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Bladder Scope Procedure With Placement Of A Ureter Tube

Tennessee 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?

$2,919

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $2,919 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $288 to the doctor who performs it, and $2,630 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$288$186 to $575
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$2,630$1,413 to $5,495

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $2,630 · 10th to 90th $479 to $9,772Professionalmedian $288 · 10th to 90th $141 to $832
$100$500$2K$10Kfacility $2,630professional $288

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
$380.19
Median
$2,570.40
Typical High
$9,772.37
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$1,819.70
Median
$2,570.40
Typical High
$4,897.79
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
52 · Reduced service
Typical Low
$97.72
Median
$213.80
Typical High
$501.19
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$38.90
Median
$85.11
Typical High
$199.53
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$128.82
Median
$275.42
Typical High
$812.83
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$229.09
Median
$831.76
Typical High
$1,905.46
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$141.25
Median
$194.98
Typical High
$263.03
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$147.91
Median
$257.04
Typical High
$389.05
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,905.46
Median
$4,073.80
Typical High
$5,888.44
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$181.97
Median
$426.58
Typical High
$933.25
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,187.76
Median
$2,187.76
Typical High
$2,187.76
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$169.82
Median
$363.08
Typical High
$794.33
Lucent Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$9,772.37
Median
$9,772.37
Typical High
$28,840.32
Lucent Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
52 · Reduced service
Typical Low
$7,762.47
Median
$7,762.47
Typical High
$7,762.47
Lucent Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$1,949.84
Median
$1,949.84
Typical High
$1,949.84
Lucent Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$4,677.35
Median
$4,677.35
Typical High
$4,897.79
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,995.26
Median
$3,467.37
Typical High
$6,309.57
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$151.36
Median
$363.08
Typical High
$870.96

Where Tennessee 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

Tennessee· 40th of 51

$2,919

$288 physician + $2,630 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.