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Widening A Narrowed Male Urethra With A Flexible Guide

Iowa rates for HCPCS 53620

This procedure widens a narrowed section of the male urethra, the tube that carries urine out of the body, using a thin, flexible guide called a filiform, followed by a series of progressively larger dilators threaded over it. It is generally used for a tighter or more difficult narrowing that a simple rigid dilator cannot pass through easily. This is the first session of this particular treatment approach.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Widening A Narrowed Male Urethra With A Flexible Guide cost?

$2,505

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $2,505 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $214 to the doctor who performs it, and $2,291 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$214$132 to $380
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$2,291$417 to $3,890

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $2,291 · 10th to 90th $224 to $6,761Professionalmedian $214 · 10th to 90th $91 to $513
$100$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $2,291professional $214

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
$251.19
Median
$3,388.44
Typical High
$7,943.28
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$81.28
Median
$169.82
Typical High
$1,148.15
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$199.53
Median
$257.04
Typical High
$489.78
Hally Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$109.65
Median
$229.09
Typical High
$380.19
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$194.98
Median
$380.19
Typical High
$3,467.37
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$165.96
Median
$239.88
Typical High
$645.65
Midlands
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$165.96
Median
$309.03
Typical High
$467.74
Midlands
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$165.96
Median
$229.09
Typical High
$467.74
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,000.00
Median
$1,778.28
Typical High
$4,073.80
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$102.33
Median
$186.21
Typical High
$380.19
Wellmark
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$154.88
Median
$181.97
Typical High
$407.38

Where Iowa sits

The same service costs 18.8 times more in New Jersey than in West Virginia. 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· 19th of 50

$2,505

$214 physician + $2,291 facility

NJ $5,512WV $293

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.