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

Biopsy of ureter or kidney pelvis through a catheter

CPT 50606the billing code this page is about

A tissue sample is taken from inside the ureter or kidney drainage area using a device passed through a catheter with imaging guidance; reported in addition to the main procedure.

Hospitals typically charge $1,561 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 815 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,737. Most fall between $493 and $3,386 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
815
States
50
Filings dated
Jun 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 815 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
$329$659$1,561$3,139$4,158

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($329 vs $4,158).

How the prices are spread

$221 – $305: 36 hospitals$221$305 – $421: 63 hospitals$421 – $582: 51 hospitals$421$582 – $804: 47 hospitals$804 – $1,110: 65 hospitals$804$1,110 – $1,533: 100 hospitals$1,533 – $2,117: 79 hospitals$1,533$2,117 – $2,923: 111 hospitals$2,923 – $4,037: 129 hospitals$2,923$4,037 – $5,575: 56 hospitals$4,037median $1,561price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (737 of 815 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$221$30536
$305$42163
$421$58251
$582$80447
$804$1,11065
$1,110$1,533100
$1,533$2,11779
$2,117$2,923111
$2,923$4,037129
$4,037$5,57556

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $1,561.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $1,115 across 14 hospitalsWA$1,115Idaho: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $1,188 across 12 hospitalsMN$1,188Illinois: median $1,200 across 38 hospitalsIL$1,200Wisconsin: median $3,260 across 41 hospitalsWI$3,260Michigan: median $536 across 33 hospitalsMI$536New York: median $1,562 across 23 hospitalsNY$1,562Massachusetts: median $293 across 10 hospitalsMA$293Oregon: median $250 across 10 hospitalsOR$250Nevada: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $1,533 across 15 hospitalsIA$1,533Indiana: median $1,217 across 35 hospitalsIN$1,217Ohio: median $1,203 across 63 hospitalsOH$1,203Pennsylvania: median $1,448 across 39 hospitalsPA$1,448New Jersey: median $3,986 across 26 hospitalsNJ$3,986Connecticut: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $3,685 across 49 hospitalsCA$3,685Utah: median $3,529 across 23 hospitalsUT$3,529Colorado: median $1,384 across 28 hospitalsCO$1,384Nebraska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $1,974 across 19 hospitalsMO$1,974Kentucky: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $2,379 across 16 hospitalsVA$2,379Maryland: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $10,043 across 14 hospitalsAZ$10,043New Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $547 across 15 hospitalsTN$547North Carolina: median $1,222 across 10 hospitalsNC$1,222South Carolina: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $230 across 20 hospitalsOK$230Louisiana: median $440 across 14 hospitalsLA$440Mississippi: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $1,441 across 41 hospitalsGA$1,441Hawaii: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $2,173 across 64 hospitalsTX$2,173Florida: median $1,003 across 44 hospitalsFL$1,003
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,561. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Arizona AZ14$10,043+543%$1,095 – $10,043
New Jersey NJ26$3,986+155%$2,377 – $5,419
California CA49$3,685+136%$1,008 – $3,685
Utah UT23$3,529+126%$3,529 – $4,152
Wisconsin WI41$3,260+109%$434 – $3,356
Virginia VA16$2,379+52%$1,673 – $2,379
Texas TX64$2,173+39%$2,173 – $3,419
Missouri MO19$1,974+26%$455 – $5,572
New York NY23$1,5620%$494 – $2,610
Iowa IA15$1,533−2%$814 – $1,650
Pennsylvania PA39$1,448−7%$136 – $3,730
Georgia GA41$1,441−8%$709 – $3,386
Colorado CO28$1,384−11%$1,084 – $2,502
North Carolina NC10$1,222−22%$1,190 – $2,200
Indiana IN35$1,217−22%$493 – $1,873
Ohio OH63$1,203−23%$393 – $2,291
Illinois IL38$1,200−23%$453 – $2,611
Minnesota MN12$1,188−24%$1,188 – $2,650
Washington WA14$1,115−29%$455 – $5,933
Florida FL44$1,003−36%$348 – $2,621
Tennessee TN15$547−65%$470 – $682
Michigan MI33$536−66%$329 – $4,160
Louisiana LA14$440−72%$223 – $1,092
Massachusetts MA10$293−81%$221 – $5,349
Oregon OR10$250−84%$250 – $1,979
Oklahoma OK20$230−85%$230 – $2,666
Mississippi MS9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY1not 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 $1,561.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care722$1,543$493 – $3,386
Children’s18fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access69$1,907$493 – $3,356
Ownership
For-profit61$1,477$582 – $3,356
Government80$1,080$420 – $1,928
Non-profit668$1,673$491 – $3,419
System affiliation
Part of a system740$1,624$493 – $3,386
Independent75$1,195$293 – $3,255

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,972
Median cash price$1,561
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

671 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,673 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,810; most fall between $547 and $3,356.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 671 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
$348$698$1,673$3,200$4,152

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($348 vs $4,152).

Of the 712 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 671 gave a usable cash price; 21 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 20 a list price only.

How complete is this

815 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (21%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 906 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted815
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here36
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded55
Hospitals that filed this code906

Sections not shown for this setting

  • Against Medicare: Medicare has no separately payable national outpatient (OPPS) rate for this code, so there is nothing honest to compare against.
  • 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 Endoluminal Bx Urtr &/Rnl Pelvis Nonendoscopic.

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, “Biopsy of ureter or kidney pelvis through a catheter (CPT 50606) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-50606-biopsy-of-ureter-or-kidney-pelvis-through-a-catheter