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Kidney Scope Through A Drainage Tract, With Biopsy

Kansas 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?

$2,525

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $2,525 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $575 to the doctor who performs it, and $1,950 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 5 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$575$457 to $741
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,950$776 to $5,129

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,950 · 10th to 90th $513 to $7,762Professionalmedian $575 · 10th to 90th $398 to $2,512
$500$1K$2K$5K$10K$20Kfacility $1,950professional $575

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
$1,023.29
Median
$2,754.23
Typical High
$7,943.28
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$398.11
Median
$549.54
Typical High
$676.08
BCBS Kansas
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$5,128.61
Median
$5,128.61
Typical High
$5,128.61
BCBS Kansas
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$676.08
Median
$676.08
Typical High
$741.31
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$380.19
Median
$6,025.60
Typical High
$6,760.83
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$389.05
Median
$512.86
Typical High
$831.76
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$501.19
Median
$954.99
Typical High
$12,022.64
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$457.09
Median
$891.25
Typical High
$5,888.44
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$501.19
Median
$1,047.13
Typical High
$3,388.44
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$380.19
Median
$457.09
Typical High
$741.31
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
$199.53
Median
$275.42
Typical High
$338.84
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$79.43
Median
$109.65
Typical High
$134.90
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$295.12
Median
$407.38
Typical High
$501.19
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$58.88
Median
$81.28
Typical High
$100.00
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$39.81
Median
$54.95
Typical High
$67.61

Where Kansas 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

Kansas· 25th of 51

$2,525

$575 physician + $1,950 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.