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Procedure price report · Other diagnostic procedures on musculoskeletal system

Needle biopsy of muscle

CPT 20206the billing code this page is about

A needle is passed through the skin to take a small sample of muscle tissue for laboratory examination.

Hospitals typically charge $1,441 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,298 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,493. Most fall between $674 and $2,553 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,298
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 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
$399$826$1,441$2,291$3,750

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($399 vs $3,750).

How the prices are spread

$243 – $328: 54 hospitals$243$328 – $442: 107 hospitals$442 – $597: 127 hospitals$442$597 – $805: 165 hospitals$805 – $1,085: 252 hospitals$805$1,085 – $1,464: 356 hospitals$1,464 – $1,974: 392 hospitals$1,464$1,974 – $2,663: 295 hospitals$2,663 – $3,592: 196 hospitals$2,663$3,592 – $4,844: 133 hospitals$3,592median $1,441price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,077 of 2,298 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$243$32854
$328$442107
$442$597127
$597$805165
$805$1,085252
$1,085$1,464356
$1,464$1,974392
$1,974$2,663295
$2,663$3,592196
$3,592$4,844133

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$1,687
Median cash price$1,441
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.85×

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 $1,441.

Alaska: median $1,195 across 10 hospitalsAK$1,195Maine: median $1,490 across 16 hospitalsME$1,490Vermont: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $781 across 11 hospitalsNH$781Washington: median $1,339 across 59 hospitalsWA$1,339Idaho: median $1,749 across 16 hospitalsID$1,749Montana: median $479 across 17 hospitalsMT$479North Dakota: median $1,438 across 10 hospitalsND$1,438Minnesota: median $926 across 67 hospitalsMN$926Illinois: median $1,595 across 96 hospitalsIL$1,595Wisconsin: median $1,074 across 88 hospitalsWI$1,074Michigan: median $1,441 across 79 hospitalsMI$1,441New York: median $1,965 across 76 hospitalsNY$1,965Massachusetts: median $1,657 across 41 hospitalsMA$1,657Oregon: median $966 across 43 hospitalsOR$966Nevada: median $1,276 across 14 hospitalsNV$1,276Wyoming: median $983 across 11 hospitalsWY$983South Dakota: median $1,968 across 13 hospitalsSD$1,968Iowa: median $611 across 46 hospitalsIA$611Indiana: median $1,098 across 70 hospitalsIN$1,098Ohio: median $1,648 across 122 hospitalsOH$1,648Pennsylvania: median $1,900 across 100 hospitalsPA$1,900New Jersey: median $2,162 across 57 hospitalsNJ$2,162Connecticut: median $2,624 across 20 hospitalsCT$2,624Rhode Island: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $2,161 across 177 hospitalsCA$2,161Utah: median $1,031 across 27 hospitalsUT$1,031Colorado: median $1,497 across 48 hospitalsCO$1,497Nebraska: median $987 across 39 hospitalsNE$987Missouri: median $1,646 across 54 hospitalsMO$1,646Kentucky: median $1,628 across 25 hospitalsKY$1,628West Virginia: median $1,587 across 22 hospitalsWV$1,587Virginia: median $1,047 across 49 hospitalsVA$1,047Maryland: median $678 across 10 hospitalsMD$678Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $977 across 35 hospitalsAZ$977New Mexico: median $1,773 across 14 hospitalsNM$1,773Kansas: median $895 across 44 hospitalsKS$895Arkansas: median $915 across 21 hospitalsAR$915Tennessee: median $419 across 48 hospitalsTN$419North Carolina: median $1,165 across 61 hospitalsNC$1,165South Carolina: median $1,955 across 41 hospitalsSC$1,955Oklahoma: median $1,112 across 41 hospitalsOK$1,112Louisiana: median $734 across 39 hospitalsLA$734Mississippi: median $643 across 34 hospitalsMS$643Alabama: median $1,631 across 31 hospitalsAL$1,631Georgia: median $1,409 across 67 hospitalsGA$1,409Hawaii: median $1,324 across 14 hospitalsHI$1,324Texas: median $1,592 across 154 hospitalsTX$1,592Florida: median $2,429 across 98 hospitalsFL$2,429
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,441. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Connecticut CT20$2,624+82%$1,601 – $5,361
Florida FL98$2,429+69%$1,246 – $4,422
New Jersey NJ57$2,162+50%$1,793 – $4,881
California CA177$2,161+50%$1,233 – $3,765
South Dakota SD13$1,968+37%$1,230 – $3,779
New York NY76$1,965+36%$630 – $3,433
South Carolina SC41$1,955+36%$1,283 – $2,410
Pennsylvania PA100$1,900+32%$978 – $2,916
New Mexico NM14$1,773+23%$974 – $2,650
Idaho ID16$1,749+21%$953 – $3,570
Massachusetts MA41$1,657+15%$839 – $2,088
Ohio OH122$1,648+14%$1,240 – $3,160
Missouri MO54$1,646+14%$774 – $2,357
Alabama AL31$1,631+13%$874 – $3,821
Kentucky KY25$1,628+13%$601 – $2,220
Illinois IL96$1,595+11%$746 – $2,154
Texas TX154$1,592+10%$792 – $2,178
West Virginia WV22$1,587+10%$931 – $2,812
Colorado CO48$1,497+4%$928 – $2,555
Maine ME16$1,490+3%$790 – $1,642
Michigan MI79$1,4410%$1,057 – $2,271
North Dakota ND10$1,4380%$115 – $2,017
Georgia GA67$1,409−2%$1,050 – $3,127
Washington WA59$1,339−7%$399 – $2,614
Hawaii HI14$1,324−8%$1,058 – $2,853
Nevada NV14$1,276−11%$628 – $1,981
Alaska AK10$1,195−17%$683 – $2,250
North Carolina NC61$1,165−19%$565 – $1,882
Oklahoma OK41$1,112−23%$804 – $1,907
Indiana IN70$1,098−24%$526 – $1,738
Wisconsin WI88$1,074−25%$643 – $1,433
Virginia VA49$1,047−27%$850 – $1,305
Utah UT27$1,031−28%$876 – $1,031
Nebraska NE39$987−31%$514 – $1,339
Wyoming WY11$983−32%$583 – $1,588
Arizona AZ35$977−32%$488 – $4,375
Oregon OR43$966−33%$249 – $3,419
Minnesota MN67$926−36%$552 – $1,735
Arkansas AR21$915−37%$602 – $1,189
Kansas KS44$895−38%$393 – $2,313
New Hampshire NH11$781−46%$415 – $1,399
Louisiana LA39$734−49%$378 – $1,712
Maryland MD10$678−53%$102 – $2,073
Mississippi MS34$643−55%$403 – $1,225
Iowa IA46$611−58%$330 – $1,868
Montana MT17$479−67%$317 – $933
Tennessee TN48$419−71%$350 – $1,480
Vermont VT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE7not 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 $1,441.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,855$1,592$804 – $2,717
Children’s50$1,335$677 – $2,599
Critical access384$876$313 – $1,857
Ownership
For-profit230$1,773$867 – $3,563
Government343$1,209$477 – $2,152
Non-profit1,716$1,448$706 – $2,481
System affiliation
Part of a system1,913$1,460$740 – $2,539
Independent385$1,329$432 – $2,580

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,545
Median cash price$1,441
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

1,740 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,459 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,543; most fall between $768 and $2,701.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,740 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
$438$891$1,459$2,365$3,926

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($438 vs $3,926).

Of the 1,879 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,740 gave a usable cash price; 51 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 87 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 2,510 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 here107
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 — excluded98
Hospitals that filed this code2,510

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 Needle Biopsy,Muscle.

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, “Needle biopsy of muscle (CPT 20206) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-20206-needle-biopsy-of-muscle