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Procedure price report · Other OR therapeutic procedures of urinary tract

Bladder drainage with placement of a tube through the skin

CPT 51102the billing code this page is about

Urine is drained from the bladder through the lower abdominal wall and a catheter is left in place to keep draining.

Hospitals typically charge $2,424 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,272 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,525. Most fall between $790 and $4,665 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,272
States
50
Filings dated
Aug 2022 – 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 2,272 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
$437$1,119$2,424$3,993$6,621

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 15× what the cheapest tenth charges ($437 vs $6,621).

How the prices are spread

$303 – $422: 92 hospitals$303$422 – $589: 128 hospitals$589 – $820: 129 hospitals$589$820 – $1,142: 110 hospitals$1,142 – $1,592: 168 hospitals$1,142$1,592 – $2,218: 272 hospitals$2,218 – $3,090: 395 hospitals$2,218$3,090 – $4,305: 356 hospitals$4,305 – $5,997: 223 hospitals$4,305$5,997 – $8,356: 173 hospitals$5,997median $2,424price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,046 of 2,272 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$303$42292
$422$589128
$589$820129
$820$1,142110
$1,142$1,592168
$1,592$2,218272
$2,218$3,090395
$3,090$4,305356
$4,305$5,997223
$5,997$8,356173

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$2,136
Median cash price$2,424
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.14×

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 $2,424.

Alaska: median $1,559 across 12 hospitalsAK$1,559Maine: median $1,134 across 20 hospitalsME$1,134Vermont: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $1,606 across 13 hospitalsNH$1,606Washington: median $1,180 across 62 hospitalsWA$1,180Idaho: median $2,591 across 18 hospitalsID$2,591Montana: median $374 across 20 hospitalsMT$374North Dakota: median $3,336 across 15 hospitalsND$3,336Minnesota: median $1,382 across 58 hospitalsMN$1,382Illinois: median $2,038 across 81 hospitalsIL$2,038Wisconsin: median $1,070 across 72 hospitalsWI$1,070Michigan: median $1,833 across 66 hospitalsMI$1,833New York: median $2,609 across 87 hospitalsNY$2,609Massachusetts: median $2,821 across 43 hospitalsMA$2,821Oregon: median $2,237 across 48 hospitalsOR$2,237Nevada: median $2,337 across 15 hospitalsNV$2,337Wyoming: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $4,007 across 14 hospitalsSD$4,007Iowa: median $680 across 47 hospitalsIA$680Indiana: median $1,958 across 62 hospitalsIN$1,958Ohio: median $3,226 across 117 hospitalsOH$3,226Pennsylvania: median $2,659 across 102 hospitalsPA$2,659New Jersey: median $2,718 across 55 hospitalsNJ$2,718Connecticut: median $2,010 across 19 hospitalsCT$2,010Rhode Island: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $3,640 across 169 hospitalsCA$3,640Utah: median $1,889 across 28 hospitalsUT$1,889Colorado: median $2,551 across 48 hospitalsCO$2,551Nebraska: median $1,003 across 44 hospitalsNE$1,003Missouri: median $2,235 across 56 hospitalsMO$2,235Kentucky: median $2,224 across 36 hospitalsKY$2,224West Virginia: median $1,747 across 27 hospitalsWV$1,747Virginia: median $2,338 across 50 hospitalsVA$2,338Maryland: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $1,292 across 39 hospitalsAZ$1,292New Mexico: median $4,646 across 17 hospitalsNM$4,646Kansas: median $1,230 across 31 hospitalsKS$1,230Arkansas: median $1,176 across 20 hospitalsAR$1,176Tennessee: median $769 across 44 hospitalsTN$769North Carolina: median $2,028 across 57 hospitalsNC$2,028South Carolina: median $3,508 across 42 hospitalsSC$3,508Oklahoma: median $2,074 across 42 hospitalsOK$2,074Louisiana: median $2,021 across 31 hospitalsLA$2,021Mississippi: median $1,443 across 32 hospitalsMS$1,443Alabama: median $2,364 across 28 hospitalsAL$2,364Georgia: median $2,991 across 69 hospitalsGA$2,991Hawaii: median $3,506 across 16 hospitalsHI$3,506Texas: median $3,496 across 160 hospitalsTX$3,496Florida: median $3,244 across 104 hospitalsFL$3,244
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,424. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Mexico NM17$4,646+92%$343 – $4,916
South Dakota SD14$4,007+65%$618 – $5,854
California CA169$3,640+50%$1,798 – $7,661
South Carolina SC42$3,508+45%$2,022 – $4,469
Hawaii HI16$3,506+45%$2,590 – $4,891
Texas TX160$3,496+44%$1,732 – $5,165
North Dakota ND15$3,336+38%$464 – $3,740
Florida FL104$3,244+34%$1,344 – $8,190
Ohio OH117$3,226+33%$2,003 – $6,125
Georgia GA69$2,991+23%$2,086 – $5,305
Massachusetts MA43$2,821+16%$1,516 – $3,825
New Jersey NJ55$2,718+12%$2,267 – $5,741
Pennsylvania PA102$2,659+10%$1,952 – $3,952
New York NY87$2,609+8%$1,337 – $5,007
Idaho ID18$2,591+7%$483 – $5,304
Colorado CO48$2,551+5%$1,424 – $4,680
Alabama AL28$2,364−2%$1,471 – $5,038
Virginia VA50$2,338−4%$1,430 – $3,872
Nevada NV15$2,337−4%$999 – $2,730
Oregon OR48$2,237−8%$430 – $4,533
Missouri MO56$2,235−8%$688 – $3,844
Kentucky KY36$2,224−8%$506 – $7,545
Oklahoma OK42$2,074−14%$1,418 – $3,637
Illinois IL81$2,038−16%$671 – $5,580
North Carolina NC57$2,028−16%$953 – $3,382
Louisiana LA31$2,021−17%$1,380 – $3,433
Connecticut CT19$2,010−17%$745 – $4,498
Indiana IN62$1,958−19%$526 – $3,608
Utah UT28$1,889−22%$1,889 – $2,222
Michigan MI66$1,833−24%$437 – $2,874
West Virginia WV27$1,747−28%$233 – $4,128
New Hampshire NH13$1,606−34%$170 – $3,458
Alaska AK12$1,559−36%$1,232 – $2,682
Mississippi MS32$1,443−40%$681 – $2,970
Minnesota MN58$1,382−43%$436 – $2,374
Arizona AZ39$1,292−47%$720 – $5,994
Kansas KS31$1,230−49%$393 – $2,919
Washington WA62$1,180−51%$432 – $3,935
Arkansas AR20$1,176−51%$554 – $1,817
Maine ME20$1,134−53%$335 – $4,102
Wisconsin WI72$1,070−56%$592 – $2,952
Nebraska NE44$1,003−59%$480 – $2,666
Tennessee TN44$769−68%$617 – $2,413
Iowa IA47$680−72%$400 – $3,587
Montana MT20$374−85%$217 – $736
Vermont VT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE6not 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 $2,424.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,788$2,666$1,231 – $5,025
Children’s43$2,400$1,111 – $4,565
Critical access433$892$382 – $3,307
Ownership
For-profit234$3,163$1,394 – $7,641
Government369$1,732$479 – $3,943
Non-profit1,661$2,457$898 – $4,533
System affiliation
Part of a system1,889$2,551$937 – $4,800
Independent383$1,772$432 – $3,985

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$4,505
Median cash price$2,424
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

1,682 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,634 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,680; most fall between $1,044 and $4,787.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,682 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
$530$1,321$2,634$4,114$6,361

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($530 vs $6,361).

Of the 1,796 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,682 gave a usable cash price; 44 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 69 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,272 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (57%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,446 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,272
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here87
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded9
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded77
Hospitals that filed this code2,446

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 Aspiration Bladder Insert Suprapubic Catheter.

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, “Bladder drainage with placement of a tube through the skin (CPT 51102) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-51102-bladder-drainage-with-placement-of-a-tube-through-the-skin