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Procedure price report · Other OR therapeutic procedures of urinary tract

Open repair or removal of a ureterocele

CPT 51535the billing code this page is about

Surgery through an incision in the bladder to cut into, repair, or remove a ureterocele, a balloon-like swelling where the tube from the kidney enters the bladder.

Hospitals typically charge $2,675 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 261 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,823. Most fall between $1,425 and $5,110 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
261
States
41
Filings dated
Jun 2024 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 23, 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 261 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
$1,097$1,441$2,675$4,400$6,115

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,097 vs $6,115).

How the prices are spread

$774 – $962: 12 hospitals$774$962 – $1,196: 5 hospitals$1,196 – $1,488: 46 hospitals$1,196$1,488 – $1,850: 22 hospitals$1,850 – $2,300: 25 hospitals$1,850$2,300 – $2,860: 10 hospitals$2,860 – $3,557: 22 hospitals$2,860$3,557 – $4,423: 44 hospitals$4,423 – $5,500: 19 hospitals$4,423$5,500 – $6,839: 31 hospitals$5,500median $2,675price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (236 of 261 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$774$96212
$962$1,1965
$1,196$1,48846
$1,488$1,85022
$1,850$2,30025
$2,300$2,86010
$2,860$3,55722
$3,557$4,42344
$4,423$5,50019
$5,500$6,83931

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$3,601
Median cash price$2,675
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.74×

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 $2,675.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 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: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $1,544 across 11 hospitalsIL$1,544Wisconsin: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: median $1,472 across 11 hospitalsMI$1,472New York: median $4,081 across 23 hospitalsNY$4,081Massachusetts: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMAOregon: median $1,425 across 10 hospitalsOR$1,425Nevada: 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 $1,970 across 16 hospitalsIA$1,970Indiana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: median $545 across 18 hospitalsPA$545New Jersey: median $4,062 across 22 hospitalsNJ$4,062Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $6,115 across 25 hospitalsCA$6,115Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 1 hospital 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: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 3 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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $1,289 across 12 hospitalsOK$1,289Louisiana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMSAlabama: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceGAHawaii: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $3,080 across 18 hospitalsTX$3,080Florida: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,675. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA25$6,115+129%$4,470 – $6,115
New York NY23$4,081+53%$2,225 – $4,184
New Jersey NJ22$4,062+52%$3,818 – $5,419
Texas TX18$3,080+15%$3,080 – $3,080
Iowa IA16$1,970−26%$1,970 – $2,267
Illinois IL11$1,544−42%$1,372 – $1,544
Michigan MI11$1,472−45%$1,425 – $4,847
Oregon OR10$1,425−47%$1,425 – $2,627
Oklahoma OK12$1,289−52%$1,289 – $1,289
Pennsylvania PA18$545−80%$444 – $5,831
Ohio OH9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN3not 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
Virginia VA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT3not 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
Maine ME2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC1not 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 $2,675.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care222$3,080$1,400 – $5,362
Children’s7fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access31$2,627$1,529 – $3,969
Ownership
For-profit22$2,675$1,513 – $5,706
Government37$1,940$1,405 – $4,081
Non-profit201$3,080$1,400 – $5,362
System affiliation
Part of a system218$3,080$1,425 – $5,447
Independent43$1,639$1,379 – $3,462

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,176
Median cash price$2,675
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

171 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,894 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,149; most fall between $1,289 and $5,696.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 171 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
$876$1,425$1,894$3,318$6,115

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($876 vs $6,115).

Of the 185 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 171 gave a usable cash price; 12 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 2 a list price only.

How complete is this

261 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 283 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted261
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here19
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 — excluded2
Hospitals that filed this code283

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 23, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 23, 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 Cystotomy Excise/Incise/Repair Ureterocele.

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 repair or removal of a ureterocele (CPT 51535) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-51535-open-repair-or-removal-of-a-ureterocele