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Procedure price report · Other OR therapeutic procedures, male genital

Cutting of the prostate through the urethra

CPT 52450the billing code this page is about

A scope is passed through the urethra and one or more cuts are made in the prostate to widen the channel and ease urine flow, without removing prostate tissue.

Hospitals typically charge $2,221 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 456 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,553. Most fall between $938 and $4,847 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
456
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 456 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
$735$1,089$2,221$4,449$6,383

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($735 vs $6,383).

How the prices are spread

$494 – $667: 15 hospitals$494$667 – $900: 51 hospitals$900 – $1,215: 75 hospitals$900$1,215 – $1,641: 29 hospitals$1,641 – $2,215: 23 hospitals$1,641$2,215 – $2,991: 43 hospitals$2,991 – $4,038: 40 hospitals$2,991$4,038 – $5,452: 84 hospitals$5,452 – $7,361: 38 hospitals$5,452$7,361 – $9,939: 14 hospitals$7,361median $2,221price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (412 of 456 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$494$66715
$667$90051
$900$1,21575
$1,215$1,64129
$1,641$2,21523
$2,215$2,99143
$2,991$4,03840
$4,038$5,45284
$5,452$7,36138
$7,361$9,93914

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$3,601
Median cash price$2,221
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.62×

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 $2,221.

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: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 8 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: median $2,356 across 14 hospitalsMN$2,356Illinois: median $1,168 across 15 hospitalsIL$1,168Wisconsin: median $2,244 across 30 hospitalsWI$2,244Michigan: median $1,089 across 31 hospitalsMI$1,089New York: median $4,081 across 27 hospitalsNY$4,081Massachusetts: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $1,245 across 14 hospitalsOR$1,245Nevada: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $1,186 across 19 hospitalsIA$1,186Indiana: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $2,023 across 15 hospitalsOH$2,023Pennsylvania: median $1,273 across 22 hospitalsPA$1,273New Jersey: median $4,390 across 30 hospitalsNJ$4,390Connecticut: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $5,986 across 45 hospitalsCA$5,986Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 8 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: 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: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 3 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 $787 across 12 hospitalsOK$787Louisiana: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $3,368 across 26 hospitalsTX$3,368Florida: median $3,464 across 11 hospitalsFL$3,464
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,221. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA45$5,986+170%$1,397 – $5,986
New Jersey NJ30$4,390+98%$3,818 – $5,110
New York NY27$4,081+84%$1,194 – $4,184
Florida FL11$3,464+56%$2,023 – $6,485
Texas TX26$3,368+52%$3,080 – $4,043
Minnesota MN14$2,356+6%$1,401 – $2,356
Wisconsin WI30$2,244+1%$2,221 – $4,366
Ohio OH15$2,023−9%$1,091 – $8,994
Pennsylvania PA22$1,273−43%$308 – $5,831
Oregon OR14$1,245−44%$874 – $1,604
Iowa IA19$1,186−47%$1,186 – $1,503
Illinois IL15$1,168−47%$891 – $2,023
Michigan MI31$1,089−51%$1,089 – $4,847
Oklahoma OK12$787−65%$787 – $787
Louisiana LA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not 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 $2,221.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care365$2,580$891 – $5,339
Children’s5fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access85$1,604$1,089 – $3,080
Ownership
For-profit37$3,523$1,120 – $5,864
Government71$1,543$866 – $4,081
Non-profit347$2,221$951 – $4,847
System affiliation
Part of a system360$2,356$1,089 – $4,941
Independent96$1,245$850 – $4,265

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,787
Median cash price$2,221
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

242 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,642 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,130; most fall between $891 and $4,467.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 242 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
$787$1,056$1,642$4,043$5,986

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($787 vs $5,986).

Of the 263 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 242 gave a usable cash price; 15 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 6 a list price only.

How complete is this

456 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (12%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 499 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted456
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here31
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded3
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded8
Hospitals that filed this code499

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 Other OR therapeutic procedures, male genital family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Transurethral Incision Prostate.

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, “Cutting of the prostate through the urethra (CPT 52450) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-52450-cutting-of-the-prostate-through-the-urethra