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Procedure price report · Ureteral catheterization

Ureter stent placed through an existing kidney drain tract

CPT 50693the billing code this page is about

A stent is advanced into the ureter through a kidney drainage tract that is already in place, including x-ray dye imaging, imaging guidance, and interpretation.

Hospitals typically charge $4,432 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,736 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $4,546. Most fall between $2,435 and $7,462 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,736
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 1,736 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
$1,470$2,836$4,432$6,553$10,194

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,470 vs $10,194).

How the prices are spread

$862 – $1,130: 48 hospitals$862$1,130 – $1,480: 45 hospitals$1,480 – $1,940: 78 hospitals$1,480$1,940 – $2,543: 111 hospitals$2,543 – $3,333: 186 hospitals$2,543$3,333 – $4,368: 281 hospitals$4,368 – $5,725: 354 hospitals$4,368$5,725 – $7,504: 209 hospitals$7,504 – $9,835: 151 hospitals$7,504$9,835 – $12,890: 103 hospitals$9,835median $4,432price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,566 of 1,736 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$862$1,13048
$1,130$1,48045
$1,480$1,94078
$1,940$2,543111
$2,543$3,333186
$3,333$4,368281
$4,368$5,725354
$5,725$7,504209
$7,504$9,835151
$9,835$12,890103

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$3,601
Median cash price$4,432
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.23×

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 $4,432.

Alaska: 5 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: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $5,075 across 35 hospitalsWA$5,075Idaho: median $6,765 across 13 hospitalsID$6,765Montana: median $309 across 11 hospitalsMT$309North Dakota: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $3,713 across 43 hospitalsMN$3,713Illinois: median $4,062 across 77 hospitalsIL$4,062Wisconsin: median $4,285 across 61 hospitalsWI$4,285Michigan: median $3,557 across 64 hospitalsMI$3,557New York: median $4,207 across 65 hospitalsNY$4,207Massachusetts: median $5,480 across 29 hospitalsMA$5,480Oregon: median $5,271 across 36 hospitalsOR$5,271Nevada: median $3,834 across 10 hospitalsNV$3,834Wyoming: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $4,587 across 21 hospitalsIA$4,587Indiana: median $2,940 across 48 hospitalsIN$2,940Ohio: median $6,064 across 94 hospitalsOH$6,064Pennsylvania: median $5,085 across 89 hospitalsPA$5,085New Jersey: median $4,602 across 55 hospitalsNJ$4,602Connecticut: median $4,873 across 17 hospitalsCT$4,873Rhode Island: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $5,451 across 139 hospitalsCA$5,451Utah: median $4,796 across 26 hospitalsUT$4,796Colorado: median $3,553 across 34 hospitalsCO$3,553Nebraska: median $2,293 across 17 hospitalsNE$2,293Missouri: median $3,653 across 40 hospitalsMO$3,653Kentucky: median $3,839 across 14 hospitalsKY$3,839West Virginia: median $3,599 across 10 hospitalsWV$3,599Virginia: median $4,278 across 38 hospitalsVA$4,278Maryland: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $3,232 across 33 hospitalsAZ$3,232New Mexico: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $5,110 across 16 hospitalsKS$5,110Arkansas: median $2,506 across 18 hospitalsAR$2,506Tennessee: median $1,106 across 38 hospitalsTN$1,106North Carolina: median $2,861 across 46 hospitalsNC$2,861South Carolina: median $4,826 across 32 hospitalsSC$4,826Oklahoma: median $2,860 across 26 hospitalsOK$2,860Louisiana: median $3,401 across 30 hospitalsLA$3,401Mississippi: median $2,239 across 29 hospitalsMS$2,239Alabama: median $3,853 across 21 hospitalsAL$3,853Georgia: median $5,720 across 61 hospitalsGA$5,720Hawaii: median $3,132 across 11 hospitalsHI$3,132Texas: median $5,044 across 139 hospitalsTX$5,044Florida: median $5,406 across 88 hospitalsFL$5,406
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $4,432. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Idaho ID13$6,765+53%$4,775 – $8,773
Ohio OH94$6,064+37%$2,754 – $9,799
Georgia GA61$5,720+29%$3,367 – $7,044
Massachusetts MA29$5,480+24%$2,435 – $9,762
California CA139$5,451+23%$3,169 – $11,262
Florida FL88$5,406+22%$3,269 – $9,754
Oregon OR36$5,271+19%$3,550 – $9,445
Kansas KS16$5,110+15%$1,778 – $5,354
Pennsylvania PA89$5,085+15%$3,603 – $11,043
Washington WA35$5,075+15%$1,963 – $6,336
Texas TX139$5,044+14%$3,093 – $6,598
Connecticut CT17$4,873+10%$3,269 – $7,110
South Carolina SC32$4,826+9%$3,276 – $5,613
Utah UT26$4,796+8%$4,796 – $5,642
New Jersey NJ55$4,602+4%$3,818 – $6,311
Iowa IA21$4,587+3%$2,549 – $6,243
Wisconsin WI61$4,285−3%$3,442 – $4,675
Virginia VA38$4,278−3%$1,810 – $6,116
New York NY65$4,207−5%$2,328 – $7,574
Illinois IL77$4,062−8%$1,860 – $6,630
Alabama AL21$3,853−13%$2,789 – $6,716
Kentucky KY14$3,839−13%$2,316 – $13,849
Nevada NV10$3,834−13%$1,790 – $4,878
Minnesota MN43$3,713−16%$3,244 – $5,782
Missouri MO40$3,653−18%$2,445 – $7,459
West Virginia WV10$3,599−19%$530 – $4,432
Michigan MI64$3,557−20%$426 – $5,417
Colorado CO34$3,553−20%$2,696 – $8,299
Louisiana LA30$3,401−23%$1,889 – $6,253
Arizona AZ33$3,232−27%$1,536 – $20,236
Hawaii HI11$3,132−29%$1,119 – $5,630
Indiana IN48$2,940−34%$1,603 – $7,561
North Carolina NC46$2,861−35%$1,581 – $6,411
Oklahoma OK26$2,860−35%$1,998 – $4,805
Arkansas AR18$2,506−43%$1,583 – $2,852
Nebraska NE17$2,293−48%$2,028 – $3,948
Mississippi MS29$2,239−49%$1,185 – $3,610
Tennessee TN38$1,106−75%$997 – $2,605
Montana MT11$309−93%$309 – $3,824
North Dakota ND8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not 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 $4,432.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,545$4,460$2,556 – $7,516
Children’s41$3,853$1,902 – $7,292
Critical access141$4,220$1,470 – $6,359
Ownership
For-profit176$4,728$2,937 – $9,754
Government205$3,864$1,794 – $6,411
Non-profit1,346$4,460$2,506 – $7,462
System affiliation
Part of a system1,513$4,460$2,549 – $7,476
Independent223$4,158$1,807 – $6,785

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$7,732
Median cash price$4,432
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

1,341 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $4,583 and the average of the middle 60% is $4,789; most fall between $2,580 and $7,730.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, 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
$1,536$2,942$4,583$6,870$10,312

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,536 vs $10,312).

Of the 1,450 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,341 gave a usable cash price; 51 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 57 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,736 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (44%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,886 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,736
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here80
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded3
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded66
Hospitals that filed this code1,886

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 Ureteral catheterization family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as HC Uret Stnt Plcmt Exist Access Lt.

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, “Ureter stent placed through an existing kidney drain tract (CPT 50693) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-50693-ureter-stent-placed-through-an-existing-kidney-drain-tract