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Widening A Narrowed Male Urethra With A Flexible Guide

Louisiana 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?

$1,440

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,440 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $151 to the doctor who performs it, and $1,288 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$151$115 to $224
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,288$813 to $2,692

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,288 · 10th to 90th $224 to $3,715Professionalmedian $151 · 10th to 90th $89 to $245
$100$200$500$1K$2K$5Kfacility $1,288professional $151

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
$223.87
Median
$1,288.25
Typical High
$3,548.13
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$81.28
Median
$151.36
Typical High
$245.47
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$575.44
Median
$1,288.25
Typical High
$4,897.79
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$102.33
Median
$144.54
Typical High
$275.42
Christus
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$39.81
Median
$39.81
Typical High
$39.81
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$97.72
Median
$151.36
Typical High
$251.19
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$338.84
Median
$1,096.48
Typical High
$2,290.87
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$81.28
Median
$134.90
Typical High
$234.42

Where Louisiana 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

Louisiana· 33rd of 50

$1,440

$151 physician + $1,288 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.