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Widening A Narrowed Male Urethra With A Flexible Guide

North Carolina 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?

$501

Typical total for the visit. In North Carolina, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $501 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $170 to the doctor who performs it, and $331 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$170$110 to $234
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$331$170 to $1,995

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $331 · 10th to 90th $95 to $5,495Professionalmedian $170 · 10th to 90th $87 to $331
$100$200$500$1K$2K$5Kfacility $331professional $170

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
$138.04
Median
$426.58
Typical High
$6,918.31
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$85.11
Median
$158.49
Typical High
$331.13
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$117.49
Median
$208.93
Typical High
$323.59
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$109.65
Median
$181.97
Typical High
$323.59
Medcost
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$85.11
Median
$169.82
Typical High
$263.03
Medcost
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$95.50
Median
$95.50
Typical High
$380.19
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$912.01
Median
$2,344.23
Typical High
$4,365.16
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$87.10
Median
$141.25
Typical High
$257.04
Wellcare
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,995.26
Median
$1,995.26
Typical High
$13,489.63
Wellcare
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,949.84
Median
$1,949.84
Typical High
$1,949.84

Where North Carolina 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

North Carolina· 44th of 50

$501

$170 physician + $331 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.