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Bladder Scope Procedure With Placement Of A Ureter Tube

Virginia 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?

$3,282

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $3,282 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $398 to the doctor who performs it, and $2,884 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$398$182 to $537
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$2,884$692 to $5,623

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $2,884 · 10th to 90th $224 to $8,913Professionalmedian $398 · 10th to 90th $158 to $851
$100$500$2K$10Kfacility $2,884professional $398

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
$275.42
Median
$3,019.95
Typical High
$8,912.51
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$691.83
Median
$933.25
Typical High
$7,585.78
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
52 · Reduced service
Typical Low
$81.28
Median
$131.83
Typical High
$363.08
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$32.36
Median
$52.48
Typical High
$144.54
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$158.49
Median
$363.08
Typical High
$870.96
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$363.08
Median
$741.31
Typical High
$741.31
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$5,888.44
Median
$6,760.83
Typical High
$7,413.10
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$162.18
Median
$363.08
Typical High
$645.65
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$239.88
Median
$537.03
Typical High
$954.99
CareFirst
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$165.96
Median
$229.09
Typical High
$5,495.41
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$162.18
Median
$338.84
Typical High
$776.25
Kaiser Permanente
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$134.90
Median
$436.52
Typical High
$1,174.90
Medcost
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$213.80
Median
$537.03
Typical High
$1,071.52
Medcost
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$162.18
Median
$389.05
Typical High
$851.14
Sentara
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$147.91
Median
$208.93
Typical High
$8,709.64
Sentara
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$389.05
Median
$630.96
Typical High
$8,709.64
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3,801.89
Median
$6,606.93
Typical High
$13,489.63
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$144.54
Median
$338.84
Typical High
$812.83

Where Virginia 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

Virginia· 35th of 51

$3,282

$398 physician + $2,884 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.