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Replacement Of Artificial Urinary Sphincter

Louisiana 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?

$4,597

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $4,597 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $1,905 to the doctor who performs it, and $2,692 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 5 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$1,905$1,445 to $2,138
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$2,692$1,318 to $3,890

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $2,692 · 10th to 90th $676 to $6,457Professionalmedian $1,905 · 10th to 90th $1,202 to $2,239
$500$1K$2K$5Kfacility $2,692professional $1,905

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
$933.25
Median
$2,691.53
Typical High
$4,365.16
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,202.26
Median
$1,995.26
Typical High
$2,238.72
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3,019.95
Median
$5,623.41
Typical High
$7,943.28
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,513.56
Median
$1,778.28
Typical High
$2,137.96
Christus
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$39.81
Median
$39.81
Typical High
$39.81
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$933.25
Median
$1,698.24
Typical High
$2,238.72
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$323.59
Median
$954.99
Typical High
$2,290.87
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,122.02
Median
$1,479.11
Typical High
$2,454.71

Where Louisiana 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

Louisiana· 31st of 50

$4,597

$1,905 physician + $2,692 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.