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

Bladder scope with removal of a stone from the ureter

CPT 52320the billing code this page is about

A scope is passed through the urethra into the bladder and a stone is taken out of the ureter, including passing a catheter up the ureter if needed.

Hospitals typically charge $2,006 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 567 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,600. Most fall between $505 and $6,594 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
567
States
49
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 567 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
$370$623$2,006$5,110$8,773

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 24× what the cheapest tenth charges ($370 vs $8,773).

How the prices are spread

$271 – $404: 46 hospitals$271$404 – $602: 59 hospitals$602 – $896: 75 hospitals$602$896 – $1,336: 62 hospitals$1,336 – $1,991: 13 hospitals$1,336$1,991 – $2,966: 32 hospitals$2,966 – $4,420: 86 hospitals$2,966$4,420 – $6,587: 52 hospitals$6,587 – $9,815: 64 hospitals$6,587$9,815 – $14,626: 22 hospitals$9,815median $2,006price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (511 of 567 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$271$40446
$404$60259
$602$89675
$896$1,33662
$1,336$1,99113
$1,991$2,96632
$2,966$4,42086
$4,420$6,58752
$6,587$9,81564
$9,815$14,62622

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$3,601
Median cash price$2,006
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.56×

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 $2,006.

Alaska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $564 across 11 hospitalsWA$564Idaho: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $1,446 across 23 hospitalsIL$1,446Wisconsin: median $1,210 across 38 hospitalsWI$1,210Michigan: median $1,234 across 33 hospitalsMI$1,234New York: median $4,081 across 32 hospitalsNY$4,081Massachusetts: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $445 across 13 hospitalsOR$445Nevada: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $623 across 21 hospitalsIA$623Indiana: median $967 across 16 hospitalsIN$967Ohio: median $2,569 across 21 hospitalsOH$2,569Pennsylvania: median $974 across 24 hospitalsPA$974New Jersey: median $4,500 across 37 hospitalsNJ$4,500Connecticut: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $6,594 across 49 hospitalsCA$6,594Utah: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $686 across 17 hospitalsWV$686Virginia: 7 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: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 3 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 $404 across 15 hospitalsOK$404Louisiana: median $2,909 across 10 hospitalsLA$2,909Mississippi: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: median $3,370 across 13 hospitalsAL$3,370Georgia: median $3,971 across 11 hospitalsGA$3,971Hawaii: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $3,891 across 29 hospitalsTX$3,891Florida: median $1,441 across 12 hospitalsFL$1,441
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,006. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA49$6,594+229%$713 – $8,439
New Jersey NJ37$4,500+124%$3,786 – $5,419
New York NY32$4,081+103%$515 – $4,184
Georgia GA11$3,971+98%$3,971 – $3,971
Texas TX29$3,891+94%$3,368 – $6,616
Alabama AL13$3,370+68%$753 – $9,649
Louisiana LA10$2,909+45%$2,025 – $5,781
Ohio OH21$2,569+28%$968 – $10,252
Illinois IL23$1,446−28%$463 – $19,758
Florida FL12$1,441−28%$1,219 – $4,596
Michigan MI33$1,234−39%$563 – $4,847
Wisconsin WI38$1,210−40%$651 – $3,004
Pennsylvania PA24$974−51%$158 – $6,499
Indiana IN16$967−52%$700 – $12,335
West Virginia WV17$686−66%$257 – $4,083
Iowa IA21$623−69%$600 – $691
Washington WA11$564−72%$445 – $5,572
Oregon OR13$445−78%$445 – $773
Oklahoma OK15$404−80%$404 – $7,032
Idaho ID9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not 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 $2,006.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care448$3,146$553 – $6,839
Children’s7fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access110$733$425 – $2,867
Ownership
For-profit59$4,130$700 – $11,709
Government87$918$432 – $4,081
Non-profit419$2,018$505 – $6,594
System affiliation
Part of a system446$2,580$594 – $6,594
Independent121$937$463 – $4,500

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,000
Median cash price$2,006
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

306 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,003 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,820; most fall between $426 and $6,076.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 306 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
$343$463$1,003$4,441$8,439

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 25× what the cheapest tenth charges ($343 vs $8,439).

Of the 344 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 306 gave a usable cash price; 21 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 17 a list price only.

How complete is this

567 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (14%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 634 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted567
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here44
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded5
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded18
Hospitals that filed this code634

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 Cystourethroscopy W/Rmvl Ureteral Calculus.

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 stone from the ureter (CPT 52320) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-52320-bladder-scope-with-removal-of-a-stone-from-the-ureter