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Bladder Scope Exam With Treatment Of A Small Growth

Alabama rates for HCPCS 52224

A thin lighted scope is passed through the urethra into the bladder to examine the lining, and a small growth found on the bladder or urethra is treated in the same visit using heat, freezing, or laser energy, with or without taking a tissue sample. This combines diagnostic viewing and treatment of a minor finding in a single procedure.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Bladder Scope Exam With Treatment Of A Small Growth cost?

$2,990

Typical total for the visit. In Alabama, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $2,990 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $646 to the doctor who performs it, and $2,344 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 4 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$646$245 to $1,380
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$2,344$1,259 to $2,884

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $2,344 · 10th to 90th $776 to $3,802Professionalmedian $646 · 10th to 90th $195 to $1,380
$200$500$1K$2K$5Kfacility $2,344professional $646

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
$758.58
Median
$1,122.02
Typical High
$2,398.83
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$194.98
Median
$758.58
Typical High
$1,513.56
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,137.96
Median
$2,570.40
Typical High
$3,467.37
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$147.91
Median
$524.81
Typical High
$912.01
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$190.55
Median
$407.38
Typical High
$1,288.25
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$831.76
Median
$2,884.03
Typical High
$4,677.35
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$169.82
Median
$575.44
Typical High
$1,412.54

Where Alabama sits

The same service costs 6.1 times more in Wyoming than in Delaware. 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

Alabama· 34th of 50

$2,990

$646 physician + $2,344 facility

WY $7,833DE $1,289

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.