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Ureter Stent Placed Through The Skin

Tennessee 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?

$3,618

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $3,618 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $1,047 to the doctor who performs it, and $2,570 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$355 to $1,622
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$2,570$1,585 to $4,169

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $2,570 · 10th to 90th $1,023 to $6,026Professionalmedian $1,047 · 10th to 90th $263 to $4,169
$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $2,570professional $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
$1,230.27
Median
$2,818.38
Typical High
$7,585.78
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$257.04
Median
$1,122.02
Typical High
$1,548.82
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$549.54
Median
$549.54
Typical High
$549.54
BCBS Tennessee
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,000.00
Median
$1,995.26
Typical High
$5,128.61
BCBS Tennessee
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$309.03
Median
$954.99
Typical High
$2,238.72
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$602.56
Median
$2,187.76
Typical High
$6,760.83
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$245.47
Median
$794.33
Typical High
$1,819.70
Lucent Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$7,762.47
Median
$9,120.11
Typical High
$9,120.11
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,202.26
Median
$3,801.89
Typical High
$6,760.83
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$269.15
Median
$891.25
Typical High
$2,238.72
5 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
$128.82
Median
$257.04
Typical High
$776.25
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$51.29
Median
$102.33
Typical High
$309.03
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$194.98
Median
$389.05
Typical High
$1,174.90
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$38.90
Median
$77.62
Typical High
$234.42
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$25.70
Median
$51.29
Typical High
$154.88

Where Tennessee 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

Tennessee· 23rd of 51

$3,618

$1,047 physician + $2,570 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.