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Ureter Stent Placed Through The Skin

Connecticut 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?

$6,407

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $6,407 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $912 to the doctor who performs it, and $5,495 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 5 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$912$447 to $1,905
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$5,495$3,467 to $8,710

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $5,495 · 10th to 90th $933 to $11,749Professionalmedian $912 · 10th to 90th $331 to $2,399
$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $5,495professional $912

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
$4,365.16
Median
$6,606.93
Typical High
$8,709.64
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$346.74
Median
$831.76
Typical High
$1,995.26
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$933.25
Median
$11,748.98
Typical High
$13,803.84
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$380.19
Median
$912.01
Typical High
$2,398.83
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$575.44
Median
$1,288.25
Typical High
$3,630.78
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$851.14
Median
$3,630.78
Typical High
$4,677.35
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$416.87
Median
$645.65
Typical High
$2,754.23
ConnectiCare
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,862.09
Median
$1,862.09
Typical High
$2,137.96
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$870.96
Median
$5,495.41
Typical High
$9,772.37
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$302.00
Median
$1,000.00
Typical High
$3,388.44
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
$190.55
Median
$257.04
Typical High
$977.24
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$75.86
Median
$102.33
Typical High
$398.11
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$288.40
Median
$389.05
Typical High
$1,479.11
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$57.54
Median
$77.62
Typical High
$295.12
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$38.02
Median
$51.29
Typical High
$199.53

Where Connecticut 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

Connecticut· 4th of 51

$6,407

$912 physician + $5,495 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.