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Replacement Of Artificial Urinary Sphincter

Alabama 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 July 2026.

How much does Replacement Of Artificial Urinary Sphincter cost?

$4,854

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $4,854 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $2,455 to the doctor who performs it, and $2,399 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 4 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$2,455$1,288 to $2,512
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$2,399$1,148 to $8,511

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $2,399 · 10th to 90th $537 to $10,471Professionalmedian $2,455 · 10th to 90th $1,230 to $3,467
$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $2,399professional $2,455

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
$954.99
Median
$1,258.93
Typical High
$2,398.83
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,230.27
Median
$2,511.89
Typical High
$3,467.37
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$7,413.10
Median
$8,709.64
Typical High
$11,748.98
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,047.13
Median
$1,584.89
Typical High
$1,949.84
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$912.01
Median
$1,513.56
Typical High
$2,344.23
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$363.08
Median
$1,148.15
Typical High
$2,511.89
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,000.00
Median
$1,318.26
Typical High
$2,089.30

Where Alabama sits

The same service costs 12.0 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

Alabama· 27th of 50

$4,854

$2,455 physician + $2,399 facility

ME $21,236MD $1,776

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.