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Replacement Of Artificial Urinary Sphincter

Tennessee 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?

$2,873

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $2,873 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $1,698 to the doctor who performs it, and $1,175 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$1,698$1,380 to $2,754
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,175$631 to $2,138

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,175 · 10th to 90th $468 to $2,951Professionalmedian $1,698 · 10th to 90th $1,175 to $10,965
$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $1,175professional $1,698

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

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,380.38
Median
$2,818.38
Typical High
$7,585.78
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,230.27
Median
$1,380.38
Typical High
$1,698.24
BCBS Tennessee
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$501.19
Median
$1,445.44
Typical High
$3,715.35
BCBS Tennessee
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,348.96
Median
$1,819.70
Typical High
$3,090.30
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$512.86
Median
$676.08
Typical High
$2,691.53
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,174.90
Median
$1,479.11
Typical High
$2,570.40
Lucent Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$10,964.78
Median
$10,964.78
Typical High
$10,964.78
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$346.74
Median
$1,047.13
Typical High
$2,511.89
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,202.26
Median
$1,737.80
Typical High
$2,884.03
6 more rates with less common billing modifiers

A modifier changes what was billed, for example a reduced or repeated service. Each of these modifiers carries under 10% of the published rates for this code. Modifier combinations, and modifiers with fewer than 30 rates for a carrier, are not listed.

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
52 · Reduced service
Typical Low
$616.60
Median
$691.83
Typical High
$851.14
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$245.47
Median
$275.42
Typical High
$338.84
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$933.25
Median
$1,047.13
Typical High
$1,288.25
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$186.21
Median
$208.93
Typical High
$257.04
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$123.03
Median
$138.04
Typical High
$169.82
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
78 · Unplanned return to OR
Typical Low
$870.96
Median
$977.24
Typical High
$1,202.26

Where Tennessee 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

Tennessee· 32nd of 51

$2,873

$1,698 physician + $1,175 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.