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Procedure price report · Genitourinary incontinence procedures

Sling placement for urinary leakage in men

CPT 53440the billing code this page is about

Surgery that places a supportive sling of tissue or synthetic material under the male urethra to reduce urine leakage.

Hospitals typically charge $4,216 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 390 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $6,753. Most fall between $1,580 and $17,070 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
390
States
44
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 390 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
$1,245$1,820$4,216$15,375$22,618

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 18× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,245 vs $22,618).

How the prices are spread

$937 – $1,357: 33 hospitals$937$1,357 – $1,965: 69 hospitals$1,965 – $2,846: 14 hospitals$1,965$2,846 – $4,122: 53 hospitals$4,122 – $5,971: 33 hospitals$4,122$5,971 – $8,649: 21 hospitals$8,649 – $12,527: 25 hospitals$8,649$12,527 – $18,145: 52 hospitals$18,145 – $26,282: 40 hospitals$18,145$26,282 – $38,067: 12 hospitals$26,282median $4,216price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (352 of 390 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$937$1,35733
$1,357$1,96569
$1,965$2,84614
$2,846$4,12253
$4,122$5,97133
$5,971$8,64921
$8,649$12,52725
$12,527$18,14552
$18,145$26,28240
$26,282$38,06712

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$13,479
Median cash price$4,216
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.31×

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 $4,216.

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: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $4,216 across 12 hospitalsMN$4,216Illinois: median $1,820 across 14 hospitalsIL$1,820Wisconsin: median $3,745 across 24 hospitalsWI$3,745Michigan: median $2,945 across 32 hospitalsMI$2,945New York: median $13,479 across 30 hospitalsNY$13,479Massachusetts: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 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: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $1,901 across 17 hospitalsIA$1,901Indiana: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $3,474 across 17 hospitalsOH$3,474Pennsylvania: median $19,034 across 11 hospitalsPA$19,034New Jersey: median $14,199 across 31 hospitalsNJ$14,199Connecticut: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $19,768 across 39 hospitalsCA$19,768Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 6 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: 4 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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 7 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: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $1,245 across 13 hospitalsOK$1,245Louisiana: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceGAHawaii: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $8,465 across 20 hospitalsTX$8,465Florida: median $13,042 across 10 hospitalsFL$13,042
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $4,216. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA39$19,768+369%$5,808 – $19,768
Pennsylvania PA11$19,034+351%$10,842 – $24,482
New Jersey NJ31$14,199+237%$5,110 – $15,806
New York NY30$13,479+220%$1,793 – $15,375
Florida FL10$13,042+209%$3,474 – $47,840
Texas TX20$8,465+101%$6,548 – $9,675
Minnesota MN12$4,2160%$3,593 – $4,216
Wisconsin WI24$3,745−11%$3,745 – $3,833
Ohio OH17$3,474−18%$2,771 – $43,699
Michigan MI32$2,945−30%$1,382 – $18,141
Iowa IA17$1,901−55%$1,901 – $2,059
Illinois IL14$1,820−57%$1,428 – $30,250
Oklahoma OK13$1,245−70%$1,245 – $17,819
Arkansas AR8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not 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
Massachusetts MA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not 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 $4,216.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care326$5,808$1,644 – $18,866
Children’s6fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access56$3,745$1,530 – $5,618
Ownership
For-profit34$9,675$1,792 – $20,774
Government44$2,900$1,331 – $15,375
Non-profit310$4,216$1,706 – $17,070
System affiliation
Part of a system326$5,618$1,820 – $18,141
Independent64$1,879$1,232 – $14,414

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$5,344
Median cash price$4,216
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

199 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,900 and the average of the middle 60% is $4,166; most fall between $1,382 and $11,935.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 199 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
$1,245$1,546$2,900$9,675$19,768

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 16× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,245 vs $19,768).

Of the 227 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 199 gave a usable cash price; 23 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 5 a list price only.

How complete is this

390 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (10%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 436 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted390
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here40
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded2
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded3
Hospitals that filed this code436

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 Genitourinary incontinence procedures family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Sling Opration Corrj Male Urinary Incontinence.

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.

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Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Sling placement for urinary leakage in men (CPT 53440) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-53440-sling-placement-for-urinary-leakage-in-men