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Procedure price report · Nonoperative urinary system measurements

Dye injection for ureter X-ray through an existing tube

CPT 50684the billing code this page is about

Contrast dye is injected through an existing ureteral catheter or surgical opening so the ureter and kidney can be seen on X-ray; the imaging itself is billed separately.

Hospitals typically charge $352 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,004 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $431. Most fall between $144 and $1,143 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,004
States
49
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 1,004 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
$86$172$352$841$1,728

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 20× what the cheapest tenth charges ($86 vs $1,728).

How the prices are spread

$63 – $90: 53 hospitals$63$90 – $129: 51 hospitals$129 – $184: 115 hospitals$129$184 – $264: 112 hospitals$264 – $379: 130 hospitals$264$379 – $543: 138 hospitals$543 – $779: 85 hospitals$543$779 – $1,116: 60 hospitals$1,116 – $1,600: 89 hospitals$1,116$1,600 – $2,293: 71 hospitals$1,600median $352price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (904 of 1,004 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$63$9053
$90$12951
$129$184115
$184$264112
$264$379130
$379$543138
$543$77985
$779$1,11660
$1,116$1,60089
$1,600$2,29371

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $352.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $389 across 23 hospitalsWA$389Idaho: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $250 across 25 hospitalsMN$250Illinois: median $544 across 55 hospitalsIL$544Wisconsin: median $621 across 21 hospitalsWI$621Michigan: median $484 across 26 hospitalsMI$484New York: median $210 across 21 hospitalsNY$210Massachusetts: median $1,586 across 19 hospitalsMA$1,586Oregon: median $228 across 17 hospitalsOR$228Nevada: 6 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 $288 across 19 hospitalsIA$288Indiana: median $250 across 33 hospitalsIN$250Ohio: median $342 across 74 hospitalsOH$342Pennsylvania: median $463 across 60 hospitalsPA$463New Jersey: median $3,786 across 25 hospitalsNJ$3,786Connecticut: median $224 across 10 hospitalsCT$224Rhode Island: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $344 across 99 hospitalsCA$344Utah: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $347 across 27 hospitalsCO$347Nebraska: median $173 across 12 hospitalsNE$173Missouri: median $310 across 20 hospitalsMO$310Kentucky: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $585 across 23 hospitalsVA$585Maryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $96 across 19 hospitalsAZ$96New Mexico: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $145 across 10 hospitalsTN$145North Carolina: median $139 across 16 hospitalsNC$139South Carolina: median $755 across 14 hospitalsSC$755Oklahoma: median $149 across 17 hospitalsOK$149Louisiana: median $76 across 16 hospitalsLA$76Mississippi: median $600 across 11 hospitalsMS$600Alabama: median $304 across 17 hospitalsAL$304Georgia: median $219 across 28 hospitalsGA$219Hawaii: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $418 across 99 hospitalsTX$418Florida: median $385 across 66 hospitalsFL$385
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $352. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ25$3,786+976%$77 – $5,339
Massachusetts MA19$1,586+351%$134 – $2,895
South Carolina SC14$755+115%$522 – $2,410
Wisconsin WI21$621+77%$411 – $1,615
Mississippi MS11$600+71%$161 – $801
Virginia VA23$585+66%$94 – $1,915
Illinois IL55$544+55%$100 – $1,309
Michigan MI26$484+37%$66 – $646
Pennsylvania PA60$463+32%$187 – $1,541
Texas TX99$418+19%$137 – $1,027
Washington WA23$389+11%$142 – $769
Florida FL66$385+10%$237 – $1,860
Colorado CO27$347−1%$190 – $1,261
California CA99$344−2%$225 – $1,274
Ohio OH74$342−3%$274 – $1,143
Missouri MO20$310−12%$162 – $715
Alabama AL17$304−14%$129 – $480
Iowa IA19$288−18%$173 – $614
Minnesota MN25$250−29%$184 – $541
Indiana IN33$250−29%$139 – $747
Oregon OR17$228−35%$154 – $304
Connecticut CT10$224−36%$110 – $395
Georgia GA28$219−38%$97 – $391
New York NY21$210−40%$125 – $450
Nebraska NE12$173−51%$116 – $375
Oklahoma OK17$149−58%$149 – $313
Tennessee TN10$145−59%$118 – $327
North Carolina NC16$139−61%$98 – $427
Arizona AZ19$96−73%$66 – $348
Louisiana LA16$76−78%$59 – $172
Idaho ID9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not 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 $352.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care889$356$143 – $1,143
Children’s30$346$142 – $1,484
Critical access79$352$146 – $825
Ownership
For-profit93$418$118 – $1,248
Government101$246$118 – $600
Non-profit804$363$149 – $1,218
System affiliation
Part of a system880$385$145 – $1,218
Independent124$307$134 – $953

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$580
Median cash price$352
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

803 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $385 and the average of the middle 60% is $453; most fall between $149 and $1,158.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 803 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
$90$177$385$886$1,728

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 19× what the cheapest tenth charges ($90 vs $1,728).

Of the 879 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 803 gave a usable cash price; 22 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 53 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,004 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (25%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,121 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,004
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) — excluded2
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded75
Hospitals that filed this code1,121

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 Nonoperative urinary system measurements family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Inj Px Ureterography/Ureteropylography Cath.

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.

Download this page’s figures: JSON · CSV. Aggregates only — the per-hospital prices are on the compare tool.

Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Dye injection for ureter X-ray through an existing tube (CPT 50684) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-50684-dye-injection-for-ureter-x-ray-through-an-existing-tube