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Bladder Scope Procedure With Placement Of A Ureter Tube

Louisiana 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?

$2,622

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $2,622 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $331 to the doctor who performs it, and $2,291 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$331$219 to $631
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$2,291$832 to $4,365

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $2,291 · 10th to 90th $468 to $7,244Professionalmedian $331 · 10th to 90th $145 to $708
$100$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $2,291professional $331

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
$398.11
Median
$1,698.24
Typical High
$7,244.36
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$2,041.74
Median
$10,000.00
Typical High
$10,471.29
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
52 · Reduced service
Typical Low
$102.33
Median
$120.23
Typical High
$338.84
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$40.74
Median
$48.98
Typical High
$134.90
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$144.54
Median
$331.13
Typical High
$707.95
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$741.31
Median
$741.31
Typical High
$741.31
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$72.44
Median
$151.36
Typical High
$204.17
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$239.88
Median
$239.88
Typical High
$239.88
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,884.03
Median
$5,370.32
Typical High
$7,585.78
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$181.97
Median
$302.00
Typical High
$630.96
Christus
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$39.81
Median
$3,019.95
Typical High
$3,019.95
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$154.88
Median
$275.42
Typical High
$691.83
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$831.76
Median
$2,884.03
Typical High
$7,244.36
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$144.54
Median
$371.54
Typical High
$724.44

Where Louisiana 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

Louisiana· 42nd of 51

$2,622

$331 physician + $2,291 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.