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

Bladder scope with treatment of a narrowed ureter

CPT 52341the billing code this page is about

A scope is passed through the urethra to open a narrowed segment of the ureter using balloon dilation, laser, or cutting instruments.

Hospitals typically charge $1,720 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 613 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,336. Most fall between $630 and $5,110 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
613
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 613 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
$458$714$1,720$4,500$7,032

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 15× what the cheapest tenth charges ($458 vs $7,032).

How the prices are spread

$337 – $482: 49 hospitals$337$482 – $689: 67 hospitals$689 – $985: 92 hospitals$689$985 – $1,409: 50 hospitals$1,409 – $2,014: 24 hospitals$1,409$2,014 – $2,879: 31 hospitals$2,879 – $4,116: 95 hospitals$2,879$4,116 – $5,885: 77 hospitals$5,885 – $8,413: 56 hospitals$5,885$8,413 – $12,028: 12 hospitals$8,413median $1,720price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (553 of 613 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$337$48249
$482$68967
$689$98592
$985$1,40950
$1,409$2,01424
$2,014$2,87931
$2,879$4,11695
$4,116$5,88577
$5,885$8,41356
$8,413$12,02812

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$3,601
Median cash price$1,720
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.48×

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 $1,720.

Alaska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $652 across 11 hospitalsWA$652Idaho: median $4,252 across 10 hospitalsID$4,252Montana: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $1,814 across 16 hospitalsMN$1,814Illinois: median $875 across 24 hospitalsIL$875Wisconsin: median $1,349 across 35 hospitalsWI$1,349Michigan: median $640 across 34 hospitalsMI$640New York: median $3,601 across 35 hospitalsNY$3,601Massachusetts: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $512 across 14 hospitalsOR$512Nevada: 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 $717 across 24 hospitalsIA$717Indiana: median $875 across 11 hospitalsIN$875Ohio: median $1,391 across 22 hospitalsOH$1,391Pennsylvania: median $4,044 across 15 hospitalsPA$4,044New Jersey: median $4,391 across 33 hospitalsNJ$4,391Connecticut: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $6,860 across 56 hospitalsCA$6,860Utah: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 7 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 $463 across 14 hospitalsWV$463Virginia: median $5,319 across 18 hospitalsVA$5,319Maryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: median $4,616 across 16 hospitalsNC$4,616South Carolina: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $466 across 21 hospitalsOK$466Louisiana: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: median $2,522 across 12 hospitalsAL$2,522Georgia: median $1,249 across 12 hospitalsGA$1,249Hawaii: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $4,075 across 31 hospitalsTX$4,075Florida: median $3,462 across 16 hospitalsFL$3,462
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,720. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA56$6,860+299%$2,299 – $6,860
Virginia VA18$5,319+209%$2,956 – $7,782
North Carolina NC16$4,616+168%$4,616 – $4,808
New Jersey NJ33$4,391+155%$3,818 – $5,339
Idaho ID10$4,252+147%$571 – $8,773
Texas TX31$4,075+137%$2,365 – $4,170
Pennsylvania PA15$4,044+135%$630 – $6,499
New York NY35$3,601+109%$544 – $4,081
Florida FL16$3,462+101%$1,441 – $12,890
Alabama AL12$2,522+47%$662 – $6,777
Minnesota MN16$1,814+5%$653 – $3,498
Ohio OH22$1,391−19%$599 – $5,617
Wisconsin WI35$1,349−22%$750 – $1,429
Georgia GA12$1,249−27%$1,249 – $3,169
Illinois IL24$875−49%$543 – $3,537
Indiana IN11$875−49%$572 – $875
Iowa IA24$717−58%$692 – $804
Washington WA11$652−62%$530 – $1,141
Michigan MI34$640−63%$549 – $4,847
Oregon OR14$512−70%$512 – $946
Oklahoma OK21$466−73%$466 – $7,032
West Virginia WV14$463−73%$295 – $1,285
Missouri MO9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK3not 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
Connecticut CT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not 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 $1,720.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care486$3,169$684 – $5,447
Children’s10fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access116$791$482 – $1,366
Ownership
For-profit59$4,107$875 – $7,928
Government106$1,213$530 – $4,081
Non-profit447$1,594$635 – $5,319
System affiliation
Part of a system477$2,594$662 – $5,319
Independent136$958$531 – $4,050

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,076
Median cash price$1,720
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

358 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,349 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,137; most fall between $543 and $5,085.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 358 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
$434$662$1,349$4,170$6,860

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 16× what the cheapest tenth charges ($434 vs $6,860).

Of the 406 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 358 gave a usable cash price; 29 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 19 a list price only.

How complete is this

613 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (15%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 682 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted613
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here52
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 — excluded12
Hospitals that filed this code682

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/Tx Ureteral Stricture.

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 treatment of a narrowed ureter (CPT 52341) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-52341-bladder-scope-with-treatment-of-a-narrowed-ureter