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

Simple bladder washout or medication instillation

CPT 51700the billing code this page is about

Rinsing the bladder or placing medication into it through a catheter in a straightforward session; covers one such treatment.

Hospitals typically charge $310 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,682 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $329. Most fall between $147 and $581 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,682
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 2,682 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
$93$169$310$535$874

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($93 vs $874).

How the prices are spread

$63 – $85: 100 hospitals$63$85 – $116: 112 hospitals$116 – $157: 259 hospitals$116$157 – $213: 282 hospitals$213 – $290: 384 hospitals$213$290 – $394: 384 hospitals$394 – $534: 355 hospitals$394$534 – $726: 288 hospitals$726 – $985: 161 hospitals$726$985 – $1,338: 92 hospitals$985median $310price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,417 of 2,682 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$63$85100
$85$116112
$116$157259
$157$213282
$213$290384
$290$394384
$394$534355
$534$726288
$726$985161
$985$1,33892

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$255
Median cash price$310
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.21×

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 $310.

Alaska: median $434 across 14 hospitalsAK$434Maine: median $195 across 22 hospitalsME$195Vermont: median $158 across 11 hospitalsVT$158New Hampshire: median $127 across 17 hospitalsNH$127Washington: median $338 across 68 hospitalsWA$338Idaho: median $265 across 18 hospitalsID$265Montana: median $199 across 24 hospitalsMT$199North Dakota: median $350 across 25 hospitalsND$350Minnesota: median $303 across 95 hospitalsMN$303Illinois: median $329 across 114 hospitalsIL$329Wisconsin: median $216 across 102 hospitalsWI$216Michigan: median $255 across 78 hospitalsMI$255New York: median $297 across 108 hospitalsNY$297Massachusetts: median $454 across 46 hospitalsMA$454Oregon: median $149 across 46 hospitalsOR$149Nevada: median $406 across 17 hospitalsNV$406Wyoming: median $224 across 14 hospitalsWY$224South Dakota: median $318 across 35 hospitalsSD$318Iowa: median $197 across 80 hospitalsIA$197Indiana: median $252 across 76 hospitalsIN$252Ohio: median $431 across 119 hospitalsOH$431Pennsylvania: median $362 across 106 hospitalsPA$362New Jersey: median $371 across 53 hospitalsNJ$371Connecticut: median $260 across 20 hospitalsCT$260Rhode Island: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $572 across 171 hospitalsCA$572Utah: median $375 across 30 hospitalsUT$375Colorado: median $260 across 64 hospitalsCO$260Nebraska: median $208 across 65 hospitalsNE$208Missouri: median $276 across 58 hospitalsMO$276Kentucky: median $317 across 49 hospitalsKY$317West Virginia: median $288 across 34 hospitalsWV$288Virginia: median $325 across 58 hospitalsVA$325Maryland: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $307 across 42 hospitalsAZ$307New Mexico: median $446 across 20 hospitalsNM$446Kansas: median $183 across 67 hospitalsKS$183Arkansas: median $216 across 28 hospitalsAR$216Tennessee: median $151 across 51 hospitalsTN$151North Carolina: median $227 across 55 hospitalsNC$227South Carolina: median $361 across 43 hospitalsSC$361Oklahoma: median $332 across 57 hospitalsOK$332Louisiana: median $175 across 48 hospitalsLA$175Mississippi: median $157 across 45 hospitalsMS$157Alabama: median $218 across 26 hospitalsAL$218Georgia: median $438 across 77 hospitalsGA$438Hawaii: median $617 across 13 hospitalsHI$617Texas: median $280 across 158 hospitalsTX$280Florida: median $541 across 99 hospitalsFL$541
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $310. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Hawaii HI13$617+99%$99 – $948
California CA171$572+85%$276 – $936
Florida FL99$541+75%$275 – $1,474
Massachusetts MA46$454+47%$231 – $666
New Mexico NM20$446+44%$146 – $611
Georgia GA77$438+41%$202 – $892
Alaska AK14$434+40%$258 – $983
Ohio OH119$431+39%$277 – $727
Nevada NV17$406+31%$153 – $703
Utah UT30$375+21%$343 – $460
New Jersey NJ53$371+20%$269 – $3,986
Pennsylvania PA106$362+17%$181 – $857
South Carolina SC43$361+17%$223 – $538
North Dakota ND25$350+13%$226 – $526
Washington WA68$338+9%$148 – $564
Oklahoma OK57$332+7%$171 – $505
Illinois IL114$329+6%$151 – $603
Virginia VA58$325+5%$185 – $494
South Dakota SD35$318+3%$221 – $424
Kentucky KY49$317+2%$146 – $521
Arizona AZ42$307−1%$131 – $1,452
Minnesota MN95$303−2%$123 – $466
New York NY108$297−4%$124 – $852
West Virginia WV34$288−7%$121 – $494
Texas TX158$280−10%$142 – $670
Missouri MO58$276−11%$180 – $567
Idaho ID18$265−15%$78 – $660
Connecticut CT20$260−16%$160 – $436
Colorado CO64$260−16%$149 – $589
Michigan MI78$255−18%$38 – $394
Indiana IN76$252−19%$158 – $418
North Carolina NC55$227−27%$143 – $376
Wyoming WY14$224−28%$192 – $530
Alabama AL26$218−30%$176 – $679
Wisconsin WI102$216−30%$178 – $378
Arkansas AR28$216−30%$89 – $469
Nebraska NE65$208−33%$155 – $365
Montana MT24$199−36%$89 – $266
Iowa IA80$197−36%$90 – $393
Maine ME22$195−37%$61 – $384
Kansas KS67$183−41%$85 – $347
Louisiana LA48$175−43%$110 – $338
Vermont VT11$158−49%$109 – $452
Mississippi MS45$157−49%$82 – $356
Tennessee TN51$151−51%$101 – $382
Oregon OR46$149−52%$97 – $394
New Hampshire NH17$127−59%$75 – $247
Rhode Island RI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE3not 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 $310.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,877$349$166 – $682
Children’s38$329$162 – $671
Critical access760$224$100 – $423
Ownership
For-profit260$431$183 – $1,153
Government501$243$119 – $478
Non-profit1,914$317$152 – $572
System affiliation
Part of a system2,189$332$155 – $608
Independent493$239$97 – $469

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$544
Median cash price$310
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

2,010 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $335 and the average of the middle 60% is $354; most fall between $162 and $603.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,010 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$186$335$548$857

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($110 vs $857).

Of the 2,138 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,010 gave a usable cash price; 50 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 78 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,682 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (68%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,867 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,682
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here88
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded6
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded91
Hospitals that filed this code2,867

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 PR Irrigation of Bladder.

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, “Simple bladder washout or medication instillation (CPT 51700) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-51700-simple-bladder-washout-or-medication-instillation