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Bladder Scope Procedure With Placement Of A Ureter Tube

Massachusetts 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?

$2,332

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $2,332 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $427 to the doctor who performs it, and $1,905 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 9 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$427$200 to $692
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,905$537 to $3,311

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,905 · 10th to 90th $178 to $5,623Professionalmedian $427 · 10th to 90th $148 to $1,202
$100$500$2K$10Kfacility $1,905professional $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
$549.54
Median
$2,398.83
Typical High
$5,623.41
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$630.96
Median
$630.96
Typical High
$5,623.41
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
52 · Reduced service
Typical Low
$79.43
Median
$245.47
Typical High
$269.15
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$32.36
Median
$100.00
Typical High
$107.15
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$138.04
Median
$446.68
Typical High
$1,380.38
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$407.38
Median
$912.01
Typical High
$2,137.96
AllWays Health Partners
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$371.54
Median
$5,370.32
Typical High
$28,840.32
AllWays Health Partners
Setting
Facility
Modifier
52 · Reduced service
Typical Low
$7,762.47
Median
$7,762.47
Typical High
$7,762.47
AllWays Health Partners
Setting
Facility
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$1,949.84
Median
$1,949.84
Typical High
$1,949.84
AllWays Health Partners
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$147.91
Median
$389.05
Typical High
$1,174.90
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$177.83
Median
$177.83
Typical High
$416.87
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$263.03
Median
$457.09
Typical High
$977.24
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$194.98
Median
$426.58
Typical High
$1,023.29
Fallon Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$85.11
Median
$181.97
Typical High
$3,311.31
Fallon Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$229.09
Median
$426.58
Typical High
$645.65
Harvard Pilgrim
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,041.74
Median
$4,265.80
Typical High
$9,772.37
Harvard Pilgrim
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$169.82
Median
$380.19
Typical High
$954.99
Health New England
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,023.29
Median
$3,890.45
Typical High
$7,585.78
Health New England
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$165.96
Median
$524.81
Typical High
$537.03
Mass General Brigham
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$371.54
Median
$5,370.32
Typical High
$28,840.32
Mass General Brigham
Setting
Facility
Modifier
52 · Reduced service
Typical Low
$7,762.47
Median
$7,762.47
Typical High
$7,762.47
Mass General Brigham
Setting
Facility
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$1,949.84
Median
$1,949.84
Typical High
$1,949.84
Mass General Brigham
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$147.91
Median
$389.05
Typical High
$1,174.90
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,862.09
Median
$4,265.80
Typical High
$9,772.37
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$173.78
Median
$446.68
Typical High
$1,047.13

Where Massachusetts 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

Massachusetts· 45th of 51

$2,332

$427 physician + $1,905 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.