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Procedure price report · Other diagnostic procedures on musculoskeletal system

Biopsy of deep muscle

CPT 20205the billing code this page is about

Removal of a small sample of muscle tissue from a deep location for laboratory examination.

Hospitals typically charge $2,406 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 976 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,440. Most fall between $500 and $5,389 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
976
States
49
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 976 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
$319$655$2,406$4,529$7,456

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 23× what the cheapest tenth charges ($319 vs $7,456).

How the prices are spread

$254 – $368: 71 hospitals$254$368 – $533: 90 hospitals$533 – $772: 85 hospitals$533$772 – $1,118: 75 hospitals$1,118 – $1,619: 35 hospitals$1,118$1,619 – $2,345: 78 hospitals$2,345 – $3,396: 134 hospitals$2,345$3,396 – $4,918: 146 hospitals$4,918 – $7,123: 109 hospitals$4,918$7,123 – $10,317: 58 hospitals$7,123median $2,406price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (881 of 976 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$254$36871
$368$53390
$533$77285
$772$1,11875
$1,118$1,61935
$1,619$2,34578
$2,345$3,396134
$3,396$4,918146
$4,918$7,123109
$7,123$10,31758

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$2,968
Median cash price$2,406
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.81×

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 $2,406.

Alaska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $325 across 12 hospitalsME$325Vermont: 7 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 $2,566 across 26 hospitalsWA$2,566Idaho: median $3,302 across 12 hospitalsID$3,302Montana: median $347 across 11 hospitalsMT$347North Dakota: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $857 across 21 hospitalsMN$857Illinois: median $774 across 28 hospitalsIL$774Wisconsin: median $781 across 37 hospitalsWI$781Michigan: median $948 across 31 hospitalsMI$948New York: median $3,387 across 50 hospitalsNY$3,387Massachusetts: median $5,770 across 25 hospitalsMA$5,770Oregon: median $706 across 24 hospitalsOR$706Nevada: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $716 across 34 hospitalsIA$716Indiana: median $640 across 30 hospitalsIN$640Ohio: median $2,944 across 37 hospitalsOH$2,944Pennsylvania: median $4,444 across 41 hospitalsPA$4,444New Jersey: median $3,786 across 42 hospitalsNJ$3,786Connecticut: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $4,529 across 81 hospitalsCA$4,529Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $2,456 across 21 hospitalsCO$2,456Nebraska: median $719 across 19 hospitalsNE$719Missouri: median $1,658 across 20 hospitalsMO$1,658Kentucky: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $541 across 22 hospitalsWV$541Virginia: median $1,948 across 20 hospitalsVA$1,948Maryland: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $1,690 across 18 hospitalsKS$1,690Arkansas: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $1,125 across 20 hospitalsTN$1,125North Carolina: median $1,020 across 10 hospitalsNC$1,020South Carolina: median $5,881 across 20 hospitalsSC$5,881Oklahoma: median $254 across 21 hospitalsOK$254Louisiana: median $1,774 across 18 hospitalsLA$1,774Mississippi: median $363 across 12 hospitalsMS$363Alabama: median $2,667 across 15 hospitalsAL$2,667Georgia: median $6,307 across 22 hospitalsGA$6,307Hawaii: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $3,111 across 56 hospitalsTX$3,111Florida: median $3,600 across 23 hospitalsFL$3,600
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,406. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Georgia GA22$6,307+162%$3,430 – $7,005
South Carolina SC20$5,881+144%$3,384 – $5,881
Massachusetts MA25$5,770+140%$1,803 – $8,586
California CA81$4,529+88%$2,874 – $12,986
Pennsylvania PA41$4,444+85%$2,969 – $6,086
New Jersey NJ42$3,786+57%$3,168 – $5,741
Florida FL23$3,600+50%$2,101 – $5,780
New York NY50$3,387+41%$432 – $4,265
Idaho ID12$3,302+37%$2,162 – $6,379
Texas TX56$3,111+29%$2,492 – $4,217
Ohio OH37$2,944+22%$407 – $8,319
Alabama AL15$2,667+11%$670 – $7,111
Washington WA26$2,566+7%$463 – $4,534
Colorado CO21$2,456+2%$630 – $4,165
Virginia VA20$1,948−19%$1,125 – $4,195
Louisiana LA18$1,774−26%$795 – $3,518
Kansas KS18$1,690−30%$300 – $6,117
Missouri MO20$1,658−31%$368 – $6,200
Tennessee TN20$1,125−53%$254 – $2,805
North Carolina NC10$1,020−58%$505 – $2,161
Michigan MI31$948−61%$304 – $3,994
Minnesota MN21$857−64%$407 – $2,153
Wisconsin WI37$781−68%$734 – $2,116
Illinois IL28$774−68%$319 – $3,694
Nebraska NE19$719−70%$480 – $1,748
Iowa IA34$716−70%$456 – $1,000
Oregon OR24$706−71%$549 – $4,916
Indiana IN30$640−73%$327 – $1,733
West Virginia WV22$541−78%$172 – $3,582
Mississippi MS12$363−85%$316 – $3,609
Montana MT11$347−86%$226 – $846
Maine ME12$325−87%$227 – $993
Oklahoma OK21$254−89%$254 – $5,931
Hawaii HI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD3not 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 $2,406.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care742$3,111$689 – $5,881
Children’s23$2,250$629 – $6,393
Critical access208$707$347 – $2,116
Ownership
For-profit97$3,159$722 – $7,135
Government172$1,125$441 – $4,154
Non-profit704$2,474$525 – $5,422
System affiliation
Part of a system767$2,818$601 – $5,741
Independent209$989$377 – $4,461

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,731
Median cash price$2,406
Cash as a share of list, median hospital61%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 39%. 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

573 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,151 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,276; most fall between $437 and $5,110.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 573 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
$295$549$2,151$4,529$7,456

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 25× what the cheapest tenth charges ($295 vs $7,456).

Of the 630 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 573 gave a usable cash price; 24 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 32 a list price only.

How complete is this

976 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (25%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,086 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted976
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here64
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded5
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded40
Hospitals that filed this code1,086

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 Biopsy Muscle Deep.

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 deep muscle (CPT 20205) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-20205-biopsy-of-deep-muscle