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Ureter Stent Placed Through The Skin

South Carolina 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?

$3,185

Typical total for the visit. In South Carolina, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $3,185 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $1,047 to the doctor who performs it, and $2,138 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$1,047$457 to $1,445
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$2,138$1,622 to $4,365

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $2,138 · 10th to 90th $1,175 to $12,023Professionalmedian $1,047 · 10th to 90th $309 to $1,862
$500$1K$2K$5K$10K$20Kfacility $2,138professional $1,047

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
$323.59
Median
$9,120.11
Typical High
$21,877.62
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$316.23
Median
$1,023.29
Typical High
$1,348.96
BCBS South Carolina
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,380.38
Median
$2,137.96
Typical High
$7,079.46
BCBS South Carolina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$223.87
Median
$758.58
Typical High
$1,122.02
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$602.56
Median
$2,089.30
Typical High
$3,311.31
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$354.81
Median
$741.31
Typical High
$1,778.28
Medcost
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$323.59
Median
$1,348.96
Typical High
$2,238.72
Medcost
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,122.02
Median
$1,548.82
Typical High
$1,548.82
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,023.29
Median
$1,479.11
Typical High
$2,089.30
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,023.29
Median
$3,311.31
Typical High
$18,197.01
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$269.15
Median
$851.14
Typical High
$2,041.74
7 more rates with less common billing modifiers

A modifier changes what was billed, for example a reduced or repeated service. Each of these modifiers carries under 10% of the published rates for this code. Modifier combinations, and modifiers with fewer than 30 rates for a carrier, are not listed.

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
52 · Reduced service
Typical Low
$162.18
Median
$177.83
Typical High
$676.08
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$64.57
Median
$70.79
Typical High
$269.15
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$245.47
Median
$269.15
Typical High
$1,000.00
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$48.98
Median
$53.70
Typical High
$204.17
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$32.36
Median
$35.48
Typical High
$134.90
Medcost
Setting
Professional
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$2,137.96
Median
$2,290.87
Typical High
$2,951.21
Medcost
Setting
Professional
Modifier
51 · Multiple procedures
Typical Low
$724.44
Median
$776.25
Typical High
$977.24

Where South Carolina 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

South Carolina· 33rd of 51

$3,185

$1,047 physician + $2,138 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.