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Procedure price report · Other diagnostic procedures on musculoskeletal system

Biopsy of deep soft tissue in the forearm or wrist

CPT 25066the billing code this page is about

Removal of a tissue sample from deep within the forearm or wrist, beneath the muscle covering, for laboratory examination.

Hospitals typically charge $2,000 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 435 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,223. Most fall between $649 and $4,529 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
435
States
48
Filings dated
Jan 2024 – 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 435 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
$476$700$2,000$3,819$6,306

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($476 vs $6,306).

How the prices are spread

$345 – $465: 23 hospitals$345$465 – $629: 41 hospitals$629 – $850: 49 hospitals$629$850 – $1,148: 45 hospitals$1,148 – $1,551: 21 hospitals$1,148$1,551 – $2,096: 25 hospitals$2,096 – $2,832: 22 hospitals$2,096$2,832 – $3,826: 85 hospitals$3,826 – $5,170: 38 hospitals$3,826$5,170 – $6,985: 46 hospitals$5,170median $2,000price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (395 of 435 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$345$46523
$465$62941
$629$85049
$850$1,14845
$1,148$1,55121
$1,551$2,09625
$2,096$2,83222
$2,832$3,82685
$3,826$5,17038
$5,170$6,98546

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$2,968
Median cash price$2,000
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.67×

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 $2,000.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: median $2,828 across 10 hospitalsID$2,828Montana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $693 across 14 hospitalsIL$693Wisconsin: median $1,849 across 14 hospitalsWI$1,849Michigan: median $805 across 29 hospitalsMI$805New York: median $3,387 across 31 hospitalsNY$3,387Massachusetts: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $700 across 12 hospitalsOR$700Nevada: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $880 across 17 hospitalsIA$880Indiana: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $915 across 15 hospitalsOH$915Pennsylvania: median $2,857 across 21 hospitalsPA$2,857New Jersey: median $3,819 across 31 hospitalsNJ$3,819Connecticut: 2 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 $5,590 across 50 hospitalsCA$5,590Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 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: 1 hospital 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: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $609 across 14 hospitalsOK$609Louisiana: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $3,311 across 24 hospitalsTX$3,311Florida: median $3,434 across 14 hospitalsFL$3,434
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,000. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA50$5,590+179%$4,529 – $6,306
New Jersey NJ31$3,819+91%$3,171 – $5,339
Florida FL14$3,434+72%$2,698 – $6,277
New York NY31$3,387+69%$1,062 – $3,448
Texas TX24$3,311+66%$1,707 – $3,311
Pennsylvania PA21$2,857+43%$244 – $4,444
Idaho ID10$2,828+41%$684 – $7,765
Wisconsin WI14$1,849−8%$1,849 – $3,154
Ohio OH15$915−54%$649 – $1,694
Iowa IA17$880−56%$880 – $880
Michigan MI29$805−60%$690 – $3,994
Oregon OR12$700−65%$700 – $1,234
Illinois IL14$693−65%$419 – $1,486
Oklahoma OK14$609−70%$609 – $1,534
Georgia GA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV1not 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 $2,000.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care354$2,816$685 – $4,583
Children’s12fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access68$870$527 – $1,849
Ownership
For-profit46$2,828$656 – $5,590
Government68$1,105$599 – $3,387
Non-profit320$2,065$649 – $4,529
System affiliation
Part of a system345$2,580$656 – $4,529
Independent90$1,086$609 – $3,349

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,609
Median cash price$2,000
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

249 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,326 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,957; most fall between $609 and $4,583.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 249 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
$419$667$1,326$4,529$6,306

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 15× what the cheapest tenth charges ($419 vs $6,306).

Of the 277 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 249 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 7 a list price only.

How complete is this

435 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (11%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 484 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted435
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here41
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 — excluded7
Hospitals that filed this code484

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 23, 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 Forearm&/Wrist 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 soft tissue in the forearm or wrist (CPT 25066) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-25066-biopsy-of-deep-soft-tissue-in-the-forearm-or-wrist