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Ureter Scope Through Existing Opening, Stone Removal

Alaska 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 October 2026.

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

$6,882

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $6,882 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $1,259 to the doctor who performs it, and $5,623 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$1,259$891 to $1,585
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$5,623$2,570 to $7,244

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $5,623 · 10th to 90th $1,778 to $12,023Professionalmedian $1,259 · 10th to 90th $407 to $2,042
$100$500$2K$10Kfacility $5,623professional $1,259

Distribution of negotiated rates across all payers (price axis is log-scale). Small sample; interpret with caution. Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,479.11
Median
$5,888.44
Typical High
$14,125.38
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$316.23
Median
$1,479.11
Typical High
$5,888.44
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$4,265.80
Median
$6,918.31
Typical High
$21,379.62
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$331.13
Median
$524.81
Typical High
$1,096.48
Moda Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$501.19
Median
$1,479.11
Typical High
$2,570.40
Moda Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$371.54
Median
$1,737.80
Typical High
$2,630.27
Premera BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$2,754.23
Median
$5,495.41
Typical High
$6,309.57
Premera BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,258.93
Median
$1,258.93
Typical High
$1,584.89
Providence
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$2,041.74
Median
$5,888.44
Typical High
$12,589.25
Providence
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$302.00
Median
$691.83
Typical High
$1,096.48
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,905.46
Median
$6,165.95
Typical High
$8,912.51
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$407.38
Median
$1,023.29
Typical High
$2,187.76

Where Alaska sits

The same service costs 6.9 times more in Colorado 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

Alaska· 2nd of 51

$6,882

$1,259 physician + $5,623 facility

CO $7,286MT $1,064

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.