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Ureter Stent Placed Through The Skin

Alabama rates for HCPCS 50694

Places a thin drainage tube, called a stent, into the ureter, the tube that carries urine from the kidney to the bladder, working through a puncture in the skin over the kidney under imaging guidance. The route into the kidney is created during this same session. The stent keeps urine draining past a blockage.

Rates data updated October 2026.

How much does Ureter Stent Placed Through The Skin cost?

$5,098

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $5,098 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $832 to the doctor who performs it, and $4,266 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$832$355 to $1,380
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$4,266$2,042 to $4,266

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $4,266 · 10th to 90th $1,175 to $4,266Professionalmedian $832 · 10th to 90th $269 to $1,995
$200$500$1K$2K$5Kfacility $4,266professional $832

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
$776.25
Median
$1,258.93
Typical High
$2,398.83
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$512.86
Median
$724.44
Typical High
$1,995.26
BCBS Alabama
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$4,265.80
Median
$4,265.80
Typical High
$4,265.80
BCBS Alabama
Setting
Professional
Modifier
32 · Mandated service
Typical Low
$812.83
Median
$1,096.48
Typical High
$1,621.81
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$616.60
Median
$1,737.80
Typical High
$2,511.89
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$302.00
Median
$912.01
Typical High
$1,659.59
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,096.48
Median
$2,344.23
Typical High
$5,128.61
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$229.09
Median
$831.76
Typical High
$1,445.44
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
$257.04
Median
$363.08
Typical High
$1,000.00
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$102.33
Median
$144.54
Typical High
$398.11
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$389.05
Median
$549.54
Typical High
$1,513.56
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$77.62
Median
$109.65
Typical High
$302.00
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$51.29
Median
$72.44
Typical High
$199.53
BCBS Alabama
Setting
Facility
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$6,456.54
Median
$6,456.54
Typical High
$6,456.54

Where Alabama sits

The same service costs 4.1 times more in Oklahoma than in Kentucky. 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

Alabama· 7th of 51

$5,098

$832 physician + $4,266 facility

OK $7,925KY $1,935

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.