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Kidney Scope Through Drain Tract With Cautery

Michigan rates for HCPCS 50557

Inspection of the inside of a kidney with a thin scope passed through a drainage tract that already runs from the skin into the kidney. Abnormal tissue is burned away or a narrowed area is cut open during the same session. Rinsing the collecting system, injecting dye for pictures, and taking a small tissue sample may be included.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Kidney Scope Through Drain Tract With Cautery cost?

$3,321

Typical total for the visit. In Michigan, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $3,321 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $437 to the doctor who performs it, and $2,884 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$437$363 to $513
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$2,884$2,042 to $4,898

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $2,884 · 10th to 90th $525 to $7,244Professionalmedian $437 · 10th to 90th $324 to $575
$100$500$2K$10Kfacility $2,884professional $437

Distribution of negotiated rates across all payers (price axis is log-scale). Each curve is scaled to its own total: facility and professional rates are different services, shown together to compare where they cluster. Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$467.74
Median
$2,041.74
Typical High
$4,897.79
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$323.59
Median
$416.87
Typical High
$524.81
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$93.33
Median
$295.12
Typical High
$295.12
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$93.33
Median
$467.74
Typical High
$707.95
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$316.23
Median
$457.09
Typical High
$575.44
Health Alliance Plan
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$457.09
Median
$2,041.74
Typical High
$4,897.79
Health Alliance Plan
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$354.81
Median
$478.63
Typical High
$660.69
Priority Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,071.52
Median
$1,071.52
Typical High
$1,071.52
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,398.83
Median
$7,585.78
Typical High
$19,498.45
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$398.11
Median
$501.19
Typical High
$691.83

Where Michigan sits

The same service costs 38.5 times more in Indiana than in West Virginia. 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

Michigan· 25th of 50

$3,321

$437 physician + $2,884 facility

IN $29,959WV $778

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.