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Procedure price report · Nonoperative urinary system measurements

Bladder test with voiding and urethral pressure study

CPT 51729the billing code this page is about

A detailed bladder filling pressure study combined with measurement of pressure during urination and a pressure profile along the urethra.

Hospitals typically charge $824 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 912 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $882. Most fall between $390 and $1,696 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
912
States
50
Filings dated
Dec 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 912 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
$207$485$824$1,444$2,129

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 10× what the cheapest tenth charges ($207 vs $2,129).

How the prices are spread

$149 – $203: 43 hospitals$149$203 – $277: 44 hospitals$277 – $379: 52 hospitals$277$379 – $518: 70 hospitals$518 – $707: 103 hospitals$518$707 – $966: 197 hospitals$966 – $1,319: 126 hospitals$966$1,319 – $1,801: 65 hospitals$1,801 – $2,460: 110 hospitals$1,801$2,460 – $3,360: 20 hospitals$2,460median $824price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (830 of 912 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$149$20343
$203$27744
$277$37952
$379$51870
$518$707103
$707$966197
$966$1,319126
$1,319$1,80165
$1,801$2,460110
$2,460$3,36020

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$712
Median cash price$824
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.16×

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 $824.

Alaska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $1,210 across 28 hospitalsWA$1,210Idaho: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $881 across 29 hospitalsMN$881Illinois: median $785 across 35 hospitalsIL$785Wisconsin: median $1,046 across 51 hospitalsWI$1,046Michigan: median $943 across 49 hospitalsMI$943New York: median $821 across 51 hospitalsNY$821Massachusetts: median $1,269 across 14 hospitalsMA$1,269Oregon: median $654 across 16 hospitalsOR$654Nevada: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $323 across 22 hospitalsIA$323Indiana: median $526 across 21 hospitalsIN$526Ohio: median $977 across 45 hospitalsOH$977Pennsylvania: median $824 across 46 hospitalsPA$824New Jersey: median $1,823 across 32 hospitalsNJ$1,823Connecticut: 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 $1,202 across 69 hospitalsCA$1,202Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $707 across 13 hospitalsCO$707Nebraska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $631 across 26 hospitalsMO$631Kentucky: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $511 across 17 hospitalsWV$511Virginia: median $592 across 10 hospitalsVA$592Maryland: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $125 across 13 hospitalsTN$125North Carolina: median $815 across 22 hospitalsNC$815South Carolina: median $675 across 16 hospitalsSC$675Oklahoma: median $207 across 14 hospitalsOK$207Louisiana: median $285 across 21 hospitalsLA$285Mississippi: median $414 across 10 hospitalsMS$414Alabama: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $1,074 across 21 hospitalsGA$1,074Hawaii: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $763 across 63 hospitalsTX$763Florida: median $969 across 28 hospitalsFL$969
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $824. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ32$1,823+121%$739 – $5,419
Massachusetts MA14$1,269+54%$857 – $2,230
Washington WA28$1,210+47%$762 – $1,621
California CA69$1,202+46%$734 – $1,820
Georgia GA21$1,074+30%$1,074 – $1,925
Wisconsin WI51$1,046+27%$876 – $2,021
Ohio OH45$977+19%$723 – $1,996
Florida FL28$969+18%$701 – $2,380
Michigan MI49$943+14%$160 – $1,685
Minnesota MN29$881+7%$298 – $1,117
Pennsylvania PA46$8240%$485 – $1,541
New York NY51$8210%$552 – $1,777
North Carolina NC22$815−1%$790 – $849
Illinois IL35$785−5%$243 – $1,284
Texas TX63$763−7%$335 – $1,111
Colorado CO13$707−14%$392 – $6,349
South Carolina SC16$675−18%$644 – $715
Oregon OR16$654−21%$624 – $866
Missouri MO26$631−23%$485 – $1,821
Virginia VA10$592−28%$587 – $778
Indiana IN21$526−36%$393 – $697
West Virginia WV17$511−38%$144 – $954
Mississippi MS10$414−50%$366 – $723
Iowa IA22$323−61%$323 – $562
Louisiana LA21$285−65%$242 – $520
Oklahoma OK14$207−75%$207 – $1,284
Tennessee TN13$125−85%$100 – $670
Kansas KS9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not 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 $824.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care715$848$410 – $1,782
Children’s41$1,586$488 – $3,398
Critical access154$710$298 – $1,074
Ownership
For-profit54$907$390 – $1,696
Government140$707$373 – $1,074
Non-profit716$883$390 – $1,820
System affiliation
Part of a system743$876$395 – $1,820
Independent169$684$351 – $1,249

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,302
Median cash price$824
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

607 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $934 and the average of the middle 60% is $986; most fall between $410 and $1,820.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 607 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
$239$509$934$1,621$2,075

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($239 vs $2,075).

Of the 647 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 607 gave a usable cash price; 25 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 15 a list price only.

How complete is this

912 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (23%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 982 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted912
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here51
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded18
Hospitals that filed this code982

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 Nonoperative urinary system measurements family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Complx Cystometro W/Void Press & Urethral Profil|TECHNICAL COMPONENT.

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, “Bladder test with voiding and urethral pressure study (CPT 51729) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-51729-bladder-test-with-voiding-and-urethral-pressure-study