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Ureter Stent Placed Through The Skin, With Drain

North Carolina rates for HCPCS 50695

A stent is threaded from the skin through the kidney and down the ureter into the bladder, so urine can drain past a blockage. The passage into the kidney is created during the same session, and a separate drainage tube is also left running out through the skin. Imaging guides each step, and pictures of the kidney and ureter are taken as needed.

Rates data updated October 2026.

How much does Ureter Stent Placed Through The Skin, With Drain cost?

$3,779

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $3,779 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $1,380 to the doctor who performs it, and $2,399 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$1,380$661 to $2,630
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$2,399$1,514 to $3,236

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $2,399 · 10th to 90th $912 to $6,457Professionalmedian $1,380 · 10th to 90th $447 to $3,548
$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $2,399professional $1,380

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
$331.13
Median
$1,348.96
Typical High
$7,943.28
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$331.13
Median
$1,288.25
Typical High
$1,548.82
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,659.59
Median
$2,454.71
Typical High
$3,311.31
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$562.34
Median
$1,905.46
Typical High
$3,890.45
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$602.56
Median
$2,570.40
Typical High
$4,168.69
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$457.09
Median
$1,174.90
Typical High
$2,754.23
Medcost
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$537.03
Median
$1,621.81
Typical High
$3,630.78
Medcost
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,380.38
Median
$1,905.46
Typical High
$2,089.30
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,047.13
Median
$2,398.83
Typical High
$12,302.69
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$346.74
Median
$1,174.90
Typical High
$2,691.53
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
$165.96
Median
$616.60
Typical High
$758.58
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$66.07
Median
$245.47
Typical High
$302.00
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$251.19
Median
$912.01
Typical High
$1,148.15
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$50.12
Median
$181.97
Typical High
$229.09
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$33.11
Median
$123.03
Typical High
$151.36
Medcost
Setting
Professional
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$2,511.89
Median
$2,884.03
Typical High
$5,754.40
Medcost
Setting
Professional
Modifier
51 · Multiple procedures
Typical Low
$831.76
Median
$954.99
Typical High
$1,905.46

Where North Carolina sits

The same service costs 3.8 times more in Oklahoma than in Montana. 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

North Carolina· 25th of 51

$3,779

$1,380 physician + $2,399 facility

OK $8,346MT $2,210

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.