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

Ureter scope treatment of kidney-ureter junction narrowing

CPT 52345the billing code this page is about

A telescope is passed up the ureter to reach and open a narrowed junction between the kidney and ureter by stretching, cutting, or laser.

Hospitals typically charge $1,979 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 402 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,729. Most fall between $768 and $5,447 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
402
States
46
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 402 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
$609$857$1,979$4,978$7,221

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($609 vs $7,221).

How the prices are spread

$476 – $647: 25 hospitals$476$647 – $881: 60 hospitals$881 – $1,199: 42 hospitals$881$1,199 – $1,632: 21 hospitals$1,632 – $2,220: 37 hospitals$1,632$2,220 – $3,021: 7 hospitals$3,021 – $4,111: 51 hospitals$3,021$4,111 – $5,595: 62 hospitals$5,595 – $7,613: 39 hospitals$5,595$7,613 – $10,360: 18 hospitals$7,613median $1,979price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (362 of 402 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$476$64725
$647$88160
$881$1,19942
$1,199$1,63221
$1,632$2,22037
$2,220$3,0217
$3,021$4,11151
$4,111$5,59562
$5,595$7,61339
$7,613$10,36018

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$3,601
Median cash price$1,979
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.55×

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 $1,979.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 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: 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 $857 across 14 hospitalsIL$857Wisconsin: median $1,922 across 26 hospitalsWI$1,922Michigan: median $929 across 20 hospitalsMI$929New York: median $4,081 across 30 hospitalsNY$4,081Massachusetts: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $966 across 13 hospitalsOR$966Nevada: 4 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 $997 across 17 hospitalsIA$997Indiana: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $1,963 across 11 hospitalsOH$1,963Pennsylvania: median $5,356 across 12 hospitalsPA$5,356New Jersey: median $4,627 across 32 hospitalsNJ$4,627Connecticut: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $4,978 across 40 hospitalsCA$4,978Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 1 hospital 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: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 4 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: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 1 hospital 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: 4 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 $648 across 13 hospitalsOK$648Louisiana: median $2,738 across 11 hospitalsLA$2,738Mississippi: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $3,799 across 23 hospitalsTX$3,799Florida: median $3,462 across 11 hospitalsFL$3,462
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,979. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Pennsylvania PA12$5,356+171%$4,044 – $7,055
California CA40$4,978+152%$4,978 – $6,594
New Jersey NJ32$4,627+134%$3,818 – $7,221
New York NY30$4,081+106%$754 – $4,184
Texas TX23$3,799+92%$3,523 – $3,891
Florida FL11$3,462+75%$1,963 – $11,691
Louisiana LA11$2,738+38%$1,439 – $4,474
Ohio OH11$1,963−1%$1,027 – $1,963
Wisconsin WI26$1,922−3%$1,892 – $4,569
Iowa IA17$997−50%$997 – $997
Oregon OR13$966−51%$710 – $1,311
Michigan MI20$929−53%$607 – $4,847
Illinois IL14$857−57%$718 – $1,997
Oklahoma OK13$648−67%$648 – $7,032
Idaho ID9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not 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 $1,979.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care325$3,799$773 – $6,311
Children’s8fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access68$1,197$705 – $1,979
Ownership
For-profit41$4,250$857 – $7,511
Government59$1,361$692 – $4,326
Non-profit301$2,068$760 – $5,339
System affiliation
Part of a system332$3,232$857 – $5,762
Independent70$1,076$666 – $4,250

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,449
Median cash price$1,979
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

227 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,427 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,233; most fall between $710 and $5,356.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 227 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
$552$773$1,427$4,978$6,698

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($552 vs $6,698).

Of the 264 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 227 gave a usable cash price; 26 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 11 a list price only.

How complete is this

402 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 457 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted402
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here46
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 — excluded7
Hospitals that filed this code457

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 Urtropel Junct Strix.

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 treatment of kidney-ureter junction narrowing (CPT 52345) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-52345-ureter-scope-treatment-of-kidney-ureter-junction-narrowing