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Procedure price report · Endoscopy and endoscopic biopsy of the urinary tract

Scope exam of the bladder and urethra

CPT 52000the billing code this page is about

A lighted telescope is passed through the urethra to look inside the urethra and bladder, with no other treatment performed.

Hospitals typically charge $959 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,102 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,037. Most fall between $375 and $2,152 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,102
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 2,102 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
$224$451$959$1,742$3,296

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 15× what the cheapest tenth charges ($224 vs $3,296).

How the prices are spread

$160 – $229: 112 hospitals$160$229 – $328: 136 hospitals$328 – $469: 199 hospitals$328$469 – $670: 227 hospitals$670 – $959: 268 hospitals$670$959 – $1,371: 285 hospitals$1,371 – $1,962: 303 hospitals$1,371$1,962 – $2,806: 182 hospitals$2,806 – $4,013: 114 hospitals$2,806$4,013 – $5,741: 66 hospitals$4,013median $959price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,892 of 2,102 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$160$229112
$229$328136
$328$469199
$469$670227
$670$959268
$959$1,371285
$1,371$1,962303
$1,962$2,806182
$2,806$4,013114
$4,013$5,74166

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$712
Median cash price$959
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.35×

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 $959.

Alaska: median $1,219 across 13 hospitalsAK$1,219Maine: median $523 across 20 hospitalsME$523Vermont: median $438 across 13 hospitalsVT$438New Hampshire: median $293 across 15 hospitalsNH$293Washington: median $854 across 62 hospitalsWA$854Idaho: median $828 across 16 hospitalsID$828Montana: median $272 across 17 hospitalsMT$272North Dakota: median $794 across 14 hospitalsND$794Minnesota: median $784 across 75 hospitalsMN$784Illinois: median $1,080 across 87 hospitalsIL$1,080Wisconsin: median $851 across 80 hospitalsWI$851Michigan: median $737 across 72 hospitalsMI$737New York: median $838 across 92 hospitalsNY$838Massachusetts: median $1,691 across 43 hospitalsMA$1,691Oregon: median $541 across 47 hospitalsOR$541Nevada: median $1,439 across 12 hospitalsNV$1,439Wyoming: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $1,526 across 15 hospitalsSD$1,526Iowa: median $587 across 68 hospitalsIA$587Indiana: median $1,332 across 51 hospitalsIN$1,332Ohio: median $1,996 across 107 hospitalsOH$1,996Pennsylvania: median $1,001 across 81 hospitalsPA$1,001New Jersey: median $861 across 47 hospitalsNJ$861Connecticut: median $1,047 across 15 hospitalsCT$1,047Rhode Island: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $1,494 across 119 hospitalsCA$1,494Utah: median $1,426 across 27 hospitalsUT$1,426Colorado: median $1,148 across 35 hospitalsCO$1,148Nebraska: median $514 across 53 hospitalsNE$514Missouri: median $964 across 58 hospitalsMO$964Kentucky: median $773 across 29 hospitalsKY$773West Virginia: median $739 across 28 hospitalsWV$739Virginia: median $869 across 47 hospitalsVA$869Maryland: median $1,586 across 11 hospitalsMD$1,586Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $2,103 across 13 hospitalsAZ$2,103New Mexico: median $2,107 across 16 hospitalsNM$2,107Kansas: median $656 across 52 hospitalsKS$656Arkansas: median $1,628 across 18 hospitalsAR$1,628Tennessee: median $271 across 36 hospitalsTN$271North Carolina: median $492 across 45 hospitalsNC$492South Carolina: median $1,004 across 32 hospitalsSC$1,004Oklahoma: median $606 across 36 hospitalsOK$606Louisiana: median $886 across 36 hospitalsLA$886Mississippi: median $569 across 38 hospitalsMS$569Alabama: median $753 across 22 hospitalsAL$753Georgia: median $1,286 across 65 hospitalsGA$1,286Hawaii: median $537 across 10 hospitalsHI$537Texas: median $1,445 across 122 hospitalsTX$1,445Florida: median $1,504 across 71 hospitalsFL$1,504
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $959. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Mexico NM16$2,107+120%$555 – $12,120
Arizona AZ13$2,103+119%$856 – $18,914
Ohio OH107$1,996+108%$607 – $2,629
Massachusetts MA43$1,691+76%$927 – $2,441
Arkansas AR18$1,628+70%$374 – $2,414
Maryland MD11$1,586+65%$577 – $2,630
South Dakota SD15$1,526+59%$577 – $1,590
Florida FL71$1,504+57%$612 – $2,827
California CA119$1,494+56%$595 – $2,884
Texas TX122$1,445+51%$513 – $2,205
Nevada NV12$1,439+50%$758 – $3,132
Utah UT27$1,426+49%$1,426 – $1,584
Indiana IN51$1,332+39%$483 – $2,670
Georgia GA65$1,286+34%$612 – $1,668
Alaska AK13$1,219+27%$666 – $1,652
Colorado CO35$1,148+20%$386 – $1,541
Illinois IL87$1,080+13%$459 – $1,898
Connecticut CT15$1,047+9%$450 – $1,318
South Carolina SC32$1,004+5%$459 – $1,147
Pennsylvania PA81$1,001+4%$383 – $2,581
Missouri MO58$964+1%$354 – $5,577
Louisiana LA36$886−8%$250 – $1,883
Virginia VA47$869−9%$435 – $1,432
New Jersey NJ47$861−10%$437 – $4,627
Washington WA62$854−11%$478 – $1,619
Wisconsin WI80$851−11%$396 – $1,077
New York NY92$838−13%$319 – $3,240
Idaho ID16$828−14%$502 – $1,858
North Dakota ND14$794−17%$297 – $1,604
Minnesota MN75$784−18%$339 – $1,451
Kentucky KY29$773−19%$283 – $2,680
Alabama AL22$753−21%$622 – $8,558
West Virginia WV28$739−23%$493 – $1,208
Michigan MI72$737−23%$161 – $1,270
Kansas KS52$656−32%$220 – $1,256
Oklahoma OK36$606−37%$293 – $1,829
Iowa IA68$587−39%$311 – $1,777
Mississippi MS38$569−41%$299 – $1,015
Oregon OR47$541−44%$183 – $1,355
Hawaii HI10$537−44%$247 – $3,023
Maine ME20$523−46%$291 – $1,421
Nebraska NE53$514−46%$367 – $1,108
North Carolina NC45$492−49%$344 – $1,045
Vermont VT13$438−54%$224 – $1,057
New Hampshire NH15$293−69%$96 – $989
Montana MT17$272−72%$179 – $660
Tennessee TN36$271−72%$206 – $2,171
Rhode Island RI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE6not 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 $959.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,526$1,105$447 – $2,541
Children’s40$1,828$455 – $3,629
Critical access531$606$291 – $1,350
Ownership
For-profit195$1,594$625 – $6,251
Government370$612$281 – $1,440
Non-profit1,532$999$393 – $2,103
System affiliation
Part of a system1,712$1,004$404 – $2,174
Independent390$671$250 – $1,897

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,667
Median cash price$959
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

1,394 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,004 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,028; most fall between $382 and $1,858.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,394 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
$234$468$1,004$1,668$2,680

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($234 vs $2,680).

Of the 1,499 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,394 gave a usable cash price; 43 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 62 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,102 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (53%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,260 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,102
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) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded8
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded69
Hospitals that filed this code2,260

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 Endoscopy and endoscopic biopsy of the urinary tract family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Cystourethroscopy.

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, “Scope exam of the bladder and urethra (CPT 52000) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-52000-scope-exam-of-the-bladder-and-urethra