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Widening A Narrowed Male Urethra With A Flexible Guide

South 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?

$4,025

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $4,025 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $135 to the doctor who performs it, and $3,890 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$135$105 to $204
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$3,890$204 to $7,762

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $3,890 · 10th to 90th $115 to $10,000Professionalmedian $135 · 10th to 90th $85 to $240
$50$200$1K$5K$20Kfacility $3,890professional $135

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
$104.71
Median
$5,623.41
Typical High
$21,877.62
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$93.33
Median
$131.83
Typical High
$239.88
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$75.86
Median
$75.86
Typical High
$75.86
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,630.27
Median
$5,495.41
Typical High
$8,709.64
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$79.43
Median
$138.04
Typical High
$213.80
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$131.83
Median
$131.83
Typical High
$169.82
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$100.00
Median
$158.49
Typical High
$302.00
Medcost
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$89.13
Median
$169.82
Typical High
$316.23
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$32.36
Median
$32.36
Typical High
$33.11
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$691.83
Median
$3,388.44
Typical High
$7,762.47
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$85.11
Median
$141.25
Typical High
$234.42

Where South 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

South Carolina· 5th of 50

$4,025

$135 physician + $3,890 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.