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

Blocking off a ureter with coils or plugs

CPT 50705the billing code this page is about

Image-guided procedure that deliberately seals or blocks a ureter using embolic material, including the imaging done during the procedure.

Hospitals typically charge $1,873 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 758 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,185. Most fall between $539 and $4,859 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
758
States
49
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 758 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
$356$700$1,873$3,986$6,376

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 18× what the cheapest tenth charges ($356 vs $6,376).

How the prices are spread

$262 – $374: 56 hospitals$262$374 – $535: 58 hospitals$535 – $766: 73 hospitals$535$766 – $1,095: 41 hospitals$1,095 – $1,566: 82 hospitals$1,095$1,566 – $2,240: 72 hospitals$2,240 – $3,203: 81 hospitals$2,240$3,203 – $4,580: 82 hospitals$4,580 – $6,550: 110 hospitals$4,580$6,550 – $9,367: 30 hospitals$6,550median $1,873price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (685 of 758 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$262$37456
$374$53558
$535$76673
$766$1,09541
$1,095$1,56682
$1,566$2,24072
$2,240$3,20381
$3,203$4,58082
$4,580$6,550110
$6,550$9,36730

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $1,873.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $1,636 across 19 hospitalsWA$1,636Idaho: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $1,521 across 12 hospitalsMN$1,521Illinois: median $2,655 across 35 hospitalsIL$2,655Wisconsin: median $3,950 across 24 hospitalsWI$3,950Michigan: median $422 across 36 hospitalsMI$422New York: median $1,614 across 19 hospitalsNY$1,614Massachusetts: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $1,336 across 10 hospitalsOR$1,336Nevada: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $4,625 across 15 hospitalsIA$4,625Indiana: median $931 across 30 hospitalsIN$931Ohio: median $1,041 across 44 hospitalsOH$1,041Pennsylvania: median $1,224 across 37 hospitalsPA$1,224New Jersey: median $3,986 across 23 hospitalsNJ$3,986Connecticut: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $5,076 across 85 hospitalsCA$5,076Utah: median $4,859 across 23 hospitalsUT$4,859Colorado: median $4,201 across 25 hospitalsCO$4,201Nebraska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $2,378 across 16 hospitalsMO$2,378Kentucky: 5 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 $1,514 across 23 hospitalsVA$1,514Maryland: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: median $981 across 12 hospitalsNC$981South Carolina: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $292 across 13 hospitalsOK$292Louisiana: median $440 across 14 hospitalsLA$440Mississippi: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $754 across 40 hospitalsGA$754Hawaii: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceHITexas: median $3,689 across 49 hospitalsTX$3,689Florida: median $923 across 54 hospitalsFL$923
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,873. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA85$5,076+171%$475 – $6,005
Utah UT23$4,859+159%$4,859 – $5,717
Iowa IA15$4,625+147%$2,558 – $4,625
Colorado CO25$4,201+124%$1,585 – $6,997
New Jersey NJ23$3,986+113%$2,377 – $5,419
Wisconsin WI24$3,950+111%$2,623 – $4,810
Texas TX49$3,689+97%$1,516 – $3,967
Illinois IL35$2,655+42%$911 – $3,964
Missouri MO16$2,378+27%$1,746 – $3,489
Washington WA19$1,636−13%$1,295 – $4,767
New York NY19$1,614−14%$599 – $5,985
Minnesota MN12$1,521−19%$1,521 – $2,079
Virginia VA23$1,514−19%$702 – $3,886
Oregon OR10$1,336−29%$1,336 – $6,323
Pennsylvania PA37$1,224−35%$134 – $2,679
Ohio OH44$1,041−44%$393 – $2,275
North Carolina NC12$981−48%$981 – $2,003
Indiana IN30$931−50%$269 – $1,873
Florida FL54$923−51%$446 – $2,933
Georgia GA40$754−60%$700 – $3,041
Louisiana LA14$440−77%$303 – $1,364
Michigan MI36$422−77%$350 – $1,460
Oklahoma OK13$292−84%$292 – $2,082
Alabama AL9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT1not 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 $1,873.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care694$1,855$491 – $4,859
Children’s12fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access47$1,516$931 – $4,859
Ownership
For-profit41$1,873$656 – $3,689
Government80$1,134$582 – $2,687
Non-profit632$1,976$496 – $5,359
System affiliation
Part of a system688$1,884$579 – $4,859
Independent70$1,403$324 – $4,395

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,197
Median cash price$1,873
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

625 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,079 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,367; most fall between $598 and $5,500.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 625 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
$369$700$2,079$4,625$6,997

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 19× what the cheapest tenth charges ($369 vs $6,997).

Of the 654 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 625 gave a usable cash price; 11 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 18 a list price only.

How complete is this

758 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (19%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 810 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted758
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here23
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded28
Hospitals that filed this code810

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 Other non-OR therapeutic procedures of urinary tract family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Ureteral Embolization/Occlusion W/Img Gid Rs&I.

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, “Blocking off a ureter with coils or plugs (CPT 50705) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-50705-blocking-off-a-ureter-with-coils-or-plugs