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Procedure price report · Procedures on the urethra

Enlarging the urinary opening in an infant

CPT 53025the billing code this page is about

The opening at the tip of the urethra is cut to widen it in an infant.

Hospitals typically charge $455 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 300 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,389. Most fall between $158 and $3,864 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
300
States
40
Filings dated
Dec 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 300 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
$113$171$455$3,016$5,304

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 47× what the cheapest tenth charges ($113 vs $5,304).

How the prices are spread

$68 – $107: 9 hospitals$68$107 – $168: 40 hospitals$168 – $263: 40 hospitals$168$263 – $412: 43 hospitals$412 – $646: 9 hospitals$412$646 – $1,012: 8 hospitals$1,012 – $1,587: 3 hospitals$1,012$1,587 – $2,488: 44 hospitals$2,488 – $3,900: 35 hospitals$2,488$3,900 – $6,115: 52 hospitals$3,900median $455price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (283 of 300 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$68$1079
$107$16840
$168$26340
$263$41243
$412$6469
$646$1,0128
$1,012$1,5873
$1,587$2,48844
$2,488$3,90035
$3,900$6,11552

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$2,136
Median cash price$455
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.21×

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 $455.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 6 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: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $228 across 13 hospitalsIL$228Wisconsin: median $337 across 30 hospitalsWI$337Michigan: median $294 across 14 hospitalsMI$294New York: median $2,424 across 21 hospitalsNY$2,424Massachusetts: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $171 across 14 hospitalsIA$171Indiana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $294 across 11 hospitalsOH$294Pennsylvania: median $2,402 across 19 hospitalsPA$2,402New Jersey: median $3,786 across 22 hospitalsNJ$3,786Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $4,315 across 39 hospitalsCA$4,315Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVAMaryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 2 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 $113 across 12 hospitalsOK$113Louisiana: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMSAlabama: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceGAHawaii: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceHITexas: median $2,485 across 22 hospitalsTX$2,485Florida: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $455. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA39$4,315+848%$3,864 – $6,115
New Jersey NJ22$3,786+731%$2,267 – $5,419
Texas TX22$2,485+446%$2,485 – $2,567
New York NY21$2,424+432%$200 – $2,424
Pennsylvania PA19$2,402+427%$43 – $3,463
Wisconsin WI30$337−26%$189 – $348
Michigan MI14$294−35%$145 – $2,874
Ohio OH11$294−35%$179 – $1,579
Illinois IL13$228−50%$171 – $453
Iowa IA14$171−62%$171 – $171
Oklahoma OK12$113−75%$113 – $113
Louisiana LA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO3not 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
Washington WA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not 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 $455.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care243$1,549$133 – $3,864
Children’s19fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access38$337$175 – $348
Ownership
For-profit25$656$228 – $3,764
Government36$314$145 – $2,424
Non-profit239$496$158 – $3,986
System affiliation
Part of a system259$736$171 – $3,986
Independent41$200$122 – $2,246

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$518
Median cash price$455
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

203 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $337 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,189; most fall between $126 and $3,864.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 203 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
$79$171$337$3,864$6,115

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 78× what the cheapest tenth charges ($79 vs $6,115).

Of the 221 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 203 gave a usable cash price; 14 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

300 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 325 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted300
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here20
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 — excluded4
Hospitals that filed this code325

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 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 PR Incision of Urethral Meatus,Infant.

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, “Enlarging the urinary opening in an infant (CPT 53025) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-53025-enlarging-the-urinary-opening-in-an-infant