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

Removal of a kidney drainage tube with X-ray guidance

CPT 50389the billing code this page is about

A nephrostomy tube draining the kidney through the skin is removed, with fluoroscopic imaging used during the removal.

Hospitals typically charge $984 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,843 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,059. Most fall between $515 and $1,927 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,843
States
50
Filings dated
Jan 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 1,843 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
$356$602$984$1,680$2,710

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($356 vs $2,710).

How the prices are spread

$240 – $321: 57 hospitals$240$321 – $428: 139 hospitals$428 – $572: 127 hospitals$428$572 – $763: 262 hospitals$763 – $1,019: 273 hospitals$763$1,019 – $1,360: 272 hospitals$1,360 – $1,815: 216 hospitals$1,360$1,815 – $2,423: 171 hospitals$2,423 – $3,235: 95 hospitals$2,423$3,235 – $4,319: 47 hospitals$3,235median $984price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,659 of 1,843 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$240$32157
$321$428139
$428$572127
$572$763262
$763$1,019273
$1,019$1,360272
$1,360$1,815216
$1,815$2,423171
$2,423$3,23595
$3,235$4,31947

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$712
Median cash price$984
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.38×

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 $984.

Alaska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $688 across 10 hospitalsME$688Vermont: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $964 across 47 hospitalsWA$964Idaho: median $1,320 across 14 hospitalsID$1,320Montana: median $650 across 16 hospitalsMT$650North Dakota: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $756 across 39 hospitalsMN$756Illinois: median $1,063 across 78 hospitalsIL$1,063Wisconsin: median $925 across 62 hospitalsWI$925Michigan: median $732 across 64 hospitalsMI$732New York: median $1,072 across 77 hospitalsNY$1,072Massachusetts: median $1,203 across 29 hospitalsMA$1,203Oregon: median $1,333 across 35 hospitalsOR$1,333Nevada: 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: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $1,095 across 24 hospitalsIA$1,095Indiana: median $764 across 52 hospitalsIN$764Ohio: median $1,226 across 104 hospitalsOH$1,226Pennsylvania: median $1,225 across 90 hospitalsPA$1,225New Jersey: median $902 across 56 hospitalsNJ$902Connecticut: median $1,188 across 17 hospitalsCT$1,188Rhode Island: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $1,498 across 148 hospitalsCA$1,498Utah: median $1,065 across 26 hospitalsUT$1,065Colorado: median $795 across 37 hospitalsCO$795Nebraska: median $575 across 19 hospitalsNE$575Missouri: median $818 across 43 hospitalsMO$818Kentucky: median $1,051 across 27 hospitalsKY$1,051West Virginia: median $838 across 13 hospitalsWV$838Virginia: median $626 across 39 hospitalsVA$626Maryland: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $628 across 38 hospitalsAZ$628New Mexico: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $741 across 17 hospitalsKS$741Arkansas: median $470 across 15 hospitalsAR$470Tennessee: median $353 across 41 hospitalsTN$353North Carolina: median $464 across 46 hospitalsNC$464South Carolina: median $1,219 across 34 hospitalsSC$1,219Oklahoma: median $529 across 30 hospitalsOK$529Louisiana: median $491 across 30 hospitalsLA$491Mississippi: median $401 across 30 hospitalsMS$401Alabama: median $1,001 across 26 hospitalsAL$1,001Georgia: median $1,256 across 61 hospitalsGA$1,256Hawaii: median $652 across 12 hospitalsHI$652Texas: median $1,173 across 141 hospitalsTX$1,173Florida: median $1,477 across 92 hospitalsFL$1,477
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $984. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA148$1,498+52%$780 – $2,710
Florida FL92$1,477+50%$857 – $2,258
Oregon OR35$1,333+35%$464 – $1,646
Idaho ID14$1,320+34%$800 – $1,858
Georgia GA61$1,256+28%$758 – $3,406
Ohio OH104$1,226+25%$710 – $1,964
Pennsylvania PA90$1,225+24%$783 – $3,200
South Carolina SC34$1,219+24%$491 – $2,410
Massachusetts MA29$1,203+22%$575 – $1,950
Connecticut CT17$1,188+21%$1,047 – $2,033
Texas TX141$1,173+19%$613 – $2,099
Iowa IA24$1,095+11%$568 – $1,445
New York NY77$1,072+9%$712 – $2,258
Utah UT26$1,065+8%$1,065 – $1,253
Illinois IL78$1,063+8%$400 – $1,927
Kentucky KY27$1,051+7%$551 – $3,157
Alabama AL26$1,001+2%$489 – $3,475
Washington WA47$964−2%$356 – $1,362
Wisconsin WI62$925−6%$610 – $1,664
New Jersey NJ56$902−8%$739 – $4,500
West Virginia WV13$838−15%$208 – $2,040
Missouri MO43$818−17%$695 – $1,117
Colorado CO37$795−19%$468 – $1,299
Indiana IN52$764−22%$458 – $1,418
Minnesota MN39$756−23%$655 – $1,331
Kansas KS17$741−25%$547 – $1,800
Michigan MI64$732−26%$381 – $1,664
Maine ME10$688−30%$349 – $897
Hawaii HI12$652−34%$572 – $1,096
Montana MT16$650−34%$357 – $671
Arizona AZ38$628−36%$326 – $3,014
Virginia VA39$626−36%$367 – $1,051
Nebraska NE19$575−42%$412 – $1,064
Oklahoma OK30$529−46%$366 – $1,357
Louisiana LA30$491−50%$301 – $1,020
Arkansas AR15$470−52%$264 – $771
North Carolina NC46$464−53%$243 – $950
Mississippi MS30$401−59%$167 – $960
Tennessee TN41$353−64%$296 – $821
South Dakota SD9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT3not 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 $984.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,624$984$520 – $1,966
Children’s36$1,332$685 – $1,843
Critical access175$888$357 – $1,490
Ownership
For-profit197$1,180$583 – $3,168
Government226$750$360 – $1,375
Non-profit1,412$1,023$535 – $1,915
System affiliation
Part of a system1,583$1,000$519 – $1,954
Independent260$902$491 – $1,724

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,768
Median cash price$984
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

1,404 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,041 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,078; most fall between $512 and $1,868.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,404 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
$350$589$1,041$1,680$2,651

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($350 vs $2,651).

Of the 1,502 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,404 gave a usable cash price; 37 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 60 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,843 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (47%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,985 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,843
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here71
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded3
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded67
Hospitals that filed this code1,985

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 HC Remove Neph C Fluoro Rt.

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 kidney drainage tube with X-ray guidance (CPT 50389) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-50389-removal-of-a-kidney-drainage-tube-with-x-ray-guidance