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Procedure price report · Indwelling catheter

Insertion of an indwelling bladder catheter, difficult

CPT 51703the billing code this page is about

Placing a catheter that stays in the bladder when the insertion is complicated, such as by a blockage, unusual anatomy, or a catheter fragment.

Hospitals typically charge $282 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,515 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $290. Most fall between $148 and $501 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,515
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 2,515 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
$106$164$282$437$743

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($106 vs $743).

How the prices are spread

$82 – $109: 147 hospitals$82$109 – $145: 205 hospitals$145 – $192: 332 hospitals$145$192 – $255: 311 hospitals$255 – $339: 404 hospitals$255$339 – $450: 406 hospitals$450 – $597: 232 hospitals$450$597 – $794: 122 hospitals$794 – $1,054: 78 hospitals$794$1,054 – $1,400: 29 hospitals$1,054median $282price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,266 of 2,515 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$82$109147
$109$145205
$145$192332
$192$255311
$255$339404
$339$450406
$450$597232
$597$794122
$794$1,05478
$1,054$1,40029

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$131
Median cash price$282
Cash as a multiple of Medicare2.1×

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 $282.

Alaska: median $401 across 15 hospitalsAK$401Maine: median $166 across 20 hospitalsME$166Vermont: median $268 across 12 hospitalsVT$268New Hampshire: median $140 across 16 hospitalsNH$140Washington: median $321 across 67 hospitalsWA$321Idaho: median $403 across 17 hospitalsID$403Montana: median $199 across 23 hospitalsMT$199North Dakota: median $263 across 19 hospitalsND$263Minnesota: median $273 across 79 hospitalsMN$273Illinois: median $312 across 102 hospitalsIL$312Wisconsin: median $336 across 96 hospitalsWI$336Michigan: median $188 across 72 hospitalsMI$188New York: median $215 across 96 hospitalsNY$215Massachusetts: median $415 across 45 hospitalsMA$415Oregon: median $274 across 47 hospitalsOR$274Nevada: median $247 across 14 hospitalsNV$247Wyoming: median $240 across 13 hospitalsWY$240South Dakota: median $278 across 28 hospitalsSD$278Iowa: median $208 across 65 hospitalsIA$208Indiana: median $277 across 61 hospitalsIN$277Ohio: median $310 across 97 hospitalsOH$310Pennsylvania: median $348 across 109 hospitalsPA$348New Jersey: median $704 across 50 hospitalsNJ$704Connecticut: median $318 across 20 hospitalsCT$318Rhode Island: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $461 across 164 hospitalsCA$461Utah: median $520 across 28 hospitalsUT$520Colorado: median $349 across 60 hospitalsCO$349Nebraska: median $228 across 56 hospitalsNE$228Missouri: median $179 across 60 hospitalsMO$179Kentucky: median $256 across 56 hospitalsKY$256West Virginia: median $236 across 33 hospitalsWV$236Virginia: median $234 across 53 hospitalsVA$234Maryland: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $243 across 44 hospitalsAZ$243New Mexico: median $438 across 23 hospitalsNM$438Kansas: median $217 across 52 hospitalsKS$217Arkansas: median $235 across 29 hospitalsAR$235Tennessee: median $137 across 58 hospitalsTN$137North Carolina: median $229 across 54 hospitalsNC$229South Carolina: median $307 across 45 hospitalsSC$307Oklahoma: median $217 across 55 hospitalsOK$217Louisiana: median $143 across 36 hospitalsLA$143Mississippi: median $116 across 40 hospitalsMS$116Alabama: median $207 across 33 hospitalsAL$207Georgia: median $304 across 76 hospitalsGA$304Hawaii: median $374 across 15 hospitalsHI$374Texas: median $352 across 152 hospitalsTX$352Florida: median $449 across 94 hospitalsFL$449
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $282. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ50$704+150%$166 – $4,205
Utah UT28$520+84%$361 – $578
California CA164$461+63%$207 – $884
Florida FL94$449+59%$200 – $962
New Mexico NM23$438+55%$202 – $1,317
Massachusetts MA45$415+47%$218 – $516
Idaho ID17$403+43%$139 – $438
Alaska AK15$401+42%$229 – $816
Hawaii HI15$374+33%$348 – $645
Texas TX152$352+25%$156 – $495
Colorado CO60$349+24%$199 – $493
Pennsylvania PA109$348+23%$134 – $871
Wisconsin WI96$336+19%$259 – $373
Washington WA67$321+14%$241 – $512
Connecticut CT20$318+13%$212 – $532
Illinois IL102$312+11%$162 – $508
Ohio OH97$310+10%$205 – $510
South Carolina SC45$307+9%$139 – $383
Georgia GA76$304+8%$190 – $892
South Dakota SD28$278−1%$214 – $390
Indiana IN61$277−2%$158 – $421
Oregon OR47$274−3%$151 – $349
Minnesota MN79$273−3%$135 – $364
Vermont VT12$268−5%$175 – $437
North Dakota ND19$263−7%$161 – $332
Kentucky KY56$256−9%$161 – $507
Nevada NV14$247−12%$139 – $707
Arizona AZ44$243−14%$107 – $1,746
Wyoming WY13$240−15%$191 – $456
West Virginia WV33$236−16%$126 – $342
Arkansas AR29$235−17%$126 – $501
Virginia VA53$234−17%$107 – $374
North Carolina NC54$229−19%$133 – $358
Nebraska NE56$228−19%$154 – $314
Kansas KS52$217−23%$97 – $410
Oklahoma OK55$217−23%$133 – $330
New York NY96$215−24%$153 – $482
Iowa IA65$208−26%$127 – $339
Alabama AL33$207−27%$118 – $365
Montana MT23$199−30%$111 – $322
Michigan MI72$188−33%$127 – $390
Missouri MO60$179−37%$133 – $278
Maine ME20$166−41%$122 – $275
Louisiana LA36$143−49%$61 – $273
New Hampshire NH16$140−50%$93 – $209
Tennessee TN58$137−51%$80 – $258
Mississippi MS40$116−59%$62 – $190
Rhode Island RI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD4not 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 $282.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,806$304$148 – $578
Children’s42$385$142 – $764
Critical access660$253$149 – $374
Ownership
For-profit240$352$153 – $908
Government468$240$139 – $393
Non-profit1,800$290$151 – $499
System affiliation
Part of a system2,053$292$152 – $508
Independent462$250$131 – $456

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$469
Median cash price$282
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

1,884 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $312 and the average of the middle 60% is $315; most fall between $156 and $520.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,884 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
$111$179$312$459$737

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($111 vs $737).

Of the 2,011 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,884 gave a usable cash price; 45 carried a plausibility flag, 0 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

2,515 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (64%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,684 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,515
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here79
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 — excluded88
Hospitals that filed this code2,684

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 Indwelling catheter family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Insj Temp Ndwellg Bladder Catheter Complicated.

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 an indwelling bladder catheter, difficult (CPT 51703) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-51703-insertion-of-an-indwelling-bladder-catheter-difficult