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Replacement Of Artificial Urinary Sphincter

Michigan 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?

$6,447

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $6,447 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $1,549 to the doctor who performs it, and $4,898 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$1,549$1,259 to $1,660
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$4,898$1,622 to $4,898

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $4,898 · 10th to 90th $324 to $4,898Professionalmedian $1,549 · 10th to 90th $1,122 to $1,778
$500$1K$2K$5Kfacility $4,898professional $1,549

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
$1,621.81
Median
$4,897.79
Typical High
$6,918.31
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,174.90
Median
$1,445.44
Typical High
$1,621.81
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,096.48
Median
$1,096.48
Typical High
$1,096.48
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$354.81
Median
$1,778.28
Typical High
$1,778.28
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,122.02
Median
$1,513.56
Typical High
$4,073.80
Health Alliance Plan
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,621.81
Median
$3,801.89
Typical High
$4,897.79
Health Alliance Plan
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,230.27
Median
$1,513.56
Typical High
$2,041.74
Priority Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$4,073.80
Median
$4,073.80
Typical High
$4,073.80
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$323.59
Median
$954.99
Typical High
$4,073.80
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,318.26
Median
$1,659.59
Typical High
$2,137.96

Where Michigan 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

Michigan· 18th of 50

$6,447

$1,549 physician + $4,898 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.