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Procedure price report · Diagnostic procedures on nose, mouth and pharynx

Biopsy of the front part of the tongue

CPT 41100the billing code this page is about

Removal of a small tissue sample from the front two-thirds of the tongue for laboratory examination.

Hospitals typically charge $697 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 975 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $765. Most fall between $285 and $1,523 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
975
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 975 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
$175$330$697$1,353$2,598

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 15× what the cheapest tenth charges ($175 vs $2,598).

How the prices are spread

$129 – $182: 66 hospitals$129$182 – $258: 59 hospitals$258 – $364: 96 hospitals$258$364 – $515: 102 hospitals$515 – $728: 133 hospitals$515$728 – $1,029: 145 hospitals$1,029 – $1,455: 107 hospitals$1,029$1,455 – $2,056: 91 hospitals$2,056 – $2,907: 64 hospitals$2,056$2,907 – $4,109: 16 hospitals$2,907median $697price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (879 of 975 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$129$18266
$182$25859
$258$36496
$364$515102
$515$728133
$728$1,029145
$1,029$1,455107
$1,455$2,05691
$2,056$2,90764
$2,907$4,10916

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$551
Median cash price$697
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.26×

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 $697.

Alaska: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 8 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 $558 across 18 hospitalsWA$558Idaho: median $998 across 13 hospitalsID$998Montana: median $333 across 10 hospitalsMT$333North Dakota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $588 across 36 hospitalsMN$588Illinois: median $550 across 44 hospitalsIL$550Wisconsin: median $702 across 52 hospitalsWI$702Michigan: median $1,022 across 52 hospitalsMI$1,022New York: median $603 across 53 hospitalsNY$603Massachusetts: median $1,080 across 12 hospitalsMA$1,080Oregon: median $533 across 32 hospitalsOR$533Nevada: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $431 across 33 hospitalsIA$431Indiana: median $990 across 26 hospitalsIN$990Ohio: median $1,523 across 46 hospitalsOH$1,523Pennsylvania: median $637 across 34 hospitalsPA$637New Jersey: median $3,786 across 35 hospitalsNJ$3,786Connecticut: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $1,498 across 63 hospitalsCA$1,498Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $703 across 15 hospitalsCO$703Nebraska: median $331 across 29 hospitalsNE$331Missouri: median $713 across 20 hospitalsMO$713Kentucky: median $358 across 12 hospitalsKY$358West Virginia: median $416 across 17 hospitalsWV$416Virginia: median $860 across 24 hospitalsVA$860Maryland: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $186 across 16 hospitalsKS$186Arkansas: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $190 across 12 hospitalsTN$190North Carolina: median $1,148 across 27 hospitalsNC$1,148South Carolina: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $176 across 16 hospitalsOK$176Louisiana: median $771 across 19 hospitalsLA$771Mississippi: median $231 across 12 hospitalsMS$231Alabama: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $645 across 18 hospitalsGA$645Hawaii: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $1,576 across 37 hospitalsTX$1,576Florida: median $2,598 across 31 hospitalsFL$2,598
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $697. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ35$3,786+443%$564 – $6,311
Florida FL31$2,598+273%$693 – $3,930
Texas TX37$1,576+126%$568 – $1,685
Ohio OH46$1,523+119%$567 – $1,865
California CA63$1,498+115%$920 – $2,705
North Carolina NC27$1,148+65%$478 – $1,148
Massachusetts MA12$1,080+55%$413 – $1,950
Michigan MI52$1,022+47%$134 – $1,353
Idaho ID13$998+43%$385 – $1,423
Indiana IN26$990+42%$196 – $1,542
Virginia VA24$860+23%$273 – $1,005
Louisiana LA19$771+11%$348 – $1,014
Missouri MO20$713+2%$233 – $1,190
Colorado CO15$703+1%$441 – $1,331
Wisconsin WI52$702+1%$300 – $1,022
Georgia GA18$645−8%$645 – $2,122
Pennsylvania PA34$637−9%$72 – $861
New York NY53$603−14%$285 – $1,114
Minnesota MN36$588−16%$269 – $793
Washington WA18$558−20%$280 – $1,166
Illinois IL44$550−21%$338 – $1,222
Oregon OR32$533−24%$340 – $1,541
Iowa IA33$431−38%$268 – $505
West Virginia WV17$416−40%$221 – $689
Kentucky KY12$358−49%$164 – $2,045
Montana MT10$333−52%$158 – $381
Nebraska NE29$331−53%$217 – $765
Mississippi MS12$231−67%$204 – $400
Tennessee TN12$190−73%$161 – $1,319
Kansas KS16$186−73%$100 – $393
Oklahoma OK16$176−75%$176 – $935
South Carolina SC9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI2not 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 $697.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care728$803$323 – $1,865
Children’s14fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access232$430$217 – $1,014
Ownership
For-profit73$1,022$240 – $2,759
Government188$518$263 – $1,148
Non-profit713$742$298 – $1,530
System affiliation
Part of a system788$773$300 – $1,576
Independent187$504$221 – $998

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,118
Median cash price$697
Cash as a share of list, median hospital64%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 36%. 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

625 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $773 and the average of the middle 60% is $816; most fall between $287 and $1,523.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 625 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
$176$328$773$1,376$2,122

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($176 vs $2,122).

Of the 678 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 625 gave a usable cash price; 27 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 26 a list price only.

How complete is this

975 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 1,060 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted975
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here55
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded2
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded27
Hospitals that filed this code1,060

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 Diagnostic procedures on nose, mouth and pharynx family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as PR Biopsy Tongue,Anter 2/3.

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 the front part of the tongue (CPT 41100) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-41100-biopsy-of-the-front-part-of-the-tongue