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Bladder Scope Procedure With Placement Of A Ureter Tube

Alaska rates for HCPCS 52332

This is a procedure in which a thin scope is passed through the urethra into the bladder to place a small, flexible tube called a stent into the tube connecting the kidney to the bladder. The stent helps keep that passage open, commonly to relieve a blockage or allow healing after another procedure.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Bladder Scope Procedure With Placement Of A Ureter Tube cost?

$5,417

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $5,417 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $631 to the doctor who performs it, and $4,786 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$631$355 to $1,202
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$4,786$724 to $7,762

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $4,786 · 10th to 90th $234 to $9,120Professionalmedian $631 · 10th to 90th $155 to $1,738
$1$10$100$1K$10Kfacility $4,786professional $631

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
$794.33
Median
$6,760.83
Typical High
$9,120.11
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$3,090.30
Median
$3,090.30
Typical High
$6,760.83
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
52 · Reduced service
Typical Low
$239.88
Median
$257.04
Typical High
$676.08
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$95.50
Median
$104.71
Typical High
$269.15
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$154.88
Median
$398.11
Typical High
$1,737.80
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$162.18
Median
$537.03
Typical High
$794.33
Moda Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$181.97
Median
$467.74
Typical High
$1,737.80
Moda Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$346.74
Median
$1,071.52
Typical High
$2,511.89
Premera BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$616.60
Median
$1,621.81
Typical High
$2,511.89
Providence
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$181.97
Median
$467.74
Typical High
$1,737.80
Providence
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$151.36
Median
$338.84
Typical High
$891.25
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$7,244.36
Median
$7,244.36
Typical High
$7,244.36
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$162.18
Median
$630.96
Typical High
$1,778.28

Where Alaska sits

The same service costs 8.7 times more in Wyoming 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· 11th of 51

$5,417

$631 physician + $4,786 facility

WY $8,220MT $943

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.