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Procedure price report · Extracorporeal lithotripsy, urinary

Ureter scope with stone breakup and stent placement

CPT 52356the billing code this page is about

A scope is passed through the urethra into the ureter or kidney, a stone is fragmented, and an indwelling stent is left in place to keep the ureter draining.

Hospitals typically charge $5,047 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,017 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $5,426. Most fall between $1,050 and $12,563 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,017
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 1,017 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
$676$1,319$5,047$11,024$16,998

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 25× what the cheapest tenth charges ($676 vs $16,998).

How the prices are spread

$501 – $731: 75 hospitals$501$731 – $1,066: 82 hospitals$1,066 – $1,553: 66 hospitals$1,066$1,553 – $2,265: 59 hospitals$2,265 – $3,301: 49 hospitals$2,265$3,301 – $4,813: 106 hospitals$4,813 – $7,016: 159 hospitals$4,813$7,016 – $10,227: 94 hospitals$10,227 – $14,910: 114 hospitals$10,227$14,910 – $21,735: 118 hospitals$14,910median $5,047price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (922 of 1,017 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$501$73175
$731$1,06682
$1,066$1,55366
$1,553$2,26559
$2,265$3,30149
$3,301$4,813106
$4,813$7,016159
$7,016$10,22794
$10,227$14,910114
$14,910$21,735118

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$5,478
Median cash price$5,047
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.92×

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 $5,047.

Alaska: 6 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: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $1,727 across 21 hospitalsWA$1,727Idaho: median $11,253 across 14 hospitalsID$11,253Montana: 7 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 $3,719 across 32 hospitalsMN$3,719Illinois: median $2,328 across 37 hospitalsIL$2,328Wisconsin: median $2,086 across 41 hospitalsWI$2,086Michigan: median $698 across 43 hospitalsMI$698New York: median $6,016 across 58 hospitalsNY$6,016Massachusetts: median $9,214 across 22 hospitalsMA$9,214Oregon: median $1,382 across 19 hospitalsOR$1,382Nevada: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 4 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 $1,163 across 37 hospitalsIA$1,163Indiana: median $6,436 across 28 hospitalsIN$6,436Ohio: median $15,200 across 57 hospitalsOH$15,200Pennsylvania: median $6,096 across 31 hospitalsPA$6,096New Jersey: median $5,632 across 37 hospitalsNJ$5,632Connecticut: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $12,106 across 67 hospitalsCA$12,106Utah: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $4,269 across 19 hospitalsCO$4,269Nebraska: median $1,242 across 19 hospitalsNE$1,242Missouri: median $8,975 across 24 hospitalsMO$8,975Kentucky: median $1,630 across 15 hospitalsKY$1,630West Virginia: median $4,107 across 23 hospitalsWV$4,107Virginia: median $12,881 across 18 hospitalsVA$12,881Maryland: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $6,580 across 11 hospitalsAZ$6,580New Mexico: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $5,051 across 13 hospitalsKS$5,051Arkansas: median $2,755 across 14 hospitalsAR$2,755Tennessee: median $5,194 across 19 hospitalsTN$5,194North Carolina: median $3,680 across 11 hospitalsNC$3,680South Carolina: median $10,618 across 11 hospitalsSC$10,618Oklahoma: median $4,917 across 22 hospitalsOK$4,917Louisiana: median $4,720 across 21 hospitalsLA$4,720Mississippi: median $4,079 across 15 hospitalsMS$4,079Alabama: median $5,116 across 14 hospitalsAL$5,116Georgia: median $4,793 across 32 hospitalsGA$4,793Hawaii: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $5,359 across 63 hospitalsTX$5,359Florida: median $13,434 across 23 hospitalsFL$13,434
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $5,047. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Ohio OH57$15,200+201%$4,726 – $18,408
Florida FL23$13,434+166%$7,937 – $14,986
Virginia VA18$12,881+155%$3,565 – $21,309
California CA67$12,106+140%$2,457 – $16,828
Idaho ID14$11,253+123%$5,390 – $12,489
South Carolina SC11$10,618+110%$6,326 – $18,413
Massachusetts MA22$9,214+83%$1,854 – $15,357
Missouri MO24$8,975+78%$2,753 – $16,998
Arizona AZ11$6,580+30%$631 – $29,829
Indiana IN28$6,436+28%$1,120 – $17,180
Pennsylvania PA31$6,096+21%$312 – $10,399
New York NY58$6,016+19%$1,065 – $21,735
New Jersey NJ37$5,632+12%$4,627 – $6,784
Texas TX63$5,359+6%$4,105 – $10,102
Tennessee TN19$5,194+3%$454 – $6,704
Alabama AL14$5,116+1%$3,263 – $13,106
Kansas KS13$5,0510%$1,739 – $8,373
Oklahoma OK22$4,917−3%$867 – $14,369
Georgia GA32$4,793−5%$1,200 – $5,326
Louisiana LA21$4,720−6%$3,381 – $6,646
Colorado CO19$4,269−15%$969 – $7,380
West Virginia WV23$4,107−19%$438 – $7,668
Mississippi MS15$4,079−19%$709 – $9,664
Minnesota MN32$3,719−26%$1,011 – $4,885
North Carolina NC11$3,680−27%$1,672 – $20,035
Arkansas AR14$2,755−45%$914 – $11,180
Illinois IL37$2,328−54%$1,120 – $16,330
Wisconsin WI41$2,086−59%$1,988 – $6,546
Washington WA21$1,727−66%$834 – $10,304
Kentucky KY15$1,630−68%$676 – $5,586
Oregon OR19$1,382−73%$958 – $7,066
Nebraska NE19$1,242−75%$643 – $4,501
Iowa IA37$1,163−77%$1,050 – $10,422
Michigan MI43$698−86%$506 – $7,373
Maine ME9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT2not 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 $5,047.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care803$5,977$1,394 – $14,081
Children’s11fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access200$1,382$709 – $5,913
Ownership
For-profit128$7,408$4,432 – $14,112
Government163$4,107$825 – $7,843
Non-profit723$4,885$1,050 – $13,282
System affiliation
Part of a system800$5,607$1,159 – $13,926
Independent217$2,810$800 – $8,373

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$8,112
Median cash price$5,047
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

504 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $4,105 and the average of the middle 60% is $4,118; most fall between $867 and $10,422.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 504 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
$568$1,042$4,105$8,966$15,200

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 27× what the cheapest tenth charges ($568 vs $15,200).

Of the 556 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 504 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 26 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,017 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (26%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,117 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,017
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 — excluded28
Hospitals that filed this code1,117

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 Extracorporeal lithotripsy, urinary family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Cysto/Uretero W/Lithotripsy &Indwell Stent Insrt.

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 breakup and stent placement (CPT 52356) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-52356-ureter-scope-with-stone-breakup-and-stent-placement