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Procedure price report · Other diagnostic procedures on musculoskeletal system

Biopsy of muscle near the surface

CPT 20200the billing code this page is about

Removal of a small sample of muscle tissue lying close to the skin surface for laboratory examination.

Hospitals typically charge $1,716 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 723 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,711. Most fall between $380 and $3,602 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
723
States
50
Filings dated
Mar 2023 – 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 723 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
$218$514$1,716$3,172$5,207

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 24× what the cheapest tenth charges ($218 vs $5,207).

How the prices are spread

$170 – $247: 46 hospitals$170$247 – $359: 57 hospitals$359 – $521: 52 hospitals$359$521 – $756: 53 hospitals$756 – $1,098: 32 hospitals$756$1,098 – $1,593: 63 hospitals$1,593 – $2,313: 127 hospitals$1,593$2,313 – $3,357: 101 hospitals$3,357 – $4,873: 69 hospitals$3,357$4,873 – $7,073: 65 hospitals$4,873median $1,716price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (665 of 723 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$170$24746
$247$35957
$359$52152
$521$75653
$756$1,09832
$1,098$1,59363
$1,593$2,313127
$2,313$3,357101
$3,357$4,87369
$4,873$7,07365

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$1,687
Median cash price$1,716
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.02×

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 $1,716.

Alaska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $1,637 across 13 hospitalsWA$1,637Idaho: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 7 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 $730 across 21 hospitalsMN$730Illinois: median $1,493 across 33 hospitalsIL$1,493Wisconsin: median $1,201 across 22 hospitalsWI$1,201Michigan: median $1,637 across 22 hospitalsMI$1,637New York: median $1,917 across 35 hospitalsNY$1,917Massachusetts: median $2,020 across 12 hospitalsMA$2,020Oregon: median $728 across 22 hospitalsOR$728Nevada: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 5 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 $514 across 24 hospitalsIA$514Indiana: median $235 across 14 hospitalsIN$235Ohio: median $1,696 across 23 hospitalsOH$1,696Pennsylvania: median $2,383 across 32 hospitalsPA$2,383New Jersey: median $2,162 across 36 hospitalsNJ$2,162Connecticut: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $5,207 across 66 hospitalsCA$5,207Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $1,726 across 11 hospitalsCO$1,726Nebraska: median $446 across 12 hospitalsNE$446Missouri: median $1,376 across 17 hospitalsMO$1,376Kentucky: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $105 across 13 hospitalsWV$105Virginia: median $2,933 across 12 hospitalsVA$2,933Maryland: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $417 across 13 hospitalsKS$417Arkansas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $614 across 11 hospitalsTN$614North Carolina: median $2,808 across 17 hospitalsNC$2,808South Carolina: median $1,918 across 20 hospitalsSC$1,918Oklahoma: median $258 across 22 hospitalsOK$258Louisiana: median $2,187 across 15 hospitalsLA$2,187Mississippi: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: median $1,378 across 10 hospitalsAL$1,378Georgia: median $1,328 across 22 hospitalsGA$1,328Hawaii: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $2,654 across 30 hospitalsTX$2,654Florida: median $3,328 across 25 hospitalsFL$3,328
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,716. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA66$5,207+203%$2,135 – $7,073
Florida FL25$3,328+94%$1,004 – $5,204
Virginia VA12$2,933+71%$1,980 – $4,021
North Carolina NC17$2,808+64%$567 – $2,808
Texas TX30$2,654+55%$1,650 – $3,091
Pennsylvania PA32$2,383+39%$1,214 – $2,871
Louisiana LA15$2,187+27%$448 – $4,523
New Jersey NJ36$2,162+26%$1,793 – $5,110
Massachusetts MA12$2,020+18%$1,106 – $4,201
South Carolina SC20$1,918+12%$1,918 – $2,785
New York NY35$1,917+12%$290 – $2,062
Colorado CO11$1,726+1%$598 – $2,371
Ohio OH23$1,696−1%$359 – $2,118
Michigan MI22$1,637−5%$210 – $2,271
Washington WA13$1,637−5%$313 – $3,327
Illinois IL33$1,493−13%$349 – $6,603
Alabama AL10$1,378−20%$575 – $1,852
Missouri MO17$1,376−20%$266 – $5,580
Georgia GA22$1,328−23%$1,328 – $2,742
Wisconsin WI22$1,201−30%$1,119 – $2,378
Minnesota MN21$730−57%$230 – $946
Oregon OR22$728−58%$390 – $8,943
Tennessee TN11$614−64%$185 – $996
Iowa IA24$514−70%$328 – $1,316
Nebraska NE12$446−74%$324 – $2,580
Kansas KS13$417−76%$224 – $900
Oklahoma OK22$258−85%$258 – $3,303
Indiana IN14$235−86%$208 – $1,630
West Virginia WV13$105−94%$103 – $500
Idaho ID8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not 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 $1,716.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care581$1,908$514 – $3,862
Children’s13fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access126$563$212 – $2,378
Ownership
For-profit66$1,857$308 – $4,347
Government112$1,214$319 – $2,808
Non-profit542$1,772$390 – $3,643
System affiliation
Part of a system592$1,900$446 – $3,788
Independent131$716$266 – $2,114

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,650
Median cash price$1,716
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

461 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,767 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,778; most fall between $345 and $3,704.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 461 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
$208$473$1,767$3,323$5,204

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 25× what the cheapest tenth charges ($208 vs $5,204).

Of the 504 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 461 gave a usable cash price; 17 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 26 a list price only.

How complete is this

723 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (18%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 802 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted723
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here53
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded2
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded24
Hospitals that filed this code802

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 musculoskeletal system family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as PR Muscle Biopsy.

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 muscle near the surface (CPT 20200) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-20200-biopsy-of-muscle-near-the-surface