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Widening The Urinary Opening In An Infant

Alabama rates for HCPCS 53025

A small cut that widens the opening at the tip of the urethra where urine leaves the body, done in an infant whose opening is too narrow. Opening it up restores a normal urine stream.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Widening The Urinary Opening In An Infant cost?

$135

Typical negotiated rate. In Alabama, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $135 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $135 from a physician practice, and about $2,951 from a hospital or other facility. The two figures are alternatives, not parts of one bill.

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.

Where it's billed changes the price

Billed byTypicalRange
Physician practiceA doctor's office, clinic or independent provider$135$69.18 to $135
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$2,951$1,148 to $4,571

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $2,951 · 10th to 90th $692 to $5,623Professionalmedian $135 · 10th to 90th $65 to $186
$100$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $2,951professional $135

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
$562.34
Median
$954.99
Typical High
$2,398.83
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$64.57
Median
$134.90
Typical High
$186.21
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$4,073.80
Median
$4,786.30
Typical High
$6,456.54
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$52.48
Median
$72.44
Typical High
$87.10
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$64.57
Median
$91.20
Typical High
$199.53
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$831.76
Median
$2,754.23
Typical High
$4,265.80
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$52.48
Median
$74.13
Typical High
$151.36

Where Alabama sits

The same service costs 44.7 times more in California 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.

Alabama· 21st of 51

$135

CA $3,236WV $72.44

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.