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Procedure price report · Procedures on the urethra

Surgical closure of a urethral opening or fistula in men

CPT 53520the billing code this page is about

Repair that closes a surgically created urethral opening or an abnormal channel between the male urethra and the skin.

Hospitals typically charge $2,856 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 284 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $3,870. Most fall between $950 and $7,394 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
284
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 284 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
$810$1,040$2,856$6,783$12,489

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 15× what the cheapest tenth charges ($810 vs $12,489).

How the prices are spread

$598 – $810: 13 hospitals$598$810 – $1,098: 53 hospitals$1,098 – $1,488: 24 hospitals$1,098$1,488 – $2,017: 10 hospitals$2,017 – $2,734: 23 hospitals$2,017$2,734 – $3,705: 16 hospitals$3,705 – $5,022: 13 hospitals$3,705$5,022 – $6,807: 49 hospitals$6,807 – $9,226: 30 hospitals$6,807$9,226 – $12,505: 32 hospitals$9,226median $2,856price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (263 of 284 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$598$81013
$810$1,09853
$1,098$1,48824
$1,488$2,01710
$2,017$2,73423
$2,734$3,70516
$3,705$5,02213
$5,022$6,80749
$6,807$9,22630
$9,226$12,50532

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$5,478
Median cash price$2,856
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.52×

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 $2,856.

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: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 8 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 $921 across 12 hospitalsIL$921Wisconsin: median $2,727 across 20 hospitalsWI$2,727Michigan: median $2,727 across 16 hospitalsMI$2,727New York: median $6,016 across 20 hospitalsNY$6,016Massachusetts: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 2 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 $1,405 across 15 hospitalsIA$1,405Indiana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: median $7,735 across 11 hospitalsPA$7,735New Jersey: median $5,632 across 28 hospitalsNJ$5,632Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $12,505 across 25 hospitalsCA$12,505Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 2 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: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 1 hospital 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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 3 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: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $927 across 12 hospitalsOK$927Louisiana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 4 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 $7,394 across 20 hospitalsTX$7,394Florida: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,856. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA25$12,505+338%$12,505 – $12,505
Pennsylvania PA11$7,735+171%$3,338 – $9,579
Texas TX20$7,394+159%$4,414 – $7,394
New York NY20$6,016+111%$1,694 – $6,016
New Jersey NJ28$5,632+97%$5,110 – $6,783
Michigan MI16$2,727−4%$950 – $7,373
Wisconsin WI20$2,727−4%$2,727 – $2,856
Iowa IA15$1,405−51%$1,405 – $1,405
Oklahoma OK12$927−68%$927 – $927
Illinois IL12$921−68%$810 – $2,510
Florida FL8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA1not 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 $2,856.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care237$4,395$1,000 – $7,394
Children’s8fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access38$2,727$824 – $3,515
Ownership
For-profit29$3,000$810 – $7,394
Government37$1,828$1,000 – $6,016
Non-profit217$2,856$950 – $7,394
System affiliation
Part of a system239$3,786$950 – $7,394
Independent45$1,186$937 – $5,103

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,137
Median cash price$2,856
Cash as a share of list, median hospital61%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 39%. 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

168 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,422 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,525; most fall between $810 and $7,394.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 168 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
$598$927$1,422$7,394$12,505

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 21× what the cheapest tenth charges ($598 vs $12,505).

Of the 180 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 168 gave a usable cash price; 9 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 3 a list price only.

How complete is this

284 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (7%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 310 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted284
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here22
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 — excluded3
Hospitals that filed this code310

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 Clsr Urethrostomy/Urethroq Fstl Male Spx.

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, “Surgical closure of a urethral opening or fistula in men (CPT 53520) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-53520-surgical-closure-of-a-urethral-opening-or-fistula-in-men