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

Bladder scope with removal of bladder tumor up to 2 cm

CPT 52234the billing code this page is about

A scope exam in which a bladder tumor measuring roughly half a centimeter to 2 centimeters is burned away or cut out; may include treating other small lesions.

Hospitals typically charge $3,048 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,038 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $3,084. Most fall between $580 and $6,932 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,038
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 1,038 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
$403$687$3,048$5,849$10,909

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 27× what the cheapest tenth charges ($403 vs $10,909).

How the prices are spread

$285 – $422: 65 hospitals$285$422 – $625: 121 hospitals$625 – $925: 70 hospitals$625$925 – $1,369: 67 hospitals$1,369 – $2,027: 67 hospitals$1,369$2,027 – $3,001: 74 hospitals$3,001 – $4,444: 161 hospitals$3,001$4,444 – $6,579: 137 hospitals$6,579 – $9,740: 83 hospitals$6,579$9,740 – $14,420: 91 hospitals$9,740median $3,048price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (936 of 1,038 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$285$42265
$422$625121
$625$92570
$925$1,36967
$1,369$2,02767
$2,027$3,00174
$3,001$4,444161
$4,444$6,579137
$6,579$9,74083
$9,740$14,42091

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$3,601
Median cash price$3,048
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.85×

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 $3,048.

Alaska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $460 across 11 hospitalsME$460Vermont: median $987 across 10 hospitalsVT$987New Hampshire: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $1,003 across 22 hospitalsWA$1,003Idaho: median $8,773 across 13 hospitalsID$8,773Montana: 8 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 $1,827 across 38 hospitalsMN$1,827Illinois: median $1,478 across 36 hospitalsIL$1,478Wisconsin: median $1,138 across 56 hospitalsWI$1,138Michigan: median $1,124 across 45 hospitalsMI$1,124New York: median $4,081 across 63 hospitalsNY$4,081Massachusetts: median $5,244 across 21 hospitalsMA$5,244Oregon: median $567 across 20 hospitalsOR$567Nevada: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $3,455 across 10 hospitalsSD$3,455Iowa: median $620 across 44 hospitalsIA$620Indiana: median $1,210 across 26 hospitalsIN$1,210Ohio: median $8,663 across 62 hospitalsOH$8,663Pennsylvania: median $4,065 across 40 hospitalsPA$4,065New Jersey: median $4,200 across 36 hospitalsNJ$4,200Connecticut: 8 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 $5,304 across 66 hospitalsCA$5,304Utah: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $1,216 across 10 hospitalsCO$1,216Nebraska: median $620 across 24 hospitalsNE$620Missouri: median $2,801 across 29 hospitalsMO$2,801Kentucky: median $480 across 11 hospitalsKY$480West Virginia: median $1,424 across 26 hospitalsWV$1,424Virginia: median $6,963 across 27 hospitalsVA$6,963Maryland: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $5,014 across 11 hospitalsAZ$5,014New Mexico: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $773 across 13 hospitalsKS$773Arkansas: median $1,863 across 10 hospitalsAR$1,863Tennessee: median $2,990 across 19 hospitalsTN$2,990North Carolina: median $4,079 across 22 hospitalsNC$4,079South Carolina: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $403 across 17 hospitalsOK$403Louisiana: median $2,207 across 22 hospitalsLA$2,207Mississippi: median $1,728 across 15 hospitalsMS$1,728Alabama: median $6,989 across 14 hospitalsAL$6,989Georgia: median $3,106 across 23 hospitalsGA$3,106Hawaii: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $5,969 across 39 hospitalsTX$5,969Florida: median $7,068 across 16 hospitalsFL$7,068
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $3,048. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Idaho ID13$8,773+188%$1,893 – $8,773
Ohio OH62$8,663+184%$3,274 – $13,169
Florida FL16$7,068+132%$3,462 – $12,890
Alabama AL14$6,989+129%$1,839 – $10,277
Virginia VA27$6,963+128%$1,964 – $12,717
Texas TX39$5,969+96%$2,518 – $7,265
California CA66$5,304+74%$1,003 – $10,909
Massachusetts MA21$5,244+72%$1,220 – $5,539
Arizona AZ11$5,014+65%$1,353 – $11,548
New Jersey NJ36$4,200+38%$3,818 – $5,110
New York NY63$4,081+34%$694 – $4,595
North Carolina NC22$4,079+34%$2,006 – $4,079
Pennsylvania PA40$4,065+33%$331 – $6,499
South Dakota SD10$3,455+13%$1,074 – $8,306
Georgia GA23$3,106+2%$1,789 – $5,849
Tennessee TN19$2,990−2%$269 – $4,407
Missouri MO29$2,801−8%$343 – $7,824
Louisiana LA22$2,207−28%$511 – $5,492
Arkansas AR10$1,863−39%$646 – $2,001
Minnesota MN38$1,827−40%$572 – $2,672
Mississippi MS15$1,728−43%$490 – $3,375
Illinois IL36$1,478−51%$462 – $6,580
West Virginia WV26$1,424−53%$255 – $4,234
Colorado CO10$1,216−60%$432 – $3,459
Indiana IN26$1,210−60%$452 – $8,133
Wisconsin WI56$1,138−63%$649 – $4,126
Michigan MI45$1,124−63%$462 – $4,847
Washington WA22$1,003−67%$494 – $4,244
Vermont VT10$987−68%$354 – $1,615
Kansas KS13$773−75%$457 – $3,500
Iowa IA44$620−80%$526 – $6,007
Nebraska NE24$620−80%$477 – $3,877
Oregon OR20$567−81%$442 – $4,202
Kentucky KY11$480−84%$403 – $3,252
Maine ME11$460−85%$388 – $1,037
Oklahoma OK17$403−87%$403 – $7,032
South Carolina SC9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD2not 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 $3,048.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care795$4,056$808 – $7,824
Children’s9fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access232$745$433 – $2,814
Ownership
For-profit104$4,511$1,138 – $10,109
Government176$1,863$494 – $4,208
Non-profit756$3,048$593 – $6,963
System affiliation
Part of a system830$3,594$620 – $7,427
Independent208$1,186$480 – $4,550

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$4,422
Median cash price$3,048
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

544 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,923 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,373; most fall between $466 and $5,594.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 544 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
$389$580$1,923$5,244$7,690

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 20× what the cheapest tenth charges ($389 vs $7,690).

Of the 608 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 544 gave a usable cash price; 30 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 34 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,038 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (26%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,146 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,038
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here65
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 — excluded33
Hospitals that filed this code1,146

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 Tumors 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 removal of bladder tumor up to 2 cm (CPT 52234) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-52234-bladder-scope-with-removal-of-bladder-tumor-up-to-2-cm