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Kidney Scope Through A Drainage Tract, With Biopsy

Alaska rates for HCPCS 50555

Passes a small scope into the kidney through a drainage channel already established through the skin of the back, to look inside the urine-collecting system. A tissue sample is taken from any abnormal area seen and sent to the laboratory. It is used to find the cause of bleeding, a growth, or persistent abnormal findings.

Rates data updated October 2026.

How much does Kidney Scope Through A Drainage Tract, With Biopsy cost?

$7,237

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $7,237 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $1,349 to the doctor who performs it, and $5,888 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$1,349$955 to $1,660
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$5,888$2,455 to $10,965

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $5,888 · 10th to 90th $1,175 to $16,596Professionalmedian $1,349 · 10th to 90th $427 to $2,188
$100$500$2K$10Kfacility $5,888professional $1,349

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

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,584.89
Median
$5,888.44
Typical High
$14,125.38
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$338.84
Median
$1,584.89
Typical High
$5,888.44
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$7,762.47
Median
$12,882.50
Typical High
$38,904.51
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$363.08
Median
$562.34
Typical High
$1,174.90
Moda Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$537.03
Median
$1,584.89
Typical High
$2,691.53
Moda Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$398.11
Median
$1,905.46
Typical High
$2,818.38
Premera BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$954.99
Median
$7,943.28
Typical High
$12,022.64
Premera BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,348.96
Median
$1,348.96
Typical High
$1,659.59
Providence
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$2,187.76
Median
$10,715.19
Typical High
$23,442.29
Providence
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$331.13
Median
$741.31
Typical High
$1,174.90
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,096.48
Median
$3,162.28
Typical High
$4,265.80
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$426.58
Median
$1,096.48
Typical High
$2,398.83

Where Alaska sits

The same service costs 9.3 times more in Wyoming than in Delaware. 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

Alaska· 3rd of 51

$7,237

$1,349 physician + $5,888 facility

WY $10,585DE $1,135

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.