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Procedure price report · Other OR therapeutic procedures of urinary tract

Unlisted keyhole procedure on the ureter

CPT 50949the billing code this page is about

Used for a laparoscopic ureter operation that has no specific billing code of its own; the record describes what was actually done.

Hospitals typically charge $5,856 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 232 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $6,095. Most fall between $3,601 and $10,808 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
232
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 232 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
$1,932$3,601$5,856$9,060$22,458

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,932 vs $22,458).

How the prices are spread

$1,272 – $1,794: 11 hospitals$1,272$1,794 – $2,529: 15 hospitals$2,529 – $3,567: 5 hospitals$2,529$3,567 – $5,030: 58 hospitals$5,030 – $7,094: 45 hospitals$5,030$7,094 – $10,004: 34 hospitals$10,004 – $14,107: 14 hospitals$10,004$14,107 – $19,894: 10 hospitals$19,894 – $28,055: 10 hospitals$19,894$28,055 – $39,564: 8 hospitals$28,055median $5,856price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (210 of 232 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$1,272$1,79411
$1,794$2,52915
$2,529$3,5675
$3,567$5,03058
$5,030$7,09445
$7,094$10,00434
$10,004$14,10714
$14,107$19,89410
$19,894$28,05510
$28,055$39,5648

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$6,176
Median cash price$5,856
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.95×

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 $5,856.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVTNew Hampshire: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMTNorth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNDMinnesota: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureILWisconsin: median $4,348 across 10 hospitalsWI$4,348Michigan: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: median $6,904 across 28 hospitalsNY$6,904Massachusetts: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMAOregon: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNVWyoming: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIAIndiana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figurePANew Jersey: median $6,458 across 31 hospitalsNJ$6,458Connecticut: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $3,601 across 28 hospitalsCA$3,601Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceKYWest Virginia: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 2 hospitals 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: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNMKansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNCSouth Carolina: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOKLouisiana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $5,788 across 21 hospitalsTX$5,788Florida: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $5,856. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New York NY28$6,904+18%$2,355 – $9,872
New Jersey NJ31$6,458+10%$5,110 – $7,785
Texas TX21$5,788−1%$4,905 – $6,043
Wisconsin WI10$4,348−26%$4,348 – $10,375
California CA28$3,601−39%$3,601 – $6,066
Florida FL9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Pennsylvania PA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Michigan MI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Illinois IL5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oklahoma OK4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Iowa IA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY1not 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 $5,856.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care215$6,376$3,601 – $11,237
Children’s3fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access14fewer than 20 hospitals
Ownership
For-profit20$8,446$4,905 – $14,435
Government31$6,904$2,013 – $15,589
Non-profit181$5,788$3,601 – $9,872
System affiliation
Part of a system191$6,066$3,601 – $10,563
Independent41$5,202$2,013 – $14,435

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$7,765
Median cash price$5,856
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.

How complete is this

232 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 265 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted232
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here24
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded4
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded4
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded1
Hospitals that filed this code265

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 Robot Assisted Laparoscopic Ureteroureterostomy C/T 50760.

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.

Download this page’s figures: JSON · CSV. Aggregates only — the per-hospital prices are on the compare tool.

Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Unlisted keyhole procedure on the ureter (CPT 50949) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-50949-unlisted-keyhole-procedure-on-the-ureter