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Ureteral catheter

HCPCS C1758the billing code this page is about

Covers one catheter placed into the tube running from a kidney to the bladder; billed as a device charge separate from the procedure to place it.

Hospitals typically charge $37 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 179 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $52. Most fall between $20 and $191 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
179
States
37
Filings dated
Dec 2023 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 23, 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 179 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
$10$22$37$116$837

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 80× what the cheapest tenth charges ($10 vs $837).

How the prices are spread

$6 – $12: 15 hospitals$6$12 – $24: 25 hospitals$24 – $47: 59 hospitals$24$47 – $92: 20 hospitals$92 – $183: 16 hospitals$92$183 – $362: 9 hospitals$362 – $717: 8 hospitals$362$717 – $1,419: 6 hospitals$1,419 – $2,807: 0 hospitals$1,419$2,807 – $5,556: 5 hospitals$2,807median $37price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (163 of 179 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$6$1215
$12$2425
$24$4759
$47$9220
$92$18316
$183$3629
$362$7178
$717$1,4196
$1,419$2,8070
$2,807$5,5565

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $37.

Alaska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAKMaine: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVTNew Hampshire: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceIDMontana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureILWisconsin: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWIMichigan: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNYMassachusetts: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIAIndiana: median $27 across 23 hospitalsIN$27Ohio: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figurePANew Jersey: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNJConnecticut: 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: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCAUtah: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCONebraska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNEMissouri: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 9 hospitals 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: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceKSArkansas: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceARTennessee: median $174 across 10 hospitalsTN$174North Carolina: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceOKLouisiana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceHITexas: median $32 across 18 hospitalsTX$32Florida: median $38 across 17 hospitalsFL$38
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $37. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Tennessee TN10$174+368%$15 – $486
Florida FL17$38+2%$11 – $38
Texas TX18$32−15%$32 – $32
Indiana IN23$27−27%$20 – $39
Virginia VA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Jersey NJ8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
California CA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Pennsylvania PA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Illinois IL3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Michigan MI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Iowa IA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New York NY1not 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 $37.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care153$33$18 – $213
Children’s4fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access21$43$32 – $114
Ownership
For-profit34$96$32 – $309
Government28$30$11 – $114
Non-profit116$32$18 – $106
System affiliation
Part of a system142$37$20 – $256
Independent37$38$16 – $114

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$68
Median cash price$37
Cash as a share of list, median hospital55%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 45%. 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

103 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $32 and the average of the middle 60% is $33; most fall between $13 and $66.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 103 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
$7$16$32$56$271

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 39× what the cheapest tenth charges ($7 vs $271).

Of the 109 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 103 gave a usable cash price; 2 carried a plausibility flag, 0 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

179 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (5%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 185 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted179
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here2
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded4
Hospitals that filed this code185

Sections not shown for this setting

  • Against Medicare: Medicare has no separately payable national outpatient (OPPS) rate for this code, so there is nothing honest to compare against.
  • 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 23, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 23, 2026. The percentiles and averages use only the “counted” row.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as CATHETER URET WOVEN OLIVE TIP 3FR.

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, “Ureteral catheter (CPT C1758) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-c1758-ureteral-catheter