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Procedure price report · Ureteral catheterization

Ureter stent plus kidney drain, new access through skin

CPT 50695the billing code this page is about

A ureteral stent is placed through the skin into the kidney using a newly created tract and a separate kidney drainage catheter is left in place, including dye imaging, imaging guidance, and interpretation.

Hospitals typically charge $5,022 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,596 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $5,222. Most fall between $2,836 and $8,773 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,596
States
50
Filings dated
Feb 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 1,596 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
$1,787$3,225$5,022$7,730$11,262

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,787 vs $11,262).

How the prices are spread

$1,217 – $1,561: 37 hospitals$1,217$1,561 – $2,003: 71 hospitals$2,003 – $2,570: 86 hospitals$2,003$2,570 – $3,297: 142 hospitals$3,297 – $4,231: 210 hospitals$3,297$4,231 – $5,428: 267 hospitals$5,428 – $6,965: 247 hospitals$5,428$6,965 – $8,936: 149 hospitals$8,936 – $11,466: 169 hospitals$8,936$11,466 – $14,711: 63 hospitals$11,466median $5,022price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,441 of 1,596 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$1,217$1,56137
$1,561$2,00371
$2,003$2,57086
$2,570$3,297142
$3,297$4,231210
$4,231$5,428267
$5,428$6,965247
$6,965$8,936149
$8,936$11,466169
$11,466$14,71163

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$3,601
Median cash price$5,022
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.39×

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 $5,022.

Alaska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 2 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 $4,850 across 31 hospitalsWA$4,850Idaho: median $6,765 across 13 hospitalsID$6,765Montana: median $2,196 across 11 hospitalsMT$2,196North Dakota: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $5,108 across 38 hospitalsMN$5,108Illinois: median $4,388 across 70 hospitalsIL$4,388Wisconsin: median $5,224 across 52 hospitalsWI$5,224Michigan: median $3,496 across 62 hospitalsMI$3,496New York: median $4,196 across 56 hospitalsNY$4,196Massachusetts: median $5,480 across 24 hospitalsMA$5,480Oregon: median $4,518 across 31 hospitalsOR$4,518Nevada: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $5,057 across 19 hospitalsIA$5,057Indiana: median $3,866 across 45 hospitalsIN$3,866Ohio: median $6,064 across 90 hospitalsOH$6,064Pennsylvania: median $6,046 across 66 hospitalsPA$6,046New Jersey: median $4,602 across 53 hospitalsNJ$4,602Connecticut: median $5,020 across 12 hospitalsCT$5,020Rhode Island: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $6,858 across 135 hospitalsCA$6,858Utah: median $5,657 across 23 hospitalsUT$5,657Colorado: median $5,880 across 34 hospitalsCO$5,880Nebraska: median $2,580 across 15 hospitalsNE$2,580Missouri: median $4,692 across 40 hospitalsMO$4,692Kentucky: median $3,743 across 14 hospitalsKY$3,743West Virginia: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $4,356 across 36 hospitalsVA$4,356Maryland: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $3,371 across 31 hospitalsAZ$3,371New Mexico: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $5,313 across 15 hospitalsKS$5,313Arkansas: median $2,404 across 15 hospitalsAR$2,404Tennessee: median $1,308 across 38 hospitalsTN$1,308North Carolina: median $4,880 across 47 hospitalsNC$4,880South Carolina: median $5,579 across 34 hospitalsSC$5,579Oklahoma: median $3,142 across 25 hospitalsOK$3,142Louisiana: median $4,458 across 26 hospitalsLA$4,458Mississippi: median $2,507 across 23 hospitalsMS$2,507Alabama: median $3,636 across 24 hospitalsAL$3,636Georgia: median $5,600 across 58 hospitalsGA$5,600Hawaii: median $2,747 across 11 hospitalsHI$2,747Texas: median $6,048 across 133 hospitalsTX$6,048Florida: median $7,355 across 83 hospitalsFL$7,355
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $5,022. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL83$7,355+46%$4,120 – $9,848
California CA135$6,858+37%$3,678 – $11,378
Idaho ID13$6,765+35%$4,500 – $8,773
Ohio OH90$6,064+21%$3,362 – $10,312
Texas TX133$6,048+20%$4,673 – $7,336
Pennsylvania PA66$6,046+20%$3,657 – $13,761
Colorado CO34$5,880+17%$3,170 – $12,453
Utah UT23$5,657+13%$5,657 – $6,656
Georgia GA58$5,600+12%$3,155 – $8,458
South Carolina SC34$5,579+11%$3,303 – $5,763
Massachusetts MA24$5,480+9%$4,465 – $10,709
Kansas KS15$5,313+6%$1,998 – $7,649
Wisconsin WI52$5,224+4%$1,600 – $8,187
Minnesota MN38$5,108+2%$3,713 – $6,008
Iowa IA19$5,057+1%$3,437 – $9,000
Connecticut CT12$5,0200%$4,424 – $11,597
North Carolina NC47$4,880−3%$3,425 – $9,627
Washington WA31$4,850−3%$2,836 – $6,466
Missouri MO40$4,692−7%$2,728 – $6,960
New Jersey NJ53$4,602−8%$3,818 – $6,839
Oregon OR31$4,518−10%$1,282 – $10,671
Louisiana LA26$4,458−11%$2,659 – $5,331
Illinois IL70$4,388−13%$2,181 – $7,943
Virginia VA36$4,356−13%$3,458 – $6,498
New York NY56$4,196−16%$2,717 – $7,764
Indiana IN45$3,866−23%$2,674 – $7,746
Kentucky KY14$3,743−25%$2,945 – $13,849
Alabama AL24$3,636−28%$2,793 – $9,149
Michigan MI62$3,496−30%$1,701 – $9,082
Arizona AZ31$3,371−33%$2,148 – $35,425
Oklahoma OK25$3,142−37%$2,417 – $3,957
Hawaii HI11$2,747−45%$1,096 – $4,261
Nebraska NE15$2,580−49%$2,081 – $5,176
Mississippi MS23$2,507−50%$1,787 – $4,496
Arkansas AR15$2,404−52%$979 – $3,565
Montana MT11$2,196−56%$2,196 – $5,135
Tennessee TN38$1,308−74%$1,217 – $3,218
Nevada NV9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not 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 $5,022.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,427$5,060$2,942 – $8,928
Children’s36$4,765$3,130 – $10,302
Critical access125$4,880$1,600 – $6,804
Ownership
For-profit164$5,549$2,678 – $10,472
Government189$4,117$2,560 – $7,649
Non-profit1,235$5,108$2,913 – $8,636
System affiliation
Part of a system1,406$5,134$2,858 – $9,014
Independent190$4,388$2,458 – $7,681

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$8,874
Median cash price$5,022
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

1,254 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $5,273 and the average of the middle 60% is $5,556; most fall between $2,931 and $9,399.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,254 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
$1,846$3,285$5,273$8,401$11,378

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,846 vs $11,378).

Of the 1,358 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,254 gave a usable cash price; 48 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 55 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,596 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 1,730 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,596
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here71
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded2
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded60
Hospitals that filed this code1,730

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 Plmt Urtrl Stent Prq New Access W/Sep Nfros 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.

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Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Ureter stent plus kidney drain, new access through skin (CPT 50695) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-50695-ureter-stent-plus-kidney-drain-new-access-through-skin