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

Removal of a ureter stent through the urethra

CPT 50386the billing code this page is about

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

Hospitals typically charge $2,398 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 729 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,424. Most fall between $1,078 and $4,365 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
729
States
48
Filings dated
Mar 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 729 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
$524$1,275$2,398$3,864$5,466

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 10× what the cheapest tenth charges ($524 vs $5,466).

How the prices are spread

$304 – $415: 14 hospitals$304$415 – $566: 39 hospitals$566 – $772: 30 hospitals$566$772 – $1,053: 21 hospitals$1,053 – $1,437: 57 hospitals$1,053$1,437 – $1,961: 95 hospitals$1,961 – $2,675: 146 hospitals$1,961$2,675 – $3,650: 86 hospitals$3,650 – $4,980: 105 hospitals$3,650$4,980 – $6,794: 64 hospitals$4,980median $2,398price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (657 of 729 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$304$41514
$415$56639
$566$77230
$772$1,05321
$1,053$1,43757
$1,437$1,96195
$1,961$2,675146
$2,675$3,65086
$3,650$4,980105
$4,980$6,79464

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$2,136
Median cash price$2,398
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.12×

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 $2,398.

Alaska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 4 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 $3,844 across 24 hospitalsWA$3,844Idaho: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $2,825 across 34 hospitalsIL$2,825Wisconsin: median $760 across 14 hospitalsWI$760Michigan: median $1,444 across 29 hospitalsMI$1,444New York: median $2,424 across 34 hospitalsNY$2,424Massachusetts: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $3,899 across 23 hospitalsOR$3,899Nevada: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $1,811 across 19 hospitalsIA$1,811Indiana: median $653 across 23 hospitalsIN$653Ohio: median $2,332 across 45 hospitalsOH$2,332Pennsylvania: median $3,181 across 32 hospitalsPA$3,181New Jersey: median $2,734 across 37 hospitalsNJ$2,734Connecticut: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $3,864 across 73 hospitalsCA$3,864Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $1,747 across 20 hospitalsCO$1,747Nebraska: median $1,086 across 12 hospitalsNE$1,086Missouri: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $3,146 across 19 hospitalsVA$3,146Maryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $267 across 17 hospitalsOK$267Louisiana: median $1,063 across 17 hospitalsLA$1,063Mississippi: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMSAlabama: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $2,523 across 25 hospitalsGA$2,523Hawaii: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $2,108 across 66 hospitalsTX$2,108Florida: median $2,557 across 54 hospitalsFL$2,557
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,398. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Oregon OR23$3,899+63%$2,522 – $4,277
California CA73$3,864+61%$1,997 – $5,466
Washington WA24$3,844+60%$1,122 – $5,814
Pennsylvania PA32$3,181+33%$2,137 – $5,276
Virginia VA19$3,146+31%$464 – $3,257
Illinois IL34$2,825+18%$535 – $4,778
New Jersey NJ37$2,734+14%$2,267 – $4,881
Florida FL54$2,557+7%$1,078 – $4,877
Georgia GA25$2,523+5%$2,393 – $4,365
New York NY34$2,424+1%$395 – $2,869
Ohio OH45$2,332−3%$1,639 – $4,792
Texas TX66$2,108−12%$1,465 – $2,688
Iowa IA19$1,811−24%$1,421 – $1,811
Colorado CO20$1,747−27%$1,200 – $3,333
Michigan MI29$1,444−40%$712 – $2,874
Nebraska NE12$1,086−55%$554 – $1,648
Louisiana LA17$1,063−56%$697 – $1,884
Wisconsin WI14$760−68%$760 – $2,366
Indiana IN23$653−73%$426 – $2,590
Oklahoma OK17$267−89%$267 – $4,734
North Carolina NC9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not 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 $2,398.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care643$2,424$1,086 – $4,379
Children’s18fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access64$1,892$636 – $4,160
Ownership
For-profit60$2,089$656 – $4,365
Government96$2,307$793 – $3,120
Non-profit569$2,424$1,086 – $4,402
System affiliation
Part of a system644$2,424$1,122 – $4,411
Independent85$1,744$410 – $3,028

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,585
Median cash price$2,398
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

531 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,470 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,531; most fall between $1,062 and $4,411.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 531 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
$546$1,200$2,470$4,043$5,466

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 10× what the cheapest tenth charges ($546 vs $5,466).

Of the 568 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 531 gave a usable cash price; 13 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 24 a list price only.

How complete is this

729 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (18%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 791 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted729
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here40
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 — excluded21
Hospitals that filed this code791

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 Int Dwell Ureteral Stent Transurethral.

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 a ureter stent through the urethra (CPT 50386) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-50386-removal-of-a-ureter-stent-through-the-urethra