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Procedure price report · Transurethral excision, drainage, or removal urinary obstruction

Bladder scope with treatment of small bladder lesions

CPT 52224the billing code this page is about

A scope exam in which minor bladder lesions, generally under about half a centimeter, are destroyed or removed, with or without a biopsy.

Hospitals typically charge $2,817 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 965 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $3,052. Most fall between $958 and $6,014 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
965
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 965 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
$463$1,316$2,817$5,238$9,316

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 20× what the cheapest tenth charges ($463 vs $9,316).

How the prices are spread

$333 – $480: 56 hospitals$333$480 – $692: 36 hospitals$692 – $998: 57 hospitals$692$998 – $1,438: 76 hospitals$1,438 – $2,072: 113 hospitals$1,438$2,072 – $2,987: 114 hospitals$2,987 – $4,305: 139 hospitals$2,987$4,305 – $6,205: 136 hospitals$6,205 – $8,943: 69 hospitals$6,205$8,943 – $12,890: 73 hospitals$8,943median $2,817price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (869 of 965 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$333$48056
$480$69236
$692$99857
$998$1,43876
$1,438$2,072113
$2,072$2,987114
$2,987$4,305139
$4,305$6,205136
$6,205$8,94369
$8,943$12,89073

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$3,601
Median cash price$2,817
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.78×

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 $2,817.

Alaska: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $489 across 11 hospitalsME$489Vermont: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $1,947 across 20 hospitalsWA$1,947Idaho: median $3,318 across 13 hospitalsID$3,318Montana: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $2,051 across 37 hospitalsMN$2,051Illinois: median $2,836 across 37 hospitalsIL$2,836Wisconsin: median $2,146 across 55 hospitalsWI$2,146Michigan: median $2,402 across 54 hospitalsMI$2,402New York: median $4,081 across 60 hospitalsNY$4,081Massachusetts: median $4,119 across 21 hospitalsMA$4,119Oregon: median $2,043 across 21 hospitalsOR$2,043Nevada: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $2,733 across 12 hospitalsSD$2,733Iowa: median $1,833 across 33 hospitalsIA$1,833Indiana: median $1,400 across 17 hospitalsIN$1,400Ohio: median $5,989 across 61 hospitalsOH$5,989Pennsylvania: median $4,165 across 35 hospitalsPA$4,165New Jersey: median $4,500 across 36 hospitalsNJ$4,500Connecticut: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $4,638 across 63 hospitalsCA$4,638Utah: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: median $1,886 across 17 hospitalsNE$1,886Missouri: median $1,532 across 21 hospitalsMO$1,532Kentucky: median $1,400 across 11 hospitalsKY$1,400West Virginia: median $569 across 18 hospitalsWV$569Virginia: median $2,990 across 24 hospitalsVA$2,990Maryland: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $3,369 across 10 hospitalsAZ$3,369New Mexico: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $1,115 across 13 hospitalsKS$1,115Arkansas: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $2,990 across 14 hospitalsTN$2,990North Carolina: median $4,160 across 21 hospitalsNC$4,160South Carolina: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $333 across 14 hospitalsOK$333Louisiana: median $2,539 across 20 hospitalsLA$2,539Mississippi: median $1,947 across 15 hospitalsMS$1,947Alabama: median $3,016 across 14 hospitalsAL$3,016Georgia: median $2,859 across 20 hospitalsGA$2,859Hawaii: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $5,050 across 36 hospitalsTX$5,050Florida: median $3,462 across 15 hospitalsFL$3,462
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,817. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Ohio OH61$5,989+113%$2,567 – $10,429
Texas TX36$5,050+79%$1,624 – $5,822
California CA63$4,638+65%$2,163 – $9,262
New Jersey NJ36$4,500+60%$3,818 – $5,339
Pennsylvania PA35$4,165+48%$595 – $6,213
North Carolina NC21$4,160+48%$1,392 – $4,160
Massachusetts MA21$4,119+46%$927 – $5,539
New York NY60$4,081+45%$1,507 – $4,753
Florida FL15$3,462+23%$1,441 – $12,890
Arizona AZ10$3,369+20%$1,213 – $8,596
Idaho ID13$3,318+18%$1,398 – $8,773
Alabama AL14$3,016+7%$1,355 – $10,524
Tennessee TN14$2,990+6%$727 – $5,307
Virginia VA24$2,990+6%$1,527 – $10,239
Georgia GA20$2,859+1%$1,789 – $5,849
Illinois IL37$2,836+1%$1,400 – $9,262
South Dakota SD12$2,733−3%$2,118 – $2,970
Louisiana LA20$2,539−10%$1,427 – $3,232
Michigan MI54$2,402−15%$793 – $7,608
Wisconsin WI55$2,146−24%$1,511 – $2,956
Minnesota MN37$2,051−27%$622 – $2,432
Oregon OR21$2,043−27%$365 – $2,698
Washington WA20$1,947−31%$463 – $6,278
Mississippi MS15$1,947−31%$1,233 – $3,280
Nebraska NE17$1,886−33%$955 – $4,501
Iowa IA33$1,833−35%$560 – $1,868
Missouri MO21$1,532−46%$670 – $7,230
Indiana IN17$1,400−50%$798 – $8,133
Kentucky KY11$1,400−50%$665 – $3,653
Kansas KS13$1,115−60%$352 – $2,914
West Virginia WV18$569−80%$212 – $3,751
Maine ME11$489−83%$298 – $1,688
Oklahoma OK14$333−88%$333 – $7,032
Arkansas AR9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not 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 $2,817.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care746$3,769$1,355 – $7,174
Children’s10fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access206$1,481$480 – $2,698
Ownership
For-profit91$3,834$1,400 – $10,032
Government150$1,789$704 – $4,081
Non-profit721$2,956$970 – $6,244
System affiliation
Part of a system764$2,990$1,079 – $6,744
Independent201$2,179$570 – $5,186

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,982
Median cash price$2,817
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

543 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,402 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,744; most fall between $881 and $5,336.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 543 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
$369$1,224$2,402$4,638$7,608

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 21× what the cheapest tenth charges ($369 vs $7,608).

Of the 601 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 543 gave a usable cash price; 31 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

965 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (24%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,062 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted965
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here66
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded6
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded25
Hospitals that filed this code1,062

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 Transurethral excision, drainage, or removal urinary obstruction family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Cysto W/Removal of Lesions Small.

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 treatment of small bladder lesions (CPT 52224) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-52224-bladder-scope-with-treatment-of-small-bladder-lesions