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

Biopsy of the nail or nail bed

CPT 11755the billing code this page is about

Taking a small tissue sample from the nail, nail bed, nail fold or matrix for laboratory examination.

Hospitals typically charge $503 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 963 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $566. Most fall between $176 and $1,295 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
963
States
50
Filings dated
Aug 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 963 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
$114$214$503$1,055$2,163

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 19× what the cheapest tenth charges ($114 vs $2,163).

How the prices are spread

$86 – $123: 58 hospitals$86$123 – $176: 88 hospitals$176 – $252: 125 hospitals$176$252 – $361: 110 hospitals$361 – $518: 59 hospitals$361$518 – $742: 108 hospitals$742 – $1,064: 127 hospitals$742$1,064 – $1,525: 74 hospitals$1,525 – $2,186: 71 hospitals$1,525$2,186 – $3,133: 48 hospitals$2,186median $503price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (868 of 963 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$86$12358
$123$17688
$176$252125
$252$361110
$361$51859
$518$742108
$742$1,064127
$1,064$1,52574
$1,525$2,18671
$2,186$3,13348

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$723
Median cash price$503
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.70×

The Medicare figure is the national unadjusted OPPS rate for this code — what Medicare itself pays a hospital before local wage adjustment. It is a benchmark, not a price anyone is charged.

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $503.

Alaska: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $489 across 25 hospitalsWA$489Idaho: median $563 across 16 hospitalsID$563Montana: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $346 across 34 hospitalsMN$346Illinois: median $446 across 45 hospitalsIL$446Wisconsin: median $321 across 51 hospitalsWI$321Michigan: median $214 across 50 hospitalsMI$214New York: median $833 across 61 hospitalsNY$833Massachusetts: median $925 across 18 hospitalsMA$925Oregon: median $287 across 22 hospitalsOR$287Nevada: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $814 across 12 hospitalsSD$814Iowa: median $303 across 35 hospitalsIA$303Indiana: median $151 across 27 hospitalsIN$151Ohio: median $336 across 27 hospitalsOH$336Pennsylvania: median $825 across 49 hospitalsPA$825New Jersey: median $939 across 34 hospitalsNJ$939Connecticut: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $1,300 across 64 hospitalsCA$1,300Utah: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $553 across 12 hospitalsCO$553Nebraska: median $242 across 14 hospitalsNE$242Missouri: median $340 across 20 hospitalsMO$340Kentucky: median $222 across 13 hospitalsKY$222West Virginia: median $693 across 19 hospitalsWV$693Virginia: median $288 across 18 hospitalsVA$288Maryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $176 across 19 hospitalsKS$176Arkansas: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $294 across 21 hospitalsTN$294North Carolina: median $1,155 across 22 hospitalsNC$1,155South Carolina: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $102 across 14 hospitalsOK$102Louisiana: median $418 across 15 hospitalsLA$418Mississippi: median $458 across 17 hospitalsMS$458Alabama: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $841 across 25 hospitalsGA$841Hawaii: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $888 across 33 hospitalsTX$888Florida: median $1,554 across 36 hospitalsFL$1,554
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $503. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL36$1,554+209%$662 – $4,178
California CA64$1,300+159%$650 – $2,526
North Carolina NC22$1,155+130%$346 – $1,155
New Jersey NJ34$939+87%$779 – $5,110
Massachusetts MA18$925+84%$236 – $2,132
Texas TX33$888+77%$270 – $1,006
Georgia GA25$841+67%$498 – $4,609
New York NY61$833+66%$175 – $1,612
Pennsylvania PA49$825+64%$268 – $1,796
South Dakota SD12$814+62%$162 – $1,488
West Virginia WV19$693+38%$418 – $1,105
Idaho ID16$563+12%$262 – $1,783
Colorado CO12$553+10%$254 – $1,891
Washington WA25$489−3%$191 – $1,444
Mississippi MS17$458−9%$125 – $907
Illinois IL45$446−11%$131 – $2,111
Louisiana LA15$418−17%$228 – $585
Minnesota MN34$346−31%$161 – $717
Missouri MO20$340−32%$48 – $904
Ohio OH27$336−33%$142 – $1,133
Wisconsin WI51$321−36%$215 – $608
Iowa IA35$303−40%$145 – $331
Tennessee TN21$294−42%$192 – $294
Virginia VA18$288−43%$104 – $676
Oregon OR22$287−43%$221 – $302
Nebraska NE14$242−52%$102 – $547
Kentucky KY13$222−56%$123 – $636
Michigan MI50$214−57%$158 – $974
Kansas KS19$176−65%$100 – $363
Indiana IN27$151−70%$131 – $238
Oklahoma OK14$102−80%$102 – $1,249
Alabama AL9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not 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 $503.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care697$708$219 – $1,604
Children’s16fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access249$224$131 – $498
Ownership
For-profit71$707$199 – $2,011
Government187$326$148 – $895
Non-profit704$531$180 – $1,372
System affiliation
Part of a system763$582$201 – $1,465
Independent200$292$131 – $916

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$709
Median cash price$503
Cash as a share of list, median hospital65%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 35%. 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

581 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $497 and the average of the middle 60% is $588; most fall between $176 and $1,372.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 581 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
$112$221$497$1,170$2,504

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 22× what the cheapest tenth charges ($112 vs $2,504).

Of the 625 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 581 gave a usable cash price; 21 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 23 a list price only.

How complete is this

963 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (24%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,041 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted963
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here50
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 — excluded28
Hospitals that filed this code1,041

Sections not shown for this setting

  • 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 Biopsy Nail Unit Separate Procedure.

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, “Biopsy of the nail or nail bed (CPT 11755) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-11755-biopsy-of-the-nail-or-nail-bed