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Procedure price report · Other OR therapeutic procedures of urinary tract

Bladder scope with bladder stretching under anesthesia

CPT 52260the billing code this page is about

A scope exam in which the bladder is filled and stretched to treat interstitial cystitis, performed under general or spinal anesthesia.

Hospitals typically charge $1,546 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 718 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,900. Most fall between $433 and $5,110 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
718
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 718 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
$322$491$1,546$3,986$8,949

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 28× what the cheapest tenth charges ($322 vs $8,949).

How the prices are spread

$230 – $348: 60 hospitals$230$348 – $527: 101 hospitals$527 – $798: 79 hospitals$527$798 – $1,207: 46 hospitals$1,207 – $1,826: 58 hospitals$1,207$1,826 – $2,762: 87 hospitals$2,762 – $4,179: 79 hospitals$2,762$4,179 – $6,322: 54 hospitals$6,322 – $9,565: 58 hospitals$6,322$9,565 – $14,471: 26 hospitals$9,565median $1,546price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (648 of 718 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$230$34860
$348$527101
$527$79879
$798$1,20746
$1,207$1,82658
$1,826$2,76287
$2,762$4,17979
$4,179$6,32254
$6,322$9,56558
$9,565$14,47126

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$2,136
Median cash price$1,546
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.72×

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 $1,546.

Alaska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $1,600 across 15 hospitalsWA$1,600Idaho: median $4,712 across 12 hospitalsID$4,712Montana: 7 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 $1,184 across 25 hospitalsMN$1,184Illinois: median $555 across 21 hospitalsIL$555Wisconsin: median $1,392 across 31 hospitalsWI$1,392Michigan: median $609 across 42 hospitalsMI$609New York: median $2,424 across 39 hospitalsNY$2,424Massachusetts: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $380 across 12 hospitalsOR$380Nevada: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $531 across 33 hospitalsIA$531Indiana: median $625 across 13 hospitalsIN$625Ohio: median $3,147 across 31 hospitalsOH$3,147Pennsylvania: median $2,470 across 25 hospitalsPA$2,470New Jersey: median $3,986 across 34 hospitalsNJ$3,986Connecticut: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $3,890 across 54 hospitalsCA$3,890Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: median $450 across 12 hospitalsNE$450Missouri: median $4,410 across 21 hospitalsMO$4,410Kentucky: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $1,202 across 22 hospitalsWV$1,202Virginia: median $2,631 across 13 hospitalsVA$2,631Maryland: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $559 across 13 hospitalsKS$559Arkansas: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $3,265 across 14 hospitalsTN$3,265North Carolina: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $440 across 16 hospitalsOK$440Louisiana: median $2,316 across 16 hospitalsLA$2,316Mississippi: median $617 across 12 hospitalsMS$617Alabama: median $2,061 across 11 hospitalsAL$2,061Georgia: median $471 across 17 hospitalsGA$471Hawaii: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $3,171 across 34 hospitalsTX$3,171Florida: median $1,017 across 17 hospitalsFL$1,017
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,546. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Idaho ID12$4,712+205%$909 – $5,304
Missouri MO21$4,410+185%$491 – $10,384
New Jersey NJ34$3,986+158%$2,269 – $5,419
California CA54$3,890+152%$688 – $8,949
Tennessee TN14$3,265+111%$211 – $4,665
Texas TX34$3,171+105%$1,786 – $4,922
Ohio OH31$3,147+104%$770 – $15,218
Virginia VA13$2,631+70%$1,221 – $7,894
Pennsylvania PA25$2,470+60%$734 – $3,860
New York NY39$2,424+57%$509 – $2,827
Louisiana LA16$2,316+50%$1,181 – $4,297
Alabama AL11$2,061+33%$409 – $4,588
Washington WA15$1,600+4%$394 – $7,143
Wisconsin WI31$1,392−10%$1,059 – $1,751
West Virginia WV22$1,202−22%$230 – $2,409
Minnesota MN25$1,184−23%$488 – $1,390
Florida FL17$1,017−34%$834 – $5,323
Indiana IN13$625−60%$322 – $6,085
Mississippi MS12$617−60%$290 – $7,659
Michigan MI42$609−61%$375 – $2,874
Kansas KS13$559−64%$294 – $3,945
Illinois IL21$555−64%$322 – $5,788
Iowa IA33$531−66%$491 – $1,711
Georgia GA17$471−70%$161 – $3,300
Nebraska NE12$450−71%$367 – $1,591
Oklahoma OK16$440−72%$440 – $4,757
Oregon OR12$380−75%$380 – $703
Kentucky KY9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not 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 $1,546.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care541$2,377$488 – $6,459
Children’s10fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access165$614$333 – $1,751
Ownership
For-profit83$3,616$873 – $7,744
Government113$631$370 – $2,424
Non-profit520$1,527$440 – $4,712
System affiliation
Part of a system561$1,854$461 – $5,419
Independent157$745$392 – $3,616

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,822
Median cash price$1,546
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

378 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $703 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,270; most fall between $333 and $3,684.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 378 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
$246$380$703$3,171$5,304

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 22× what the cheapest tenth charges ($246 vs $5,304).

Of the 415 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 378 gave a usable cash price; 17 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 20 a list price only.

How complete is this

718 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (18%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 801 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted718
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here56
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded8
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded18
Hospitals that filed this code801

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 Other OR therapeutic procedures of urinary tract family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Cystourethroscopy W/Dil Bladder General Anesth.

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 bladder stretching under anesthesia (CPT 52260) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-52260-bladder-scope-with-bladder-stretching-under-anesthesia