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Bladder Scope Procedure With Placement Of A Ureter Tube

Alabama 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?

$2,289

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $2,289 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $427 to the doctor who performs it, and $1,862 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 5 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$427$240 to $708
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,862$708 to $2,818

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,862 · 10th to 90th $302 to $4,169Professionalmedian $427 · 10th to 90th $151 to $741
$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $1,862professional $427

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
$302.00
Median
$1,096.48
Typical High
$4,168.69
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$2,630.27
Median
$2,884.03
Typical High
$9,332.54
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
52 · Reduced service
Typical Low
$1,548.82
Median
$1,548.82
Typical High
$1,548.82
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$158.49
Median
$426.58
Typical High
$812.83
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$61.66
Median
$134.90
Typical High
$194.98
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$102.33
Median
$218.78
Typical High
$263.03
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,137.96
Median
$2,570.40
Typical High
$3,467.37
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$3,235.94
Median
$3,890.45
Typical High
$5,128.61
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$239.88
Median
$446.68
Typical High
$645.65
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$162.18
Median
$316.23
Typical High
$794.33
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
$128.82
Median
$323.59
Typical High
$616.60

Where Alabama 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

Alabama· 47th of 51

$2,289

$427 physician + $1,862 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.