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Procedure price report · Nonoperative urinary system measurements

Dye injection X-ray study of a urinary conduit

CPT 50690the billing code this page is about

Injection of contrast dye into a surgically created urinary conduit or stoma so the ureters and drainage path can be seen on imaging; catheter placement in the ureter may be included.

Hospitals typically charge $390 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,579 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $435. Most fall between $154 and $900 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,579
States
50
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 1,579 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
$100$189$390$785$1,453

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 15× what the cheapest tenth charges ($100 vs $1,453).

How the prices are spread

$73 – $103: 88 hospitals$73$103 – $144: 115 hospitals$144 – $202: 157 hospitals$144$202 – $284: 182 hospitals$284 – $398: 197 hospitals$284$398 – $559: 180 hospitals$559 – $785: 188 hospitals$559$785 – $1,101: 149 hospitals$1,101 – $1,546: 114 hospitals$1,101$1,546 – $2,170: 54 hospitals$1,546median $390price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,424 of 1,579 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$73$10388
$103$144115
$144$202157
$202$284182
$284$398197
$398$559180
$559$785188
$785$1,101149
$1,101$1,546114
$1,546$2,17054

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $390.

Alaska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $261 across 41 hospitalsWA$261Idaho: median $530 across 12 hospitalsID$530Montana: median $199 across 13 hospitalsMT$199North Dakota: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $253 across 50 hospitalsMN$253Illinois: median $390 across 70 hospitalsIL$390Wisconsin: median $349 across 62 hospitalsWI$349Michigan: median $390 across 56 hospitalsMI$390New York: median $497 across 45 hospitalsNY$497Massachusetts: median $947 across 23 hospitalsMA$947Oregon: median $245 across 33 hospitalsOR$245Nevada: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $1,143 across 10 hospitalsSD$1,143Iowa: median $269 across 24 hospitalsIA$269Indiana: median $254 across 45 hospitalsIN$254Ohio: median $571 across 100 hospitalsOH$571Pennsylvania: median $934 across 76 hospitalsPA$934New Jersey: median $620 across 36 hospitalsNJ$620Connecticut: median $548 across 12 hospitalsCT$548Rhode Island: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $486 across 116 hospitalsCA$486Utah: median $427 across 25 hospitalsUT$427Colorado: median $345 across 36 hospitalsCO$345Nebraska: median $319 across 19 hospitalsNE$319Missouri: median $278 across 40 hospitalsMO$278Kentucky: median $292 across 20 hospitalsKY$292West Virginia: median $224 across 12 hospitalsWV$224Virginia: median $235 across 36 hospitalsVA$235Maryland: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $400 across 29 hospitalsAZ$400New Mexico: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $276 across 13 hospitalsKS$276Arkansas: median $202 across 16 hospitalsAR$202Tennessee: median $264 across 30 hospitalsTN$264North Carolina: median $302 across 41 hospitalsNC$302South Carolina: median $401 across 30 hospitalsSC$401Oklahoma: median $115 across 24 hospitalsOK$115Louisiana: median $121 across 28 hospitalsLA$121Mississippi: median $415 across 28 hospitalsMS$415Alabama: median $332 across 19 hospitalsAL$332Georgia: median $742 across 53 hospitalsGA$742Hawaii: median $175 across 10 hospitalsHI$175Texas: median $464 across 105 hospitalsTX$464Florida: median $526 across 73 hospitalsFL$526
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $390. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
South Dakota SD10$1,143+193%$891 – $1,962
Massachusetts MA23$947+143%$159 – $1,319
Pennsylvania PA76$934+139%$131 – $1,688
Georgia GA53$742+90%$347 – $1,261
New Jersey NJ36$620+59%$243 – $4,881
Ohio OH100$571+46%$235 – $916
Connecticut CT12$548+41%$352 – $712
Idaho ID12$530+36%$427 – $1,442
Florida FL73$526+35%$249 – $812
New York NY45$497+27%$132 – $1,540
California CA116$486+25%$286 – $1,640
Texas TX105$464+19%$104 – $709
Utah UT25$427+9%$427 – $502
Mississippi MS28$415+6%$117 – $842
South Carolina SC30$401+3%$296 – $708
Arizona AZ29$400+3%$75 – $845
Illinois IL70$3900%$215 – $1,002
Michigan MI56$3900%$132 – $785
Wisconsin WI62$349−10%$167 – $640
Colorado CO36$345−12%$195 – $957
Alabama AL19$332−15%$138 – $955
Nebraska NE19$319−18%$116 – $647
North Carolina NC41$302−22%$108 – $682
Kentucky KY20$292−25%$73 – $522
Missouri MO40$278−29%$192 – $701
Kansas KS13$276−29%$188 – $466
Iowa IA24$269−31%$176 – $616
Tennessee TN30$264−32%$105 – $565
Washington WA41$261−33%$203 – $800
Indiana IN45$254−35%$158 – $747
Minnesota MN50$253−35%$147 – $644
Oregon OR33$245−37%$135 – $836
Virginia VA36$235−40%$179 – $1,413
West Virginia WV12$224−43%$168 – $437
Arkansas AR16$202−48%$126 – $248
Montana MT13$199−49%$177 – $382
Hawaii HI10$175−55%$132 – $458
Louisiana LA28$121−69%$75 – $668
Oklahoma OK24$115−71%$100 – $437
Maine ME8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY4not 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 $390.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,374$393$158 – $925
Children’s32$617$251 – $1,492
Critical access166$265$151 – $644
Ownership
For-profit130$427$148 – $845
Government194$327$132 – $753
Non-profit1,248$390$167 – $963
System affiliation
Part of a system1,384$390$159 – $900
Independent195$327$135 – $859

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$682
Median cash price$390
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

1,274 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $424 and the average of the middle 60% is $471; most fall between $174 and $970.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,274 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
$100$204$424$836$1,442

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 14× what the cheapest tenth charges ($100 vs $1,442).

Of the 1,373 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,274 gave a usable cash price; 29 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 69 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,579 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (40%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,745 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,579
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here57
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 — excluded107
Hospitals that filed this code1,745

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 Njx Visualization Ileal Conduit&/Ureteropyelog.

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, “Dye injection X-ray study of a urinary conduit (CPT 50690) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-50690-dye-injection-x-ray-study-of-a-urinary-conduit