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Procedure price report · Other diagnostic procedures on skin and subcutaneous tissue

Fine needle biopsy with ultrasound, each added lesion

CPT 10006the billing code this page is about

Withdrawal of cells or fluid through a thin needle guided by ultrasound; this code is billed once for each additional lesion sampled beyond the first.

Hospitals typically charge $588 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,298 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $605. Most fall between $189 and $1,136 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,298
States
50
Filings dated
Dec 2022 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 24, 2026

Median: half of hospitals filed less, half more — and it is a price some hospital actually filed. Average of the middle 60%: the mean of the prices between the 20th and 80th percentiles. We never publish the plain average, the lowest or the highest price: the extremes in hospital price files are chargemaster artefacts, not prices anyone pays.

What hospitals charge, from cheapest to most expensive

Cash price percentiles, outpatient, across 2,298 hospitals. Each figure is a price a hospital filed. 10th: one in ten hospitals charges less; 25th: a quarter charge less; Median: half charge less; 75th: three quarters charge less; 90th: nine in ten charge less.
10th25thMedian75th90th
$99$241$588$1,020$1,573

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 16× what the cheapest tenth charges ($99 vs $1,573).

How the prices are spread

$63 – $89: 90 hospitals$63$89 – $126: 136 hospitals$126 – $179: 114 hospitals$126$179 – $254: 147 hospitals$254 – $360: 182 hospitals$254$360 – $510: 250 hospitals$510 – $724: 323 hospitals$510$724 – $1,027: 377 hospitals$1,027 – $1,457: 292 hospitals$1,027$1,457 – $2,066: 162 hospitals$1,457median $588price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,073 of 2,298 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$63$8990
$89$126136
$126$179114
$179$254147
$254$360182
$360$510250
$510$724323
$724$1,027377
$1,027$1,457292
$1,457$2,066162

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $588.

Alaska: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $161 across 15 hospitalsME$161Vermont: median $218 across 11 hospitalsVT$218New Hampshire: median $384 across 17 hospitalsNH$384Washington: median $580 across 51 hospitalsWA$580Idaho: median $800 across 17 hospitalsID$800Montana: median $92 across 20 hospitalsMT$92North Dakota: median $506 across 10 hospitalsND$506Minnesota: median $336 across 72 hospitalsMN$336Illinois: median $523 across 102 hospitalsIL$523Wisconsin: median $544 across 93 hospitalsWI$544Michigan: median $236 across 80 hospitalsMI$236New York: median $671 across 82 hospitalsNY$671Massachusetts: median $247 across 44 hospitalsMA$247Oregon: median $340 across 48 hospitalsOR$340Nevada: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: median $690 across 11 hospitalsWY$690South Dakota: median $377 across 13 hospitalsSD$377Iowa: median $436 across 51 hospitalsIA$436Indiana: median $821 across 75 hospitalsIN$821Ohio: median $699 across 129 hospitalsOH$699Pennsylvania: median $788 across 96 hospitalsPA$788New Jersey: median $999 across 42 hospitalsNJ$999Connecticut: median $787 across 21 hospitalsCT$787Rhode Island: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $1,222 across 169 hospitalsCA$1,222Utah: median $736 across 29 hospitalsUT$736Colorado: median $476 across 58 hospitalsCO$476Nebraska: median $550 across 40 hospitalsNE$550Missouri: median $255 across 56 hospitalsMO$255Kentucky: median $485 across 31 hospitalsKY$485West Virginia: median $337 across 29 hospitalsWV$337Virginia: median $562 across 51 hospitalsVA$562Maryland: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $502 across 33 hospitalsAZ$502New Mexico: median $518 across 15 hospitalsNM$518Kansas: median $478 across 39 hospitalsKS$478Arkansas: median $240 across 18 hospitalsAR$240Tennessee: median $384 across 46 hospitalsTN$384North Carolina: median $645 across 63 hospitalsNC$645South Carolina: median $736 across 40 hospitalsSC$736Oklahoma: median $410 across 35 hospitalsOK$410Louisiana: median $305 across 37 hospitalsLA$305Mississippi: median $261 across 33 hospitalsMS$261Alabama: median $534 across 27 hospitalsAL$534Georgia: median $517 across 67 hospitalsGA$517Hawaii: median $377 across 14 hospitalsHI$377Texas: median $705 across 132 hospitalsTX$705Florida: median $945 across 97 hospitalsFL$945
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $588. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA169$1,222+108%$420 – $1,596
New Jersey NJ42$999+70%$199 – $4,627
Florida FL97$945+61%$588 – $2,562
Indiana IN75$821+40%$87 – $1,477
Idaho ID17$800+36%$244 – $1,783
Pennsylvania PA96$788+34%$140 – $1,186
Connecticut CT21$787+34%$268 – $1,996
Utah UT29$736+25%$433 – $865
South Carolina SC40$736+25%$489 – $1,365
Texas TX132$705+20%$318 – $1,078
Ohio OH129$699+19%$484 – $1,323
Wyoming WY11$690+17%$157 – $915
New York NY82$671+14%$76 – $1,389
North Carolina NC63$645+10%$280 – $1,163
Washington WA51$580−1%$241 – $852
Virginia VA51$562−4%$337 – $989
Nebraska NE40$550−6%$292 – $749
Wisconsin WI93$544−8%$176 – $840
Alabama AL27$534−9%$139 – $1,329
Illinois IL102$523−11%$174 – $1,136
New Mexico NM15$518−12%$132 – $942
Georgia GA67$517−12%$332 – $834
North Dakota ND10$506−14%$58 – $997
Arizona AZ33$502−15%$368 – $676
Kentucky KY31$485−18%$140 – $972
Kansas KS39$478−19%$182 – $922
Colorado CO58$476−19%$273 – $752
Iowa IA51$436−26%$126 – $808
Oklahoma OK35$410−30%$230 – $742
New Hampshire NH17$384−35%$115 – $586
Tennessee TN46$384−35%$204 – $647
South Dakota SD13$377−36%$163 – $866
Hawaii HI14$377−36%$65 – $865
Oregon OR48$340−42%$109 – $1,246
West Virginia WV29$337−43%$50 – $1,056
Minnesota MN72$336−43%$119 – $687
Louisiana LA37$305−48%$135 – $1,037
Mississippi MS33$261−56%$82 – $494
Missouri MO56$255−57%$84 – $824
Massachusetts MA44$247−58%$97 – $1,006
Arkansas AR18$240−59%$225 – $585
Michigan MI80$236−60%$63 – $1,100
Vermont VT11$218−63%$84 – $507
Maine ME15$161−73%$62 – $541
Montana MT20$92−84%$56 – $174
Alaska AK9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price

Hospitals like yours

The same distribution cut by the kind of hospital. Hospital type and ownership come from CMS; a hospital counts as part of a system when its price file is shared with at least one other hospital under the same brand. The national median is $588.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,800$625$230 – $1,181
Children’s46$722$287 – $1,473
Critical access443$337$107 – $865
Ownership
For-profit192$651$285 – $1,327
Government359$455$147 – $1,022
Non-profit1,738$609$194 – $1,166
System affiliation
Part of a system1,899$613$220 – $1,176
Independent399$413$112 – $949

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,002
Median cash price$588
Cash as a share of list, median hospital60%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 40%. The share is the median of each hospital’s own cash ÷ list ratio, over hospitals that filed both — not the ratio of the two medians above.

The same procedure, inpatient

1,743 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $641 and the average of the middle 60% is $662; most fall between $230 and $1,180.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,743 hospitals. Each figure is a price a hospital filed. 10th: one in ten hospitals charges less; 25th: a quarter charge less; Median: half charge less; 75th: three quarters charge less; 90th: nine in ten charge less.
10th25thMedian75th90th
$115$297$641$1,065$1,578

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 14× what the cheapest tenth charges ($115 vs $1,578).

Of the 1,904 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,743 gave a usable cash price; 66 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 94 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,298 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (58%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,560 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,298
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here103
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded6
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded152
Hospitals that filed this code2,560

Sections not shown for this setting

  • Against Medicare: Medicare has no separately payable national outpatient (OPPS) rate for this code, so there is nothing honest to compare against.
  • Since our last snapshot: there is no earlier snapshot at least 90 days older than this one yet.

We last checked these hospitals’ price files for changes between July 20, 2026 and September 24, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 24, 2026. The percentiles and averages use only the “counted” row.

Related procedures

Part of the Other diagnostic procedures on skin and subcutaneous tissue family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Fine Needle Aspiration Bx W/US Gdn Ea Addl.

Method

Source
The machine-readable price files every U.S. hospital is required by CMS to publish, parsed per hospital. Nothing is surveyed, sampled or modelled.
What counts
One cash (self-pay) price per hospital for this code and setting. A hospital’s own filing can rule its number out — a placeholder, a “not applicable” note, a list price standing in for cash — and our plausibility checks can flag a price far below what every other hospital files. Both kinds are disclosed above and excluded from the statistics; on the compare tool a flagged price is still shown.
Statistics
Percentiles are discrete: each is a price some hospital filed. The average is the mean of the prices between the 20th and 80th percentiles. We never publish the plain mean, the minimum or the maximum. A state needs 10 hospitals and a segment 20 to show a figure; otherwise the row shows its count and no number. Medicare is the national unadjusted OPPS rate where one exists.
Names
Procedure names on these pages are our own plain-language titles, not the AMA’s copyrighted CPT descriptors. The code is the identity.

The full rules — sources, statistics, thresholds, limitations — are on the methodology page.

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Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Fine needle biopsy with ultrasound, each added lesion (CPT 10006) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-10006-fine-needle-biopsy-with-ultrasound-each-added-lesion