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Procedure price report · Ureteral catheterization

Bladder scope with ureter catheter placement

CPT 52005the billing code this page is about

A scope exam of the bladder and urethra with a small catheter passed into the ureter, which may include flushing dye and X-ray imaging of the kidney drainage system.

Hospitals typically charge $2,269 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,369 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,397. Most fall between $573 and $4,825 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,369
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 1,369 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
$325$700$2,269$4,501$7,206

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 22× what the cheapest tenth charges ($325 vs $7,206).

How the prices are spread

$224 – $331: 72 hospitals$224$331 – $490: 82 hospitals$490 – $726: 129 hospitals$490$726 – $1,074: 92 hospitals$1,074 – $1,590: 103 hospitals$1,074$1,590 – $2,354: 157 hospitals$2,354 – $3,485: 196 hospitals$2,354$3,485 – $5,158: 226 hospitals$5,158 – $7,636: 118 hospitals$5,158$7,636 – $11,303: 58 hospitals$7,636median $2,269price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,233 of 1,369 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$224$33172
$331$49082
$490$726129
$726$1,07492
$1,074$1,590103
$1,590$2,354157
$2,354$3,485196
$3,485$5,158226
$5,158$7,636118
$7,636$11,30358

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$2,136
Median cash price$2,269
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.06×

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 $2,269.

Alaska: median $2,365 across 11 hospitalsAK$2,365Maine: median $786 across 14 hospitalsME$786Vermont: median $778 across 10 hospitalsVT$778New Hampshire: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $2,598 across 44 hospitalsWA$2,598Idaho: median $4,624 across 14 hospitalsID$4,624Montana: median $422 across 10 hospitalsMT$422North Dakota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $793 across 41 hospitalsMN$793Illinois: median $2,295 across 51 hospitalsIL$2,295Wisconsin: median $689 across 58 hospitalsWI$689Michigan: median $510 across 51 hospitalsMI$510New York: median $2,424 across 82 hospitalsNY$2,424Massachusetts: median $4,084 across 29 hospitalsMA$4,084Oregon: median $1,044 across 36 hospitalsOR$1,044Nevada: 9 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 $4,701 across 10 hospitalsSD$4,701Iowa: median $826 across 48 hospitalsIA$826Indiana: median $1,644 across 29 hospitalsIN$1,644Ohio: median $3,581 across 70 hospitalsOH$3,581Pennsylvania: median $3,179 across 56 hospitalsPA$3,179New Jersey: median $3,100 across 37 hospitalsNJ$3,100Connecticut: median $2,964 across 11 hospitalsCT$2,964Rhode Island: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $4,373 across 102 hospitalsCA$4,373Utah: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $2,873 across 13 hospitalsCO$2,873Nebraska: median $887 across 26 hospitalsNE$887Missouri: median $2,393 across 37 hospitalsMO$2,393Kentucky: median $1,172 across 19 hospitalsKY$1,172West Virginia: median $1,372 across 25 hospitalsWV$1,372Virginia: median $2,541 across 46 hospitalsVA$2,541Maryland: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $2,902 across 11 hospitalsAZ$2,902New Mexico: median $3,308 across 11 hospitalsNM$3,308Kansas: median $762 across 16 hospitalsKS$762Arkansas: median $1,631 across 12 hospitalsAR$1,631Tennessee: median $2,253 across 18 hospitalsTN$2,253North Carolina: median $1,495 across 34 hospitalsNC$1,495South Carolina: median $1,364 across 15 hospitalsSC$1,364Oklahoma: median $1,696 across 28 hospitalsOK$1,696Louisiana: median $1,652 across 28 hospitalsLA$1,652Mississippi: median $2,782 across 17 hospitalsMS$2,782Alabama: median $2,097 across 16 hospitalsAL$2,097Georgia: median $1,935 across 34 hospitalsGA$1,935Hawaii: median $1,891 across 10 hospitalsHI$1,891Texas: median $2,150 across 67 hospitalsTX$2,150Florida: median $2,879 across 28 hospitalsFL$2,879
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,269. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
South Dakota SD10$4,701+107%$2,120 – $4,701
Idaho ID14$4,624+104%$678 – $5,304
California CA102$4,373+93%$1,863 – $9,240
Massachusetts MA29$4,084+80%$1,285 – $5,244
Ohio OH70$3,581+58%$2,246 – $8,201
New Mexico NM11$3,308+46%$778 – $11,004
Pennsylvania PA56$3,179+40%$1,092 – $4,541
New Jersey NJ37$3,100+37%$2,267 – $5,339
Connecticut CT11$2,964+31%$750 – $3,432
Arizona AZ11$2,902+28%$1,000 – $19,239
Florida FL28$2,879+27%$2,056 – $7,656
Colorado CO13$2,873+27%$526 – $3,770
Mississippi MS17$2,782+23%$807 – $7,437
Washington WA44$2,598+14%$605 – $4,456
Virginia VA46$2,541+12%$1,546 – $4,862
New York NY82$2,424+7%$579 – $4,595
Missouri MO37$2,393+5%$688 – $4,240
Alaska AK11$2,365+4%$1,756 – $4,160
Illinois IL51$2,295+1%$757 – $4,691
Tennessee TN18$2,253−1%$282 – $4,745
Texas TX67$2,150−5%$1,043 – $4,643
Alabama AL16$2,097−8%$915 – $7,514
Georgia GA34$1,935−15%$1,452 – $5,653
Hawaii HI10$1,891−17%$318 – $2,554
Oklahoma OK28$1,696−25%$409 – $4,177
Louisiana LA28$1,652−27%$651 – $3,764
Indiana IN29$1,644−28%$390 – $5,313
Arkansas AR12$1,631−28%$506 – $3,062
North Carolina NC34$1,495−34%$568 – $4,309
West Virginia WV25$1,372−40%$140 – $3,455
South Carolina SC15$1,364−40%$287 – $2,745
Kentucky KY19$1,172−48%$304 – $3,576
Oregon OR36$1,044−54%$382 – $3,934
Nebraska NE26$887−61%$548 – $2,728
Iowa IA48$826−64%$418 – $4,308
Minnesota MN41$793−65%$403 – $1,379
Maine ME14$786−65%$221 – $1,142
Vermont VT10$778−66%$307 – $4,768
Kansas KS16$762−66%$375 – $4,529
Wisconsin WI58$689−70%$510 – $1,921
Michigan MI51$510−78%$184 – $4,718
Montana MT10$422−81%$199 – $852
New Hampshire NH9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT2not 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 $2,269.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,066$2,578$783 – $5,310
Children’s16fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access283$740$338 – $2,839
Ownership
For-profit130$3,438$920 – $7,923
Government223$1,495$435 – $3,432
Non-profit1,012$2,344$579 – $4,862
System affiliation
Part of a system1,108$2,397$669 – $5,027
Independent261$1,414$380 – $3,669

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,997
Median cash price$2,269
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

881 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,081 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,254; most fall between $517 and $4,624.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 881 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
$325$689$2,081$4,160$5,653

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 17× what the cheapest tenth charges ($325 vs $5,653).

Of the 951 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 881 gave a usable cash price; 35 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 35 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,369 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (35%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,498 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,369
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here77
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded10
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded42
Hospitals that filed this code1,498

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 Ureteral catheterization family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Cystourethroscopy W/Ureteral Catheterization.

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 scope with ureter catheter placement (CPT 52005) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-52005-bladder-scope-with-ureter-catheter-placement