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Procedure price report · Transurethral excision, drainage, or removal urinary obstruction

Ureter endoscopy to remove a stone or foreign object

CPT 50961the billing code this page is about

A scope is passed through an existing surgical ureter opening to remove a stone or a foreign object from the ureter or kidney.

Hospitals typically charge $2,342 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 274 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $3,161. Most fall between $678 and $6,704 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
274
States
41
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 274 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
$521$788$2,342$6,016$8,176

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 16× what the cheapest tenth charges ($521 vs $8,176).

How the prices are spread

$323 – $460: 13 hospitals$323$460 – $657: 28 hospitals$657 – $937: 37 hospitals$657$937 – $1,336: 22 hospitals$1,336 – $1,905: 19 hospitals$1,336$1,905 – $2,717: 6 hospitals$2,717 – $3,876: 7 hospitals$2,717$3,876 – $5,528: 35 hospitals$5,528 – $7,885: 52 hospitals$5,528$7,885 – $11,246: 29 hospitals$7,885median $2,342price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (248 of 274 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$323$46013
$460$65728
$657$93737
$937$1,33622
$1,336$1,90519
$1,905$2,7176
$2,717$3,8767
$3,876$5,52835
$5,528$7,88552
$7,885$11,24629

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$5,478
Median cash price$2,342
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.43×

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 $2,342.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew 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: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $805 across 11 hospitalsIL$805Wisconsin: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: median $634 across 11 hospitalsMI$634New York: median $6,016 across 23 hospitalsNY$6,016Massachusetts: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $999 across 13 hospitalsOR$999Nevada: 2 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 $974 across 14 hospitalsIA$974Indiana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: median $3,338 across 19 hospitalsPA$3,338New Jersey: median $5,627 across 23 hospitalsNJ$5,627Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $8,176 across 28 hospitalsCA$8,176Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 4 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: 2 hospitals 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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $521 across 12 hospitalsOK$521Louisiana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 2 hospitals 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 $4,628 across 21 hospitalsTX$4,628Florida: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,342. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA28$8,176+249%$3,044 – $8,176
New York NY23$6,016+157%$917 – $6,364
New Jersey NJ23$5,627+140%$4,881 – $5,987
Texas TX21$4,628+98%$4,408 – $4,628
Pennsylvania PA19$3,338+43%$150 – $8,595
Oregon OR13$999−57%$709 – $1,314
Iowa IA14$974−58%$974 – $974
Illinois IL11$805−66%$805 – $1,772
Michigan MI11$634−73%$634 – $7,373
Oklahoma OK12$521−78%$521 – $521
Idaho ID8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not 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 $2,342.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care233$4,044$634 – $7,064
Children’s2fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access38$1,314$744 – $5,970
Ownership
For-profit28$1,820$805 – $8,220
Government34$1,892$606 – $6,016
Non-profit211$3,443$709 – $6,937
System affiliation
Part of a system223$4,044$709 – $6,839
Independent51$937$559 – $5,537

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,153
Median cash price$2,342
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

167 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $974 and the average of the middle 60% is $3,173; most fall between $521 and $8,176.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 167 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
$359$592$974$6,799$8,176

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 23× what the cheapest tenth charges ($359 vs $8,176).

Of the 192 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 167 gave a usable cash price; 17 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 8 a list price only.

How complete is this

274 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (7%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 315 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted274
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here34
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 — excluded6
Hospitals that filed this code315

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 Transurethral excision, drainage, or removal urinary obstruction family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Ureteral Endoscopy via Ureterost W/Rmvl FB/Stone.

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, “Ureter endoscopy to remove a stone or foreign object (CPT 50961) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-50961-ureter-endoscopy-to-remove-a-stone-or-foreign-object