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Procedure price report · Procedures on the urethra

Repeat stretching of a narrowed urethra

CPT 53661the billing code this page is about

A follow-up session in which an instrument is passed into the urethra to widen a narrowed urinary channel; this code covers a subsequent dilation rather than the first one.

Hospitals typically charge $153 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 569 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $169. Most fall between $80 and $329 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
569
States
49
Filings dated
Jan 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 569 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
$55$101$153$286$482

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($55 vs $482).

How the prices are spread

$41 – $54: 28 hospitals$41$54 – $72: 48 hospitals$72 – $95: 32 hospitals$72$95 – $125: 63 hospitals$125 – $165: 111 hospitals$125$165 – $218: 77 hospitals$218 – $289: 51 hospitals$218$289 – $382: 45 hospitals$382 – $504: 31 hospitals$382$504 – $666: 27 hospitals$504median $153price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (513 of 569 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$41$5428
$54$7248
$72$9532
$95$12563
$125$165111
$165$21877
$218$28951
$289$38245
$382$50431
$504$66627

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$136
Median cash price$153
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.12×

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 $153.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $136 across 14 hospitalsWA$136Idaho: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $132 across 10 hospitalsMN$132Illinois: median $146 across 25 hospitalsIL$146Wisconsin: median $205 across 25 hospitalsWI$205Michigan: median $80 across 29 hospitalsMI$80New York: median $153 across 33 hospitalsNY$153Massachusetts: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $136 across 16 hospitalsOR$136Nevada: 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: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $172 across 24 hospitalsIA$172Indiana: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $382 across 27 hospitalsOH$382Pennsylvania: median $151 across 33 hospitalsPA$151New Jersey: median $241 across 24 hospitalsNJ$241Connecticut: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $328 across 50 hospitalsCA$328Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: median $151 across 11 hospitalsNE$151Missouri: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $124 across 23 hospitalsWV$124Virginia: median $64 across 10 hospitalsVA$64Maryland: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $70 across 11 hospitalsTN$70North Carolina: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $67 across 12 hospitalsOK$67Louisiana: median $92 across 17 hospitalsLA$92Mississippi: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $226 across 25 hospitalsTX$226Florida: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $153. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Ohio OH27$382+151%$86 – $385
California CA50$328+115%$286 – $666
New Jersey NJ24$241+58%$143 – $5,419
Texas TX25$226+48%$142 – $275
Wisconsin WI25$205+35%$121 – $345
Iowa IA24$172+13%$114 – $172
New York NY33$1530%$115 – $320
Pennsylvania PA33$151−1%$27 – $192
Nebraska NE11$151−1%$111 – $228
Illinois IL25$146−4%$71 – $200
Oregon OR16$136−11%$105 – $139
Washington WA14$136−11%$113 – $171
Minnesota MN10$132−13%$85 – $1,284
West Virginia WV23$124−19%$42 – $160
Louisiana LA17$92−40%$67 – $154
Michigan MI29$80−48%$34 – $183
Tennessee TN11$70−54%$55 – $71
Oklahoma OK12$67−56%$67 – $67
Virginia VA10$64−58%$53 – $426
Florida FL9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not 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 $153.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care438$157$73 – $345
Children’s6fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access124$139$86 – $228
Ownership
For-profit34$183$104 – $358
Government90$138$78 – $171
Non-profit444$158$80 – $345
System affiliation
Part of a system472$157$80 – $345
Independent97$132$78 – $208

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$232
Median cash price$153
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

357 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $166 and the average of the middle 60% is $190; most fall between $83 and $345.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 357 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
$63$104$166$329$583

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($63 vs $583).

Of the 390 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 357 gave a usable cash price; 22 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 11 a list price only.

How complete is this

569 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (14%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 621 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted569
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here44
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 — excluded7
Hospitals that filed this code621

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 Dilat Female Urt W/Suppository&/Instlj Sbsq.

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, “Repeat stretching of a narrowed urethra (CPT 53661) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-53661-repeat-stretching-of-a-narrowed-urethra