HRHospitalRates.comCompare prices

Procedure price report · Other diagnostic radiology and related techniques

X-ray guidance for widening a ureter, urethra or kidney tube

CPT 74485the billing code this page is about

The imaging supervision and interpretation portion of a procedure to stretch open a narrowed ureter, urethra or kidney drainage tract; the surgical work is billed separately.

Hospitals typically charge $2,149 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,453 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,200. Most fall between $905 and $4,327 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,453
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 1,453 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
$608$1,084$2,149$3,682$5,728

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($608 vs $5,728).

How the prices are spread

$358 – $489: 42 hospitals$358$489 – $670: 61 hospitals$670 – $916: 126 hospitals$670$916 – $1,254: 135 hospitals$1,254 – $1,715: 194 hospitals$1,254$1,715 – $2,347: 171 hospitals$2,347 – $3,211: 226 hospitals$2,347$3,211 – $4,394: 143 hospitals$4,394 – $6,012: 150 hospitals$4,394$6,012 – $8,226: 62 hospitals$6,012median $2,149price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,310 of 1,453 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$358$48942
$489$67061
$670$916126
$916$1,254135
$1,254$1,715194
$1,715$2,347171
$2,347$3,211226
$3,211$4,394143
$4,394$6,012150
$6,012$8,22662

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$2,136
Median cash price$2,149
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.01×

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 $2,149.

Alaska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $3,233 across 35 hospitalsWA$3,233Idaho: median $2,301 across 10 hospitalsID$2,301Montana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $1,212 across 29 hospitalsMN$1,212Illinois: median $1,858 across 47 hospitalsIL$1,858Wisconsin: median $1,380 across 47 hospitalsWI$1,380Michigan: median $1,849 across 29 hospitalsMI$1,849New York: median $2,593 across 57 hospitalsNY$2,593Massachusetts: median $3,325 across 25 hospitalsMA$3,325Oregon: median $2,528 across 15 hospitalsOR$2,528Nevada: 7 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 $1,396 across 14 hospitalsIA$1,396Indiana: median $2,871 across 33 hospitalsIN$2,871Ohio: median $1,972 across 87 hospitalsOH$1,972Pennsylvania: median $2,699 across 76 hospitalsPA$2,699New Jersey: median $2,269 across 47 hospitalsNJ$2,269Connecticut: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $3,062 across 132 hospitalsCA$3,062Utah: median $2,556 across 29 hospitalsUT$2,556Colorado: median $2,312 across 33 hospitalsCO$2,312Nebraska: median $1,116 across 16 hospitalsNE$1,116Missouri: median $1,981 across 29 hospitalsMO$1,981Kentucky: median $1,507 across 26 hospitalsKY$1,507West Virginia: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $1,434 across 33 hospitalsVA$1,434Maryland: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $1,388 across 32 hospitalsAZ$1,388New Mexico: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $796 across 31 hospitalsTN$796North Carolina: median $1,158 across 36 hospitalsNC$1,158South Carolina: median $1,971 across 23 hospitalsSC$1,971Oklahoma: median $1,712 across 13 hospitalsOK$1,712Louisiana: median $1,010 across 21 hospitalsLA$1,010Mississippi: median $1,252 across 27 hospitalsMS$1,252Alabama: median $1,865 across 10 hospitalsAL$1,865Georgia: median $822 across 51 hospitalsGA$822Hawaii: median $2,509 across 10 hospitalsHI$2,509Texas: median $2,089 across 145 hospitalsTX$2,089Florida: median $3,487 across 102 hospitalsFL$3,487
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,149. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL102$3,487+62%$1,373 – $5,685
Massachusetts MA25$3,325+55%$1,336 – $5,823
Washington WA35$3,233+50%$1,154 – $4,035
California CA132$3,062+42%$1,364 – $5,510
Indiana IN33$2,871+34%$749 – $4,188
Pennsylvania PA76$2,699+26%$2,125 – $5,042
New York NY57$2,593+21%$1,696 – $4,817
Utah UT29$2,556+19%$2,301 – $2,556
Oregon OR15$2,528+18%$1,582 – $6,049
Hawaii HI10$2,509+17%$1,963 – $5,173
Colorado CO33$2,312+8%$1,088 – $3,599
Idaho ID10$2,301+7%$905 – $7,861
New Jersey NJ47$2,269+6%$1,333 – $2,733
Texas TX145$2,089−3%$971 – $3,823
Missouri MO29$1,981−8%$1,143 – $13,084
Ohio OH87$1,972−8%$1,341 – $4,703
South Carolina SC23$1,971−8%$913 – $3,705
Alabama AL10$1,865−13%$1,030 – $2,765
Illinois IL47$1,858−14%$924 – $3,879
Michigan MI29$1,849−14%$829 – $4,353
Oklahoma OK13$1,712−20%$909 – $2,847
Kentucky KY26$1,507−30%$754 – $6,375
Virginia VA33$1,434−33%$796 – $2,296
Iowa IA14$1,396−35%$727 – $2,104
Arizona AZ32$1,388−35%$669 – $2,476
Wisconsin WI47$1,380−36%$699 – $2,786
Mississippi MS27$1,252−42%$692 – $1,387
Minnesota MN29$1,212−44%$906 – $1,357
North Carolina NC36$1,158−46%$693 – $1,544
Nebraska NE16$1,116−48%$667 – $1,273
Louisiana LA21$1,010−53%$541 – $2,026
Georgia GA51$822−62%$669 – $2,086
Tennessee TN31$796−63%$416 – $2,413
Arkansas AR9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not 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 $2,149.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,300$2,175$906 – $4,458
Children’s30$1,712$1,273 – $4,035
Critical access115$1,582$736 – $3,682
Ownership
For-profit242$2,580$1,103 – $5,685
Government146$1,497$759 – $3,062
Non-profit1,057$2,089$890 – $4,177
System affiliation
Part of a system1,288$2,219$924 – $4,507
Independent165$1,807$614 – $3,227

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,280
Median cash price$2,149
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

1,085 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,084 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,215; most fall between $890 and $4,432.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,085 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
$667$1,088$2,084$3,804$5,684

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($667 vs $5,684).

Of the 1,213 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,085 gave a usable cash price; 88 carried a plausibility flag, 2 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 38 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,453 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (37%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,629 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,453
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here129
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded2
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded45
Hospitals that filed this code1,629

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 Other diagnostic radiology and related techniques family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Dilation Ureters/Urethra Rs&I|PROFESSIONAL COMPONENT.

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, “X-ray guidance for widening a ureter, urethra or kidney tube (CPT 74485) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-74485-x-ray-guidance-for-widening-a-ureter-urethra-or-kidney-tube