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Procedure price report · Endoscopy and endoscopic biopsy of the urinary tract

Biopsy of the urethra

CPT 53200the billing code this page is about

A small sample of tissue is taken from the lining or wall of the urethra for laboratory examination.

Hospitals typically charge $1,553 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 489 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,648. Most fall between $303 and $3,786 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
489
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 489 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
$235$390$1,553$3,178$5,110

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 22× what the cheapest tenth charges ($235 vs $5,110).

How the prices are spread

$164 – $246: 35 hospitals$164$246 – $371: 59 hospitals$371 – $559: 51 hospitals$371$559 – $843: 40 hospitals$843 – $1,269: 23 hospitals$843$1,269 – $1,913: 21 hospitals$1,913 – $2,882: 101 hospitals$1,913$2,882 – $4,342: 64 hospitals$4,342 – $6,542: 39 hospitals$4,342$6,542 – $9,856: 26 hospitals$6,542median $1,553price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (459 of 489 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$164$24635
$246$37159
$371$55951
$559$84340
$843$1,26923
$1,269$1,91321
$1,913$2,882101
$2,882$4,34264
$4,342$6,54239
$6,542$9,85626

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$2,136
Median cash price$1,553
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.73×

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 $1,553.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 5 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: 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 $917 across 23 hospitalsMN$917Illinois: median $395 across 20 hospitalsIL$395Wisconsin: median $1,364 across 30 hospitalsWI$1,364Michigan: median $397 across 17 hospitalsMI$397New York: median $2,424 across 29 hospitalsNY$2,424Massachusetts: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $293 across 15 hospitalsOR$293Nevada: 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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $395 across 19 hospitalsIA$395Indiana: median $922 across 17 hospitalsIN$922Ohio: median $673 across 10 hospitalsOH$673Pennsylvania: median $1,527 across 23 hospitalsPA$1,527New Jersey: median $2,734 across 32 hospitalsNJ$2,734Connecticut: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $4,404 across 47 hospitalsCA$4,404Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $2,403 across 10 hospitalsWV$2,403Virginia: 9 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: 2 hospitals 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: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 6 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: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $235 across 17 hospitalsOK$235Louisiana: median $2,214 across 11 hospitalsLA$2,214Mississippi: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $3,997 across 15 hospitalsGA$3,997Hawaii: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $2,889 across 22 hospitalsTX$2,889Florida: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,553. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA47$4,404+184%$2,220 – $9,856
Georgia GA15$3,997+157%$228 – $3,997
Texas TX22$2,889+86%$2,015 – $3,178
New Jersey NJ32$2,734+76%$2,269 – $5,419
New York NY29$2,424+56%$410 – $2,481
West Virginia WV10$2,403+55%$394 – $2,670
Louisiana LA11$2,214+43%$1,400 – $2,589
Pennsylvania PA23$1,527−2%$92 – $3,833
Wisconsin WI30$1,364−12%$765 – $2,765
Indiana IN17$922−41%$271 – $1,223
Minnesota MN23$917−41%$385 – $2,616
Ohio OH10$673−57%$368 – $832
Michigan MI17$397−74%$273 – $2,874
Iowa IA19$395−75%$395 – $442
Illinois IL20$395−75%$271 – $640
Oregon OR15$293−81%$286 – $537
Oklahoma OK17$235−85%$235 – $2,397
Idaho ID9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not 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
Utah UT1not 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 $1,553.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care400$2,246$299 – $3,997
Children’s5fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access83$563$303 – $1,891
Ownership
For-profit40$1,870$271 – $3,514
Government63$1,185$262 – $2,687
Non-profit385$1,591$320 – $3,833
System affiliation
Part of a system418$1,990$319 – $3,997
Independent71$527$262 – $2,687

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,632
Median cash price$1,553
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

288 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $765 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,499; most fall between $254 and $3,870.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 288 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
$179$271$765$3,200$4,746

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 27× what the cheapest tenth charges ($179 vs $4,746).

Of the 317 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 288 gave a usable cash price; 16 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 13 a list price only.

How complete is this

489 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 541 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted489
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here36
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 — excluded15
Hospitals that filed this code541

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 Endoscopy and endoscopic biopsy of the urinary tract family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as PR Biopsy of 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, “Biopsy of the urethra (CPT 53200) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-53200-biopsy-of-the-urethra