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Procedure price report · Other non-OR therapeutic procedures of urinary tract

Draining urine from the bladder with a needle

CPT 51100the billing code this page is about

Withdrawal of urine from the bladder using a needle passed through the skin above the pubic bone.

Hospitals typically charge $456 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,014 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $488. Most fall between $192 and $935 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,014
States
49
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 1,014 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
$110$219$456$836$1,403

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($110 vs $1,403).

How the prices are spread

$69 – $101: 34 hospitals$69$101 – $147: 59 hospitals$147 – $214: 104 hospitals$147$214 – $313: 142 hospitals$313 – $457: 118 hospitals$313$457 – $667: 167 hospitals$667 – $974: 144 hospitals$667$974 – $1,422: 97 hospitals$1,422 – $2,076: 29 hospitals$1,422$2,076 – $3,031: 20 hospitals$2,076median $456price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (914 of 1,014 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$69$10134
$101$14759
$147$214104
$214$313142
$313$457118
$457$667167
$667$974144
$974$1,42297
$1,422$2,07629
$2,076$3,03120

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$255
Median cash price$456
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.78×

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 $456.

Alaska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $247 across 12 hospitalsME$247Vermont: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $499 across 42 hospitalsWA$499Idaho: median $660 across 11 hospitalsID$660Montana: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $307 across 26 hospitalsMN$307Illinois: median $394 across 41 hospitalsIL$394Wisconsin: median $280 across 30 hospitalsWI$280Michigan: median $585 across 29 hospitalsMI$585New York: median $312 across 57 hospitalsNY$312Massachusetts: median $388 across 23 hospitalsMA$388Oregon: median $547 across 23 hospitalsOR$547Nevada: 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: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $359 across 22 hospitalsIA$359Indiana: median $133 across 31 hospitalsIN$133Ohio: median $727 across 34 hospitalsOH$727Pennsylvania: median $446 across 54 hospitalsPA$446New Jersey: median $809 across 36 hospitalsNJ$809Connecticut: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $858 across 84 hospitalsCA$858Utah: median $1,213 across 14 hospitalsUT$1,213Colorado: median $273 across 24 hospitalsCO$273Nebraska: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $301 across 18 hospitalsMO$301Kentucky: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $120 across 11 hospitalsWV$120Virginia: median $196 across 13 hospitalsVA$196Maryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: median $248 across 25 hospitalsAZ$248New Mexico: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $186 across 11 hospitalsTN$186North Carolina: median $516 across 24 hospitalsNC$516South Carolina: median $645 across 12 hospitalsSC$645Oklahoma: median $443 across 19 hospitalsOK$443Louisiana: median $268 across 14 hospitalsLA$268Mississippi: median $232 across 19 hospitalsMS$232Alabama: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $2,041 across 43 hospitalsGA$2,041Hawaii: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $591 across 75 hospitalsTX$591Florida: median $323 across 32 hospitalsFL$323
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $456. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Georgia GA43$2,041+348%$591 – $4,658
Utah UT14$1,213+166%$452 – $1,213
California CA84$858+88%$385 – $1,126
New Jersey NJ36$809+77%$269 – $4,881
Ohio OH34$727+60%$253 – $816
Idaho ID11$660+45%$272 – $660
South Carolina SC12$645+42%$356 – $645
Texas TX75$591+30%$309 – $935
Michigan MI29$585+28%$102 – $1,037
Oregon OR23$547+20%$208 – $734
North Carolina NC24$516+13%$180 – $722
Washington WA42$499+9%$374 – $932
Pennsylvania PA54$446−2%$255 – $798
Oklahoma OK19$443−3%$344 – $721
Illinois IL41$394−13%$110 – $1,133
Massachusetts MA23$388−15%$172 – $791
Iowa IA22$359−21%$170 – $613
Florida FL32$323−29%$192 – $1,303
New York NY57$312−32%$177 – $4,595
Minnesota MN26$307−33%$205 – $605
Missouri MO18$301−34%$152 – $1,036
Wisconsin WI30$280−39%$197 – $473
Colorado CO24$273−40%$161 – $1,403
Louisiana LA14$268−41%$158 – $671
Arizona AZ25$248−46%$169 – $1,134
Maine ME12$247−46%$91 – $628
Mississippi MS19$232−49%$194 – $410
Virginia VA13$196−57%$123 – $401
Tennessee TN11$186−59%$62 – $232
Indiana IN31$133−71%$73 – $628
West Virginia WV11$120−74%$110 – $681
Hawaii HI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT3not 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 $456.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care830$486$203 – $1,037
Children’s26$439$218 – $763
Critical access156$264$115 – $606
Ownership
For-profit95$591$221 – $1,146
Government159$307$138 – $703
Non-profit758$480$197 – $1,025
System affiliation
Part of a system847$482$201 – $1,036
Independent167$329$122 – $746

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$797
Median cash price$456
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

776 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $508 and the average of the middle 60% is $529; most fall between $205 and $1,008.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 776 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
$131$242$508$858$1,303

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($131 vs $1,303).

Of the 826 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 776 gave a usable cash price; 22 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 28 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,014 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (26%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,088 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,014
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here39
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 — excluded34
Hospitals that filed this code1,088

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 non-OR therapeutic procedures of urinary tract family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Aspiration Bladder Needle.

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, “Draining urine from the bladder with a needle (CPT 51100) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-51100-draining-urine-from-the-bladder-with-a-needle