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Procedure price report · Other OR therapeutic procedures of urinary tract

Open bladder incision with drainage tube placement

CPT 51040the billing code this page is about

Surgical opening of the bladder through the lower abdomen to drain urine, including placement of a drainage tube.

Hospitals typically charge $2,609 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,165 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,731. Most fall between $814 and $5,214 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,165
States
50
Filings dated
Mar 2023 – 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 1,165 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
$518$996$2,609$4,747$7,656

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 15× what the cheapest tenth charges ($518 vs $7,656).

How the prices are spread

$353 – $489: 49 hospitals$353$489 – $678: 73 hospitals$678 – $940: 95 hospitals$678$940 – $1,304: 79 hospitals$1,304 – $1,809: 89 hospitals$1,304$1,809 – $2,509: 132 hospitals$2,509 – $3,480: 135 hospitals$2,509$3,480 – $4,826: 180 hospitals$4,826 – $6,693: 129 hospitals$4,826$6,693 – $9,283: 88 hospitals$6,693median $2,609price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,049 of 1,165 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$353$48949
$489$67873
$678$94095
$940$1,30479
$1,304$1,80989
$1,809$2,509132
$2,509$3,480135
$3,480$4,826180
$4,826$6,693129
$6,693$9,28388

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$2,136
Median cash price$2,609
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.22×

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 $2,609.

Alaska: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $675 across 15 hospitalsME$675Vermont: 7 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 $1,232 across 42 hospitalsWA$1,232Idaho: median $5,304 across 11 hospitalsID$5,304Montana: median $864 across 11 hospitalsMT$864North Dakota: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $2,382 across 43 hospitalsMN$2,382Illinois: median $1,120 across 35 hospitalsIL$1,120Wisconsin: median $1,493 across 33 hospitalsWI$1,493Michigan: median $2,874 across 55 hospitalsMI$2,874New York: median $2,424 across 59 hospitalsNY$2,424Massachusetts: median $5,618 across 22 hospitalsMA$5,618Oregon: median $851 across 34 hospitalsOR$851Nevada: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $727 across 35 hospitalsIA$727Indiana: median $643 across 30 hospitalsIN$643Ohio: median $4,129 across 61 hospitalsOH$4,129Pennsylvania: median $2,443 across 65 hospitalsPA$2,443New Jersey: median $2,733 across 38 hospitalsNJ$2,733Connecticut: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $3,864 across 105 hospitalsCA$3,864Utah: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $1,776 across 14 hospitalsCO$1,776Nebraska: median $1,119 across 13 hospitalsNE$1,119Missouri: median $2,083 across 24 hospitalsMO$2,083Kentucky: median $1,112 across 15 hospitalsKY$1,112West Virginia: median $1,621 across 23 hospitalsWV$1,621Virginia: median $3,078 across 21 hospitalsVA$3,078Maryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $1,043 across 14 hospitalsAZ$1,043New Mexico: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $623 across 12 hospitalsKS$623Arkansas: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $1,556 across 17 hospitalsTN$1,556North Carolina: median $860 across 12 hospitalsNC$860South Carolina: median $3,608 across 28 hospitalsSC$3,608Oklahoma: median $976 across 22 hospitalsOK$976Louisiana: median $1,814 across 20 hospitalsLA$1,814Mississippi: median $1,380 across 11 hospitalsMS$1,380Alabama: median $2,765 across 17 hospitalsAL$2,765Georgia: median $4,857 across 17 hospitalsGA$4,857Hawaii: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $4,747 across 72 hospitalsTX$4,747Florida: median $2,056 across 35 hospitalsFL$2,056
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,609. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Massachusetts MA22$5,618+115%$3,423 – $7,323
Idaho ID11$5,304+103%$3,605 – $5,304
Georgia GA17$4,857+86%$3,507 – $5,357
Texas TX72$4,747+82%$2,653 – $6,810
Ohio OH61$4,129+58%$2,396 – $8,849
California CA105$3,864+48%$1,934 – $8,378
South Carolina SC28$3,608+38%$3,608 – $8,125
Virginia VA21$3,078+18%$3,027 – $5,123
Michigan MI55$2,874+10%$1,261 – $6,967
Alabama AL17$2,765+6%$1,792 – $3,750
New Jersey NJ38$2,733+5%$2,269 – $5,419
Pennsylvania PA65$2,443−6%$804 – $4,190
New York NY59$2,424−7%$877 – $4,595
Minnesota MN43$2,382−9%$774 – $5,167
Missouri MO24$2,083−20%$1,689 – $5,191
Florida FL35$2,056−21%$1,858 – $4,462
Louisiana LA20$1,814−30%$719 – $3,086
Colorado CO14$1,776−32%$627 – $3,592
West Virginia WV23$1,621−38%$306 – $3,465
Tennessee TN17$1,556−40%$300 – $2,614
Wisconsin WI33$1,493−43%$1,368 – $5,393
Mississippi MS11$1,380−47%$1,220 – $1,818
Washington WA42$1,232−53%$629 – $4,603
Illinois IL35$1,120−57%$665 – $3,465
Nebraska NE13$1,119−57%$710 – $3,682
Kentucky KY15$1,112−57%$468 – $1,194
Arizona AZ14$1,043−60%$426 – $2,565
Oklahoma OK22$976−63%$483 – $4,539
Montana MT11$864−67%$346 – $2,674
North Carolina NC12$860−67%$860 – $5,070
Oregon OR34$851−67%$538 – $4,533
Iowa IA35$727−72%$642 – $1,337
Maine ME15$675−74%$353 – $3,624
Indiana IN30$643−75%$384 – $1,217
Kansas KS12$623−76%$447 – $3,762
Alaska AK9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not 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 $2,609.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care915$2,955$996 – $5,447
Children’s16fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access228$1,144$546 – $3,807
Ownership
For-profit104$3,221$1,120 – $6,607
Government184$1,556$604 – $3,417
Non-profit871$2,786$838 – $5,357
System affiliation
Part of a system958$2,786$931 – $5,383
Independent207$1,374$562 – $3,762

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$4,511
Median cash price$2,609
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

748 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,765 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,791; most fall between $814 and $5,191.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 748 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
$503$996$2,765$4,747$6,855

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 14× what the cheapest tenth charges ($503 vs $6,855).

Of the 795 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 748 gave a usable cash price; 23 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 24 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,165 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (29%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,249 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,165
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here51
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded6
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded26
Hospitals that filed this code1,249

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 Other OR therapeutic procedures of urinary tract family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as PR Incise/Drain Bladder.

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, “Open bladder incision with drainage tube placement (CPT 51040) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-51040-open-bladder-incision-with-drainage-tube-placement