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Bladder Scope Procedure With Placement Of A Ureter Tube

Maryland 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?

$1,070

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,070 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $257 to the doctor who performs it, and $813 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$257$158 to $501
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$813$166 to $1,862

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $813 · 10th to 90th $45 to $3,388Professionalmedian $257 · 10th to 90th $123 to $794
$1$10$100$1K$10Kfacility $813professional $257

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
$44.67
Median
$812.83
Typical High
$3,388.44
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$0.98
Median
$977.24
Typical High
$5,248.07
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$97.72
Median
$245.47
Typical High
$794.33
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$194.98
Median
$630.96
Typical High
$1,000.00
CareFirst
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$147.91
Median
$147.91
Typical High
$223.87
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,737.80
Median
$1,737.80
Typical High
$1,737.80
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$162.18
Median
$346.74
Typical High
$794.33
Kaiser Permanente
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$338.84
Median
$457.09
Typical High
$851.14
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,621.81
Median
$1,621.81
Typical High
$7,244.36
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$154.88
Median
$380.19
Typical High
$812.83
Wellpoint
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$389.05
Median
$512.86
Typical High
$616.60

Where Maryland 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

Maryland· 50th of 51

$1,070

$257 physician + $813 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.