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Complex Bladder Tube Exchange

Alabama rates for HCPCS 51710

This procedure replaces a tube that drains the bladder through an opening in the lower abdomen, in a situation that is more difficult than a routine exchange. Difficulty can arise from scarring, a narrowed tract, or other factors that make removing and reinserting the tube more involved. The clinician removes the old tube and threads a new one into the bladder through the same opening.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Complex Bladder Tube Exchange cost?

$166

Typical negotiated rate. In Alabama, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $166 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $155 from a physician practice, and about $646 from a hospital or other facility. The two figures are alternatives, not parts of one bill.

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 4 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

Where it's billed changes the price

Billed byTypicalRange
Physician practiceA doctor's office, clinic or independent provider$155$105 to $214
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$646$355 to $1,259

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $646 · 10th to 90th $302 to $1,995Professionalmedian $155 · 10th to 90th $81 to $257
$100$200$500$1K$2Kfacility $646professional $155

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
$575.44
Median
$954.99
Typical High
$2,398.83
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$81.28
Median
$154.88
Typical High
$257.04
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$275.42
Median
$331.13
Typical High
$436.52
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$56.23
Median
$102.33
Typical High
$158.49
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$83.18
Median
$141.25
Typical High
$371.54
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$398.11
Median
$1,148.15
Typical High
$2,511.89
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$66.07
Median
$112.20
Typical High
$208.93

Where Alabama sits

The same service costs 8.7 times more in Hawaii than in Michigan. 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.

Alabama· 25th of 51

$166

HI $1,148MI $132

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.