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Procedure price report · Procedures on the urethra

First stretching of a narrowed urethra in a male

CPT 53600the billing code this page is about

Widening of a narrowed male urethra by passing a sound or dilator; this code covers the first such treatment.

Hospitals typically charge $334 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,266 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $374. Most fall between $168 and $694 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,266
States
50
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 1,266 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
$105$198$334$618$998

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($105 vs $998).

How the prices are spread

$79 – $107: 67 hospitals$79$107 – $144: 67 hospitals$144 – $193: 110 hospitals$144$193 – $261: 171 hospitals$261 – $351: 173 hospitals$261$351 – $473: 148 hospitals$473 – $637: 170 hospitals$473$637 – $858: 123 hospitals$858 – $1,156: 55 hospitals$858$1,156 – $1,557: 62 hospitals$1,156median $334price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,146 of 1,266 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$79$10767
$107$14467
$144$193110
$193$261171
$261$351173
$351$473148
$473$637170
$637$858123
$858$1,15655
$1,156$1,55762

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$255
Median cash price$334
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.31×

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 $334.

Alaska: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $203 across 11 hospitalsME$203Vermont: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $336 across 33 hospitalsWA$336Idaho: median $660 across 10 hospitalsID$660Montana: median $174 across 12 hospitalsMT$174North Dakota: median $296 across 14 hospitalsND$296Minnesota: median $308 across 51 hospitalsMN$308Illinois: median $427 across 49 hospitalsIL$427Wisconsin: median $222 across 55 hospitalsWI$222Michigan: median $231 across 45 hospitalsMI$231New York: median $312 across 65 hospitalsNY$312Massachusetts: median $688 across 25 hospitalsMA$688Oregon: median $228 across 33 hospitalsOR$228Nevada: median $271 across 10 hospitalsNV$271Wyoming: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $212 across 42 hospitalsIA$212Indiana: median $260 across 25 hospitalsIN$260Ohio: median $513 across 48 hospitalsOH$513Pennsylvania: median $333 across 58 hospitalsPA$333New Jersey: median $853 across 35 hospitalsNJ$853Connecticut: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $551 across 83 hospitalsCA$551Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $269 across 17 hospitalsCO$269Nebraska: median $211 across 26 hospitalsNE$211Missouri: median $356 across 28 hospitalsMO$356Kentucky: median $181 across 15 hospitalsKY$181West Virginia: median $246 across 25 hospitalsWV$246Virginia: median $439 across 35 hospitalsVA$439Maryland: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $185 across 20 hospitalsKS$185Arkansas: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $186 across 21 hospitalsTN$186North Carolina: median $212 across 31 hospitalsNC$212South Carolina: median $447 across 16 hospitalsSC$447Oklahoma: median $187 across 27 hospitalsOK$187Louisiana: median $284 across 25 hospitalsLA$284Mississippi: median $153 across 21 hospitalsMS$153Alabama: median $172 across 12 hospitalsAL$172Georgia: median $457 across 47 hospitalsGA$457Hawaii: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $515 across 81 hospitalsTX$515Florida: median $450 across 40 hospitalsFL$450
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $334. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ35$853+156%$269 – $4,881
Massachusetts MA25$688+106%$242 – $1,225
Idaho ID10$660+98%$209 – $660
California CA83$551+65%$288 – $1,557
Texas TX81$515+54%$413 – $911
Ohio OH48$513+54%$235 – $727
Georgia GA47$457+37%$352 – $1,504
Florida FL40$450+35%$244 – $735
South Carolina SC16$447+34%$44 – $1,306
Virginia VA35$439+31%$212 – $469
Illinois IL49$427+28%$228 – $944
Missouri MO28$356+7%$146 – $550
Washington WA33$336+1%$179 – $483
Pennsylvania PA58$3330%$162 – $534
New York NY65$312−7%$192 – $630
Minnesota MN51$308−8%$137 – $750
North Dakota ND14$296−11%$164 – $616
Louisiana LA25$284−15%$146 – $422
Nevada NV10$271−19%$98 – $869
Colorado CO17$269−19%$231 – $624
Indiana IN25$260−22%$114 – $458
West Virginia WV25$246−26%$215 – $349
Michigan MI45$231−31%$82 – $610
Oregon OR33$228−32%$146 – $640
Wisconsin WI55$222−34%$218 – $631
Iowa IA42$212−37%$139 – $650
North Carolina NC31$212−37%$207 – $334
Nebraska NE26$211−37%$180 – $365
Maine ME11$203−39%$112 – $293
Oklahoma OK27$187−44%$88 – $1,307
Tennessee TN21$186−44%$85 – $212
Kansas KS20$185−45%$69 – $499
Kentucky KY15$181−46%$104 – $242
Montana MT12$174−48%$95 – $244
Alabama AL12$172−48%$57 – $308
Mississippi MS21$153−54%$87 – $203
South Dakota SD9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not 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 $334.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care977$420$192 – $735
Children’s15fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access271$222$133 – $480
Ownership
For-profit88$513$242 – $845
Government217$233$124 – $472
Non-profit958$370$179 – $727
System affiliation
Part of a system1,049$355$179 – $717
Independent217$270$129 – $593

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$656
Median cash price$334
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

891 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $424 and the average of the middle 60% is $411; most fall between $181 and $719.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 891 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
$116$212$424$650$974

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($116 vs $974).

Of the 953 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 891 gave a usable cash price; 29 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 33 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,266 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (32%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,365 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,266
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here59
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded38
Hospitals that filed this code1,365

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 Dilat Urethral Strix Dilator Male 1st.

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, “First stretching of a narrowed urethra in a male (CPT 53600) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-53600-first-stretching-of-a-narrowed-urethra-in-a-male