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

Fine needle biopsy with fluoroscopy, each added lesion

CPT 10008the billing code this page is about

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

Hospitals typically charge $612 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,203 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $624. Most fall between $229 and $1,199 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,203
States
50
Filings dated
Feb 2024 – 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 1,203 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
$135$271$612$1,084$1,819

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($135 vs $1,819).

How the prices are spread

$78 – $109: 41 hospitals$78$109 – $152: 31 hospitals$152 – $211: 79 hospitals$152$211 – $294: 109 hospitals$294 – $410: 120 hospitals$294$410 – $572: 129 hospitals$572 – $797: 216 hospitals$572$797 – $1,111: 134 hospitals$1,111 – $1,549: 129 hospitals$1,111$1,549 – $2,159: 96 hospitals$1,549median $612price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,084 of 1,203 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$78$10941
$109$15231
$152$21179
$211$294109
$294$410120
$410$572129
$572$797216
$797$1,111134
$1,111$1,549129
$1,549$2,15996

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $612.

Alaska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $518 across 33 hospitalsWA$518Idaho: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $699 across 20 hospitalsMN$699Illinois: median $371 across 51 hospitalsIL$371Wisconsin: median $667 across 50 hospitalsWI$667Michigan: median $197 across 41 hospitalsMI$197New York: median $634 across 41 hospitalsNY$634Massachusetts: median $411 across 12 hospitalsMA$411Oregon: median $157 across 16 hospitalsOR$157Nevada: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $598 across 29 hospitalsIA$598Indiana: median $624 across 52 hospitalsIN$624Ohio: median $699 across 89 hospitalsOH$699Pennsylvania: median $271 across 48 hospitalsPA$271New Jersey: median $2,626 across 33 hospitalsNJ$2,626Connecticut: median $757 across 11 hospitalsCT$757Rhode Island: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $1,222 across 110 hospitalsCA$1,222Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $591 across 38 hospitalsCO$591Nebraska: median $636 across 16 hospitalsNE$636Missouri: median $767 across 25 hospitalsMO$767Kentucky: median $317 across 11 hospitalsKY$317West Virginia: median $184 across 10 hospitalsWV$184Virginia: median $608 across 22 hospitalsVA$608Maryland: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $676 across 26 hospitalsAZ$676New Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $282 across 16 hospitalsKS$282Arkansas: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $195 across 16 hospitalsTN$195North Carolina: median $429 across 33 hospitalsNC$429South Carolina: median $1,388 across 23 hospitalsSC$1,388Oklahoma: median $355 across 21 hospitalsOK$355Louisiana: median $323 across 18 hospitalsLA$323Mississippi: median $254 across 18 hospitalsMS$254Alabama: median $291 across 10 hospitalsAL$291Georgia: median $786 across 42 hospitalsGA$786Hawaii: median $305 across 12 hospitalsHI$305Texas: median $494 across 80 hospitalsTX$494Florida: median $697 across 54 hospitalsFL$697
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $612. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ33$2,626+329%$75 – $5,339
South Carolina SC23$1,388+127%$725 – $1,535
California CA110$1,222+100%$462 – $2,281
Georgia GA42$786+28%$352 – $1,933
Missouri MO25$767+25%$132 – $796
Connecticut CT11$757+24%$701 – $846
Ohio OH89$699+14%$471 – $1,624
Minnesota MN20$699+14%$209 – $750
Florida FL54$697+14%$533 – $1,184
Arizona AZ26$676+10%$567 – $757
Wisconsin WI50$667+9%$473 – $707
Nebraska NE16$636+4%$236 – $756
New York NY41$634+3%$78 – $1,004
Indiana IN52$624+2%$92 – $1,279
Virginia VA22$608−1%$337 – $1,084
Iowa IA29$598−2%$241 – $1,026
Colorado CO38$591−4%$338 – $760
Washington WA33$518−15%$346 – $803
Texas TX80$494−19%$227 – $1,163
North Carolina NC33$429−30%$255 – $1,137
Massachusetts MA12$411−33%$97 – $1,014
Illinois IL51$371−39%$252 – $846
Oklahoma OK21$355−42%$95 – $696
Louisiana LA18$323−47%$220 – $1,150
Kentucky KY11$317−48%$254 – $376
Hawaii HI12$305−50%$160 – $865
Alabama AL10$291−52%$71 – $1,005
Kansas KS16$282−54%$197 – $771
Pennsylvania PA48$271−56%$115 – $788
Mississippi MS18$254−59%$211 – $457
Michigan MI41$197−68%$135 – $1,100
Tennessee TN16$195−68%$152 – $233
West Virginia WV10$184−70%$56 – $337
Oregon OR16$157−74%$94 – $430
Maine ME9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not 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 $612.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,033$634$235 – $1,222
Children’s30$602$267 – $954
Critical access134$337$180 – $732
Ownership
For-profit93$697$298 – $1,306
Government153$533$220 – $1,008
Non-profit951$613$227 – $1,222
System affiliation
Part of a system1,043$621$230 – $1,206
Independent160$537$223 – $1,158

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,015
Median cash price$612
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

971 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $650 and the average of the middle 60% is $675; most fall between $255 and $1,222.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 971 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
$154$330$650$1,152$1,921

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($154 vs $1,921).

Of the 1,047 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 971 gave a usable cash price; 32 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 44 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,203 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (30%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,344 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,203
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here49
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded92
Hospitals that filed this code1,344

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 September 4, 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/Fluor 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 fluoroscopy, each added lesion (CPT 10008) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-10008-fine-needle-biopsy-with-fluoroscopy-each-added-lesion