN$1,356North Carolina: median $1,685 across 10 hospitalsNC$1,685South Carolina: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $352 across 17 hospitalsOK$352Louisiana: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $2,038 across 21 hospitalsGA$2,038Hawaii: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $3,040 across 49 hospitalsTX$3,040Florida: median $3,244 across 34 hospitalsFL$3,244
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,643. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Ohio OH31$4,788+81%$1,889 – $7,175
California CA52$4,234+60%$2,671 – $4,234
New Jersey NJ37$3,786+43%$2,267 – $5,855
Illinois IL31$3,673+39%$1,470 – $6,201
Florida FL34$3,244+23%$3,111 – $6,609
Virginia VA19$3,202+21%$1,441 – $3,202
Texas TX49$3,040+15%$2,089 – $3,588
Wisconsin WI23$2,976+13%$2,230 – $2,976
Iowa IA13$2,6430%$2,643 – $2,643
New York NY29$2,424−8%$605 – $2,609
Pennsylvania PA35$2,410−9%$162 – $6,593
Minnesota MN14$2,382−10%$2,382 – $3,808
Nebraska NE10$2,062−22%$2,062 – $2,580
Georgia GA21$2,038−23%$1,110 – $4,365
Colorado CO18$1,886−29%$963 – $2,730
North Carolina NC10$1,685−36%$1,135 – $1,685
Michigan MI25$1,444−45%$1,444 – $2,615
Tennessee TN12$1,356−49%$1,202 – $1,356
Washington WA28$1,284−51%$942 – $5,191
Indiana IN26$687−74%$483 – $1,696
Oklahoma OK17$352−87%$352 – $3,874
Arizona AZ9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not 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 $2,643.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care568$2,643$1,351 – $4,365
Children’s20$2,730$1,186 – $7,158
Critical access60$2,374$771 – $4,948
Ownership
For-profit60$2,230$1,202 – $4,000
Government82$2,304$1,110 – $3,195
Non-profit506$2,705$1,330 – $4,788
System affiliation
Part of a system571$2,643$1,356 – $4,731
Independent81$2,254$498 – $3,764

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$4,520
Median cash price$2,643
Cash as a share of list, median hospital59%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 41%. 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

460 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,674 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,763; most fall between $1,202 and $4,414.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 460 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
$942$1,470$2,674$4,234$6,609

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($942 vs $6,609).

Of the 493 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 460 gave a usable cash price; 14 carried a plausibility flag, 3 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 16 a list price only.

How complete is this

652 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (16%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 713 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted652
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here38
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded4
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded19
Hospitals that filed this code713

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 Remove & Replace Indwell Ureteral Stent Trurthrl.

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 a ureter stent through the urethra (CPT 50385) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-50385-exchange-of-a-ureter-stent-through-the-urethra