HRHospitalRates.comCompare prices

Procedure price report · Other OR therapeutic procedures, male genital

Drainage of a prostate abscess through the urethra

CPT 52700the billing code this page is about

A scope is passed through the urethra and a pocket of pus in the prostate is opened and drained. The hospital's wording says cyst, but this code covers an abscess.

Hospitals typically charge $2,174 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 324 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,605. Most fall between $748 and $5,721 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
324
States
42
Filings dated
Mar 2023 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 23, 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 324 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
$624$814$2,174$4,847$8,773

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 14× what the cheapest tenth charges ($624 vs $8,773).

How the prices are spread

$445 – $616: 16 hospitals$445$616 – $853: 57 hospitals$853 – $1,180: 40 hospitals$853$1,180 – $1,634: 14 hospitals$1,634 – $2,262: 29 hospitals$1,634$2,262 – $3,132: 7 hospitals$3,132 – $4,336: 51 hospitals$3,132$4,336 – $6,004: 35 hospitals$6,004 – $8,312: 23 hospitals$6,004$8,312 – $11,508: 34 hospitals$8,312median $2,174price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (306 of 324 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$445$61616
$616$85357
$853$1,18040
$1,180$1,63414
$1,634$2,26229
$2,262$3,1327
$3,132$4,33651
$4,336$6,00435
$6,004$8,31223
$8,312$11,50834

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$3,601
Median cash price$2,174
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.60×

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 $2,174.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 3 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 $1,015 across 12 hospitalsIL$1,015Wisconsin: median $2,174 across 13 hospitalsWI$2,174Michigan: median $1,730 across 17 hospitalsMI$1,730New York: median $4,081 across 24 hospitalsNY$4,081Massachusetts: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMAOregon: median $1,285 across 11 hospitalsOR$1,285Nevada: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $1,113 across 16 hospitalsIA$1,113Indiana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $1,947 across 10 hospitalsOH$1,947Pennsylvania: median $287 across 18 hospitalsPA$287New Jersey: median $4,350 across 25 hospitalsNJ$4,350Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $11,508 across 39 hospitalsCA$11,508Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 3 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: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 9 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 $734 across 14 hospitalsOK$734Louisiana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceGAHawaii: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $3,839 across 22 hospitalsTX$3,839Florida: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,174. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA39$11,508+429%$6,297 – $11,508
New Jersey NJ25$4,350+100%$3,818 – $5,339
New York NY24$4,081+88%$1,125 – $4,081
Texas TX22$3,839+77%$3,839 – $3,891
Wisconsin WI13$2,1740%$2,174 – $2,174
Ohio OH10$1,947−10%$724 – $2,001
Michigan MI17$1,730−20%$682 – $4,847
Oregon OR11$1,285−41%$813 – $1,496
Iowa IA16$1,113−49%$1,113 – $1,113
Illinois IL12$1,015−53%$815 – $1,114
Oklahoma OK14$734−66%$734 – $6,144
Pennsylvania PA18$287−87%$121 – $5,831
North Carolina NC9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO2not 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
New Mexico NM1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY1not 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 $2,174.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care273$3,318$734 – $6,144
Children’s2fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access48$1,285$764 – $2,909
Ownership
For-profit27$2,174$748 – $5,804
Government46$997$707 – $4,081
Non-profit250$2,174$813 – $5,741
System affiliation
Part of a system269$2,580$777 – $6,297
Independent55$940$724 – $3,710

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,870
Median cash price$2,174
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

197 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,289 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,384; most fall between $734 and $6,297.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 197 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
$472$764$1,289$5,572$11,508

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 24× what the cheapest tenth charges ($472 vs $11,508).

Of the 214 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 197 gave a usable cash price; 13 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 4 a list price only.

How complete is this

324 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (8%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 355 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted324
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here24
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 — excluded5
Hospitals that filed this code355

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 23, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 23, 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 Trurl Drainage Prostatic Abscess.

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.

Download this page’s figures: JSON · CSV. Aggregates only — the per-hospital prices are on the compare tool.

Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Drainage of a prostate abscess through the urethra (CPT 52700) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-52700-drainage-of-a-prostate-abscess-through-the-urethra