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Procedure price report · Procedures on the urethra

Cutting open the urethra behind the scrotum

CPT 53010the billing code this page is about

An incision is made into the urethra in the perineal section, between the scrotum and the anus, done on its own rather than as part of a larger operation.

Hospitals typically charge $1,392 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 326 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,323. Most fall between $492 and $6,016 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
326
States
47
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 326 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
$326$538$1,392$5,627$10,343

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 32× what the cheapest tenth charges ($326 vs $10,343).

How the prices are spread

$280 – $406: 24 hospitals$280$406 – $589: 63 hospitals$589 – $855: 31 hospitals$589$855 – $1,240: 24 hospitals$1,240 – $1,799: 27 hospitals$1,240$1,799 – $2,609: 16 hospitals$2,609 – $3,785: 3 hospitals$2,609$3,785 – $5,491: 36 hospitals$5,491 – $7,966: 41 hospitals$5,491$7,966 – $11,557: 31 hospitals$7,966median $1,392price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (296 of 326 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$280$40624
$406$58963
$589$85531
$855$1,24024
$1,240$1,79927
$1,799$2,60916
$2,609$3,7853
$3,785$5,49136
$5,491$7,96641
$7,966$11,55731

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$5,478
Median cash price$1,392
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.25×

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 $1,392.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $524 across 13 hospitalsIL$524Wisconsin: median $1,524 across 26 hospitalsWI$1,524Michigan: median $560 across 14 hospitalsMI$560New York: median $6,016 across 24 hospitalsNY$6,016Massachusetts: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $551 across 12 hospitalsOR$551Nevada: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $740 across 16 hospitalsIA$740Indiana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $1,157 across 10 hospitalsOH$1,157Pennsylvania: median $325 across 19 hospitalsPA$325New Jersey: median $5,627 across 22 hospitalsNJ$5,627Connecticut: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $10,343 across 27 hospitalsCA$10,343Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 2 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: 9 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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 2 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: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $492 across 12 hospitalsOK$492Louisiana: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceGAHawaii: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $5,284 across 22 hospitalsTX$5,284Florida: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,392. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA27$10,343+643%$937 – $10,343
New York NY24$6,016+332%$886 – $6,016
New Jersey NJ22$5,627+304%$4,881 – $5,987
Texas TX22$5,284+280%$4,414 – $5,284
Wisconsin WI26$1,524+9%$1,392 – $2,600
Ohio OH10$1,157−17%$718 – $1,345
Iowa IA16$740−47%$740 – $740
Michigan MI14$560−60%$456 – $7,373
Oregon OR12$551−60%$551 – $1,007
Illinois IL13$524−62%$520 – $877
Oklahoma OK12$492−65%$492 – $492
Pennsylvania PA19$325−77%$117 – $8,595
Idaho ID9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not 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 $1,392.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care262$1,524$524 – $6,693
Children’s5fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access58$1,007$442 – $2,600
Ownership
For-profit31$2,237$524 – $5,284
Government44$778$520 – $6,016
Non-profit250$1,392$492 – $6,364
System affiliation
Part of a system277$1,392$492 – $6,016
Independent49$778$520 – $5,103

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,494
Median cash price$1,392
Cash as a share of list, median hospital64%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 36%. 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

191 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $794 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,580; most fall between $492 and $5,537.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 191 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
$311$524$794$5,284$10,343

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 33× what the cheapest tenth charges ($311 vs $10,343).

Of the 202 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 191 gave a usable cash price; 9 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 2 a list price only.

How complete is this

326 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 345 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted326
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here15
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded3
Hospitals that filed this code345

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 Procedures on the urethra family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Urethrotomy/Urethrostomy Xt Spx Perineal Urethra.

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, “Cutting open the urethra behind the scrotum (CPT 53010) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-53010-cutting-open-the-urethra-behind-the-scrotum