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Kidney Scope Through Drain Tract With Cautery

Oklahoma 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?

$1,848

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,848 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $468 to the doctor who performs it, and $1,380 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 4 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$468$389 to $513
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,380$759 to $3,890

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,380 · 10th to 90th $468 to $6,457Professionalmedian $468 · 10th to 90th $355 to $1,023
$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $1,380professional $468

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
$1,380.38
Typical High
$6,456.54
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$389.05
Median
$467.74
Typical High
$489.78
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$338.84
Median
$489.78
Typical High
$616.60
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$407.38
Median
$891.25
Typical High
$5,495.41
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$371.54
Median
$501.19
Typical High
$5,888.44
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$870.96
Median
$3,388.44
Typical High
$14,125.38
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$323.59
Median
$416.87
Typical High
$602.56

Where Oklahoma 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

Oklahoma· 38th of 50

$1,848

$468 physician + $1,380 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.