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Procedure price report · Procedures on the urethra

Bladder scope with placement of a permanent urethral stent

CPT 52282the billing code this page is about

A scope is passed through the urethra and a permanent tube-shaped support is placed to hold the channel open.

Hospitals typically charge $1,653 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 419 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,411. Most fall between $608 and $5,781 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
419
States
44
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 419 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
$503$680$1,653$5,085$9,643

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 19× what the cheapest tenth charges ($503 vs $9,643).

How the prices are spread

$344 – $484: 20 hospitals$344$484 – $679: 57 hospitals$679 – $955: 58 hospitals$679$955 – $1,341: 28 hospitals$1,341 – $1,884: 36 hospitals$1,341$1,884 – $2,647: 8 hospitals$2,647 – $3,719: 35 hospitals$2,647$3,719 – $5,225: 54 hospitals$5,225 – $7,340: 34 hospitals$5,225$7,340 – $10,312: 51 hospitals$7,340median $1,653price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (381 of 419 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$344$48420
$484$67957
$679$95558
$955$1,34128
$1,341$1,88436
$1,884$2,6478
$2,647$3,71935
$3,719$5,22554
$5,225$7,34034
$7,340$10,31251

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$3,601
Median cash price$1,653
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.46×

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 $1,653.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $850 across 14 hospitalsIL$850Wisconsin: median $1,653 across 21 hospitalsWI$1,653Michigan: median $680 across 24 hospitalsMI$680New York: median $4,081 across 34 hospitalsNY$4,081Massachusetts: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $784 across 18 hospitalsOR$784Nevada: 4 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 $850 across 19 hospitalsIA$850Indiana: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $10,312 across 21 hospitalsOH$10,312Pennsylvania: median $325 across 20 hospitalsPA$325New 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 $5,288 across 42 hospitalsCA$5,288Utah: 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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 7 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: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $553 across 13 hospitalsOK$553Louisiana: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceGAHawaii: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $3,701 across 28 hospitalsTX$3,701Florida: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,653. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Ohio OH21$10,312+524%$1,508 – $10,312
California CA42$5,288+220%$5,288 – $9,643
New Jersey NJ23$4,350+163%$3,818 – $5,741
New York NY34$4,081+147%$590 – $4,184
Texas TX28$3,701+124%$1,743 – $3,704
Wisconsin WI21$1,6530%$1,653 – $2,998
Iowa IA19$850−49%$841 – $850
Illinois IL14$850−49%$823 – $1,587
Oregon OR18$784−53%$608 – $1,120
Michigan MI24$680−59%$536 – $1,653
Oklahoma OK13$553−67%$553 – $4,358
Pennsylvania PA20$325−80%$206 – $5,356
Florida FL8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC1not 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 $1,653.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care327$3,316$642 – $6,839
Children’s7fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access84$1,005$538 – $2,998
Ownership
For-profit36$3,701$823 – $7,634
Government56$855$590 – $4,081
Non-profit326$1,743$631 – $5,741
System affiliation
Part of a system345$1,743$640 – $6,179
Independent74$985$590 – $3,900

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,350
Median cash price$1,653
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

254 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,653 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,370; most fall between $590 and $7,427.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 254 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
$522$642$1,653$5,288$9,643

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 18× what the cheapest tenth charges ($522 vs $9,643).

Of the 277 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 254 gave a usable cash price; 13 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 10 a list price only.

How complete is this

419 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (11%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 453 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted419
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here22
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded10
Hospitals that filed this code453

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 Procedures on the urethra family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Cystourethroscopy Insertion Perm Urethral Stent.

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 placement of a permanent urethral stent (CPT 52282) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-52282-bladder-scope-with-placement-of-a-permanent-urethral-stent