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Procedure price report · Procedures on the urethra

Bladder scope treatment for female urethral syndrome

CPT 52285the billing code this page is about

A scope is used to treat ongoing urethral symptoms in women, which may include widening the urethra, cutting scar tissue, small incisions at the bladder neck, or burning off polyps.

Hospitals typically charge $828 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 394 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,127. Most fall between $456 and $2,733 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
394
States
44
Filings dated
Aug 2022 – 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 394 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$550$828$2,106$4,627

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 14× what the cheapest tenth charges ($322 vs $4,627).

How the prices are spread

$237 – $332: 32 hospitals$237$332 – $465: 30 hospitals$465 – $652: 43 hospitals$465$652 – $913: 92 hospitals$913 – $1,278: 27 hospitals$913$1,278 – $1,790: 40 hospitals$1,790 – $2,506: 18 hospitals$1,790$2,506 – $3,510: 24 hospitals$3,510 – $4,915: 33 hospitals$3,510$4,915 – $6,882: 29 hospitals$4,915median $828price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (368 of 394 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$237$33232
$332$46530
$465$65243
$652$91392
$913$1,27827
$1,278$1,79040
$1,790$2,50618
$2,506$3,51024
$3,510$4,91533
$4,915$6,88229

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$712
Median cash price$828
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.16×

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 $828.

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: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 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: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $552 across 12 hospitalsIL$552Wisconsin: median $1,413 across 13 hospitalsWI$1,413Michigan: median $708 across 28 hospitalsMI$708New York: median $790 across 29 hospitalsNY$790Massachusetts: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $605 across 12 hospitalsOR$605Nevada: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $802 across 16 hospitalsIA$802Indiana: median $3,177 across 18 hospitalsIN$3,177Ohio: median $936 across 14 hospitalsOH$936Pennsylvania: median $802 across 26 hospitalsPA$802New Jersey: median $902 across 24 hospitalsNJ$902Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $3,604 across 40 hospitalsCA$3,604Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $802 across 13 hospitalsWV$802Virginia: 3 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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 2 hospitals 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: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $322 across 12 hospitalsOK$322Louisiana: median $905 across 15 hospitalsLA$905Mississippi: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceGAHawaii: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $1,769 across 23 hospitalsTX$1,769Florida: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $828. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA40$3,604+335%$2,710 – $6,882
Indiana IN18$3,177+284%$421 – $4,787
Texas TX23$1,769+114%$894 – $1,780
Wisconsin WI13$1,413+71%$1,413 – $1,413
Ohio OH14$936+13%$668 – $2,189
Louisiana LA15$905+9%$250 – $2,316
New Jersey NJ24$902+9%$739 – $5,419
Iowa IA16$802−3%$802 – $802
Pennsylvania PA26$802−3%$126 – $1,129
West Virginia WV13$802−3%$626 – $891
New York NY29$790−5%$560 – $1,803
Michigan MI28$708−14%$708 – $959
Oregon OR12$605−27%$605 – $660
Illinois IL12$552−33%$421 – $1,146
Oklahoma OK12$322−61%$322 – $322
Florida FL8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not 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
Wyoming WY1not 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 $828.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care317$841$437 – $3,420
Children’s8fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access68$805$496 – $1,858
Ownership
For-profit30$946$421 – $2,403
Government52$657$363 – $911
Non-profit311$891$519 – $3,420
System affiliation
Part of a system331$870$506 – $3,420
Independent63$659$373 – $1,887

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,289
Median cash price$828
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

242 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $804 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,081; most fall between $373 and $2,697.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 242 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
$307$421$804$1,858$6,882

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 22× what the cheapest tenth charges ($307 vs $6,882).

Of the 266 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 242 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 7 a list price only.

How complete is this

394 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 433 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted394
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here35
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded4
Hospitals that filed this code433

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 Tx Female Urethral Syndrome.

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 treatment for female urethral syndrome (CPT 52285) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-52285-bladder-scope-treatment-for-female-urethral-syndrome