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Procedure price report · Other diagnostic procedures on musculoskeletal system

Biopsy of shallow soft tissue of the hip or pelvis

CPT 27040the billing code this page is about

Removal of a sample of soft tissue just under the skin of the pelvis or hip area for laboratory examination.

Hospitals typically charge $1,479 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 929 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,630. Most fall between $673 and $3,244 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
929
States
48
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 929 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
$459$849$1,479$2,805$4,836

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($459 vs $4,836).

How the prices are spread

$328 – $435: 43 hospitals$328$435 – $576: 59 hospitals$576 – $765: 74 hospitals$576$765 – $1,014: 85 hospitals$1,014 – $1,346: 110 hospitals$1,014$1,346 – $1,785: 128 hospitals$1,785 – $2,368: 114 hospitals$1,785$2,368 – $3,141: 74 hospitals$3,141 – $4,167: 71 hospitals$3,141$4,167 – $5,528: 82 hospitals$4,167median $1,479price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (840 of 929 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$328$43543
$435$57659
$576$76574
$765$1,01485
$1,014$1,346110
$1,346$1,785128
$1,785$2,368114
$2,368$3,14174
$3,141$4,16771
$4,167$5,52882

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$1,687
Median cash price$1,479
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.88×

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 $1,479.

Alaska: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $937 across 25 hospitalsWA$937Idaho: median $1,750 across 12 hospitalsID$1,750Montana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $891 across 21 hospitalsMN$891Illinois: median $681 across 30 hospitalsIL$681Wisconsin: median $991 across 36 hospitalsWI$991Michigan: median $1,266 across 24 hospitalsMI$1,266New York: median $1,917 across 45 hospitalsNY$1,917Massachusetts: median $5,031 across 15 hospitalsMA$5,031Oregon: median $1,141 across 18 hospitalsOR$1,141Nevada: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 4 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 $849 across 22 hospitalsIA$849Indiana: median $710 across 27 hospitalsIN$710Ohio: median $1,383 across 42 hospitalsOH$1,383Pennsylvania: median $1,814 across 34 hospitalsPA$1,814New Jersey: median $2,162 across 31 hospitalsNJ$2,162Connecticut: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $2,780 across 108 hospitalsCA$2,780Utah: median $981 across 23 hospitalsUT$981Colorado: median $1,884 across 17 hospitalsCO$1,884Nebraska: median $1,038 across 14 hospitalsNE$1,038Missouri: median $1,516 across 26 hospitalsMO$1,516Kentucky: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $2,402 across 11 hospitalsVA$2,402Maryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: median $684 across 18 hospitalsAZ$684New Mexico: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $1,555 across 17 hospitalsKS$1,555Arkansas: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $545 across 14 hospitalsTN$545North Carolina: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: median $1,653 across 20 hospitalsSC$1,653Oklahoma: median $328 across 19 hospitalsOK$328Louisiana: median $1,599 across 14 hospitalsLA$1,599Mississippi: median $568 across 16 hospitalsMS$568Alabama: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $1,396 across 34 hospitalsGA$1,396Hawaii: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $1,415 across 41 hospitalsTX$1,415Florida: median $3,244 across 48 hospitalsFL$3,244
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,479. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Massachusetts MA15$5,031+240%$1,430 – $5,031
Florida FL48$3,244+119%$1,479 – $4,507
California CA108$2,780+88%$1,478 – $6,082
Virginia VA11$2,402+62%$1,137 – $3,065
New Jersey NJ31$2,162+46%$1,795 – $5,339
New York NY45$1,917+30%$687 – $2,673
Colorado CO17$1,884+27%$842 – $4,371
Pennsylvania PA34$1,814+23%$135 – $3,489
Idaho ID12$1,750+18%$981 – $4,347
South Carolina SC20$1,653+12%$1,653 – $2,785
Louisiana LA14$1,599+8%$590 – $2,610
Kansas KS17$1,555+5%$571 – $3,317
Missouri MO26$1,516+2%$777 – $1,953
Texas TX41$1,415−4%$1,188 – $2,913
Georgia GA34$1,396−6%$1,396 – $5,094
Ohio OH42$1,383−7%$759 – $3,089
Michigan MI24$1,266−14%$492 – $2,271
Oregon OR18$1,141−23%$616 – $1,576
Nebraska NE14$1,038−30%$579 – $1,234
Wisconsin WI36$991−33%$934 – $1,290
Utah UT23$981−34%$981 – $1,154
Washington WA25$937−37%$616 – $2,296
Minnesota MN21$891−40%$671 – $1,168
Iowa IA22$849−43%$569 – $1,623
Indiana IN27$710−52%$526 – $1,409
Arizona AZ18$684−54%$578 – $1,167
Illinois IL30$681−54%$322 – $2,866
Mississippi MS16$568−62%$519 – $1,019
Tennessee TN14$545−63%$401 – $1,987
Oklahoma OK19$328−78%$328 – $2,642
Nevada NV9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT3not 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 $1,479.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care783$1,626$747 – $3,317
Children’s18fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access124$981$504 – $2,040
Ownership
For-profit87$1,688$793 – $4,469
Government126$1,400$565 – $2,610
Non-profit712$1,470$687 – $3,244
System affiliation
Part of a system774$1,512$710 – $3,314
Independent155$1,470$548 – $2,561

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,543
Median cash price$1,479
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

672 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,473 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,666; most fall between $687 and $3,317.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 672 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
$464$849$1,473$2,986$4,913

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($464 vs $4,913).

Of the 713 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 672 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 20 a list price only.

How complete is this

929 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (23%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,003 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted929
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here46
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded26
Hospitals that filed this code1,003

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 Biopsy Soft Tissue Pelvis&Hip Area Superficial.

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 shallow soft tissue of the hip or pelvis (CPT 27040) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-27040-biopsy-of-shallow-soft-tissue-of-the-hip-or-pelvis