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

Needle biopsy of a salivary gland

CPT 42400the billing code this page is about

A needle is passed into a salivary gland to take a tissue sample for laboratory testing; any imaging used to guide the needle is billed separately.

Hospitals typically charge $1,007 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,879 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,058. Most fall between $473 and $1,882 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,879
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 1,879 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
$218$565$1,007$1,713$2,632

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($218 vs $2,632).

How the prices are spread

$127 – $176: 50 hospitals$127$176 – $244: 60 hospitals$244 – $338: 70 hospitals$244$338 – $468: 100 hospitals$468 – $648: 168 hospitals$468$648 – $898: 289 hospitals$898 – $1,245: 342 hospitals$898$1,245 – $1,725: 251 hospitals$1,725 – $2,390: 223 hospitals$1,725$2,390 – $3,311: 140 hospitals$2,390median $1,007price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,693 of 1,879 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$127$17650
$176$24460
$244$33870
$338$468100
$468$648168
$648$898289
$898$1,245342
$1,245$1,725251
$1,725$2,390223
$2,390$3,311140

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$723
Median cash price$1,007
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.39×

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 $1,007.

Alaska: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $933 across 12 hospitalsME$933Vermont: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $724 across 11 hospitalsNH$724Washington: median $1,116 across 45 hospitalsWA$1,116Idaho: median $1,783 across 13 hospitalsID$1,783Montana: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $501 across 56 hospitalsMN$501Illinois: median $885 across 79 hospitalsIL$885Wisconsin: median $756 across 84 hospitalsWI$756Michigan: median $702 across 70 hospitalsMI$702New York: median $833 across 72 hospitalsNY$833Massachusetts: median $1,634 across 39 hospitalsMA$1,634Oregon: median $650 across 32 hospitalsOR$650Nevada: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $1,576 across 11 hospitalsSD$1,576Iowa: median $682 across 28 hospitalsIA$682Indiana: median $638 across 53 hospitalsIN$638Ohio: median $1,457 across 114 hospitalsOH$1,457Pennsylvania: median $971 across 85 hospitalsPA$971New Jersey: median $936 across 51 hospitalsNJ$936Connecticut: median $1,130 across 19 hospitalsCT$1,130Rhode Island: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $1,302 across 147 hospitalsCA$1,302Utah: median $1,764 across 13 hospitalsUT$1,764Colorado: median $1,240 across 40 hospitalsCO$1,240Nebraska: median $701 across 31 hospitalsNE$701Missouri: median $844 across 51 hospitalsMO$844Kentucky: median $971 across 19 hospitalsKY$971West Virginia: median $835 across 15 hospitalsWV$835Virginia: median $1,139 across 41 hospitalsVA$1,139Maryland: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $745 across 32 hospitalsAZ$745New Mexico: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $767 across 33 hospitalsKS$767Arkansas: median $794 across 13 hospitalsAR$794Tennessee: median $315 across 42 hospitalsTN$315North Carolina: median $881 across 42 hospitalsNC$881South Carolina: median $1,266 across 38 hospitalsSC$1,266Oklahoma: median $440 across 31 hospitalsOK$440Louisiana: median $725 across 31 hospitalsLA$725Mississippi: median $600 across 27 hospitalsMS$600Alabama: median $975 across 20 hospitalsAL$975Georgia: median $1,119 across 56 hospitalsGA$1,119Hawaii: median $1,253 across 11 hospitalsHI$1,253Texas: median $998 across 117 hospitalsTX$998Florida: median $1,782 across 81 hospitalsFL$1,782
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,007. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Idaho ID13$1,783+77%$1,008 – $1,885
Florida FL81$1,782+77%$959 – $2,630
Utah UT13$1,764+75%$1,479 – $1,764
Massachusetts MA39$1,634+62%$953 – $2,312
South Dakota SD11$1,576+57%$1,576 – $1,674
Ohio OH114$1,457+45%$781 – $1,955
California CA147$1,302+29%$760 – $2,847
South Carolina SC38$1,266+26%$1,193 – $1,597
Hawaii HI11$1,253+24%$108 – $1,501
Colorado CO40$1,240+23%$753 – $1,995
Virginia VA41$1,139+13%$439 – $1,153
Connecticut CT19$1,130+12%$921 – $1,897
Georgia GA56$1,119+11%$862 – $2,816
Washington WA45$1,116+11%$424 – $1,703
Texas TX117$998−1%$599 – $1,387
Alabama AL20$975−3%$228 – $1,729
Kentucky KY19$971−3%$632 – $2,825
Pennsylvania PA85$971−3%$542 – $2,063
New Jersey NJ51$936−7%$779 – $4,350
Maine ME12$933−7%$630 – $1,912
Illinois IL79$885−12%$321 – $2,003
North Carolina NC42$881−13%$489 – $1,232
Missouri MO51$844−16%$559 – $1,821
West Virginia WV15$835−17%$153 – $2,079
New York NY72$833−17%$447 – $1,568
Arkansas AR13$794−21%$361 – $930
Kansas KS33$767−24%$302 – $1,780
Wisconsin WI84$756−25%$371 – $1,286
Arizona AZ32$745−26%$507 – $2,460
Louisiana LA31$725−28%$447 – $1,140
New Hampshire NH11$724−28%$50 – $924
Michigan MI70$702−30%$113 – $1,691
Nebraska NE31$701−30%$203 – $993
Iowa IA28$682−32%$254 – $1,084
Oregon OR32$650−35%$172 – $2,657
Indiana IN53$638−37%$159 – $1,478
Mississippi MS27$600−40%$403 – $664
Minnesota MN56$501−50%$212 – $1,043
Oklahoma OK31$440−56%$115 – $1,041
Tennessee TN42$315−69%$300 – $879
North Dakota ND9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD5not 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 $1,007.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,595$1,040$532 – $1,970
Children’s37$1,061$451 – $2,066
Critical access241$637$178 – $1,370
Ownership
For-profit182$1,146$656 – $2,320
Government259$814$250 – $1,540
Non-profit1,432$1,038$499 – $1,911
System affiliation
Part of a system1,592$1,037$503 – $1,954
Independent287$889$239 – $1,740

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,871
Median cash price$1,007
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

1,440 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,071 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,118; most fall between $516 and $1,954.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,440 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
$300$599$1,071$1,750$2,682

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($300 vs $2,682).

Of the 1,537 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,440 gave a usable cash price; 35 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 62 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,879 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (47%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,021 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,879
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here67
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded5
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded70
Hospitals that filed this code2,021

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 Salivary Gland,Needle.

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 a salivary gland (CPT 42400) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-42400-needle-biopsy-of-a-salivary-gland