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Ureter Stent Placed Through The Skin

Minnesota 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?

$4,571

Typical facility fee. In Minnesota, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $4,571 for this service. Most negotiated rates run $3,090 to $8,511.

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 6 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $4,571 · 10th to 90th $1,148 to $10,965
$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10K$20Kfacility $4,571

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
$251.19
Median
$1,148.15
Typical High
$1,148.15
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$4,570.88
Median
$8,128.31
Typical High
$15,848.93
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,884.03
Median
$3,981.07
Typical High
$10,964.78
Health Partners
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3,019.95
Median
$4,365.16
Typical High
$8,511.38
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$354.81
Median
$1,621.81
Typical High
$8,912.51
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,584.89
Median
$6,760.83
Typical High
$10,715.19

Where Minnesota 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.

Minnesota· 15th of 50

$4,571

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.