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Procedure price report · Transurethral excision, drainage, or removal urinary obstruction

Bladder scope with removal of a misplaced ureterocele

CPT 52301the billing code this page is about

A scope is passed through the urethra and a balloon-like swelling at an abnormally located ureter opening is cut away or burned off, on one or both sides.

Hospitals typically charge $1,430 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 322 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,431. Most fall between $494 and $5,288 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
322
States
41
Filings dated
Jun 2024 – 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 322 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
$397$557$1,430$4,407$7,513

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 19× what the cheapest tenth charges ($397 vs $7,513).

How the prices are spread

$295 – $409: 20 hospitals$295$409 – $566: 47 hospitals$566 – $784: 39 hospitals$566$784 – $1,086: 17 hospitals$1,086 – $1,504: 30 hospitals$1,086$1,504 – $2,084: 3 hospitals$2,084 – $2,886: 13 hospitals$2,084$2,886 – $3,998: 31 hospitals$3,998 – $5,538: 61 hospitals$3,998$5,538 – $7,672: 33 hospitals$5,538median $1,430price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (294 of 322 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$295$40920
$409$56647
$566$78439
$784$1,08617
$1,086$1,50430
$1,504$2,0843
$2,084$2,88613
$2,886$3,99831
$3,998$5,53861
$5,538$7,67233

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$3,601
Median cash price$1,430
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.40×

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 $1,430.

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: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 4 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: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $624 across 12 hospitalsIL$624Wisconsin: median $1,385 across 14 hospitalsWI$1,385Michigan: median $1,385 across 19 hospitalsMI$1,385New York: median $4,081 across 20 hospitalsNY$4,081Massachusetts: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMAOregon: median $523 across 13 hospitalsOR$523Nevada: 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: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $732 across 15 hospitalsIA$732Indiana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $1,297 across 11 hospitalsOH$1,297Pennsylvania: median $685 across 19 hospitalsPA$685New Jersey: median $4,561 across 29 hospitalsNJ$4,561Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $7,672 across 37 hospitalsCA$7,672Utah: 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: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $301 across 10 hospitalsWV$301Virginia: 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: 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: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 6 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 $476 across 12 hospitalsOK$476Louisiana: 4 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 $3,901 across 19 hospitalsTX$3,901Florida: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,430. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA37$7,672+437%$5,288 – $7,672
New Jersey NJ29$4,561+219%$3,818 – $5,339
New York NY20$4,081+185%$3,278 – $4,081
Texas TX19$3,901+173%$3,901 – $3,901
Michigan MI19$1,385−3%$474 – $4,847
Wisconsin WI14$1,385−3%$1,385 – $1,385
Ohio OH11$1,297−9%$619 – $1,430
Iowa IA15$732−49%$732 – $732
Pennsylvania PA19$685−52%$177 – $5,831
Illinois IL12$624−56%$501 – $1,513
Oregon OR13$523−63%$523 – $966
Oklahoma OK12$476−67%$476 – $476
West Virginia WV10$301−79%$296 – $808
Idaho ID8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not 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 $1,430.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care265$2,546$511 – $5,288
Children’s9fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access48$732$456 – $1,385
Ownership
For-profit27$1,385$624 – $5,447
Government38$754$509 – $4,081
Non-profit257$1,513$476 – $5,288
System affiliation
Part of a system276$1,465$500 – $5,288
Independent46$752$494 – $4,087

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,784
Median cash price$1,430
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

194 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,164 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,987; most fall between $509 and $5,288.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 194 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
$469$549$1,164$3,901$7,672

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 16× what the cheapest tenth charges ($469 vs $7,672).

Of the 205 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 194 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 3 a list price only.

How complete is this

322 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (8%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 339 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted322
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here12
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 — excluded3
Hospitals that filed this code339

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 Transurethral excision, drainage, or removal urinary obstruction family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Cysto W/Resecj Ectopic Ureterocele 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.

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Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Bladder scope with removal of a misplaced ureterocele (CPT 52301) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-52301-bladder-scope-with-removal-of-a-misplaced-ureterocele