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

Bladder scope with removal of bladder tumor 2 to 5 cm

CPT 52235the billing code this page is about

A scope exam in which a medium-sized bladder tumor, about 2 to 5 centimeters, is burned away or cut out.

Hospitals typically charge $3,494 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 960 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $3,555. Most fall between $731 and $8,600 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
960
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 960 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
$473$888$3,494$6,841$12,376

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 26× what the cheapest tenth charges ($473 vs $12,376).

How the prices are spread

$386 – $567: 84 hospitals$386$567 – $835: 95 hospitals$835 – $1,228: 66 hospitals$835$1,228 – $1,806: 73 hospitals$1,806 – $2,656: 62 hospitals$1,806$2,656 – $3,907: 95 hospitals$3,907 – $5,747: 137 hospitals$3,907$5,747 – $8,454: 106 hospitals$8,454 – $12,435: 100 hospitals$8,454$12,435 – $18,291: 47 hospitals$12,435median $3,494price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (865 of 960 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$386$56784
$567$83595
$835$1,22866
$1,228$1,80673
$1,806$2,65662
$2,656$3,90795
$3,907$5,747137
$5,747$8,454106
$8,454$12,435100
$12,435$18,29147

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$3,601
Median cash price$3,494
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.97×

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 $3,494.

Alaska: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $740 across 11 hospitalsME$740Vermont: median $1,158 across 10 hospitalsVT$1,158New Hampshire: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $1,039 across 19 hospitalsWA$1,039Idaho: median $7,845 across 13 hospitalsID$7,845Montana: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $2,318 across 36 hospitalsMN$2,318Illinois: median $1,739 across 36 hospitalsIL$1,739Wisconsin: median $1,333 across 50 hospitalsWI$1,333Michigan: median $1,607 across 43 hospitalsMI$1,607New York: median $4,081 across 59 hospitalsNY$4,081Massachusetts: median $10,314 across 17 hospitalsMA$10,314Oregon: median $707 across 10 hospitalsOR$707Nevada: 7 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 $2,747 across 10 hospitalsSD$2,747Iowa: median $807 across 40 hospitalsIA$807Indiana: median $1,658 across 26 hospitalsIN$1,658Ohio: median $10,261 across 67 hospitalsOH$10,261Pennsylvania: median $3,467 across 31 hospitalsPA$3,467New Jersey: median $4,087 across 34 hospitalsNJ$4,087Connecticut: 9 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 $5,996 across 62 hospitalsCA$5,996Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: median $862 across 25 hospitalsNE$862Missouri: median $7,604 across 23 hospitalsMO$7,604Kentucky: median $893 across 11 hospitalsKY$893West Virginia: median $1,014 across 20 hospitalsWV$1,014Virginia: median $9,735 across 18 hospitalsVA$9,735Maryland: 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 $4,326 across 10 hospitalsAZ$4,326New Mexico: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $3,053 across 15 hospitalsKS$3,053Arkansas: median $1,823 across 10 hospitalsAR$1,823Tennessee: median $4,268 across 16 hospitalsTN$4,268North Carolina: median $3,602 across 12 hospitalsNC$3,602South Carolina: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $473 across 17 hospitalsOK$473Louisiana: median $3,051 across 21 hospitalsLA$3,051Mississippi: median $864 across 12 hospitalsMS$864Alabama: median $3,471 across 15 hospitalsAL$3,471Georgia: median $3,300 across 20 hospitalsGA$3,300Hawaii: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $5,065 across 38 hospitalsTX$5,065Florida: median $8,391 across 19 hospitalsFL$8,391
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $3,494. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Massachusetts MA17$10,314+195%$3,044 – $10,753
Ohio OH67$10,261+194%$3,274 – $14,430
Virginia VA18$9,735+179%$1,964 – $17,540
Florida FL19$8,391+140%$4,402 – $12,890
Idaho ID13$7,845+125%$671 – $8,773
Missouri MO23$7,604+118%$2,470 – $18,467
California CA62$5,996+72%$970 – $12,376
Texas TX38$5,065+45%$3,523 – $8,632
Arizona AZ10$4,326+24%$317 – $13,104
Tennessee TN16$4,268+22%$315 – $4,963
New Jersey NJ34$4,087+17%$3,818 – $5,339
New York NY59$4,081+17%$810 – $4,595
North Carolina NC12$3,602+3%$920 – $11,569
Alabama AL15$3,471−1%$879 – $9,354
Pennsylvania PA31$3,467−1%$216 – $7,055
Georgia GA20$3,300−6%$1,789 – $6,698
Kansas KS15$3,053−13%$492 – $4,743
Louisiana LA21$3,051−13%$1,470 – $5,781
South Dakota SD10$2,747−21%$1,719 – $8,306
Minnesota MN36$2,318−34%$704 – $3,126
Arkansas AR10$1,823−48%$695 – $2,312
Illinois IL36$1,739−50%$854 – $10,347
Indiana IN26$1,658−53%$888 – $13,025
Michigan MI43$1,607−54%$544 – $4,847
Wisconsin WI50$1,333−62%$762 – $3,827
Vermont VT10$1,158−67%$437 – $1,893
Washington WA19$1,039−70%$539 – $5,637
West Virginia WV20$1,014−71%$299 – $5,886
Kentucky KY11$893−74%$468 – $3,907
Mississippi MS12$864−75%$743 – $7,709
Nebraska NE25$862−75%$568 – $3,550
Iowa IA40$807−77%$694 – $5,106
Maine ME11$740−79%$411 – $1,869
Oregon OR10$707−80%$433 – $6,474
Oklahoma OK17$473−86%$473 – $8,712
Colorado CO9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not 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 $3,494.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care730$4,194$951 – $10,312
Children’s8fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access220$897$542 – $3,189
Ownership
For-profit108$5,339$1,789 – $11,460
Government150$1,658$566 – $5,547
Non-profit700$3,467$728 – $8,600
System affiliation
Part of a system758$3,856$854 – $9,571
Independent202$1,373$554 – $5,547

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$4,587
Median cash price$3,494
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

450 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,719 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,375; most fall between $549 and $6,407.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 450 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
$401$704$1,719$5,594$8,773

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 22× what the cheapest tenth charges ($401 vs $8,773).

Of the 511 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 450 gave a usable cash price; 22 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 39 a list price only.

How complete is this

960 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 1,063 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted960
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here61
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded9
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded33
Hospitals that filed this code1,063

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 Cystourethroscopy W/Dest &/Rmvl Med Bladder Tum.

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 2 to 5 cm (CPT 52235) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-52235-bladder-scope-with-removal-of-bladder-tumor-2-to-5-cm