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Replacement Of Artificial Urinary Sphincter

Alaska rates for HCPCS 53448

Surgery to remove a failed or infected artificial urinary sphincter and put a new one in during the same operation. The device has a cuff around the urine tube, a control pump and a fluid reservoir, and it keeps the urine tube closed until the patient presses the pump.

Rates data updated October 2026.

How much does Replacement Of Artificial Urinary Sphincter cost?

$11,154

Typical total for the visit. In Alaska, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $11,154 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $5,129 to the doctor who performs it, and $6,026 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$5,129$3,388 to $5,129
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$6,026$2,042 to $16,596

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $6,026 · 10th to 90th $933 to $251,189Professionalmedian $5,129 · 10th to 90th $1,318 to $7,244
$100$1K$10K$100Kfacility $6,026professional $5,129

Distribution of negotiated rates across all payers (price axis is log-scale). Small sample; interpret with caution. Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$6,025.60
Median
$12,022.64
Typical High
$16,595.87
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,202.26
Median
$6,025.60
Typical High
$14,125.38
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,288.25
Median
$1,698.24
Typical High
$4,466.84
Moda Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$2,041.74
Median
$6,025.60
Typical High
$8,511.38
Moda Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,230.27
Median
$6,025.60
Typical High
$8,912.51
Premera BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$5,128.61
Median
$5,128.61
Typical High
$5,128.61
Providence
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$6,025.60
Median
$251,188.64
Typical High
$346,736.85
Providence
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$60.26
Median
$2,818.38
Typical High
$4,466.84
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$831.76
Median
$1,778.28
Typical High
$2,951.21
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,318.26
Median
$3,548.13
Typical High
$8,128.31

Where Alaska sits

The same service costs 13.1 times more in Maine than in Maryland. 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

Alaska· 2nd of 51

$11,154

$5,129 physician + $6,026 facility

ME $24,687MD $1,882

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.