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Procedure price report · Procedures on the urethra

Removal or burning off of a urethral caruncle

CPT 53265the billing code this page is about

Surgical removal or electrical destruction of a caruncle, a small fleshy growth at the opening of the urethra.

Hospitals typically charge $1,270 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 454 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,662. Most fall between $352 and $4,228 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
454
States
47
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 454 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
$285$422$1,270$3,427$6,125

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 22× what the cheapest tenth charges ($285 vs $6,125).

How the prices are spread

$200 – $286: 27 hospitals$200$286 – $410: 61 hospitals$410 – $588: 63 hospitals$410$588 – $844: 25 hospitals$844 – $1,210: 27 hospitals$844$1,210 – $1,735: 25 hospitals$1,735 – $2,488: 52 hospitals$1,735$2,488 – $3,567: 46 hospitals$3,567 – $5,116: 47 hospitals$3,567$5,116 – $7,336: 43 hospitals$5,116median $1,270price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (416 of 454 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$200$28627
$286$41061
$410$58863
$588$84425
$844$1,21027
$1,210$1,73525
$1,735$2,48852
$2,488$3,56746
$3,567$5,11647
$5,116$7,33643

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$2,136
Median cash price$1,270
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.59×

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 $1,270.

Alaska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $534 across 10 hospitalsWA$534Idaho: 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: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $832 across 15 hospitalsMN$832Illinois: median $561 across 16 hospitalsIL$561Wisconsin: median $1,038 across 27 hospitalsWI$1,038Michigan: median $356 across 20 hospitalsMI$356New York: median $2,424 across 33 hospitalsNY$2,424Massachusetts: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $422 across 16 hospitalsOR$422Nevada: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 3 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 $559 across 17 hospitalsIA$559Indiana: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $984 across 15 hospitalsOH$984Pennsylvania: median $452 across 22 hospitalsPA$452New Jersey: median $3,786 across 25 hospitalsNJ$3,786Connecticut: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $4,555 across 46 hospitalsCA$4,555Utah: 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: 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: median $312 across 13 hospitalsWV$312Virginia: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 7 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 $313 across 12 hospitalsOK$313Louisiana: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $3,427 across 21 hospitalsTX$3,427Florida: median $4,202 across 10 hospitalsFL$4,202
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,270. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA46$4,555+259%$1,270 – $7,336
Florida FL10$4,202+231%$824 – $5,011
New Jersey NJ25$3,786+198%$2,267 – $5,339
Texas TX21$3,427+170%$3,427 – $3,427
New York NY33$2,424+91%$323 – $2,481
Wisconsin WI27$1,038−18%$994 – $2,347
Ohio OH15$984−23%$432 – $6,125
Minnesota MN15$832−35%$389 – $1,546
Illinois IL16$561−56%$352 – $1,178
Iowa IA17$559−56%$559 – $559
Washington WA10$534−58%$326 – $1,526
Pennsylvania PA22$452−64%$123 – $3,463
Oregon OR16$422−67%$422 – $779
Michigan MI20$356−72%$285 – $2,874
Oklahoma OK12$313−75%$313 – $313
West Virginia WV13$312−75%$195 – $2,103
Georgia GA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not 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 $1,270.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care347$2,126$377 – $4,555
Children’s4fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access103$621$339 – $2,214
Ownership
For-profit44$2,500$406 – $5,128
Government69$521$315 – $2,424
Non-profit341$1,387$387 – $4,555
System affiliation
Part of a system364$1,660$389 – $4,555
Independent90$550$336 – $2,705

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,019
Median cash price$1,270
Cash as a share of list, median hospital65%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 35%. 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

268 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $994 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,448; most fall between $352 and $3,896.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 268 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
$313$404$994$3,427$5,304

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 17× what the cheapest tenth charges ($313 vs $5,304).

Of the 294 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 268 gave a usable cash price; 20 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

454 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (11%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 493 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted454
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here30
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded2
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded2
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded5
Hospitals that filed this code493

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 Procedures on the urethra family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Exc/Fulguration Urethral Caruncle.

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, “Removal or burning off of a urethral caruncle (CPT 53265) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-53265-removal-or-burning-off-of-a-urethral-caruncle