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Ureter Scope Through Existing Opening, Stone Removal

Nationwide rates for HCPCS 50961

A scope is passed through an opening that already drains a ureter — the tube carrying urine from kidney to bladder — out to the skin, and a stone or a foreign object is grasped and pulled out through it. Baskets or graspers are passed down the scope to capture the object. No new surgical opening is made.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Ureter Scope Through Existing Opening, Stone Removal cost?

$4,017

Typical total for the visit. Nationwide, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $4,017 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $550 to the doctor who performs it, and $3,467 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 52 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$550$417 to $759
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$3,467$1,288 to $6,457

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $3,467 · 10th to 90th $490 to $11,749Professionalmedian $550 · 10th to 90th $309 to $1,148
$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10K$20Kfacility $3,467professional $550

Distribution of negotiated rates across all payers (price axis is log-scale). Each curve is scaled to its own total: facility and professional rates are different services, shown together to compare where they cluster. Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$436.52
Median
$2,630.27
Typical High
$8,709.64
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,659.59
Median
$5,128.61
Typical High
$13,803.84
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$501.19
Median
$1,348.96
Typical High
$3,801.89
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,513.56
Median
$4,466.84
Typical High
$10,964.78

What it costs in each state

The same service costs 7.0 times more in Wisconsin than in South Dakota. 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

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WI $9,825SD $1,407

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.