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Kidney Scope Through A Drainage Tract, With Biopsy

Delaware 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?

$1,135

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,135 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $427 to the doctor who performs it, and $708 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 3 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$427$347 to $525
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$708$550 to $3,236

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $708 · 10th to 90th $417 to $7,762Professionalmedian $427 · 10th to 90th $347 to $631
$100$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $708professional $427

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
$346.74
Median
$416.87
Typical High
$7,244.36
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$346.74
Median
$363.08
Typical High
$416.87
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$467.74
Median
$5,495.41
Typical High
$9,772.37
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$346.74
Median
$436.52
Typical High
$616.60
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$416.87
Median
$616.60
Typical High
$2,398.83
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$331.13
Median
$457.09
Typical High
$794.33
5 more rates 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
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
52 · Reduced service
Typical Low
$169.82
Median
$181.97
Typical High
$208.93
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$69.18
Median
$72.44
Typical High
$85.11
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$257.04
Median
$275.42
Typical High
$316.23
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$51.29
Median
$54.95
Typical High
$63.10
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$34.67
Median
$36.31
Typical High
$41.69

Where Delaware 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

Delaware· 51st of 51

$1,135

$427 physician + $708 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.