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Bladder Scope Procedure With Placement Of A Ureter Tube

Iowa 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?

$3,806

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $3,806 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $339 to the doctor who performs it, and $3,467 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 8 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$339$151 to $776
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$3,467$1,380 to $6,026

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $3,467 · 10th to 90th $447 to $8,913Professionalmedian $339 · 10th to 90th $123 to $1,549
$100$1K$10Kfacility $3,467professional $339

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
$446.68
Median
$3,090.30
Typical High
$7,413.10
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$1,380.38
Median
$1,548.82
Typical High
$3,981.07
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
52 · Reduced service
Typical Low
$112.20
Median
$295.12
Typical High
$295.12
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$44.67
Median
$44.67
Typical High
$117.49
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$123.03
Median
$295.12
Typical High
$1,659.59
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$512.86
Median
$912.01
Typical High
$2,290.87
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$338.84
Median
$446.68
Typical High
$1,122.02
Hally Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$154.88
Median
$524.81
Typical High
$1,230.27
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$363.08
Median
$1,122.02
Typical High
$8,511.38
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
52 · Reduced service
Typical Low
$776.25
Median
$776.25
Typical High
$776.25
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$194.98
Median
$194.98
Typical High
$194.98
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$398.11
Median
$851.14
Typical High
$1,548.82
Midlands
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$338.84
Median
$812.83
Typical High
$1,122.02
Midlands
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$302.00
Median
$977.24
Typical High
$1,202.26
Oscar Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3,548.13
Median
$6,309.57
Typical High
$33,884.42
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$4,365.16
Median
$6,456.54
Typical High
$9,332.54
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$177.83
Median
$467.74
Typical High
$1,202.26
Wellmark
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$281.84
Median
$331.13
Typical High
$870.96

Where Iowa 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

Iowa· 27th of 51

$3,806

$339 physician + $3,467 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.