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Procedure price report · Other diagnostic procedures on musculoskeletal system

Deep biopsy of soft tissue of the back or flank

CPT 21925the billing code this page is about

Removal of a tissue sample from beneath the covering layer or muscle of the back or flank for laboratory examination.

Hospitals typically charge $1,869 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 652 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,134. Most fall between $896 and $4,271 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
652
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 652 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
$579$1,014$1,869$3,710$5,311

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($579 vs $5,311).

How the prices are spread

$459 – $602: 45 hospitals$459$602 – $790: 46 hospitals$790 – $1,037: 45 hospitals$790$1,037 – $1,360: 81 hospitals$1,360 – $1,784: 58 hospitals$1,360$1,784 – $2,341: 86 hospitals$2,341 – $3,071: 54 hospitals$2,341$3,071 – $4,028: 74 hospitals$4,028 – $5,285: 67 hospitals$4,028$5,285 – $6,933: 47 hospitals$5,285median $1,869price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (603 of 652 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$459$60245
$602$79046
$790$1,03745
$1,037$1,36081
$1,360$1,78458
$1,784$2,34186
$2,341$3,07154
$3,071$4,02874
$4,028$5,28567
$5,285$6,93347

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$1,687
Median cash price$1,869
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.11×

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 $1,869.

Alaska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $2,411 across 18 hospitalsWA$2,411Idaho: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $720 across 20 hospitalsMN$720Illinois: median $947 across 28 hospitalsIL$947Wisconsin: median $1,869 across 32 hospitalsWI$1,869Michigan: median $2,059 across 14 hospitalsMI$2,059New York: median $1,917 across 33 hospitalsNY$1,917Massachusetts: median $3,119 across 10 hospitalsMA$3,119Oregon: median $1,650 across 15 hospitalsOR$1,650Nevada: 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: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $1,142 across 20 hospitalsIA$1,142Indiana: median $1,646 across 13 hospitalsIN$1,646Ohio: median $1,930 across 34 hospitalsOH$1,930Pennsylvania: median $1,624 across 28 hospitalsPA$1,624New Jersey: median $4,350 across 28 hospitalsNJ$4,350Connecticut: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $3,838 across 64 hospitalsCA$3,838Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $718 across 16 hospitalsMO$718Kentucky: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $2,890 across 13 hospitalsVA$2,890Maryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $908 across 11 hospitalsTN$908North Carolina: median $1,178 across 10 hospitalsNC$1,178South Carolina: median $4,271 across 20 hospitalsSC$4,271Oklahoma: median $1,119 across 21 hospitalsOK$1,119Louisiana: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $1,278 across 24 hospitalsGA$1,278Hawaii: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $3,382 across 33 hospitalsTX$3,382Florida: median $1,402 across 25 hospitalsFL$1,402
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,869. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ28$4,350+133%$1,795 – $6,452
South Carolina SC20$4,271+128%$2,785 – $4,271
California CA64$3,838+105%$2,113 – $6,933
Texas TX33$3,382+81%$1,650 – $3,867
Massachusetts MA10$3,119+67%$1,430 – $4,936
Virginia VA13$2,890+55%$256 – $5,749
Washington WA18$2,411+29%$896 – $3,753
Michigan MI14$2,059+10%$699 – $2,271
Ohio OH34$1,930+3%$1,204 – $4,462
New York NY33$1,917+3%$1,135 – $2,062
Wisconsin WI32$1,8690%$1,206 – $2,985
Oregon OR15$1,650−12%$911 – $1,650
Indiana IN13$1,646−12%$459 – $4,573
Pennsylvania PA28$1,624−13%$247 – $3,276
Florida FL25$1,402−25%$1,402 – $3,625
Georgia GA24$1,278−32%$1,278 – $5,507
North Carolina NC10$1,178−37%$595 – $1,799
Iowa IA20$1,142−39%$831 – $1,308
Oklahoma OK21$1,119−40%$624 – $1,611
Illinois IL28$947−49%$600 – $1,830
Tennessee TN11$908−51%$526 – $980
Minnesota MN20$720−62%$483 – $1,122
Missouri MO16$718−62%$535 – $2,814
Colorado CO9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not 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 $1,869.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care552$1,917$919 – $4,271
Children’s11fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access86$1,284$698 – $2,961
Ownership
For-profit68$1,969$920 – $4,649
Government76$1,453$822 – $2,462
Non-profit505$1,900$908 – $4,271
System affiliation
Part of a system559$1,917$911 – $4,301
Independent93$1,430$703 – $2,497

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,317
Median cash price$1,869
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

447 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,966 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,298; most fall between $833 and $4,371.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 447 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
$535$986$1,966$4,271$5,559

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 10× what the cheapest tenth charges ($535 vs $5,559).

Of the 474 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 447 gave a usable cash price; 14 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 13 a list price only.

How complete is this

652 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (16%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 705 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted652
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here38
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded14
Hospitals that filed this code705

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 Soft Tissue Back/Flank 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, “Deep biopsy of soft tissue of the back or flank (CPT 21925) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-21925-deep-biopsy-of-soft-tissue-of-the-back-or-flank