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Ureter Stent Placed Through The Skin

Kentucky 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 July 2026.

How much does Ureter Stent Placed Through The Skin cost?

$1,950

Typical facility fee. In Kentucky, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,950 for this service. Most negotiated rates run $617 to $8,128.

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.

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,950 · 10th to 90th $324 to $10,715
$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $1,950

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
$323.59
Median
$1,318.26
Typical High
$8,511.38
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$7,244.36
Median
$10,715.19
Typical High
$11,220.18
CareSource
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$239.88
Median
$331.13
Typical High
$389.05
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$34.67
Median
$407.38
Typical High
$407.38
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,000.00
Median
$4,677.35
Typical High
$8,511.38

Where Kentucky sits

The same service costs 10.2 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.

Kentucky· 38th of 50

$1,950

IN $10,233WV $1,000

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.