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Procedure price report · Other OR therapeutic procedures of urinary tract

Keyhole surgery to remove a stone from the ureter

CPT 50945the billing code this page is about

Laparoscopic operation, using small abdominal incisions and a camera, to open the ureter and take out a stone.

Hospitals typically charge $4,672 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 218 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $4,450. Most fall between $1,602 and $8,313 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
218
States
36
Filings dated
Jun 2024 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 23, 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 218 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
$1,397$1,763$4,672$7,176$16,576

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,397 vs $16,576).

How the prices are spread

$1,086 – $1,426: 22 hospitals$1,086$1,426 – $1,873: 33 hospitals$1,873 – $2,459: 23 hospitals$1,873$2,459 – $3,230: 6 hospitals$3,230 – $4,242: 9 hospitals$3,230$4,242 – $5,572: 11 hospitals$5,572 – $7,317: 50 hospitals$5,572$7,317 – $9,610: 17 hospitals$9,610 – $12,621: 9 hospitals$9,610$12,621 – $16,576: 24 hospitals$12,621median $4,672price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (204 of 218 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$1,086$1,42622
$1,426$1,87333
$1,873$2,45923
$2,459$3,2306
$3,230$4,2429
$4,242$5,57211
$5,572$7,31750
$7,317$9,61017
$9,610$12,6219
$12,621$16,57624

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$6,176
Median cash price$4,672
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.76×

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 $4,672.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNDMinnesota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMNIllinois: median $1,538 across 10 hospitalsIL$1,538Wisconsin: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWIMichigan: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: median $6,904 across 20 hospitalsNY$6,904Massachusetts: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMAOregon: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 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: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $2,458 across 15 hospitalsIA$2,458Indiana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: median $8,722 across 11 hospitalsPA$8,722New Jersey: median $6,458 across 28 hospitalsNJ$6,458Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $16,576 across 22 hospitalsCA$16,576Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $1,602 across 13 hospitalsOK$1,602Louisiana: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMSAlabama: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceGAHawaii: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceHITexas: median $5,794 across 18 hospitalsTX$5,794Florida: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $4,672. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA22$16,576+255%$16,576 – $16,576
Pennsylvania PA11$8,722+87%$4,043 – $10,994
New York NY20$6,904+48%$2,974 – $6,904
New Jersey NJ28$6,458+38%$5,110 – $7,785
Texas TX18$5,794+24%$5,794 – $5,794
Iowa IA15$2,458−47%$2,458 – $2,458
Oklahoma OK13$1,602−66%$1,602 – $11,895
Illinois IL10$1,538−67%$1,397 – $1,715
Louisiana LA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Michigan MI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA1not 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 $4,672.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care195$5,574$1,602 – $8,313
Children’s6fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access16fewer than 20 hospitals
Ownership
For-profit22$3,313$1,397 – $9,860
Government25$2,742$1,697 – $6,904
Non-profit170$5,110$1,602 – $8,313
System affiliation
Part of a system183$5,794$1,602 – $9,389
Independent35$2,022$1,494 – $6,099

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,990
Median cash price$4,672
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

123 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,458 and the average of the middle 60% is $3,656; most fall between $1,398 and $11,934.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 123 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
$1,363$1,602$2,458$6,458$16,576

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,363 vs $16,576).

Of the 142 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 123 gave a usable cash price; 15 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 4 a list price only.

How complete is this

218 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (6%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 240 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted218
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here17
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 — excluded4
Hospitals that filed this code240

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 23, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 23, 2026. The percentiles and averages use only the “counted” row.

Related procedures

Part of the Other OR therapeutic procedures of urinary tract family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as PR Lap,Ureterolithotomy.

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, “Keyhole surgery to remove a stone from the ureter (CPT 50945) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-50945-keyhole-surgery-to-remove-a-stone-from-the-ureter