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Kidney Scope Through A Drainage Tract, With Biopsy

Utah 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?

$4,418

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $4,418 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $437 to the doctor who performs it, and $3,981 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 7 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$437$363 to $550
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$3,981$589 to $6,026

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $3,981 · 10th to 90th $490 to $19,953Professionalmedian $437 · 10th to 90th $324 to $646
$500$1K$2K$5K$10K$20Kfacility $3,981professional $437

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
$489.78
Median
$2,951.21
Typical High
$4,570.88
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$416.87
Median
$489.78
Typical High
$588.84
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$5,623.41
Median
$5,888.44
Typical High
$6,025.60
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$446.68
Median
$537.03
Typical High
$691.83
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$316.23
Median
$363.08
Typical High
$457.09
Regence BlueShield
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$15,135.61
Median
$19,054.61
Typical High
$27,542.29
Regence BlueShield
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$426.58
Median
$524.81
Typical High
$724.44
Select Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$851.14
Median
$851.14
Typical High
$851.14
Select Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$398.11
Median
$398.11
Typical High
$398.11
U of Utah Health Plan
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$263.03
Median
$575.44
Typical High
$851.14
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$302.00
Median
$1,698.24
Typical High
$4,677.35
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$346.74
Median
$426.58
Typical High
$741.31
6 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
$208.93
Median
$245.47
Typical High
$295.12
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$83.18
Median
$97.72
Typical High
$117.49
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$309.03
Median
$363.08
Typical High
$436.52
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$61.66
Median
$72.44
Typical High
$87.10
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$41.69
Median
$48.98
Typical High
$58.88
Regence BlueShield
Setting
Facility
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$22,387.21
Median
$28,840.32
Typical High
$41,686.94

Where Utah 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

Utah· 11th of 51

$4,418

$437 physician + $3,981 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.