How much does cystoscopy cost in California?
CPT 52000 — the fair price, every hospital's price, and the Medicare benchmark for California.
Estimates only. Educational estimates from public Medicare
benchmarks and hospital-published prices — not a guarantee, and not legal, medical, or financial advice.
52000 Cystoscopy
Ask to pay
$1,495
This is the local cash / self-pay price — usually the best rate you can ask for.
Typical
$1,293
Ask $1,495
$6 lowboxed = typical rangehigh $24,686
What Medicare paysⓘ
no data
Typical price near you
$1,293
Cash / self-pay price
$1,495
Prices near you — 88 facilities, lowest first
| Facility | Type | Price | vs Medicare | Quality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adventist Health Bakersfield (Bakersfield) lowest | Hospital | $6cash | — | — |
| Adventist Health Glendale (Glendale) | Hospital | $7cash | — | ★★★★★ |
| Adventist Health White Memorial (Los Angeles) | Hospital | $8cash | — | — |
| Eisenhower Medical Center (Rancho Mirage) | Hospital | $90negotiated | — | ★★★★★ |
| UCI Medical Center (Orange) | Hospital | $123cash | — | ★★★★★ |
| Kaweah Health Medical Center (Visalia) | Hospital | $155cash | — | — |
| Los Angeles General Medical Center (Los Angeles) | Hospital | $177negotiated | — | ★★★★★ |
| Harbor-UCLA Medical Center (Torrance) | Hospital | $177negotiated | — | — |
| Community Regional Medical Center (Fresno) | Hospital | $229negotiated | — | — |
| Clovis Community Medical Center (Clovis) | Hospital | $229negotiated | — | — |
| Providence Holy Cross Medical Center (Mission Hills) | Hospital | $257cash | — | — |
| Natividad Medical Center (Salinas) | Hospital | $391cash | — | — |
| Providence Little Company of Mary Torrance (Torrance) | Hospital | $403cash | — | ★★★★★ |
| Dignity Mercy General Hospital (Sacramento) | Hospital | $470cash | — | ★★★★★ |
| Providence St. Mary Medical Center (Apple Valley) | Hospital | $538cash | — | — |
| Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center (Burbank) | Hospital | $541cash | — | — |
| Dignity Mercy San Juan Medical Center (Carmichael) | Hospital | $591cash | — | — |
| Providence St. Jude Medical Center (Fullerton) | Hospital | $622cash | — | ★★★★★ |
| Highland Hospital – Alameda Health System (Oakland) | Hospital | $665cash | — | — |
| Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla (La Jolla) | Hospital | $695cash | — | ★★★★★ |
| Scripps Green Hospital (La Jolla) | Hospital | $695cash | — | ★★★★★ |
| Scripps Mercy Hospital Chula Vista (Chula Vista) | Hospital | $695cash | — | — |
| Providence Cedars-Sinai Tarzana Medical Center (Tarzana) | Hospital | $706cash | — | ★★★★★ |
| Dignity Mercy Medical Center Redding (Redding) | Hospital | $832cash | — | — |
| Dignity Bakersfield Memorial Hospital (Bakersfield) | Hospital | $848negotiated | — | — |
| Dignity St. Mary Medical Center (Long Beach) | Hospital | $848negotiated | — | — |
| Dignity St. Bernardine Medical Center (San Bernardino) | Hospital | $848negotiated | — | — |
| Dignity Glendale Memorial Hospital (Glendale) | Hospital | $848negotiated | — | — |
| Dignity St. John's Regional Medical Center (Oxnard) | Hospital | $848negotiated | — | — |
| Dignity Northridge Hospital Medical Center (Northridge) | Hospital | $848negotiated | — | ★★★★★ |
| Tri-City Medical Center (Oceanside) | Hospital | $897negotiated | — | — |
| UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center (Santa Monica) | Hospital | $924negotiated | — | ★★★★★ |
| Dignity California Hospital Medical Center (Los Angeles) | Hospital | $928cash | — | — |
| UCSF Medical Center (San Francisco) | Hospital | $932cash | — | ★★★★★ |
| Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center (Los Angeles) | Hospital | $933negotiated | — | ★★★★★ |
| Dignity St. Joseph's Medical Center (Stockton) | Hospital | $947negotiated | — | — |
| Dignity Sequoia Hospital (Redwood City) | Hospital | $979negotiated | — | ★★★★★ |
| Dignity Dominican Hospital (Santa Cruz) | Hospital | $1,076cash | — | — |
| Providence Mission Hospital (Mission Viejo) | Hospital | $1,092cash | — | ★★★★★ |
| UC San Diego Health - Hillcrest & Jacobs Medical Center (San Diego) | Hospital | $1,094cash | — | — |
| Stanford Health Care Tri-Valley (Pleasanton) | Hospital | $1,285cash | — | — |
| UCI Health – Lakewood (Lakewood) | Hospital | $1,300negotiated | — | — |
| UCI Health – Fountain Valley (Fountain Valley) | Hospital | $1,300negotiated | — | — |
| UCI Health – Placentia Linda (Placentia) | Hospital | $1,300negotiated | — | — |
| UCI Health – Los Alamitos (Los Alamitos) | Hospital | $1,300negotiated | — | — |
| Providence St. Joseph Hospital (Orange) | Hospital | $1,494cash | — | ★★★★★ |
| Providence Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital (Santa Rosa) | Hospital | $1,495cash | — | — |
| Sharp Memorial Hospital (San Diego) | Hospital | $1,588cash | — | ★★★★★ |
| Sharp Grossmont Hospital (La Mesa) | Hospital | $1,588cash | — | ★★★★★ |
| Sharp Coronado Hospital (Coronado) | Hospital | $1,588cash | — | ★★★★★ |
| Kaiser Permanente Fontana Medical Center (Fontana) | Hospital | $1,617cash | — | — |
| Kaiser Permanente San Diego Zion Medical Center (San Diego) | Hospital | $1,617cash | — | ★★★★★ |
| Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center (Los Angeles) | Hospital | $1,617cash | — | ★★★★★ |
| MemorialCare Saddleback Medical Center (Laguna Hills) | Hospital | $1,696cash | — | ★★★★★ |
| MemorialCare Orange Coast Medical Center (Fountain Valley) | Hospital | $1,696cash | — | — |
| MemorialCare Long Beach Medical Center (Long Beach) | Hospital | $1,696cash | — | ★★★★★ |
| UC Davis Medical Center (Sacramento) | Hospital | $1,788cash | — | ★★★★★ |
| Sutter Roseville Medical Center (Roseville) | Hospital | $1,819negotiated | — | ★★★★★ |
| Sutter Memorial Medical Center (Modesto) | Hospital | $1,819negotiated | — | — |
| Sutter Mills-Peninsula Medical Center (Burlingame) | Hospital | $1,842negotiated | — | ★★★★★ |
| Sutter Santa Rosa Regional Hospital (Santa Rosa) | Hospital | $1,842negotiated | — | — |
| Sutter Alta Bates Summit Medical Center (Oakland) | Hospital | $1,846negotiated | — | — |
| Desert Regional Medical Center (Palm Springs) | Hospital | $1,878negotiated | — | — |
| JFK Memorial Hospital (Indio) | Hospital | $1,882negotiated | — | — |
| Sutter Medical Center Sacramento (Sacramento) | Hospital | $1,914negotiated | — | ★★★★★ |
| Sutter Eden Medical Center (Castro Valley) | Hospital | $1,914negotiated | — | — |
| Sutter CPMC Van Ness Campus (San Francisco) | Hospital | $1,925negotiated | — | — |
| Sharp Chula Vista Medical Center (Chula Vista) | Hospital | $2,076cash | — | — |
| Scripps Memorial Hospital Encinitas (Encinitas) | Hospital | $2,105cash | — | ★★★★★ |
| Scripps Mercy Hospital San Diego (San Diego) | Hospital | $2,105cash | — | ★★★★★ |
| Providence Queen of the Valley Medical Center (Napa) | Hospital | $2,174cash | — | — |
| Loma Linda University Medical Center (Loma Linda) | Hospital | $2,232cash | — | ★★★★★ |
| Loma Linda University Medical Center – Murrieta (Murrieta) | Hospital | $2,232cash | — | — |
| Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center (Pomona) | Hospital | $2,633negotiated | — | ★★★★★ |
| Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (Los Angeles) | Hospital | $2,651cash | — | ★★★★★ |
| Riverside Community Hospital (Riverside) | Hospital | $2,820negotiated | — | — |
| Kaiser Permanente San Francisco Medical Center (San Francisco) | Hospital | $2,884cash | — | ★★★★★ |
| Kaiser Permanente Fresno Medical Center (Fresno) | Hospital | $2,884cash | — | — |
| Kaiser Permanente Sacramento Medical Center (Sacramento) | Hospital | $2,884cash | — | ★★★★★ |
| Good Samaritan Hospital (San Jose) | Hospital | $3,151cash | — | — |
| Stanford Health Care (Stanford) | Hospital | $3,212cash | — | ★★★★★ |
| Riverside University Health System Medical Center (Moreno Valley) | Hospital | $3,732cash | — | — |
| John Muir Health Concord Medical Center (Concord) gross charge | Hospital | $4,099cash | — | — |
| Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian (Newport Beach) gross charge | Hospital | $4,256negotiated | — | ★★★★★ |
| Rady Children's Hospital (San Diego) gross charge | Hospital | $6,012negotiated | — | — |
| Los Robles Health System (Thousand Oaks) gross charge | Hospital | $6,767negotiated | — | — |
| Keck Hospital of USC (Los Angeles) gross charge | Hospital | $7,207cash | — | ★★★★★ |
| John Muir Health Walnut Creek Medical Center (Walnut Creek) gross charge | Hospital | $24,686cash | — | ★★★★★ |
Prices from each hospital's public machine-readable file; imaging & surgery-center prices are published self-pay rates (often the cheapest option). vs Medicare is how many times the Medicare rate each facility charges. 6 unusually low/high prices excluded from the typical price as likely data errors.
💬 What to say — negotiation scripts
- No Medicare benchmark on file for 52000 (Cystoscopy) — I can't anchor to Medicare here. Please send your pricing methodology for this code.
- Your own published cash / self-pay price for 52000 is $1,495.32, and negotiated rates at nearby facilities run $697.76–$1,922.25. Please apply a rate in that range to my bill rather than the gross charge.
- Please send a fully itemized bill listing every CPT/HCPCS/DRG code and its individual charge, so I can review each line against published rates.
- Separately, what is your financial assistance / charity care policy, and am I eligible? Please send me the application and the income thresholds.
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What should 52000 cost in California?
For cystoscopy (CPT 52000) in California, a fair self-pay price is around $1,293, with hospitals ranging from $698 to $1,922 across 88 facilities. The card above lists each hospital's price, cheapest first, with CMS quality stars.
Frequently asked questions
How much does cystoscopy cost in California?
A fair self-pay price for cystoscopy (CPT 52000) in California is around $1,293, with hospital prices ranging from $698 to $1,922 across 88 facilities. These are estimates from hospital-published prices, not a guarantee.
Can I negotiate the price of cystoscopy?
Yes. Under the federal Hospital Price Transparency rule hospitals must publish these rates, so you can ask to pay the cash or negotiated rate instead of the gross charge. Paste your bill on the home page for a ready-to-send appeal letter and the exact numbers to cite.
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Prices last refreshed September 2026 from each hospital's official CMS machine-readable file. Medicare rate: CY2025 OPPS/PFS/CLFS. Estimates only — not a guarantee.