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Guide Wire To The Kidney Placed Through A Scope

Louisiana rates for HCPCS 52334

Passes a scope along the urethra into the bladder and threads a guide wire up the ureter to the kidney, so a drainage channel can be set up through the skin into the kidney. The wire gives the person placing that drain a secure track to follow. It is a preparatory step done alongside the drainage procedure itself.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Guide Wire To The Kidney Placed Through A Scope cost?

$2,630

Typical facility fee. In Louisiana, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $2,630 for this service. Most negotiated rates run $1,288 to $3,981.

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 4 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $2,630 · 10th to 90th $759 to $5,754
$500$1K$2K$5Kfacility $2,630

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
$676.08
Median
$1,949.84
Typical High
$4,570.88
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,570.40
Median
$5,128.61
Typical High
$7,585.78
Christus
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$39.81
Median
$39.81
Typical High
$39.81
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$831.76
Median
$2,884.03
Typical High
$7,244.36

Where Louisiana sits

The same service costs 91.2 times more in Indiana than in West Virginia. 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.

Louisiana· 33rd of 50

$2,630

IN $10,233WV $112

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.