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Procedure price report · Other OR therapeutic procedures of urinary tract

Open surgery to remove a bladder stone

CPT 51050the billing code this page is about

Surgical opening of the bladder to remove a stone, without reshaping or removing part of the bladder neck.

Hospitals typically charge $2,410 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 481 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $3,349. Most fall between $873 and $7,373 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
481
States
48
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 481 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
$677$1,073$2,410$6,580$11,576

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 17× what the cheapest tenth charges ($677 vs $11,576).

How the prices are spread

$498 – $723: 33 hospitals$498$723 – $1,051: 62 hospitals$1,051 – $1,526: 72 hospitals$1,051$1,526 – $2,216: 29 hospitals$2,216 – $3,219: 37 hospitals$2,216$3,219 – $4,676: 30 hospitals$4,676 – $6,792: 86 hospitals$4,676$6,792 – $9,865: 50 hospitals$9,865 – $14,329: 19 hospitals$9,865$14,329 – $20,812: 16 hospitals$14,329median $2,410price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (434 of 481 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$498$72333
$723$1,05162
$1,051$1,52672
$1,526$2,21629
$2,216$3,21937
$3,219$4,67630
$4,676$6,79286
$6,792$9,86550
$9,865$14,32919
$14,329$20,81216

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$5,478
Median cash price$2,410
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.44×

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 $2,410.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $1,219 across 12 hospitalsWA$1,219Idaho: median $12,489 across 10 hospitalsID$12,489Montana: 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 $4,258 across 17 hospitalsMN$4,258Illinois: median $1,120 across 15 hospitalsIL$1,120Wisconsin: median $2,410 across 25 hospitalsWI$2,410Michigan: median $1,482 across 31 hospitalsMI$1,482New York: median $6,016 across 30 hospitalsNY$6,016Massachusetts: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $1,248 across 15 hospitalsOR$1,248Nevada: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 3 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 $1,188 across 19 hospitalsIA$1,188Indiana: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $2,072 across 16 hospitalsOH$2,072Pennsylvania: median $3,338 across 22 hospitalsPA$3,338New Jersey: median $5,632 across 32 hospitalsNJ$5,632Connecticut: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $6,297 across 47 hospitalsCA$6,297Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 7 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: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $783 across 12 hospitalsOK$783Louisiana: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $4,735 across 26 hospitalsTX$4,735Florida: median $2,114 across 11 hospitalsFL$2,114
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,410. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Idaho ID10$12,489+418%$4,120 – $12,489
California CA47$6,297+161%$1,393 – $8,613
New York NY30$6,016+150%$957 – $6,167
New Jersey NJ32$5,632+134%$5,110 – $6,784
Texas TX26$4,735+96%$3,893 – $8,220
Minnesota MN17$4,258+77%$1,373 – $4,996
Pennsylvania PA22$3,338+38%$307 – $9,734
Wisconsin WI25$2,4100%$2,317 – $7,013
Florida FL11$2,114−12%$2,072 – $5,103
Ohio OH16$2,072−14%$1,159 – $22,517
Michigan MI31$1,482−39%$855 – $2,317
Oregon OR15$1,248−48%$869 – $1,594
Washington WA12$1,219−49%$891 – $18,112
Iowa IA19$1,188−51%$1,103 – $1,357
Illinois IL15$1,120−54%$835 – $2,270
Oklahoma OK12$783−68%$783 – $783
Missouri MO9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not 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
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not 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 $2,410.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care383$3,893$869 – $8,613
Children’s8fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access88$1,482$889 – $3,893
Ownership
For-profit44$4,120$1,120 – $10,183
Government71$1,266$789 – $6,016
Non-profit364$2,505$882 – $7,373
System affiliation
Part of a system389$3,078$897 – $8,595
Independent92$1,219$835 – $6,167

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,179
Median cash price$2,410
Cash as a share of list, median hospital62%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 38%. 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

248 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,460 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,368; most fall between $783 and $6,297.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 248 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
$498$855$1,460$4,735$8,613

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 17× what the cheapest tenth charges ($498 vs $8,613).

Of the 269 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 248 gave a usable cash price; 16 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 5 a list price only.

How complete is this

481 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (12%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 525 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted481
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here37
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 code525

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 Cystolithotomy Cystotomy W/Rmvl Calculus.

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 surgery to remove a bladder stone (CPT 51050) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-51050-open-surgery-to-remove-a-bladder-stone