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Procedure price report · Procedures on the urethra

Bladder scope with removal of external urinary sphincter

CPT 52277the billing code this page is about

A scope is passed through the urethra and the external muscle ring that controls urine flow is cut away to relieve blockage.

Hospitals typically charge $1,595 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 252 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,171. Most fall between $564 and $4,847 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
252
States
41
Filings dated
Jun 2024 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 23, 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 252 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
$488$618$1,595$4,081$8,439

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 17× what the cheapest tenth charges ($488 vs $8,439).

How the prices are spread

$328 – $453: 13 hospitals$328$453 – $628: 42 hospitals$628 – $868: 37 hospitals$628$868 – $1,202: 13 hospitals$1,202 – $1,663: 21 hospitals$1,202$1,663 – $2,301: 2 hospitals$2,301 – $3,185: 6 hospitals$2,301$3,185 – $4,407: 52 hospitals$4,407 – $6,098: 20 hospitals$4,407$6,098 – $8,439: 26 hospitals$6,098median $1,595price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (232 of 252 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$328$45313
$453$62842
$628$86837
$868$1,20213
$1,202$1,66321
$1,663$2,3012
$2,301$3,1856
$3,185$4,40752
$4,407$6,09820
$6,098$8,43926

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$3,601
Median cash price$1,595
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.44×

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 $1,595.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $718 across 11 hospitalsIL$718Wisconsin: median $1,595 across 12 hospitalsWI$1,595Michigan: median $1,595 across 10 hospitalsMI$1,595New York: median $4,081 across 22 hospitalsNY$4,081Massachusetts: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMAOregon: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $816 across 17 hospitalsIA$816Indiana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: median $220 across 18 hospitalsPA$220New Jersey: median $4,350 across 23 hospitalsNJ$4,350Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $8,439 across 24 hospitalsCA$8,439Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $530 across 12 hospitalsOK$530Louisiana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceGAHawaii: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $3,419 across 17 hospitalsTX$3,419Florida: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,595. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA24$8,439+429%$1,042 – $8,439
New Jersey NJ23$4,350+173%$3,818 – $5,741
New York NY22$4,081+156%$1,084 – $4,081
Texas TX17$3,419+114%$3,419 – $3,419
Michigan MI10$1,5950%$448 – $4,847
Wisconsin WI12$1,5950%$1,595 – $1,595
Iowa IA17$816−49%$781 – $816
Illinois IL11$718−55%$562 – $816
Oklahoma OK12$530−67%$530 – $530
Pennsylvania PA18$220−86%$179 – $5,831
Idaho ID8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not 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 $1,595.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care206$2,182$562 – $5,085
Children’s4fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access42$818$616 – $2,909
Ownership
For-profit25$3,318$718 – $5,447
Government32$818$567 – $4,081
Non-profit195$1,595$543 – $4,847
System affiliation
Part of a system214$1,595$582 – $5,110
Independent38$887$562 – $3,858

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,295
Median cash price$1,595
Cash as a share of list, median hospital61%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 39%. 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

163 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $905 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,414; most fall between $530 and $3,858.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 163 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
$368$582$905$3,419$8,439

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 23× what the cheapest tenth charges ($368 vs $8,439).

Of the 172 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 163 gave a usable cash price; 8 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 1 a list price only.

How complete is this

252 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (6%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 278 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted252
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here23
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded2
Hospitals that filed this code278

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 23, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 23, 2026. The percentiles and averages use only the “counted” row.

Related procedures

Part of the Procedures on the urethra family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Cystourethroscopy W/Resecj External Sphincter.

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.

Download this page’s figures: JSON · CSV. Aggregates only — the per-hospital prices are on the compare tool.

Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Bladder scope with removal of external urinary sphincter (CPT 52277) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-52277-bladder-scope-with-removal-of-external-urinary-sphincter