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Procedure price report · Procedures on the urethra

Placement of a temporary stent in the prostate urethra

CPT 53855the billing code this page is about

A temporary tube is placed in the section of the urethra running through the prostate to keep urine flowing after prostate treatment.

Hospitals typically charge $2,056 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 296 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,207. Most fall between $769 and $4,372 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
296
States
38
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 296 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
$171$889$2,056$4,056$5,527

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 32× what the cheapest tenth charges ($171 vs $5,527).

How the prices are spread

$136 – $202: 24 hospitals$136$202 – $302: 5 hospitals$302 – $449: 10 hospitals$302$449 – $670: 8 hospitals$670 – $998: 38 hospitals$670$998 – $1,487: 13 hospitals$1,487 – $2,217: 45 hospitals$1,487$2,217 – $3,303: 56 hospitals$3,303 – $4,923: 39 hospitals$3,303$4,923 – $7,336: 49 hospitals$4,923median $2,056price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (287 of 296 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$136$20224
$202$3025
$302$44910
$449$6708
$670$99838
$998$1,48713
$1,487$2,21745
$2,217$3,30356
$3,303$4,92339
$4,923$7,33649

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$2,136
Median cash price$2,056
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.96×

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 $2,056.

Alaska: 5 hospitals 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: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $4,285 across 11 hospitalsWA$4,285Idaho: 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: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNDMinnesota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $889 across 11 hospitalsIL$889Wisconsin: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: median $962 across 11 hospitalsMI$962New York: median $2,424 across 23 hospitalsNY$2,424Massachusetts: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $4,995 across 12 hospitalsOR$4,995Nevada: 1 hospital 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 $1,804 across 12 hospitalsIA$1,804Indiana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figurePANew Jersey: median $3,986 across 24 hospitalsNJ$3,986Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $3,755 across 59 hospitalsCA$3,755Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWVVirginia: 3 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: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceARTennessee: 8 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 $136 across 12 hospitalsOK$136Louisiana: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMSAlabama: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceGAHawaii: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceHITexas: median $1,780 across 22 hospitalsTX$1,780Florida: median $2,804 across 14 hospitalsFL$2,804
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,056. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Oregon OR12$4,995+143%$4,362 – $5,527
Washington WA11$4,285+108%$2,549 – $4,575
New Jersey NJ24$3,986+94%$2,267 – $5,741
California CA59$3,755+83%$931 – $7,336
Florida FL14$2,804+36%$2,056 – $4,056
New York NY23$2,424+18%$362 – $2,424
Iowa IA12$1,804−12%$1,804 – $1,804
Texas TX22$1,780−13%$1,780 – $2,613
Michigan MI11$962−53%$233 – $2,874
Illinois IL11$889−57%$889 – $1,903
Oklahoma OK12$136−93%$136 – $136
Tennessee TN8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Pennsylvania PA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not 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
Colorado CO1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI1not 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 $2,056.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care256$2,239$769 – $4,411
Children’s7fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access32$1,780$889 – $3,617
Ownership
For-profit31$1,174$430 – $4,347
Government33$2,424$962 – $2,933
Non-profit231$2,169$809 – $4,627
System affiliation
Part of a system257$2,267$889 – $4,603
Independent39$1,543$160 – $3,016

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,541
Median cash price$2,056
Cash as a share of list, median hospital56%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 44%. 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

203 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,804 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,204; most fall between $809 and $4,651.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 203 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
$160$889$1,804$4,201$6,125

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 38× what the cheapest tenth charges ($160 vs $6,125).

Of the 224 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 203 gave a usable cash price; 15 carried a plausibility flag, 2 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 4 a list price only.

How complete is this

296 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 341 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted296
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here39
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded3
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded3
Hospitals that filed this code341

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 5, 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 Insert Temp Prostatic Ureth Stent W/Measurement.

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, “Placement of a temporary stent in the prostate urethra (CPT 53855) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-53855-placement-of-a-temporary-stent-in-the-prostate-urethra