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Kidney Scope Through A Drainage Tract, With Biopsy

Illinois 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?

$3,726

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $3,726 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $490 to the doctor who performs it, and $3,236 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$490$389 to $692
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$3,236$1,096 to $9,120

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $3,236 · 10th to 90th $661 to $12,303Professionalmedian $490 · 10th to 90th $339 to $912
$50$200$1K$5K$20Kfacility $3,236professional $490

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
$416.87
Median
$1,348.96
Typical High
$5,623.41
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$338.84
Median
$416.87
Typical High
$478.63
BCBS Illinois
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$5,623.41
Median
$9,332.54
Typical High
$13,803.84
BCBS Illinois
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$645.65
Median
$645.65
Typical High
$891.25
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$478.63
Median
$8,709.64
Typical High
$11,220.18
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$363.08
Median
$524.81
Typical High
$912.01
Hally Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$371.54
Median
$602.56
Typical High
$1,348.96
Hally Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$100.00
Median
$100.00
Typical High
$100.00
Hally Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$398.11
Median
$426.58
Typical High
$562.34
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$33.11
Median
$33.11
Typical High
$33.11
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$676.08
Median
$1,513.56
Typical High
$4,677.35
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$371.54
Median
$549.54
Typical High
$891.25
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
$208.93
Typical High
$213.80
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$67.61
Median
$83.18
Typical High
$85.11
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$257.04
Median
$309.03
Typical High
$323.59
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$51.29
Median
$61.66
Typical High
$64.57
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$33.88
Median
$41.69
Typical High
$42.66

Where Illinois 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

Illinois· 14th of 51

$3,726

$490 physician + $3,236 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.