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

Change of a simple bladder drainage tube

CPT 51705the billing code this page is about

Replacing a tube that drains the bladder through the skin in a straightforward exchange; covers one tube change.

Hospitals typically charge $351 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,705 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $380. Most fall between $175 and $726 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,705
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 2,705 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$205$351$620$1,066

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($110 vs $1,066).

How the prices are spread

$80 – $109: 124 hospitals$80$109 – $147: 169 hospitals$147 – $199: 233 hospitals$147$199 – $269: 338 hospitals$269 – $364: 389 hospitals$269$364 – $493: 389 hospitals$493 – $666: 325 hospitals$493$666 – $902: 189 hospitals$902 – $1,220: 196 hospitals$902$1,220 – $1,650: 83 hospitals$1,220median $351price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,435 of 2,705 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$80$109124
$109$147169
$147$199233
$199$269338
$269$364389
$364$493389
$493$666325
$666$902189
$902$1,220196
$1,220$1,65083

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$255
Median cash price$351
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.38×

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 $351.

Alaska: median $617 across 16 hospitalsAK$617Maine: median $243 across 22 hospitalsME$243Vermont: median $233 across 11 hospitalsVT$233New Hampshire: median $168 across 19 hospitalsNH$168Washington: median $421 across 67 hospitalsWA$421Idaho: median $292 across 20 hospitalsID$292Montana: median $149 across 23 hospitalsMT$149North Dakota: median $250 across 22 hospitalsND$250Minnesota: median $386 across 84 hospitalsMN$386Illinois: median $386 across 117 hospitalsIL$386Wisconsin: median $252 across 102 hospitalsWI$252Michigan: median $290 across 76 hospitalsMI$290New York: median $312 across 113 hospitalsNY$312Massachusetts: median $497 across 48 hospitalsMA$497Oregon: median $220 across 51 hospitalsOR$220Nevada: median $350 across 18 hospitalsNV$350Wyoming: median $248 across 14 hospitalsWY$248South Dakota: median $294 across 29 hospitalsSD$294Iowa: median $246 across 81 hospitalsIA$246Indiana: median $359 across 65 hospitalsIN$359Ohio: median $583 across 128 hospitalsOH$583Pennsylvania: median $379 across 120 hospitalsPA$379New Jersey: median $600 across 54 hospitalsNJ$600Connecticut: median $319 across 20 hospitalsCT$319Rhode Island: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $745 across 169 hospitalsCA$745Utah: median $401 across 25 hospitalsUT$401Colorado: median $330 across 55 hospitalsCO$330Nebraska: median $245 across 68 hospitalsNE$245Missouri: median $289 across 64 hospitalsMO$289Kentucky: median $308 across 45 hospitalsKY$308West Virginia: median $240 across 35 hospitalsWV$240Virginia: median $302 across 58 hospitalsVA$302Maryland: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $307 across 44 hospitalsAZ$307New Mexico: median $292 across 22 hospitalsNM$292Kansas: median $151 across 62 hospitalsKS$151Arkansas: median $260 across 29 hospitalsAR$260Tennessee: median $287 across 49 hospitalsTN$287North Carolina: median $264 across 54 hospitalsNC$264South Carolina: median $374 across 43 hospitalsSC$374Oklahoma: median $250 across 54 hospitalsOK$250Louisiana: median $276 across 43 hospitalsLA$276Mississippi: median $164 across 48 hospitalsMS$164Alabama: median $289 across 27 hospitalsAL$289Georgia: median $592 across 85 hospitalsGA$592Hawaii: median $581 across 16 hospitalsHI$581Texas: median $490 across 164 hospitalsTX$490Florida: median $688 across 106 hospitalsFL$688
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $351. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA169$745+112%$297 – $1,036
Florida FL106$688+96%$256 – $1,122
Alaska AK16$617+76%$302 – $1,110
New Jersey NJ54$600+71%$269 – $4,350
Georgia GA85$592+69%$231 – $1,184
Ohio OH128$583+66%$300 – $1,004
Hawaii HI16$581+65%$360 – $706
Massachusetts MA48$497+42%$248 – $918
Texas TX164$490+40%$238 – $942
Washington WA67$421+20%$183 – $627
Utah UT25$401+14%$328 – $437
Minnesota MN84$386+10%$134 – $486
Illinois IL117$386+10%$176 – $765
Pennsylvania PA120$379+8%$184 – $727
South Carolina SC43$374+7%$249 – $501
Indiana IN65$359+2%$180 – $731
Nevada NV18$3500%$242 – $620
Colorado CO55$330−6%$153 – $579
Connecticut CT20$319−9%$242 – $474
New York NY113$312−11%$151 – $971
Kentucky KY45$308−12%$165 – $944
Arizona AZ44$307−13%$162 – $2,724
Virginia VA58$302−14%$191 – $524
South Dakota SD29$294−16%$246 – $425
Idaho ID20$292−17%$95 – $660
New Mexico NM22$292−17%$119 – $743
Michigan MI76$290−17%$86 – $458
Alabama AL27$289−18%$208 – $951
Missouri MO64$289−18%$195 – $541
Tennessee TN49$287−18%$109 – $402
Louisiana LA43$276−21%$128 – $426
North Carolina NC54$264−25%$175 – $384
Arkansas AR29$260−26%$172 – $680
Wisconsin WI102$252−28%$211 – $436
North Dakota ND22$250−29%$112 – $578
Oklahoma OK54$250−29%$178 – $531
Wyoming WY14$248−29%$203 – $383
Iowa IA81$246−30%$131 – $449
Nebraska NE68$245−30%$147 – $417
Maine ME22$243−31%$76 – $348
West Virginia WV35$240−32%$145 – $554
Vermont VT11$233−34%$94 – $370
Oregon OR51$220−37%$151 – $472
New Hampshire NH19$168−52%$56 – $346
Mississippi MS48$164−53%$89 – $272
Kansas KS62$151−57%$80 – $388
Montana MT23$149−58%$74 – $288
Rhode Island RI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD6not 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 $351.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,930$391$204 – $876
Children’s47$433$260 – $868
Critical access720$252$117 – $473
Ownership
For-profit260$514$230 – $1,318
Government497$275$134 – $547
Non-profit1,940$366$181 – $707
System affiliation
Part of a system2,202$377$183 – $730
Independent503$282$116 – $585

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$637
Median cash price$351
Cash as a share of list, median hospital62%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 38%. 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

2,001 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $389 and the average of the middle 60% is $410; most fall between $187 and $731.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,001 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
$131$224$389$656$1,036

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($131 vs $1,036).

Of the 2,133 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,001 gave a usable cash price; 48 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 83 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,705 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 2,887 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,705
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here81
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded9
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded91
Hospitals that filed this code2,887

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 Other non-OR therapeutic procedures of urinary tract family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Change Cystostomy Tube 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, “Change of a simple bladder drainage tube (CPT 51705) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-51705-change-of-a-simple-bladder-drainage-tube