Level 2 Urology and Related Services
In 2024, Medicare and patients paid an average of $638 per procedure at 848 hospitals. Half of hospitals averaged between $588 and $686.
Also known as: Urologic surgery, cystoscopy
National figures, 2024
- Average payment per case
- $638
- Typical range (middle half of hospitals)
- $588–$686
- Medicare’s share
- $502
- Average billed charge
- $3,156
- Hospitals reporting
- 848
Hospitals in Pennsylvania
Narrow by a state, city or ZIP code (optionally a distance around it), and/or pick specific hospitals. With both, your picks are added to the area’s hospitals.
- Average payment across these 49 hospitals
- $548
- Median hospital
- $623
- Lowest to highest
- $256–$720
- Medicare procedures
- 8,678
49 hospitals reported at least 11 Medicare procedures for this in 2024. Download as CSV
| Hospital | Cases | Average payment | vs national average | Medicare paid | Billed charge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center | 1,124 | $256 | 60% below the national average | $197 | $5,572 |
| UPMC Hanover | 34 | $269 | 58% below the national average | $207 | $2,897 |
| UPMC Pinnacle Hospitals | 697 | $280 | 56% below the national average | $218 | $1,585 |
| St Luke's Hospital - Anderson Campus | 16 | $342 | 46% below the national average | $273 | $4,985 |
| West Penn Hospital | 49 | $431 | 32% below the national average | $338 | $4,105 |
| Magee Womens Hospital Of UPMC Health System | 54 | $469 | 27% below the national average | $358 | $6,432 |
| Wellspan York Hospital | 129 | $529 | 17% below the national average | $418 | $6,054 |
| Thomas Jefferson University Hospital | 754 | $572 | 10% below the national average | $452 | $1,779 |
| Milton S Hershey Medical Center | 520 | $582 | About average | $458 | $4,770 |
| Gettysburg Hospital | 19 | $588 | About average | $459 | $2,986 |
| Penn State Health Lancaster Medical Center | 16 | $602 | About average | $480 | $7,522 |
| Geisinger-Bloomsburg Hospital | 96 | $605 | About average | $478 | $6,608 |
| Uniontown Hospital | 390 | $607 | About average | $479 | $1,583 |
| Geisinger Medical Center | 617 | $608 | About average | $477 | $6,565 |
| Allegheny Valley Hospital | 17 | $610 | About average | $486 | $2,962 |
| Regional Hospital Of Scranton | 15 | $610 | About average | $486 | $11,239 |
| Wellspan Evangelical Community Hospital | 29 | $610 | About average | $486 | $3,990 |
| UPMC Mercy | 12 | $610 | About average | $486 | $12,106 |
| UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside | 11 | $610 | About average | $486 | $17,857 |
| UPMC St Margaret | 61 | $610 | About average | $486 | $4,696 |
| UPMC Northwest | 76 | $610 | About average | $482 | $8,859 |
| Lecom Medical Center And Behavioral Health Pav | 28 | $610 | About average | $480 | $1,383 |
| St Clair Hospital | 15 | $610 | About average | $477 | $3,784 |
| Lehigh Valley Hospital - Hazleton | 18 | $610 | About average | $476 | $4,378 |
| Penn State Health St. Joseph | 19 | $623 | About average | $496 | $4,398 |
| Wellspan Ephrata Community Hospital | 19 | $623 | About average | $496 | $7,305 |
| Reading Hospital | 12 | $624 | About average | $497 | $14,851 |
| Robert Packer Hospital | 162 | $626 | About average | $492 | $3,399 |
| Hospital Of University Of Pennsylvania | 1,428 | $628 | About average | $495 | $3,612 |
| St Luke's Miners Memorial Hospital | 33 | $629 | About average | $496 | $4,605 |
| St Lukes Hospital | 73 | $645 | About average | $499 | $4,989 |
| Meadville Medical Center | 86 | $648 | About average | $510 | $6,800 |
| Wayne Memorial Hospital | 375 | $653 | About average | $518 | $2,572 |
| Conemaugh Memorial Medical Center | 16 | $653 | About average | $521 | $2,423 |
| Penn Highlands Dubois | 51 | $653 | About average | $519 | $5,373 |
| UPMC Altoona | 44 | $654 | About average | $512 | $9,568 |
| Geisinger-Lewistown Hospital | 19 | $654 | About average | $511 | $2,106 |
| Punxsutawney Area Hospital | 21 | $654 | About average | $507 | $5,605 |
| Independence Health System Clarion Hospital | 12 | $654 | About average | $505 | $1,298 |
| Indiana Regional Medical Center | 13 | $655 | About average | $517 | $10,620 |
| Lehigh Valley Hospital | 91 | $656 | About average | $509 | $8,699 |
| Jefferson Health- Northeast | 19 | $662 | About average | $524 | $4,258 |
| Temple University Hospital | 32 | $663 | About average | $522 | $31,124 |
| Riddle Memorial Hospital | 13 | $664 | About average | $529 | $10,765 |
| Pennsylvania Hospital | 800 | $688 | About average | $544 | $2,988 |
| Penn Presbyterian Medical Center | 344 | $688 | About average | $547 | $1,915 |
| Warren General Hospital | 68 | $720 | 13% above the national average | $565 | $1,890 |
| Saint Vincent Hospital | 119 | $720 | 13% above the national average | $565 | $5,964 |
| UPMC Hamot | 12 | $720 | 13% above the national average | $558 | $15,017 |
National trend
Average payment and billed charge per procedure, and how many Medicare procedures were reported each year.
- Average payment
- Average billed charge
View data as a table
| Year of care | Average payment | Average billed charge |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | $606 | $2,925 |
| 2024 | $638 | $3,156 |
By state, 2024
Case-weighted average payment across each state’s reporting hospitals, lowest first.
Show all 50 states
| State | Hospitals | Cases | Average payment | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vermont | 6 | 2,304 | $327 | $279–$361 |
| Oklahoma | 4 | 1,060 | $333 | $498–$582 |
| Louisiana | 21 | 2,731 | $478 | $566–$577 |
| Arizona | 13 | 1,563 | $487 | $569–$666 |
| Virginia | 16 | 3,754 | $504 | $588–$626 |
| Utah | 3 | 1,189 | $524 | $566–$634 |
| Ohio | 63 | 16,522 | $537 | $550–$598 |
| Tennessee | 11 | 2,196 | $537 | $561–$583 |
| Alabama | 6 | 1,562 | $547 | $545–$584 |
| Michigan | 39 | 7,695 | $557 | $579–$621 |
| Mississippi | 12 | 951 | $560 | $558–$568 |
| West Virginia | 16 | 3,465 | $563 | $552–$600 |
| Pennsylvania | 50 | 10,541 | $568 | $607–$654 |
| Kentucky | 18 | 2,490 | $586 | $575–$611 |
| Arkansas | 8 | 1,151 | $588 | $580–$618 |
| Kansas | 9 | 2,750 | $589 | $583–$628 |
| Nebraska | 8 | 1,099 | $590 | $582–$619 |
| North Carolina | 23 | 7,013 | $593 | $594–$613 |
| Georgia | 20 | 3,224 | $594 | $574–$630 |
| Missouri | 18 | 1,684 | $602 | $591–$628 |
| South Carolina | 10 | 2,795 | $603 | $570–$588 |
| Iowa | 14 | 4,678 | $604 | $585–$626 |
| Indiana | 27 | 2,816 | $605 | $609–$623 |
| Florida | 36 | 8,673 | $607 | $599–$619 |
| Texas | 29 | 7,798 | $613 | $593–$618 |
| Idaho | 5 | 2,358 | $616 | $615–$656 |
| Maine | 14 | 3,180 | $629 | $590–$642 |
| Illinois | 39 | 7,411 | $629 | $620–$650 |
| Wisconsin | 28 | 6,331 | $632 | $615–$641 |
| New Mexico | 8 | 1,939 | $639 | $592–$640 |
| Montana | 5 | 2,517 | $648 | $641–$684 |
| North Dakota | 6 | 3,093 | $650 | $639–$665 |
| Minnesota | 29 | 4,248 | $652 | $640–$681 |
| Colorado | 12 | 1,826 | $657 | $650–$696 |
| South Dakota | 9 | 3,247 | $662 | $637–$686 |
| New Hampshire | 6 | 2,605 | $662 | $652–$675 |
| Oregon | 6 | 1,485 | $668 | $710–$750 |
| Delaware | 4 | 611 | $680 | $678–$686 |
| Wyoming | 3 | 314 | $686 | $686–$686 |
| Nevada | 1 | 13 | $687 | $687–$687 |
| Rhode Island | 6 | 641 | $690 | $692–$693 |
| District of Columbia | 2 | 965 | $696 | $694–$696 |
| Washington | 12 | 7,290 | $700 | $686–$706 |
| New York | 56 | 18,619 | $724 | $723–$776 |
| New Jersey | 23 | 1,839 | $734 | $710–$749 |
| Massachusetts | 27 | 7,700 | $736 | $731–$734 |
| Alaska | 1 | 184 | $755 | $755–$755 |
| Connecticut | 10 | 2,761 | $760 | $757–$769 |
| Hawaii | 5 | 975 | $772 | $769–$786 |
| California | 51 | 18,533 | $855 | $839–$898 |
About these numbers
Average payment is what Medicare paid plus the patient’s deductible and coinsurance (and any other insurer), averaged over the hospital’s Medicare cases. It covers the hospital’s part of the care; doctors bill separately. For outpatient procedures it is Medicare’s allowed amount, which leaves out extra “outlier” payments for unusually costly cases; those are shown under the hospital name where CMS reported any, and included in the CSV. Billed charges are the hospital’s list prices, which few patients pay.
Medicare sets its payments by formula, adjusting for local wages, teaching programs, the share of low-income patients and unusually costly cases. Those adjustments drive most differences between hospitals, so a lower payment doesn’t mean better or worse care, and Medicare patients’ own costs usually vary much less than the totals. Private insurance pays different, usually higher, prices.
Source: CMS Medicare Outpatient Hospitals by Provider and Service (Medicare fee-for-service claims). CMS omits hospitals with fewer than 11 procedures. More in the glossary.