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Procedure price report · Other OR therapeutic procedures of urinary tract

Keyhole surgery to destroy kidney cysts

CPT 50541the billing code this page is about

Through small abdominal incisions with a camera, fluid-filled cysts on the kidney are drained and destroyed.

Hospitals typically charge $4,384 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 371 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $5,470. Most fall between $1,539 and $13,290 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
371
States
42
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 371 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
$1,319$1,716$4,384$12,207$19,531

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 15× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,319 vs $19,531).

How the prices are spread

$946 – $1,334: 23 hospitals$946$1,334 – $1,882: 66 hospitals$1,882 – $2,656: 45 hospitals$1,882$2,656 – $3,747: 22 hospitals$3,747 – $5,287: 38 hospitals$3,747$5,287 – $7,460: 24 hospitals$7,460 – $10,526: 30 hospitals$7,460$10,526 – $14,851: 64 hospitals$14,851 – $20,954: 9 hospitals$14,851$20,954 – $29,565: 16 hospitals$20,954median $4,384price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (337 of 371 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$946$1,33423
$1,334$1,88266
$1,882$2,65645
$2,656$3,74722
$3,747$5,28738
$5,287$7,46024
$7,460$10,52630
$10,526$14,85164
$14,851$20,9549
$20,954$29,56516

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$10,860
Median cash price$4,384
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.40×

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 $4,384.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: median $26,271 across 10 hospitalsID$26,271Montana: 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: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $1,723 across 17 hospitalsIL$1,723Wisconsin: median $4,488 across 22 hospitalsWI$4,488Michigan: median $2,162 across 28 hospitalsMI$2,162New York: median $12,320 across 31 hospitalsNY$12,320Massachusetts: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMAOregon: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $2,318 across 18 hospitalsIA$2,318Indiana: median $2,674 across 14 hospitalsIN$2,674Ohio: median $4,384 across 16 hospitalsOH$4,384Pennsylvania: median $15,335 across 11 hospitalsPA$15,335New Jersey: median $11,378 across 28 hospitalsNJ$11,378Connecticut: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $14,554 across 29 hospitalsCA$14,554Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $970 across 11 hospitalsWV$970Virginia: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $1,514 across 14 hospitalsOK$1,514Louisiana: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMSAlabama: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceGAHawaii: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $9,367 across 22 hospitalsTX$9,367Florida: median $10,451 across 10 hospitalsFL$10,451
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $4,384. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Idaho ID10$26,271+499%$4,607 – $26,271
Pennsylvania PA11$15,335+250%$6,841 – $19,618
California CA29$14,554+232%$2,317 – $14,554
New York NY31$12,320+181%$1,593 – $12,320
New Jersey NJ28$11,378+160%$5,110 – $13,753
Florida FL10$10,451+138%$4,384 – $24,878
Texas TX22$9,367+114%$9,367 – $9,367
Wisconsin WI22$4,488+2%$4,488 – $6,930
Ohio OH16$4,3840%$3,375 – $36,309
Indiana IN14$2,674−39%$1,354 – $3,208
Iowa IA18$2,318−47%$2,318 – $2,607
Michigan MI28$2,162−51%$1,452 – $4,488
Illinois IL17$1,723−61%$1,354 – $35,023
Oklahoma OK14$1,514−65%$1,514 – $19,601
West Virginia WV11$970−78%$946 – $2,569
Arkansas AR7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not 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 $4,384.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care313$4,607$1,626 – $13,894
Children’s6fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access51$2,318$1,329 – $6,930
Ownership
For-profit33$5,668$1,354 – $19,531
Government46$2,294$1,505 – $12,320
Non-profit291$4,488$1,593 – $13,753
System affiliation
Part of a system312$4,488$1,539 – $13,894
Independent59$2,294$1,523 – $10,451

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$4,325
Median cash price$4,384
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

201 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,472 and the average of the middle 60% is $3,703; most fall between $1,452 and $9,367.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 201 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
$1,117$1,514$2,472$8,174$14,554

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,117 vs $14,554).

Of the 227 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 201 gave a usable cash price; 22 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 4 a list price only.

How complete is this

371 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (9%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 417 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted371
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 — excluded5
Hospitals that filed this code417

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 OR therapeutic procedures of urinary tract family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as PR Lap,Ablation of Renal Cysts.

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, “Keyhole surgery to destroy kidney cysts (CPT 50541) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-50541-keyhole-surgery-to-destroy-kidney-cysts