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

Ureter scope with treatment of a narrowed ureter

CPT 52344the billing code this page is about

A scope is passed through the urethra and up into the ureter itself to open a narrowed segment using dilation, laser, or cutting instruments.

Hospitals typically charge $3,041 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 697 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $3,087. Most fall between $875 and $6,800 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
697
States
47
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 697 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
$666$932$3,041$5,584$10,582

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 16× what the cheapest tenth charges ($666 vs $10,582).

How the prices are spread

$484 – $690: 47 hospitals$484$690 – $985: 104 hospitals$985 – $1,404: 52 hospitals$985$1,404 – $2,003: 66 hospitals$2,003 – $2,857: 34 hospitals$2,003$2,857 – $4,074: 81 hospitals$4,074 – $5,811: 112 hospitals$4,074$5,811 – $8,288: 51 hospitals$8,288 – $11,822: 60 hospitals$8,288$11,822 – $16,861: 22 hospitals$11,822median $3,041price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (629 of 697 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$484$69047
$690$985104
$985$1,40452
$1,404$2,00366
$2,003$2,85734
$2,857$4,07481
$4,074$5,811112
$5,811$8,28851
$8,288$11,82260
$11,822$16,86122

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$3,601
Median cash price$3,041
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.84×

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 $3,041.

Alaska: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 8 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 $4,642 across 23 hospitalsWA$4,642Idaho: median $7,480 across 10 hospitalsID$7,480Montana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $2,506 across 23 hospitalsMN$2,506Illinois: median $1,065 across 25 hospitalsIL$1,065Wisconsin: median $1,853 across 32 hospitalsWI$1,853Michigan: median $818 across 39 hospitalsMI$818New York: median $4,081 across 48 hospitalsNY$4,081Massachusetts: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $1,227 across 24 hospitalsOR$1,227Nevada: 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: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $932 across 24 hospitalsIA$932Indiana: median $875 across 14 hospitalsIN$875Ohio: median $1,833 across 27 hospitalsOH$1,833Pennsylvania: median $5,831 across 17 hospitalsPA$5,831New Jersey: median $4,350 across 32 hospitalsNJ$4,350Connecticut: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $5,288 across 68 hospitalsCA$5,288Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $7,368 across 13 hospitalsMO$7,368Kentucky: median $875 across 12 hospitalsKY$875West Virginia: median $1,480 across 19 hospitalsWV$1,480Virginia: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $1,859 across 12 hospitalsTN$1,859North Carolina: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $769 across 16 hospitalsOK$769Louisiana: median $4,263 across 12 hospitalsLA$4,263Mississippi: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: median $3,146 across 13 hospitalsAL$3,146Georgia: median $6,698 across 13 hospitalsGA$6,698Hawaii: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $4,025 across 37 hospitalsTX$4,025Florida: median $1,833 across 14 hospitalsFL$1,833
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $3,041. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Idaho ID10$7,480+146%$1,957 – $8,773
Missouri MO13$7,368+142%$2,454 – $15,490
Georgia GA13$6,698+120%$6,698 – $8,582
Pennsylvania PA17$5,831+92%$2,429 – $8,840
California CA68$5,288+74%$1,960 – $9,352
Washington WA23$4,642+53%$688 – $6,333
New Jersey NJ32$4,350+43%$3,818 – $5,419
Louisiana LA12$4,263+40%$2,019 – $5,883
New York NY48$4,081+34%$1,043 – $4,595
Texas TX37$4,025+32%$2,769 – $5,261
Alabama AL13$3,146+3%$863 – $10,704
Minnesota MN23$2,506−18%$948 – $2,982
Tennessee TN12$1,859−39%$744 – $4,216
Wisconsin WI32$1,853−39%$1,775 – $3,677
Florida FL14$1,833−40%$1,441 – $9,894
Ohio OH27$1,833−40%$887 – $23,388
West Virginia WV19$1,480−51%$389 – $4,511
Oregon OR24$1,227−60%$666 – $9,087
Illinois IL25$1,065−65%$713 – $20,283
Iowa IA24$932−69%$932 – $1,172
Indiana IN14$875−71%$513 – $6,014
Kentucky KY12$875−71%$605 – $1,654
Michigan MI39$818−73%$658 – $4,847
Oklahoma OK16$769−75%$769 – $7,284
Arkansas AR9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not 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 $3,041.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care550$3,818$920 – $7,755
Children’s7fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access138$1,227$716 – $3,677
Ownership
For-profit71$5,085$1,035 – $11,185
Government96$1,441$688 – $4,081
Non-profit528$3,041$875 – $6,698
System affiliation
Part of a system560$3,523$908 – $7,368
Independent137$1,492$713 – $4,885

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,432
Median cash price$3,041
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

361 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,794 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,535; most fall between $769 and $6,010.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 361 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
$600$865$1,794$5,288$8,773

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 15× what the cheapest tenth charges ($600 vs $8,773).

Of the 410 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 361 gave a usable cash price; 27 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 22 a list price only.

How complete is this

697 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (18%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 774 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted697
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 — excluded9
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded16
Hospitals that filed this code774

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/Urtroscopy 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, “Ureter scope with treatment of a narrowed ureter (CPT 52344) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-52344-ureter-scope-with-treatment-of-a-narrowed-ureter