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Guide Wire To The Kidney Placed Through A Scope

Minnesota 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?

$724

Typical facility fee. In Minnesota, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $724 for this service. Most negotiated rates run $501 to $5,012.

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.

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $724 · 10th to 90th $363 to $10,233
$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10K$20Kfacility $724

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
$169.82
Median
$169.82
Typical High
$2,089.30
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$436.52
Median
$6,309.57
Typical High
$15,848.93
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$467.74
Median
$630.96
Typical High
$1,737.80
Health Partners
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$489.78
Median
$707.95
Typical High
$1,380.38
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$245.47
Median
$371.54
Typical High
$8,317.64
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3,019.95
Median
$5,248.07
Typical High
$9,120.11

Where Minnesota 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.

Minnesota· 43rd of 50

$724

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.