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

Exchange of ureter tube or stent through a urinary conduit

CPT 50688the billing code this page is about

Replacement of a ureterostomy tube or an externally accessible ureteral stent through an existing urinary opening or ileal conduit, without surgery.

Hospitals typically charge $2,223 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,341 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,242. Most fall between $949 and $3,974 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,341
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 1,341 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
$391$1,171$2,223$3,403$5,746

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 15× what the cheapest tenth charges ($391 vs $5,746).

How the prices are spread

$161 – $234: 35 hospitals$161$234 – $340: 16 hospitals$340 – $495: 43 hospitals$340$495 – $720: 71 hospitals$720 – $1,047: 62 hospitals$720$1,047 – $1,523: 157 hospitals$1,523 – $2,215: 223 hospitals$1,523$2,215 – $3,222: 309 hospitals$3,222 – $4,685: 154 hospitals$3,222$4,685 – $6,814: 144 hospitals$4,685median $2,223price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,214 of 1,341 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$161$23435
$234$34016
$340$49543
$495$72071
$720$1,04762
$1,047$1,523157
$1,523$2,215223
$2,215$3,222309
$3,222$4,685154
$4,685$6,814144

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$2,136
Median cash price$2,223
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.04×

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 $2,223.

Alaska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 7 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 $2,624 across 39 hospitalsWA$2,624Idaho: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $2,133 across 38 hospitalsMN$2,133Illinois: median $2,055 across 62 hospitalsIL$2,055Wisconsin: median $1,731 across 57 hospitalsWI$1,731Michigan: median $1,783 across 53 hospitalsMI$1,783New York: median $2,424 across 44 hospitalsNY$2,424Massachusetts: median $3,145 across 23 hospitalsMA$3,145Oregon: median $2,232 across 26 hospitalsOR$2,232Nevada: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 3 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 $1,419 across 19 hospitalsIA$1,419Indiana: median $905 across 42 hospitalsIN$905Ohio: median $2,839 across 81 hospitalsOH$2,839Pennsylvania: median $2,470 across 65 hospitalsPA$2,470New Jersey: median $2,705 across 46 hospitalsNJ$2,705Connecticut: median $2,777 across 11 hospitalsCT$2,777Rhode Island: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $3,143 across 111 hospitalsCA$3,143Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $2,791 across 31 hospitalsCO$2,791Nebraska: median $1,152 across 12 hospitalsNE$1,152Missouri: median $2,083 across 34 hospitalsMO$2,083Kentucky: median $2,037 across 14 hospitalsKY$2,037West Virginia: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $1,421 across 33 hospitalsVA$1,421Maryland: 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 $1,542 across 27 hospitalsAZ$1,542New Mexico: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $1,969 across 10 hospitalsKS$1,969Arkansas: median $860 across 13 hospitalsAR$860Tennessee: median $597 across 26 hospitalsTN$597North Carolina: median $1,735 across 31 hospitalsNC$1,735South Carolina: median $3,979 across 27 hospitalsSC$3,979Oklahoma: median $365 across 22 hospitalsOK$365Louisiana: median $869 across 18 hospitalsLA$869Mississippi: median $690 across 10 hospitalsMS$690Alabama: median $2,359 across 12 hospitalsAL$2,359Georgia: median $1,273 across 32 hospitalsGA$1,273Hawaii: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $2,516 across 113 hospitalsTX$2,516Florida: median $3,050 across 74 hospitalsFL$3,050
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,223. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
South Carolina SC27$3,979+79%$3,320 – $4,469
Massachusetts MA23$3,145+41%$1,624 – $3,530
California CA111$3,143+41%$1,990 – $5,746
Florida FL74$3,050+37%$1,278 – $5,821
Ohio OH81$2,839+28%$1,745 – $5,162
Colorado CO31$2,791+26%$1,581 – $3,974
Connecticut CT11$2,777+25%$2,447 – $6,631
New Jersey NJ46$2,705+22%$2,239 – $5,539
Washington WA39$2,624+18%$862 – $4,012
Texas TX113$2,516+13%$1,367 – $3,151
Pennsylvania PA65$2,470+11%$783 – $3,463
New York NY44$2,424+9%$751 – $3,333
Alabama AL12$2,359+6%$1,420 – $2,640
Oregon OR26$2,2320%$212 – $4,995
Minnesota MN38$2,133−4%$1,080 – $2,146
Missouri MO34$2,083−6%$1,060 – $2,252
Illinois IL62$2,055−8%$849 – $3,993
Kentucky KY14$2,037−8%$632 – $8,226
Kansas KS10$1,969−11%$144 – $5,861
Michigan MI53$1,783−20%$140 – $2,874
North Carolina NC31$1,735−22%$693 – $2,514
Wisconsin WI57$1,731−22%$363 – $2,478
Arizona AZ27$1,542−31%$611 – $4,945
Virginia VA33$1,421−36%$958 – $2,323
Iowa IA19$1,419−36%$197 – $1,764
Georgia GA32$1,273−43%$1,165 – $6,921
Nebraska NE12$1,152−48%$228 – $1,567
Indiana IN42$905−59%$526 – $2,390
Louisiana LA18$869−61%$613 – $2,730
Arkansas AR13$860−61%$671 – $1,643
Mississippi MS10$690−69%$143 – $1,520
Tennessee TN26$597−73%$420 – $1,898
Oklahoma OK22$365−84%$161 – $2,226
South Dakota SD9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not 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 $2,223.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,198$2,297$1,097 – $3,993
Children’s22$1,233$184 – $6,442
Critical access115$1,693$197 – $2,962
Ownership
For-profit117$2,447$902 – $5,304
Government156$1,913$646 – $2,565
Non-profit1,062$2,246$1,048 – $3,993
System affiliation
Part of a system1,192$2,238$1,025 – $3,979
Independent149$2,056$511 – $3,687

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,811
Median cash price$2,223
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

1,029 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,306 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,345; most fall between $1,097 and $4,056.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,029 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
$536$1,273$2,306$3,654$5,746

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($536 vs $5,746).

Of the 1,142 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,029 gave a usable cash price; 53 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 60 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,341 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (34%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,481 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,341
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here72
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded3
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded65
Hospitals that filed this code1,481

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 Chng Urtrost Tube/Xtrnlly Accessible Stent Ileal.

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, “Exchange of ureter tube or stent through a urinary conduit (CPT 50688) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-50688-exchange-of-ureter-tube-or-stent-through-a-urinary-conduit