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Procedure price report · Indwelling catheter

Insertion of a simple indwelling bladder catheter

CPT 51702the billing code this page is about

Placing a balloon-tipped catheter that stays in the bladder to drain urine, in a routine and uncomplicated insertion.

Hospitals typically charge $176 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,169 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $187. Most fall between $89 and $331 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,169
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 3,169 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
$60$104$176$297$465

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($60 vs $465).

How the prices are spread

$43 – $58: 136 hospitals$43$58 – $77: 209 hospitals$77 – $102: 261 hospitals$77$102 – $136: 362 hospitals$136 – $181: 505 hospitals$136$181 – $241: 469 hospitals$241 – $320: 396 hospitals$241$320 – $427: 285 hospitals$427 – $568: 139 hospitals$427$568 – $756: 91 hospitals$568median $176price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,853 of 3,169 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$43$58136
$58$77209
$77$102261
$102$136362
$136$181505
$181$241469
$241$320396
$320$427285
$427$568139
$568$75691

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$136
Median cash price$176
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.29×

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 $176.

Alaska: median $247 across 18 hospitalsAK$247Maine: median $136 across 22 hospitalsME$136Vermont: median $190 across 12 hospitalsVT$190New Hampshire: median $124 across 21 hospitalsNH$124Washington: median $198 across 78 hospitalsWA$198Idaho: median $150 across 24 hospitalsID$150Montana: median $122 across 34 hospitalsMT$122North Dakota: median $203 across 29 hospitalsND$203Minnesota: median $162 across 101 hospitalsMN$162Illinois: median $237 across 129 hospitalsIL$237Wisconsin: median $181 across 107 hospitalsWI$181Michigan: median $160 across 90 hospitalsMI$160New York: median $183 across 114 hospitalsNY$183Massachusetts: median $257 across 48 hospitalsMA$257Oregon: median $115 across 55 hospitalsOR$115Nevada: median $229 across 20 hospitalsNV$229Wyoming: median $103 across 15 hospitalsWY$103South Dakota: median $189 across 44 hospitalsSD$189Iowa: median $135 across 95 hospitalsIA$135Indiana: median $186 across 92 hospitalsIN$186Ohio: median $270 across 134 hospitalsOH$270Pennsylvania: median $198 across 125 hospitalsPA$198New Jersey: median $265 across 58 hospitalsNJ$265Connecticut: median $140 across 22 hospitalsCT$140Rhode Island: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $321 across 192 hospitalsCA$321Utah: median $395 across 33 hospitalsUT$395Colorado: median $175 across 65 hospitalsCO$175Nebraska: median $151 across 79 hospitalsNE$151Missouri: median $149 across 71 hospitalsMO$149Kentucky: median $191 across 62 hospitalsKY$191West Virginia: median $128 across 40 hospitalsWV$128Virginia: median $132 across 62 hospitalsVA$132Maryland: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $194 across 45 hospitalsAZ$194New Mexico: median $200 across 29 hospitalsNM$200Kansas: median $88 across 89 hospitalsKS$88Arkansas: median $141 across 39 hospitalsAR$141Tennessee: median $72 across 71 hospitalsTN$72North Carolina: median $170 across 85 hospitalsNC$170South Carolina: median $183 across 46 hospitalsSC$183Oklahoma: median $150 across 69 hospitalsOK$150Louisiana: median $113 across 52 hospitalsLA$113Mississippi: median $97 across 54 hospitalsMS$97Alabama: median $126 across 41 hospitalsAL$126Georgia: median $178 across 100 hospitalsGA$178Hawaii: median $208 across 20 hospitalsHI$208Texas: median $208 across 202 hospitalsTX$208Florida: median $311 across 113 hospitalsFL$311
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $176. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Utah UT33$395+125%$182 – $439
California CA192$321+83%$152 – $595
Florida FL113$311+77%$120 – $557
Ohio OH134$270+54%$139 – $385
New Jersey NJ58$265+51%$143 – $4,350
Massachusetts MA48$257+46%$147 – $377
Alaska AK18$247+41%$144 – $597
Illinois IL129$237+35%$108 – $333
Nevada NV20$229+30%$116 – $344
Texas TX202$208+18%$100 – $399
Hawaii HI20$208+18%$136 – $308
North Dakota ND29$203+16%$110 – $250
New Mexico NM29$200+14%$102 – $411
Pennsylvania PA125$198+13%$110 – $538
Washington WA78$198+13%$112 – $311
Arizona AZ45$194+11%$67 – $821
Kentucky KY62$191+9%$84 – $339
Vermont VT12$190+8%$132 – $394
South Dakota SD44$189+7%$141 – $277
Indiana IN92$186+6%$72 – $339
New York NY114$183+4%$86 – $464
South Carolina SC46$183+4%$133 – $387
Wisconsin WI107$181+3%$106 – $232
Georgia GA100$178+1%$82 – $297
Colorado CO65$1750%$90 – $376
North Carolina NC85$170−3%$106 – $226
Minnesota MN101$162−8%$82 – $207
Michigan MI90$160−9%$52 – $265
Nebraska NE79$151−14%$93 – $201
Oklahoma OK69$150−14%$93 – $242
Idaho ID24$150−15%$74 – $360
Missouri MO71$149−15%$100 – $340
Arkansas AR39$141−19%$62 – $203
Connecticut CT22$140−20%$121 – $227
Maine ME22$136−23%$93 – $159
Iowa IA95$135−23%$80 – $203
Virginia VA62$132−25%$67 – $168
West Virginia WV40$128−27%$88 – $230
Alabama AL41$126−28%$81 – $946
New Hampshire NH21$124−30%$32 – $151
Montana MT34$122−31%$74 – $189
Oregon OR55$115−34%$55 – $254
Louisiana LA52$113−36%$70 – $175
Wyoming WY15$103−41%$33 – $156
Mississippi MS54$97−45%$46 – $187
Kansas KS89$88−50%$61 – $161
Tennessee TN71$72−59%$44 – $155
Maryland MD9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI8not 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 $176.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,141$190$97 – $385
Children’s64$266$139 – $726
Critical access956$146$76 – $245
Ownership
For-profit323$227$130 – $712
Government637$140$73 – $247
Non-profit2,201$183$93 – $339
System affiliation
Part of a system2,532$187$97 – $352
Independent637$139$72 – $266

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$296
Median cash price$176
Cash as a share of list, median hospital64%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 36%. 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

2,371 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $191 and the average of the middle 60% is $201; most fall between $98 and $344.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,371 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
$64$117$191$305$453

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($64 vs $453).

Of the 2,534 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,371 gave a usable cash price; 57 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 106 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,169 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (80%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,383 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,169
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here96
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded2
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded116
Hospitals that filed this code3,383

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 July 20, 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 Indwelling catheter family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as PR Insert,Temp Indwelling Blad Cath,Simple.

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, “Insertion of a simple indwelling bladder catheter (CPT 51702) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-51702-insertion-of-a-simple-indwelling-bladder-catheter