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Exchange of a Kidney Drainage Tube Through the Skin

Mississippi rates for HCPCS 50387

Removes an existing drainage tube that runs from the kidney down the ureter and is accessible at the skin, and replaces it with a new one. It is done with X-ray guidance so the replacement can be threaded along the same track and its position confirmed. Tubes are changed on a schedule to stop them clogging or becoming a source of infection.

Rates data updated October 2026.

How much does Exchange of a Kidney Drainage Tube Through the Skin cost?

$1,162

Typical total for the visit. In Mississippi, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,162 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $229 to the doctor who performs it, and $933 to the hospital or surgery center where it takes place. Done somewhere without a facility charge, you pay only the first.

These are rates insurers have negotiated with providers, not the amount a patient is billed. What you owe depends on your plan's deductible and coinsurance. Based on rates published by 6 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$229$166 to $759
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$933$603 to $1,479

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $933 · 10th to 90th $468 to $2,692Professionalmedian $229 · 10th to 90th $85 to $1,318
$50$100$200$500$1K$2K$5Kfacility $933professional $229

Distribution of negotiated rates across all payers (price axis is log-scale). Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$91.20
Median
$758.58
Typical High
$1,819.70
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$77.62
Median
$229.09
Typical High
$1,348.96
BCBS Mississippi
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,023.29
Median
$1,023.29
Typical High
$1,023.29
BCBS Mississippi
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$181.97
Median
$181.97
Typical High
$181.97
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$630.96
Median
$954.99
Typical High
$1,949.84
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$95.50
Median
$389.05
Typical High
$912.01
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$33.11
Median
$33.11
Typical High
$33.11
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$467.74
Median
$758.58
Typical High
$3,630.78
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$83.18
Median
$489.78
Typical High
$1,122.02
1 more rate with less common billing modifiers

A modifier changes what was billed, for example a reduced or repeated service. Each of these modifiers carries under 10% of the published rates for this code. Modifier combinations, and modifiers with fewer than 30 rates for a carrier, are not listed.

Insurance Carrier
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$123.03
Median
$123.03
Typical High
$123.03

Where Mississippi sits

The same service costs 6.0 times more in Colorado than in Montana. Every bar is a state, most expensive first. Touch or drag across it to read any state, then open that state for its carriers and full range.

Physician feeFacility fee

Mississippi· 46th of 51

$1,162

$229 physician + $933 facility

CO $4,844MT $801

Median negotiated rate in each state, from every insurer that publishes one. States where no insurer publishes a rate for this service are not shown.