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Ureter Stent Placed Through The Skin

Louisiana 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?

$2,570

Typical facility fee. In Louisiana, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $2,570 for this service. Most negotiated rates run $1,318 to $4,169.

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.

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $2,570 · 10th to 90th $676 to $6,607
$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $2,570

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
$426.58
Median
$1,862.09
Typical High
$4,897.79
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3,388.44
Median
$6,456.54
Typical High
$10,964.78
Christus
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$39.81
Median
$2,630.27
Typical High
$2,630.27
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,047.13
Median
$3,630.78
Typical High
$8,709.64

Where Louisiana 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.

Louisiana· 32nd of 50

$2,570

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.