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Procedure price report · Procedures on the urethra

Urethra reconstruction, first stage

CPT 53400the billing code this page is about

The first of two planned operations to rebuild the urethra because of a stricture, abnormal pouch, or abnormal opening; this code covers the first stage only.

Hospitals typically charge $3,926 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 324 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $3,847. Most fall between $1,322 and $7,373 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
324
States
43
Filings dated
Jun 2024 – 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 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
$1,172$1,465$3,926$6,471$11,480

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,172 vs $11,480).

How the prices are spread

$815 – $1,070: 12 hospitals$815$1,070 – $1,406: 46 hospitals$1,406 – $1,847: 29 hospitals$1,406$1,847 – $2,427: 27 hospitals$2,427 – $3,189: 9 hospitals$2,427$3,189 – $4,191: 39 hospitals$4,191 – $5,506: 22 hospitals$4,191$5,506 – $7,234: 56 hospitals$7,234 – $9,505: 24 hospitals$7,234$9,505 – $12,489: 29 hospitals$9,505median $3,926price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (293 of 324 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$815$1,07012
$1,070$1,40646
$1,406$1,84729
$1,847$2,42727
$2,427$3,1899
$3,189$4,19139
$4,191$5,50622
$5,506$7,23456
$7,234$9,50524
$9,505$12,48929

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$5,478
Median cash price$3,926
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.72×

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 $3,926.

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: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 4 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: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $1,396 across 11 hospitalsIL$1,396Wisconsin: median $3,926 across 23 hospitalsWI$3,926Michigan: median $1,519 across 16 hospitalsMI$1,519New York: median $6,016 across 25 hospitalsNY$6,016Massachusetts: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMAOregon: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 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 $2,024 across 15 hospitalsIA$2,024Indiana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $3,616 across 11 hospitalsOH$3,616Pennsylvania: median $333 across 18 hospitalsPA$333New Jersey: median $5,627 across 30 hospitalsNJ$5,627Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $11,480 across 25 hospitalsCA$11,480Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 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: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 9 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: 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: 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: 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 $1,322 across 13 hospitalsOK$1,322Louisiana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceGAHawaii: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $7,438 across 21 hospitalsTX$7,438Florida: median $2,114 across 10 hospitalsFL$2,114
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $3,926. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA25$11,480+192%$2,044 – $11,480
Texas TX21$7,438+89%$4,999 – $7,438
New York NY25$6,016+53%$4,251 – $6,364
New Jersey NJ30$5,627+43%$4,881 – $6,471
Wisconsin WI23$3,9260%$3,926 – $4,107
Ohio OH11$3,616−8%$1,696 – $3,674
Florida FL10$2,114−46%$2,114 – $3,674
Iowa IA15$2,024−48%$2,024 – $2,024
Michigan MI16$1,519−61%$1,256 – $7,373
Illinois IL11$1,396−64%$1,172 – $2,024
Oklahoma OK13$1,322−66%$1,322 – $10,364
Pennsylvania PA18$333−92%$261 – $8,595
Virginia VA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN8not 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
Alabama AL5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not 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

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 $3,926.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care270$4,198$1,322 – $7,438
Children’s9fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access44$3,926$1,221 – $4,850
Ownership
For-profit29$3,990$1,172 – $8,220
Government45$2,114$1,424 – $6,016
Non-profit249$3,926$1,322 – $7,438
System affiliation
Part of a system267$3,986$1,322 – $7,373
Independent57$2,290$1,413 – $7,735

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$4,430
Median cash price$3,926
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

193 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,145 and the average of the middle 60% is $3,261; most fall between $1,211 and $7,438.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 193 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
$890$1,322$2,145$5,883$11,480

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($890 vs $11,480).

Of the 202 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 193 gave a usable cash price; 8 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 1 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 343 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 here16
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 — excluded2
Hospitals that filed this code343

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 Urethroplasty 1st Stg Fistula/Diverticulum/Strix.

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, “Urethra reconstruction, first stage (CPT 53400) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-53400-urethra-reconstruction-first-stage