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

Bladder scope with breaking up of a ureter stone

CPT 52325the billing code this page is about

A scope is passed through the urethra and a stone in the ureter is shattered using sound waves, shock energy, or a similar method.

Hospitals typically charge $1,572 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 380 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,814. Most fall between $572 and $6,693 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
380
States
45
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 380 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
$417$614$1,572$6,311$9,453

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 23× what the cheapest tenth charges ($417 vs $9,453).

How the prices are spread

$325 – $460: 24 hospitals$325$460 – $650: 57 hospitals$650 – $919: 39 hospitals$650$919 – $1,299: 24 hospitals$1,299 – $1,836: 37 hospitals$1,299$1,836 – $2,595: 5 hospitals$2,595 – $3,669: 19 hospitals$2,595$3,669 – $5,186: 24 hospitals$5,186 – $7,332: 66 hospitals$5,186$7,332 – $10,364: 48 hospitals$7,332median $1,572price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (343 of 380 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$325$46024
$460$65057
$650$91939
$919$1,29924
$1,299$1,83637
$1,836$2,5955
$2,595$3,66919
$3,669$5,18624
$5,186$7,33266
$7,332$10,36448

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$5,478
Median cash price$1,572
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.29×

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 $1,572.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 5 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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $951 across 15 hospitalsIL$951Wisconsin: median $1,572 across 21 hospitalsWI$1,572Michigan: median $1,342 across 29 hospitalsMI$1,342New York: median $6,016 across 26 hospitalsNY$6,016Massachusetts: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $810 across 19 hospitalsIA$810Indiana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $1,599 across 11 hospitalsOH$1,599Pennsylvania: median $231 across 16 hospitalsPA$231New Jersey: median $5,632 across 30 hospitalsNJ$5,632Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $7,119 across 40 hospitalsCA$7,119Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 5 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: median $523 across 12 hospitalsWV$523Virginia: 1 hospital 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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 3 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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $525 across 12 hospitalsOK$525Louisiana: 5 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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $3,998 across 23 hospitalsTX$3,998Florida: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,572. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA40$7,119+353%$6,594 – $9,453
New York NY26$6,016+283%$876 – $6,016
New Jersey NJ30$5,632+258%$4,881 – $7,902
Texas TX23$3,998+154%$3,046 – $4,999
Ohio OH11$1,599+2%$801 – $8,429
Wisconsin WI21$1,5720%$1,572 – $3,004
Michigan MI29$1,342−15%$548 – $1,572
Illinois IL15$951−40%$555 – $1,847
Iowa IA19$810−49%$696 – $810
Oklahoma OK12$525−67%$525 – $525
West Virginia WV12$523−67%$327 – $4,190
Pennsylvania PA16$231−85%$196 – $5,961
Florida FL9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA1not 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 $1,572.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care294$3,118$576 – $7,373
Children’s8fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access77$982$523 – $3,004
Ownership
For-profit32$3,318$951 – $9,304
Government56$898$555 – $6,016
Non-profit291$1,572$576 – $6,594
System affiliation
Part of a system311$1,599$576 – $6,824
Independent69$949$564 – $6,167

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,292
Median cash price$1,572
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

220 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $951 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,135; most fall between $525 and $6,594.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 220 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
$388$548$951$5,537$9,453

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 24× what the cheapest tenth charges ($388 vs $9,453).

Of the 241 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 220 gave a usable cash price; 11 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 10 a list price only.

How complete is this

380 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 421 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted380
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here30
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded3
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded7
Hospitals that filed this code421

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 23, 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 Fragmentation Ureteral Stone.

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 breaking up of a ureter stone (CPT 52325) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-52325-bladder-scope-with-breaking-up-of-a-ureter-stone