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

Needle drainage or injection of a kidney cyst

CPT 50390the billing code this page is about

A needle is passed through the skin to drain fluid from, or inject fluid into, a kidney cyst or the kidney's collecting area.

Hospitals typically charge $1,252 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,955 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,300. Most fall between $615 and $2,256 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,955
States
50
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 1,955 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
$369$706$1,252$2,029$3,228

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($369 vs $3,228).

How the prices are spread

$201 – $271: 42 hospitals$201$271 – $366: 43 hospitals$366 – $494: 122 hospitals$366$494 – $666: 127 hospitals$666 – $899: 275 hospitals$666$899 – $1,213: 241 hospitals$1,213 – $1,637: 297 hospitals$1,213$1,637 – $2,210: 304 hospitals$2,210 – $2,983: 160 hospitals$2,210$2,983 – $4,025: 152 hospitals$2,983median $1,252price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,763 of 1,955 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$201$27142
$271$36643
$366$494122
$494$666127
$666$899275
$899$1,213241
$1,213$1,637297
$1,637$2,210304
$2,210$2,983160
$2,983$4,025152

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$723
Median cash price$1,252
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.73×

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 $1,252.

Alaska: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $1,064 across 10 hospitalsME$1,064Vermont: 5 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 $1,307 across 37 hospitalsWA$1,307Idaho: median $1,531 across 15 hospitalsID$1,531Montana: median $287 across 15 hospitalsMT$287North Dakota: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $934 across 50 hospitalsMN$934Illinois: median $1,252 across 82 hospitalsIL$1,252Wisconsin: median $1,085 across 69 hospitalsWI$1,085Michigan: median $756 across 77 hospitalsMI$756New York: median $884 across 68 hospitalsNY$884Massachusetts: median $1,805 across 26 hospitalsMA$1,805Oregon: median $1,496 across 36 hospitalsOR$1,496Nevada: median $623 across 11 hospitalsNV$623Wyoming: 7 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 $1,287 across 27 hospitalsIA$1,287Indiana: median $947 across 66 hospitalsIN$947Ohio: median $1,819 across 112 hospitalsOH$1,819Pennsylvania: median $1,200 across 100 hospitalsPA$1,200New Jersey: median $939 across 55 hospitalsNJ$939Connecticut: median $1,358 across 13 hospitalsCT$1,358Rhode Island: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $1,789 across 154 hospitalsCA$1,789Utah: median $1,480 across 26 hospitalsUT$1,480Colorado: median $1,488 across 41 hospitalsCO$1,488Nebraska: median $728 across 21 hospitalsNE$728Missouri: median $1,138 across 44 hospitalsMO$1,138Kentucky: median $2,256 across 26 hospitalsKY$2,256West Virginia: median $1,304 across 15 hospitalsWV$1,304Virginia: median $924 across 43 hospitalsVA$924Maryland: 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 $599 across 33 hospitalsAZ$599New Mexico: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $887 across 24 hospitalsKS$887Arkansas: median $883 across 20 hospitalsAR$883Tennessee: median $442 across 42 hospitalsTN$442North Carolina: median $789 across 53 hospitalsNC$789South Carolina: median $2,036 across 40 hospitalsSC$2,036Oklahoma: median $751 across 34 hospitalsOK$751Louisiana: median $1,033 across 34 hospitalsLA$1,033Mississippi: median $600 across 34 hospitalsMS$600Alabama: median $976 across 28 hospitalsAL$976Georgia: median $1,583 across 62 hospitalsGA$1,583Hawaii: median $1,501 across 10 hospitalsHI$1,501Texas: median $1,720 across 144 hospitalsTX$1,720Florida: median $1,929 across 92 hospitalsFL$1,929
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,252. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Kentucky KY26$2,256+80%$1,070 – $2,825
South Carolina SC40$2,036+63%$1,161 – $2,579
Florida FL92$1,929+54%$1,040 – $3,563
Ohio OH112$1,819+45%$1,062 – $2,104
Massachusetts MA26$1,805+44%$735 – $2,360
California CA154$1,789+43%$906 – $3,103
Texas TX144$1,720+37%$1,034 – $2,486
Georgia GA62$1,583+26%$1,220 – $3,884
Idaho ID15$1,531+22%$1,015 – $1,783
Hawaii HI10$1,501+20%$95 – $2,060
Oregon OR36$1,496+20%$173 – $2,777
Colorado CO41$1,488+19%$721 – $2,623
Utah UT26$1,480+18%$1,480 – $1,742
Connecticut CT13$1,358+9%$1,023 – $2,527
Washington WA37$1,307+4%$564 – $2,053
West Virginia WV15$1,304+4%$366 – $1,827
Iowa IA27$1,287+3%$473 – $1,656
Illinois IL82$1,2520%$514 – $2,377
Pennsylvania PA100$1,200−4%$812 – $2,461
Missouri MO44$1,138−9%$806 – $2,142
Wisconsin WI69$1,085−13%$455 – $1,903
Maine ME10$1,064−15%$673 – $1,790
Louisiana LA34$1,033−17%$500 – $1,589
Alabama AL28$976−22%$628 – $1,823
Indiana IN66$947−24%$526 – $2,052
New Jersey NJ55$939−25%$779 – $4,500
Minnesota MN50$934−25%$584 – $1,217
Virginia VA43$924−26%$670 – $1,506
Kansas KS24$887−29%$448 – $1,714
New York NY68$884−29%$402 – $1,994
Arkansas AR20$883−29%$355 – $970
North Carolina NC53$789−37%$432 – $1,062
Michigan MI77$756−40%$127 – $1,297
Oklahoma OK34$751−40%$469 – $1,379
Nebraska NE21$728−42%$460 – $1,428
Nevada NV11$623−50%$493 – $785
Mississippi MS34$600−52%$373 – $854
Arizona AZ33$599−52%$314 – $4,003
Tennessee TN42$442−65%$369 – $1,001
Montana MT15$287−77%$144 – $1,001
North Dakota ND9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD3not 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 $1,252.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,673$1,280$666 – $2,390
Children’s39$1,788$647 – $3,160
Critical access234$895$321 – $1,714
Ownership
For-profit189$1,406$689 – $3,450
Government258$1,022$469 – $1,819
Non-profit1,499$1,279$631 – $2,256
System affiliation
Part of a system1,657$1,270$646 – $2,296
Independent298$1,044$442 – $2,043

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,231
Median cash price$1,252
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

1,498 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,346 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,376; most fall between $646 and $2,322.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,498 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
$402$750$1,346$2,059$3,228

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($402 vs $3,228).

Of the 1,592 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,498 gave a usable cash price; 29 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 64 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,955 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (49%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,097 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,955
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here65
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 — excluded73
Hospitals that filed this code2,097

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 PR Percut Drain/Inject Renal Cyst.

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, “Needle drainage or injection of a kidney cyst (CPT 50390) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-50390-needle-drainage-or-injection-of-a-kidney-cyst