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Replacement Of Artificial Urinary Sphincter

Iowa 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?

$5,478

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $5,478 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $2,089 to the doctor who performs it, and $3,388 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 7 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$2,089$1,622 to $3,467
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$3,388$1,778 to $6,457

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $3,388 · 10th to 90th $355 to $7,943Professionalmedian $2,089 · 10th to 90th $1,202 to $7,586
$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $3,388professional $2,089

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
$1,862.09
Median
$6,456.54
Typical High
$11,481.54
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,174.90
Median
$1,862.09
Typical High
$7,585.78
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,398.83
Median
$2,951.21
Typical High
$3,630.78
Hally Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,258.93
Median
$2,238.72
Typical High
$4,677.35
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$354.81
Median
$2,511.89
Typical High
$4,677.35
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,479.11
Median
$2,630.27
Typical High
$10,471.29
Midlands
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,754.23
Median
$3,090.30
Typical High
$4,168.69
Midlands
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,398.83
Median
$3,388.44
Typical High
$3,890.45
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$354.81
Median
$741.31
Typical High
$4,073.80
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,288.25
Median
$2,089.30
Typical High
$4,073.80
Wellmark
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,819.70
Median
$2,290.87
Typical High
$2,691.53

Where Iowa 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

Iowa· 22nd of 50

$5,478

$2,089 physician + $3,388 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.