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Kidney Scope Through A Drainage Tract, With Biopsy

Massachusetts 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?

$1,178

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,178 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $603 to the doctor who performs it, and $575 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 9 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$603$437 to $1,096
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$575$355 to $2,399

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $575 · 10th to 90th $240 to $4,786Professionalmedian $603 · 10th to 90th $347 to $6,026
$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $575professional $603

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
$1,000.00
Median
$2,238.72
Typical High
$3,630.78
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$346.74
Median
$426.58
Typical High
$1,071.52
AllWays Health Partners
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$354.81
Median
$1,737.80
Typical High
$5,495.41
AllWays Health Partners
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$354.81
Median
$812.83
Typical High
$6,025.60
BCBS Massachusetts
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$331.13
Median
$398.11
Typical High
$758.58
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$446.68
Median
$6,309.57
Typical High
$9,549.93
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$446.68
Median
$562.34
Typical High
$1,174.90
Fallon Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$190.55
Median
$380.19
Typical High
$1,412.54
Fallon Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$269.15
Median
$478.63
Typical High
$707.95
Harvard Pilgrim
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$501.19
Median
$1,318.26
Typical High
$5,128.61
Harvard Pilgrim
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$363.08
Median
$741.31
Typical High
$1,348.96
Mass General Brigham
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$354.81
Median
$1,737.80
Typical High
$5,495.41
Mass General Brigham
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$354.81
Median
$812.83
Typical High
$6,025.60
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$575.44
Median
$1,380.38
Typical High
$13,182.57
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$398.11
Median
$588.84
Typical High
$1,513.56
Well Sense
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$275.42
Median
$398.11
Typical High
$3,388.44
Well Sense
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$269.15
Median
$323.59
Typical High
$389.05
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
$173.78
Median
$213.80
Typical High
$537.03
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$70.79
Median
$85.11
Typical High
$213.80
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$263.03
Median
$323.59
Typical High
$812.83
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$52.48
Median
$64.57
Typical High
$162.18
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$34.67
Median
$42.66
Typical High
$107.15

Where Massachusetts 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

Massachusetts· 48th of 51

$1,178

$603 physician + $575 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.