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Procedure price report · Procedures on the urethra

Bladder scope with steroid injection into urethral scar

CPT 52283the billing code this page is about

A scope is passed through the urethra and steroid medicine is injected directly into scarred, narrowed tissue.

Hospitals typically charge $1,213 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 382 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,526. Most fall between $438 and $3,764 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
382
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 382 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
$328$511$1,213$2,818$6,311

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 19× what the cheapest tenth charges ($328 vs $6,311).

How the prices are spread

$234 – $327: 19 hospitals$234$327 – $457: 44 hospitals$457 – $639: 55 hospitals$457$639 – $894: 25 hospitals$894 – $1,249: 29 hospitals$894$1,249 – $1,746: 19 hospitals$1,746 – $2,441: 51 hospitals$1,746$2,441 – $3,413: 39 hospitals$3,413 – $4,771: 19 hospitals$3,413$4,771 – $6,670: 45 hospitals$4,771median $1,213price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (345 of 382 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$234$32719
$327$45744
$457$63955
$639$89425
$894$1,24929
$1,249$1,74619
$1,746$2,44151
$2,441$3,41339
$3,413$4,77119
$4,771$6,67045

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$2,136
Median cash price$1,213
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.57×

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 $1,213.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: median $5,304 across 10 hospitalsID$5,304Montana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $438 across 12 hospitalsIL$438Wisconsin: median $1,423 across 27 hospitalsWI$1,423Michigan: median $609 across 34 hospitalsMI$609New York: median $2,424 across 26 hospitalsNY$2,424Massachusetts: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $742 across 13 hospitalsOR$742Nevada: 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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $806 across 16 hospitalsIA$806Indiana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $970 across 12 hospitalsOH$970Pennsylvania: median $152 across 18 hospitalsPA$152New Jersey: median $3,786 across 23 hospitalsNJ$3,786Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $2,818 across 45 hospitalsCA$2,818Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 7 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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $331 across 13 hospitalsOK$331Louisiana: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 7 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 $2,359 across 18 hospitalsTX$2,359Florida: median $2,056 across 10 hospitalsFL$2,056
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,213. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Idaho ID10$5,304+337%$3,318 – $5,304
New Jersey NJ23$3,786+212%$2,267 – $5,419
California CA45$2,818+132%$2,275 – $6,670
New York NY26$2,424+100%$888 – $2,481
Texas TX18$2,359+94%$2,359 – $2,359
Florida FL10$2,056+70%$970 – $5,927
Wisconsin WI27$1,423+17%$1,014 – $1,755
Ohio OH12$970−20%$672 – $2,246
Iowa IA16$806−34%$806 – $806
Oregon OR13$742−39%$612 – $1,213
Michigan MI34$609−50%$342 – $2,831
Illinois IL12$438−64%$438 – $806
Oklahoma OK13$331−73%$331 – $4,177
Pennsylvania PA18$152−87%$124 – $3,463
Louisiana LA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not 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
Hawaii HI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not 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 $1,213.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care311$2,136$438 – $4,411
Children’s7fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access63$806$486 – $1,423
Ownership
For-profit32$2,359$438 – $5,081
Government49$688$437 – $2,440
Non-profit300$1,423$438 – $3,710
System affiliation
Part of a system314$1,423$438 – $4,350
Independent68$672$380 – $2,705

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,250
Median cash price$1,213
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

215 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $880 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,343; most fall between $358 and $2,818.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 215 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
$328$438$880$2,803$5,304

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 16× what the cheapest tenth charges ($328 vs $5,304).

Of the 234 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 215 gave a usable cash price; 14 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 5 a list price only.

How complete is this

382 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (10%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 422 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted382
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here32
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded2
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded5
Hospitals that filed this code422

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 PR Cystoscopy,Steroid Inj,Stricture.

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 steroid injection into urethral scar (CPT 52283) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-52283-bladder-scope-with-steroid-injection-into-urethral-scar