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Ureter Stent Placed Through The Skin

Mississippi 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?

$2,462

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $2,462 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $724 to the doctor who performs it, and $1,738 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 6 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$724$501 to $1,549
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,738$1,175 to $2,951

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,738 · 10th to 90th $759 to $6,166Professionalmedian $724 · 10th to 90th $263 to $2,692
$50$200$1K$5Kfacility $1,738professional $724

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
$630.96
Median
$891.25
Typical High
$2,570.40
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$245.47
Median
$724.44
Typical High
$2,754.23
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
52 · Reduced service
Typical Low
$123.03
Median
$363.08
Typical High
$1,380.38
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$48.98
Median
$144.54
Typical High
$549.54
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$186.21
Median
$549.54
Typical High
$2,089.30
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$37.15
Median
$109.65
Typical High
$416.87
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$24.55
Median
$72.44
Typical High
$275.42
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$323.59
Median
$323.59
Typical High
$323.59
BCBS Mississippi
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,778.28
Median
$1,778.28
Typical High
$1,778.28
BCBS Mississippi
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$537.03
Median
$537.03
Typical High
$537.03
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$660.69
Median
$1,737.80
Typical High
$3,311.31
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$302.00
Median
$794.33
Typical High
$1,949.84
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$33.11
Median
$33.11
Typical High
$33.11
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$977.24
Median
$1,778.28
Typical High
$7,079.46
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$263.03
Median
$1,047.13
Typical High
$2,187.76

Where Mississippi 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

Mississippi· 46th of 51

$2,462

$724 physician + $1,738 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.