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Procedure price report · Other OR therapeutic procedures of urinary tract

Keyhole repair of the kidney drainage area

CPT 50544the billing code this page is about

Through small abdominal incisions with a camera, the renal pelvis where urine leaves the kidney is reshaped to relieve a blockage.

Hospitals typically charge $6,076 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 478 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $7,449. Most fall between $2,363 and $18,243 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
478
States
46
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 478 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
$1,902$2,774$6,076$13,894$27,986

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 15× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,902 vs $27,986).

How the prices are spread

$1,473 – $2,065: 51 hospitals$1,473$2,065 – $2,894: 47 hospitals$2,894 – $4,057: 59 hospitals$2,894$4,057 – $5,687: 36 hospitals$5,687 – $7,972: 60 hospitals$5,687$7,972 – $11,175: 27 hospitals$11,175 – $15,665: 67 hospitals$11,175$15,665 – $21,958: 41 hospitals$21,958 – $30,780: 26 hospitals$21,958$30,780 – $43,146: 18 hospitals$30,780median $6,076price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (432 of 478 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$1,473$2,06551
$2,065$2,89447
$2,894$4,05759
$4,057$5,68736
$5,687$7,97260
$7,972$11,17527
$11,175$15,66567
$15,665$21,95841
$21,958$30,78026
$30,780$43,14618

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$10,860
Median cash price$6,076
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.56×

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 $6,076.

Alaska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $6,104 across 12 hospitalsWA$6,104Idaho: median $26,271 across 10 hospitalsID$26,271Montana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $7,872 across 15 hospitalsMN$7,872Illinois: median $2,340 across 18 hospitalsIL$2,340Wisconsin: median $6,283 across 28 hospitalsWI$6,283Michigan: median $2,975 across 34 hospitalsMI$2,975New York: median $12,320 across 37 hospitalsNY$12,320Massachusetts: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 3 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 $3,147 across 21 hospitalsIA$3,147Indiana: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $6,552 across 22 hospitalsOH$6,552Pennsylvania: median $16,167 across 15 hospitalsPA$16,167New Jersey: median $11,378 across 30 hospitalsNJ$11,378Connecticut: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $4,659 across 45 hospitalsCA$4,659Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $21,239 across 12 hospitalsMO$21,239Kentucky: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 8 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: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: median $8,444 across 11 hospitalsAR$8,444Tennessee: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 3 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 $2,046 across 13 hospitalsOK$2,046Louisiana: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $11,964 across 25 hospitalsTX$11,964Florida: median $4,086 across 10 hospitalsFL$4,086
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $6,076. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Idaho ID10$26,271+332%$4,607 – $26,271
Missouri MO12$21,239+250%$2,017 – $37,305
Pennsylvania PA15$16,167+166%$3,439 – $21,297
New York NY37$12,320+103%$2,489 – $12,617
Texas TX25$11,964+97%$10,603 – $12,921
New Jersey NJ30$11,378+87%$4,881 – $12,327
Arkansas AR11$8,444+39%$4,114 – $17,999
Minnesota MN15$7,872+30%$2,596 – $7,872
Ohio OH22$6,552+8%$4,105 – $55,529
Wisconsin WI28$6,283+3%$5,807 – $11,109
Washington WA12$6,1040%$2,250 – $79,526
California CA45$4,659−23%$3,420 – $18,967
Florida FL10$4,086−33%$3,231 – $6,076
Iowa IA21$3,147−48%$3,147 – $3,505
Michigan MI34$2,975−51%$1,975 – $14,616
Illinois IL18$2,340−61%$1,902 – $62,465
Oklahoma OK13$2,046−66%$2,046 – $21,226
Indiana IN9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not 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 $6,076.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care401$6,604$2,471 – $18,967
Children’s9fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access67$5,807$2,170 – $7,872
Ownership
For-profit42$11,295$1,902 – $23,875
Government65$3,597$2,193 – $12,320
Non-profit370$6,283$2,489 – $18,967
System affiliation
Part of a system384$6,475$2,500 – $18,967
Independent94$3,420$2,166 – $13,044

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$6,901
Median cash price$6,076
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

232 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $3,147 and the average of the middle 60% is $4,100; most fall between $1,902 and $11,964.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 232 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
$1,409$2,046$3,147$6,475$18,967

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,409 vs $18,967).

Of the 268 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 232 gave a usable cash price; 26 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 10 a list price only.

How complete is this

478 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (12%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 542 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted478
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here48
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded7
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded8
Hospitals that filed this code542

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 Laparoscopy Surg Pyeloplasty.

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 repair of the kidney drainage area (CPT 50544) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-50544-keyhole-repair-of-the-kidney-drainage-area