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

Ureter scope with stone removal

CPT 52352the billing code this page is about

A scope is passed through the urethra up into the ureter or kidney and a stone is grasped and removed or repositioned.

Hospitals typically charge $3,408 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 866 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $3,422. Most fall between $893 and $8,038 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
866
States
50
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 866 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
$627$955$3,408$6,498$12,421

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 20× what the cheapest tenth charges ($627 vs $12,421).

How the prices are spread

$450 – $647: 53 hospitals$450$647 – $930: 97 hospitals$930 – $1,336: 82 hospitals$930$1,336 – $1,919: 64 hospitals$1,919 – $2,758: 61 hospitals$1,919$2,758 – $3,962: 70 hospitals$3,962 – $5,693: 146 hospitals$3,962$5,693 – $8,179: 81 hospitals$8,179 – $11,751: 62 hospitals$8,179$11,751 – $16,884: 64 hospitals$11,751median $3,408price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (780 of 866 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$450$64753
$647$93097
$930$1,33682
$1,336$1,91964
$1,919$2,75861
$2,758$3,96270
$3,962$5,693146
$5,693$8,17981
$8,179$11,75162
$11,751$16,88464

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$3,601
Median cash price$3,408
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.95×

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 $3,408.

Alaska: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $876 across 16 hospitalsWA$876Idaho: median $7,608 across 14 hospitalsID$7,608Montana: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $2,442 across 38 hospitalsMN$2,442Illinois: median $1,531 across 37 hospitalsIL$1,531Wisconsin: median $1,808 across 44 hospitalsWI$1,808Michigan: median $2,233 across 41 hospitalsMI$2,233New York: median $4,081 across 55 hospitalsNY$4,081Massachusetts: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $1,071 across 18 hospitalsOR$1,071Nevada: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 3 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 $896 across 33 hospitalsIA$896Indiana: median $3,390 across 24 hospitalsIN$3,390Ohio: median $10,312 across 50 hospitalsOH$10,312Pennsylvania: median $5,831 across 23 hospitalsPA$5,831New Jersey: median $4,391 across 35 hospitalsNJ$4,391Connecticut: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $6,594 across 56 hospitalsCA$6,594Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $2,642 across 10 hospitalsCO$2,642Nebraska: median $1,104 across 12 hospitalsNE$1,104Missouri: median $3,513 across 26 hospitalsMO$3,513Kentucky: median $936 across 10 hospitalsKY$936West Virginia: median $1,386 across 22 hospitalsWV$1,386Virginia: median $4,633 across 16 hospitalsVA$4,633Maryland: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $2,132 across 10 hospitalsAZ$2,132New Mexico: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $1,761 across 10 hospitalsKS$1,761Arkansas: median $1,423 across 13 hospitalsAR$1,423Tennessee: median $3,258 across 15 hospitalsTN$3,258North Carolina: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: median $6,144 across 11 hospitalsSC$6,144Oklahoma: median $739 across 18 hospitalsOK$739Louisiana: median $4,596 across 14 hospitalsLA$4,596Mississippi: median $2,679 across 14 hospitalsMS$2,679Alabama: median $3,408 across 15 hospitalsAL$3,408Georgia: median $4,724 across 19 hospitalsGA$4,724Hawaii: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $4,884 across 38 hospitalsTX$4,884Florida: median $3,462 across 15 hospitalsFL$3,462
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $3,408. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Ohio OH50$10,312+203%$1,755 – $12,946
Idaho ID14$7,608+123%$1,626 – $8,773
California CA56$6,594+93%$1,055 – $12,421
South Carolina SC11$6,144+80%$5,447 – $11,429
Pennsylvania PA23$5,831+71%$2,553 – $9,135
Texas TX38$4,884+43%$2,653 – $10,298
Georgia GA19$4,724+39%$332 – $4,724
Virginia VA16$4,633+36%$2,357 – $9,955
Louisiana LA14$4,596+35%$2,870 – $7,382
New Jersey NJ35$4,391+29%$3,818 – $5,339
New York NY55$4,081+20%$893 – $4,595
Missouri MO26$3,513+3%$829 – $9,210
Florida FL15$3,462+2%$1,441 – $12,890
Alabama AL15$3,4080%$1,121 – $8,524
Indiana IN24$3,390−1%$936 – $12,083
Tennessee TN15$3,258−4%$371 – $5,497
Mississippi MS14$2,679−21%$1,531 – $10,892
Colorado CO10$2,642−22%$712 – $5,030
Minnesota MN38$2,442−28%$909 – $4,113
Michigan MI41$2,233−34%$669 – $4,847
Arizona AZ10$2,132−37%$389 – $12,011
Wisconsin WI44$1,808−47%$936 – $4,503
Kansas KS10$1,761−48%$554 – $4,743
Illinois IL37$1,531−55%$936 – $19,602
Arkansas AR13$1,423−58%$1,247 – $5,604
West Virginia WV22$1,386−59%$372 – $4,495
Nebraska NE12$1,104−68%$795 – $2,707
Oregon OR18$1,071−69%$639 – $7,836
Kentucky KY10$936−73%$371 – $3,459
Iowa IA33$896−74%$896 – $6,014
Washington WA16$876−74%$662 – $5,572
Oklahoma OK18$739−78%$739 – $8,108
Maine ME9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not 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 $3,408.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care678$4,082$936 – $9,854
Children’s12fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access174$1,139$669 – $3,189
Ownership
For-profit103$5,085$1,626 – $10,319
Government130$1,384$694 – $4,081
Non-profit631$3,601$868 – $8,108
System affiliation
Part of a system670$3,986$936 – $8,773
Independent196$1,648$709 – $5,107

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,960
Median cash price$3,408
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

405 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,975 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,417; most fall between $709 and $6,084.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 405 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
$507$815$1,975$4,892$9,138

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 18× what the cheapest tenth charges ($507 vs $9,138).

Of the 462 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 405 gave a usable cash price; 30 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 27 a list price only.

How complete is this

866 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (22%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 962 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted866
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here62
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded10
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded24
Hospitals that filed this code962

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/Ureteroscopy W/Rmvl/Manj Stones.

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 stone removal (CPT 52352) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-52352-ureter-scope-with-stone-removal