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Drainage Tube Placed Into The Ureter Through The Back

Minnesota rates for HCPCS 50393

Placement of a thin drainage tube or stent into the ureter, the tube that carries urine from the kidney down to the bladder, working from a puncture in the skin over the kidney rather than through an incision or from below. Imaging guides the tube into the kidney's collecting system and down the ureter so urine can drain past a blockage, or so medication or contrast can be delivered there.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Drainage Tube Placed Into The Ureter Through The Back cost?

$631

Typical negotiated rate. In Minnesota, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $631 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $575 from a physician practice, and about $741 from a hospital or other facility. The two figures are alternatives, not parts of one bill.

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 3 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

Where it's billed changes the price

Billed byTypicalRange
Physician practiceA doctor's office, clinic or independent provider$575$479 to $724
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$741$589 to $1,622

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $741 · 10th to 90th $562 to $1,622Professionalmedian $575 · 10th to 90th $407 to $871
$500$1K$2Kfacility $741professional $575

Distribution of negotiated rates across all payers (price axis is log-scale). Each curve is scaled to its own total: facility and professional rates are different services, shown together to compare where they cluster. Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$549.54
Median
$741.31
Typical High
$2,041.74
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$426.58
Median
$645.65
Typical High
$977.24
Health Partners
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$562.34
Median
$812.83
Typical High
$1,621.81
Health Partners
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$389.05
Median
$549.54
Typical High
$831.76
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$302.00
Median
$331.13
Typical High
$588.84
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,479.11
Median
$1,479.11
Typical High
$1,479.11

Where Minnesota sits

The same service costs 21.9 times more in California than in Illinois. 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.

Minnesota· 11th of 33

$631

CA $4,365IL $200

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.