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Procedure price report · Genitourinary incontinence procedures

Scope-guided bulking injection for urine leakage

CPT 51715the billing code this page is about

A telescope is passed into the urethra and bulking material is injected into the tissue around the bladder neck or urethra to reduce urine leakage.

Hospitals typically charge $2,897 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 873 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,952. Most fall between $570 and $6,698 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
873
States
49
Filings dated
Mar 2023 – 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 873 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
$386$757$2,897$5,578$10,097

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 26× what the cheapest tenth charges ($386 vs $10,097).

How the prices are spread

$305 – $447: 62 hospitals$305$447 – $656: 100 hospitals$656 – $961: 66 hospitals$656$961 – $1,409: 61 hospitals$1,409 – $2,065: 68 hospitals$1,409$2,065 – $3,027: 51 hospitals$3,027 – $4,436: 116 hospitals$3,027$4,436 – $6,502: 119 hospitals$6,502 – $9,530: 81 hospitals$6,502$9,530 – $13,968: 63 hospitals$9,530median $2,897price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (787 of 873 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$305$44762
$447$656100
$656$96166
$961$1,40961
$1,409$2,06568
$2,065$3,02751
$3,027$4,436116
$4,436$6,502119
$6,502$9,53081
$9,530$13,96863

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$3,601
Median cash price$2,897
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.80×

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 $2,897.

Alaska: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $922 across 16 hospitalsWA$922Idaho: median $3,666 across 12 hospitalsID$3,666Montana: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $1,217 across 39 hospitalsMN$1,217Illinois: median $2,836 across 33 hospitalsIL$2,836Wisconsin: median $1,421 across 50 hospitalsWI$1,421Michigan: median $3,754 across 47 hospitalsMI$3,754New York: median $4,081 across 52 hospitalsNY$4,081Massachusetts: median $5,599 across 16 hospitalsMA$5,599Oregon: median $919 across 19 hospitalsOR$919Nevada: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $845 across 34 hospitalsIA$845Indiana: median $1,653 across 33 hospitalsIN$1,653Ohio: median $7,037 across 33 hospitalsOH$7,037Pennsylvania: median $4,618 across 33 hospitalsPA$4,618New Jersey: median $4,500 across 35 hospitalsNJ$4,500Connecticut: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $5,304 across 66 hospitalsCA$5,304Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $3,449 across 11 hospitalsCO$3,449Nebraska: median $836 across 15 hospitalsNE$836Missouri: median $4,525 across 24 hospitalsMO$4,525Kentucky: median $481 across 10 hospitalsKY$481West Virginia: median $615 across 18 hospitalsWV$615Virginia: median $5,063 across 10 hospitalsVA$5,063Maryland: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: median $1,577 across 11 hospitalsAR$1,577Tennessee: median $1,965 across 12 hospitalsTN$1,965North Carolina: median $3,955 across 17 hospitalsNC$3,955South Carolina: median $5,400 across 10 hospitalsSC$5,400Oklahoma: median $478 across 17 hospitalsOK$478Louisiana: median $3,515 across 15 hospitalsLA$3,515Mississippi: median $2,000 across 12 hospitalsMS$2,000Alabama: median $3,471 across 11 hospitalsAL$3,471Georgia: median $2,168 across 18 hospitalsGA$2,168Hawaii: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $4,818 across 36 hospitalsTX$4,818Florida: median $3,016 across 24 hospitalsFL$3,016
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,897. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Ohio OH33$7,037+143%$754 – $14,612
Massachusetts MA16$5,599+93%$1,266 – $6,739
South Carolina SC10$5,400+86%$3,952 – $11,341
California CA66$5,304+83%$1,865 – $10,097
Virginia VA10$5,063+75%$1,218 – $7,116
Texas TX36$4,818+66%$1,304 – $6,646
Pennsylvania PA33$4,618+59%$150 – $7,055
Missouri MO24$4,525+56%$891 – $7,679
New Jersey NJ35$4,500+55%$3,786 – $5,110
New York NY52$4,081+41%$866 – $4,595
North Carolina NC17$3,955+37%$1,585 – $3,955
Michigan MI47$3,754+30%$374 – $10,434
Idaho ID12$3,666+27%$2,932 – $8,773
Louisiana LA15$3,515+21%$912 – $5,706
Alabama AL11$3,471+20%$643 – $6,796
Colorado CO11$3,449+19%$1,068 – $4,293
Florida FL24$3,016+4%$1,441 – $10,041
Illinois IL33$2,836−2%$481 – $14,961
Georgia GA18$2,168−25%$449 – $6,698
Mississippi MS12$2,000−31%$401 – $10,264
Tennessee TN12$1,965−32%$290 – $4,407
Indiana IN33$1,653−43%$481 – $4,797
Arkansas AR11$1,577−46%$760 – $3,694
Wisconsin WI50$1,421−51%$757 – $2,701
Minnesota MN39$1,217−58%$626 – $3,226
Washington WA16$922−68%$553 – $5,578
Oregon OR19$919−68%$640 – $3,437
Iowa IA34$845−71%$518 – $1,023
Nebraska NE15$836−71%$562 – $1,815
West Virginia WV18$615−79%$209 – $4,214
Kentucky KY10$481−83%$325 – $3,820
Oklahoma OK17$478−83%$478 – $6,662
Montana MT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not 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 $2,897.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care674$3,821$757 – $7,310
Children’s11fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access185$916$421 – $2,897
Ownership
For-profit83$5,155$656 – $9,981
Government142$1,386$550 – $4,081
Non-profit645$2,836$603 – $6,698
System affiliation
Part of a system689$3,226$640 – $7,088
Independent184$1,201$463 – $5,057

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$4,133
Median cash price$2,897
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

448 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,949 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,495; most fall between $481 and $6,326.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 448 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
$379$607$1,949$5,304$8,765

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 23× what the cheapest tenth charges ($379 vs $8,765).

Of the 492 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 448 gave a usable cash price; 17 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 27 a list price only.

How complete is this

873 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (22%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 952 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted873
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here49
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded2
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded5
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded23
Hospitals that filed this code952

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 Genitourinary incontinence procedures family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Ndsc Njx Implt Matrl Urt&/Bldr Nck.

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, “Scope-guided bulking injection for urine leakage (CPT 51715) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-51715-scope-guided-bulking-injection-for-urine-leakage