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Procedure price report · Nonoperative urinary system measurements

Electronic urine flow rate measurement

CPT 51741the billing code this page is about

Urine flow is measured with an electronic device that records the rate of flow continuously while the bladder is emptied.

Hospitals typically charge $232 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,082 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $241. Most fall between $72 and $469 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,082
States
50
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 1,082 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
$29$97$232$410$727

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 25× what the cheapest tenth charges ($29 vs $727).

How the prices are spread

$17 – $25: 39 hospitals$17$25 – $38: 52 hospitals$38 – $56: 46 hospitals$38$56 – $84: 62 hospitals$84 – $126: 82 hospitals$84$126 – $188: 116 hospitals$188 – $280: 176 hospitals$188$280 – $418: 194 hospitals$418 – $624: 115 hospitals$418$624 – $931: 96 hospitals$624median $232price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (978 of 1,082 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$17$2539
$25$3852
$38$5646
$56$8462
$84$12682
$126$188116
$188$280176
$280$418194
$418$624115
$624$93196

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$221
Median cash price$232
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.05×

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 $232.

Alaska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $61 across 11 hospitalsME$61Vermont: median $44 across 10 hospitalsVT$44New Hampshire: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $248 across 28 hospitalsWA$248Idaho: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $170 across 42 hospitalsMN$170Illinois: median $214 across 41 hospitalsIL$214Wisconsin: median $181 across 57 hospitalsWI$181Michigan: median $297 across 46 hospitalsMI$297New York: median $270 across 61 hospitalsNY$270Massachusetts: median $398 across 24 hospitalsMA$398Oregon: median $22 across 21 hospitalsOR$22Nevada: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $234 across 10 hospitalsSD$234Iowa: median $92 across 30 hospitalsIA$92Indiana: median $237 across 30 hospitalsIN$237Ohio: median $434 across 52 hospitalsOH$434Pennsylvania: median $266 across 36 hospitalsPA$266New Jersey: median $774 across 38 hospitalsNJ$774Connecticut: 8 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 $353 across 83 hospitalsCA$353Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $351 across 17 hospitalsCO$351Nebraska: median $89 across 14 hospitalsNE$89Missouri: median $158 across 28 hospitalsMO$158Kentucky: median $164 across 19 hospitalsKY$164West Virginia: median $248 across 23 hospitalsWV$248Virginia: median $344 across 20 hospitalsVA$344Maryland: 6 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: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $47 across 17 hospitalsTN$47North Carolina: median $103 across 28 hospitalsNC$103South Carolina: median $217 across 11 hospitalsSC$217Oklahoma: median $214 across 15 hospitalsOK$214Louisiana: median $152 across 21 hospitalsLA$152Mississippi: median $127 across 14 hospitalsMS$127Alabama: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $121 across 21 hospitalsGA$121Hawaii: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $273 across 73 hospitalsTX$273Florida: median $313 across 40 hospitalsFL$313
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $232. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ38$774+234%$345 – $4,881
Ohio OH52$434+87%$180 – $931
Massachusetts MA24$398+72%$97 – $506
California CA83$353+52%$215 – $702
Colorado CO17$351+51%$22 – $917
Virginia VA20$344+48%$47 – $412
Florida FL40$313+35%$148 – $1,164
Michigan MI46$297+28%$171 – $403
Texas TX73$273+18%$99 – $477
New York NY61$270+16%$74 – $494
Pennsylvania PA36$266+15%$201 – $587
Washington WA28$248+7%$38 – $316
West Virginia WV23$248+7%$52 – $304
Indiana IN30$237+2%$38 – $320
South Dakota SD10$234+1%$234 – $313
South Carolina SC11$217−6%$92 – $223
Illinois IL41$214−8%$43 – $647
Oklahoma OK15$214−8%$108 – $425
Wisconsin WI57$181−22%$72 – $332
Minnesota MN42$170−27%$109 – $362
Kentucky KY19$164−29%$17 – $430
Missouri MO28$158−32%$58 – $289
Louisiana LA21$152−34%$89 – $331
Mississippi MS14$127−45%$58 – $176
Georgia GA21$121−48%$121 – $744
North Carolina NC28$103−55%$77 – $200
Iowa IA30$92−60%$29 – $240
Nebraska NE14$89−62%$30 – $553
Maine ME11$61−74%$28 – $172
Tennessee TN17$47−80%$47 – $127
Vermont VT10$44−81%$15 – $104
Oregon OR21$22−90%$11 – $199
Idaho ID9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not 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 $232.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care825$252$97 – $526
Children’s53$425$264 – $597
Critical access202$85$23 – $273
Ownership
For-profit66$223$57 – $632
Government180$156$46 – $374
Non-profit834$249$75 – $482
System affiliation
Part of a system868$249$81 – $482
Independent214$164$30 – $408

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$364
Median cash price$232
Cash as a share of list, median hospital65%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 35%. 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

734 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $236 and the average of the middle 60% is $251; most fall between $74 and $484.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 734 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
$30$103$236$426$744

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 25× what the cheapest tenth charges ($30 vs $744).

Of the 807 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 734 gave a usable cash price; 49 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 24 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,082 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (27%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,216 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,082
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here105
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 — excluded28
Hospitals that filed this code1,216

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 Complex Uroflometry|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.

Download this page’s figures: JSON · CSV. Aggregates only — the per-hospital prices are on the compare tool.

Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Electronic urine flow rate measurement (CPT 51741) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-51741-electronic-urine-flow-rate-measurement