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Ureter Stent Placed Through The Skin

Montana 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?

$2,074

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $2,074 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $525 to the doctor who performs it, and $1,549 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$525$372 to $1,738
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,549$398 to $1,862

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,549 · 10th to 90th $389 to $2,754Professionalmedian $525 · 10th to 90th $245 to $1,905
$100$200$500$1K$2K$5Kfacility $1,549professional $525

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
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$331.13
Median
$602.56
Typical High
$2,570.40
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$407.38
Median
$2,754.23
Typical High
$7,943.28
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$407.38
Median
$407.38
Typical High
$1,737.80
MountainHealth Co-op
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$389.05
Median
$489.78
Typical High
$1,949.84
MountainHealth Co-op
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$251.19
Median
$416.87
Typical High
$1,949.84
Providence
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$407.38
Median
$2,754.23
Typical High
$7,943.28
Providence
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$79.43
Median
$416.87
Typical High
$1,862.09
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,479.11
Median
$2,884.03
Typical High
$4,570.88
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$436.52
Median
$1,071.52
Typical High
$2,089.30

Where Montana sits

The same service costs 4.2 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

Montana· 50th of 51

$2,074

$525 physician + $1,549 facility

OK $8,079KY $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.