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Procedure price report · Nonoperative urinary system measurements

Contrast injection for bladder and urethra X-ray

CPT 51610the billing code this page is about

Covers only the injection of contrast dye backward through the urethra to fill the bladder for imaging; the X-ray images themselves are billed separately.

Hospitals typically charge $372 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,939 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $388. Most fall between $152 and $771 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,939
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 1,939 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
$99$177$372$638$1,256

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($99 vs $1,256).

How the prices are spread

$72 – $99: 101 hospitals$72$99 – $137: 143 hospitals$137 – $189: 171 hospitals$137$189 – $260: 205 hospitals$260 – $359: 239 hospitals$260$359 – $495: 270 hospitals$495 – $683: 274 hospitals$495$683 – $942: 142 hospitals$942 – $1,299: 118 hospitals$942$1,299 – $1,792: 94 hospitals$1,299median $372price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,757 of 1,939 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$72$99101
$99$137143
$137$189171
$189$260205
$260$359239
$359$495270
$495$683274
$683$942142
$942$1,299118
$1,299$1,79294

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $372.

Alaska: median $400 across 10 hospitalsAK$400Maine: median $232 across 14 hospitalsME$232Vermont: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $226 across 10 hospitalsNH$226Washington: median $461 across 49 hospitalsWA$461Idaho: median $357 across 14 hospitalsID$357Montana: median $196 across 16 hospitalsMT$196North Dakota: median $290 across 10 hospitalsND$290Minnesota: median $341 across 58 hospitalsMN$341Illinois: median $409 across 80 hospitalsIL$409Wisconsin: median $327 across 82 hospitalsWI$327Michigan: median $514 across 62 hospitalsMI$514New York: median $190 across 57 hospitalsNY$190Massachusetts: median $615 across 36 hospitalsMA$615Oregon: median $229 across 38 hospitalsOR$229Nevada: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $541 across 11 hospitalsSD$541Iowa: median $297 across 31 hospitalsIA$297Indiana: median $318 across 66 hospitalsIN$318Ohio: median $473 across 105 hospitalsOH$473Pennsylvania: median $617 across 83 hospitalsPA$617New Jersey: median $556 across 39 hospitalsNJ$556Connecticut: median $588 across 15 hospitalsCT$588Rhode Island: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $638 across 149 hospitalsCA$638Utah: median $350 across 26 hospitalsUT$350Colorado: median $356 across 43 hospitalsCO$356Nebraska: median $314 across 20 hospitalsNE$314Missouri: median $467 across 45 hospitalsMO$467Kentucky: median $255 across 21 hospitalsKY$255West Virginia: median $177 across 19 hospitalsWV$177Virginia: median $540 across 44 hospitalsVA$540Maryland: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $136 across 36 hospitalsAZ$136New Mexico: median $169 across 13 hospitalsNM$169Kansas: median $391 across 23 hospitalsKS$391Arkansas: median $202 across 18 hospitalsAR$202Tennessee: median $104 across 43 hospitalsTN$104North Carolina: median $206 across 57 hospitalsNC$206South Carolina: median $445 across 33 hospitalsSC$445Oklahoma: median $288 across 36 hospitalsOK$288Louisiana: median $177 across 36 hospitalsLA$177Mississippi: median $157 across 35 hospitalsMS$157Alabama: median $270 across 20 hospitalsAL$270Georgia: median $356 across 61 hospitalsGA$356Hawaii: median $203 across 15 hospitalsHI$203Texas: median $296 across 140 hospitalsTX$296Florida: median $547 across 83 hospitalsFL$547
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $372. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA149$638+71%$216 – $1,640
Pennsylvania PA83$617+66%$168 – $1,419
Massachusetts MA36$615+65%$184 – $1,197
Connecticut CT15$588+58%$443 – $716
New Jersey NJ39$556+49%$176 – $4,881
Florida FL83$547+47%$250 – $981
South Dakota SD11$541+45%$479 – $861
Virginia VA44$540+45%$106 – $1,256
Michigan MI62$514+38%$161 – $699
Ohio OH105$473+27%$250 – $903
Missouri MO45$467+25%$199 – $555
Washington WA49$461+24%$232 – $558
South Carolina SC33$445+19%$305 – $537
Illinois IL80$409+10%$214 – $796
Alaska AK10$400+7%$194 – $546
Kansas KS23$391+5%$250 – $953
Idaho ID14$357−4%$214 – $1,194
Colorado CO43$356−4%$159 – $673
Georgia GA61$356−4%$256 – $685
Utah UT26$350−6%$350 – $412
Minnesota MN58$341−8%$209 – $635
Wisconsin WI82$327−12%$277 – $450
Indiana IN66$318−15%$158 – $641
Nebraska NE20$314−16%$186 – $365
Iowa IA31$297−20%$182 – $551
Texas TX140$296−20%$104 – $605
North Dakota ND10$290−22%$114 – $307
Oklahoma OK36$288−23%$152 – $728
Alabama AL20$270−27%$100 – $530
Kentucky KY21$255−32%$115 – $586
Maine ME14$232−38%$95 – $580
Oregon OR38$229−39%$184 – $783
New Hampshire NH10$226−39%$66 – $485
North Carolina NC57$206−45%$111 – $353
Hawaii HI15$203−46%$141 – $322
Arkansas AR18$202−46%$101 – $379
Montana MT16$196−47%$158 – $279
New York NY57$190−49%$123 – $974
Louisiana LA36$177−52%$74 – $484
West Virginia WV19$177−52%$67 – $375
New Mexico NM13$169−55%$143 – $241
Mississippi MS35$157−58%$73 – $415
Arizona AZ36$136−64%$83 – $983
Tennessee TN43$104−72%$67 – $206
Nevada NV8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD3not 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 $372.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,593$385$152 – $806
Children’s42$459$223 – $1,271
Critical access297$326$148 – $585
Ownership
For-profit169$385$147 – $902
Government276$270$124 – $590
Non-profit1,487$386$159 – $806
System affiliation
Part of a system1,661$382$152 – $760
Independent278$337$153 – $885

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$629
Median cash price$372
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

1,524 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $385 and the average of the middle 60% is $411; most fall between $152 and $806.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,524 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
$100$184$385$663$1,286

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($100 vs $1,286).

Of the 1,641 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,524 gave a usable cash price; 34 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 82 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,939 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (49%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,142 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,939
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here65
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded2
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded135
Hospitals that filed this code2,142

Sections not shown for this setting

  • Against Medicare: Medicare has no separately payable national outpatient (OPPS) rate for this code, so there is nothing honest to compare against.
  • 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 Nonoperative urinary system measurements family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Njx Retrograde Urethrocstograpy.

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, “Contrast injection for bladder and urethra X-ray (CPT 51610) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-51610-contrast-injection-for-bladder-and-urethra-x-ray