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Drainage Tube Placed Into The Ureter Through The Back

Texas 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?

$1,479

Typical facility fee. In Texas, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,479 for this service. Most negotiated rates run $324 to $19,498.

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 4 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $479 · 10th to 90th $251 to $19,498Professionalmedian $1,479 · 10th to 90th $1,479 to $1,479
$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $479professional $1,479

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
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$407.38
Median
$407.38
Typical High
$512.86
Lucent Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$6,606.93
Median
$19,498.45
Typical High
$19,498.45
Lucent Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,479.11
Median
$1,479.11
Typical High
$1,479.11
Moda Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$234.42
Median
$316.23
Typical High
$467.74
Providence
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$234.42
Median
$316.23
Typical High
$467.74

Where Texas 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.

Texas· 8th of 33

$1,479

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.