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Procedure price report · Procedures on the urethra

Bladder scope with cutting open of the ureter opening

CPT 52290the billing code this page is about

A scope is passed through the urethra and the opening where one or both ureters enter the bladder is cut to widen it.

Hospitals typically charge $1,141 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 384 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,573. Most fall between $400 and $4,046 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
384
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 384 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
$350$452$1,141$3,588$6,388

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 18× what the cheapest tenth charges ($350 vs $6,388).

How the prices are spread

$252 – $349: 19 hospitals$252$349 – $483: 68 hospitals$483 – $669: 54 hospitals$483$669 – $927: 16 hospitals$927 – $1,284: 40 hospitals$927$1,284 – $1,778: 13 hospitals$1,778 – $2,462: 33 hospitals$1,778$2,462 – $3,410: 20 hospitals$3,410 – $4,723: 41 hospitals$3,410$4,723 – $6,541: 46 hospitals$4,723median $1,141price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (350 of 384 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$252$34919
$349$48368
$483$66954
$669$92716
$927$1,28440
$1,284$1,77813
$1,778$2,46233
$2,462$3,41020
$3,410$4,72341
$4,723$6,54146

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$2,136
Median cash price$1,141
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.53×

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 $1,141.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 6 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 $429 across 18 hospitalsIL$429Wisconsin: median $1,141 across 31 hospitalsWI$1,141Michigan: median $390 across 18 hospitalsMI$390New York: median $2,424 across 27 hospitalsNY$2,424Massachusetts: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $440 across 11 hospitalsOR$440Nevada: 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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $616 across 19 hospitalsIA$616Indiana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $1,091 across 10 hospitalsOH$1,091Pennsylvania: median $102 across 13 hospitalsPA$102New Jersey: median $4,627 across 28 hospitalsNJ$4,627Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $6,541 across 39 hospitalsCA$6,541Utah: 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: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 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: 3 hospitals 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: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 2 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 $400 across 14 hospitalsOK$400Louisiana: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 6 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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $3,588 across 30 hospitalsTX$3,588Florida: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,141. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA39$6,541+473%$4,046 – $6,541
New Jersey NJ28$4,627+306%$2,269 – $6,388
Texas TX30$3,588+215%$1,310 – $3,588
New York NY27$2,424+113%$554 – $2,424
Wisconsin WI31$1,1410%$643 – $1,226
Ohio OH10$1,091−4%$571 – $1,191
Iowa IA19$616−46%$470 – $682
Oregon OR11$440−61%$440 – $554
Illinois IL18$429−62%$385 – $5,359
Oklahoma OK14$400−65%$400 – $4,177
Michigan MI18$390−66%$370 – $2,874
Pennsylvania PA13$102−91%$86 – $2,402
Florida FL8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA1not 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 $1,141.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care302$1,310$400 – $4,046
Children’s6fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access75$680$385 – $1,226
Ownership
For-profit35$3,016$385 – $5,304
Government54$624$429 – $2,424
Non-profit294$1,141$400 – $4,046
System affiliation
Part of a system314$1,191$400 – $4,046
Independent70$618$429 – $2,246

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,068
Median cash price$1,141
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

235 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $657 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,140; most fall between $385 and $3,588.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 235 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
$288$400$657$3,588$5,304

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 18× what the cheapest tenth charges ($288 vs $5,304).

Of the 248 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 235 gave a usable cash price; 9 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 4 a list price only.

How complete is this

384 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 423 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted384
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here28
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 — excluded10
Hospitals that filed this code423

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 W/Ureteral Meatotomy Uni/Bi.

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 cutting open of the ureter opening (CPT 52290) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-52290-bladder-scope-with-cutting-open-of-the-ureter-opening