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Procedure price report · Biopsy of liver

Needle biopsy of the liver through the skin

CPT 47000the billing code this page is about

A needle is passed through the skin to take a sample of liver tissue for laboratory examination.

Hospitals typically charge $1,628 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,489 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,687. Most fall between $756 and $2,919 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,489
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 2,489 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
$480$931$1,628$2,579$4,202

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($480 vs $4,202).

How the prices are spread

$309 – $409: 69 hospitals$309$409 – $542: 105 hospitals$542 – $717: 176 hospitals$542$717 – $949: 163 hospitals$949 – $1,256: 235 hospitals$949$1,256 – $1,662: 415 hospitals$1,662 – $2,200: 386 hospitals$1,662$2,200 – $2,912: 317 hospitals$2,912 – $3,853: 205 hospitals$2,912$3,853 – $5,100: 170 hospitals$3,853median $1,628price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,241 of 2,489 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$309$40969
$409$542105
$542$717176
$717$949163
$949$1,256235
$1,256$1,662415
$1,662$2,200386
$2,200$2,912317
$2,912$3,853205
$3,853$5,100170

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$1,687
Median cash price$1,628
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.96×

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 $1,628.

Alaska: median $1,508 across 10 hospitalsAK$1,508Maine: median $1,545 across 17 hospitalsME$1,545Vermont: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $1,087 across 16 hospitalsNH$1,087Washington: median $1,650 across 59 hospitalsWA$1,650Idaho: median $1,903 across 18 hospitalsID$1,903Montana: median $484 across 20 hospitalsMT$484North Dakota: median $1,798 across 12 hospitalsND$1,798Minnesota: median $1,304 across 75 hospitalsMN$1,304Illinois: median $1,770 across 103 hospitalsIL$1,770Wisconsin: median $1,050 across 90 hospitalsWI$1,050Michigan: median $1,441 across 77 hospitalsMI$1,441New York: median $2,396 across 95 hospitalsNY$2,396Massachusetts: median $1,811 across 44 hospitalsMA$1,811Oregon: median $1,973 across 43 hospitalsOR$1,973Nevada: median $1,406 across 17 hospitalsNV$1,406Wyoming: median $1,089 across 11 hospitalsWY$1,089South Dakota: median $2,266 across 13 hospitalsSD$2,266Iowa: median $1,321 across 46 hospitalsIA$1,321Indiana: median $1,352 across 77 hospitalsIN$1,352Ohio: median $2,127 across 129 hospitalsOH$2,127Pennsylvania: median $1,944 across 102 hospitalsPA$1,944New Jersey: median $2,162 across 58 hospitalsNJ$2,162Connecticut: median $2,012 across 19 hospitalsCT$2,012Rhode Island: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $2,315 across 179 hospitalsCA$2,315Utah: median $1,523 across 29 hospitalsUT$1,523Colorado: median $1,495 across 56 hospitalsCO$1,495Nebraska: median $1,296 across 33 hospitalsNE$1,296Missouri: median $1,646 across 61 hospitalsMO$1,646Kentucky: median $1,524 across 32 hospitalsKY$1,524West Virginia: median $1,103 across 28 hospitalsWV$1,103Virginia: median $1,350 across 55 hospitalsVA$1,350Maryland: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $1,548 across 38 hospitalsAZ$1,548New Mexico: median $1,175 across 18 hospitalsNM$1,175Kansas: median $1,127 across 48 hospitalsKS$1,127Arkansas: median $649 across 24 hospitalsAR$649Tennessee: median $692 across 56 hospitalsTN$692North Carolina: median $1,378 across 69 hospitalsNC$1,378South Carolina: median $2,344 across 41 hospitalsSC$2,344Oklahoma: median $1,142 across 46 hospitalsOK$1,142Louisiana: median $1,119 across 45 hospitalsLA$1,119Mississippi: median $869 across 41 hospitalsMS$869Alabama: median $1,431 across 36 hospitalsAL$1,431Georgia: median $2,045 across 78 hospitalsGA$2,045Hawaii: median $1,509 across 14 hospitalsHI$1,509Texas: median $1,933 across 177 hospitalsTX$1,933Florida: median $2,219 across 105 hospitalsFL$2,219
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,628. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New York NY95$2,396+47%$837 – $4,050
South Carolina SC41$2,344+44%$2,009 – $2,579
California CA179$2,315+42%$1,196 – $4,472
South Dakota SD13$2,266+39%$1,563 – $3,168
Florida FL105$2,219+36%$1,193 – $4,485
New Jersey NJ58$2,162+33%$1,793 – $4,668
Ohio OH129$2,127+31%$1,424 – $3,713
Georgia GA78$2,045+26%$1,276 – $3,539
Connecticut CT19$2,012+24%$611 – $2,624
Oregon OR43$1,973+21%$534 – $3,386
Pennsylvania PA102$1,944+19%$1,212 – $3,314
Texas TX177$1,933+19%$1,265 – $2,942
Idaho ID18$1,903+17%$850 – $4,347
Massachusetts MA44$1,811+11%$1,311 – $2,912
North Dakota ND12$1,798+10%$239 – $2,422
Illinois IL103$1,770+9%$675 – $3,477
Washington WA59$1,650+1%$780 – $3,022
Missouri MO61$1,646+1%$974 – $2,737
Arizona AZ38$1,548−5%$672 – $4,710
Maine ME17$1,545−5%$342 – $1,910
Kentucky KY32$1,524−6%$1,022 – $2,783
Utah UT29$1,523−6%$1,294 – $1,523
Hawaii HI14$1,509−7%$571 – $2,317
Alaska AK10$1,508−7%$844 – $2,855
Colorado CO56$1,495−8%$928 – $2,943
Michigan MI77$1,441−11%$401 – $2,185
Alabama AL36$1,431−12%$948 – $2,319
Nevada NV17$1,406−14%$411 – $1,961
North Carolina NC69$1,378−15%$745 – $1,870
Indiana IN77$1,352−17%$526 – $2,155
Virginia VA55$1,350−17%$816 – $1,679
Iowa IA46$1,321−19%$569 – $2,097
Minnesota MN75$1,304−20%$603 – $1,557
Nebraska NE33$1,296−20%$607 – $2,417
New Mexico NM18$1,175−28%$795 – $1,974
Oklahoma OK46$1,142−30%$981 – $2,028
Kansas KS48$1,127−31%$485 – $2,228
Louisiana LA45$1,119−31%$500 – $1,802
West Virginia WV28$1,103−32%$275 – $2,812
Wyoming WY11$1,089−33%$418 – $1,979
New Hampshire NH16$1,087−33%$242 – $1,633
Wisconsin WI90$1,050−35%$568 – $1,960
Mississippi MS41$869−47%$610 – $1,225
Tennessee TN56$692−57%$511 – $1,519
Arkansas AR24$649−60%$509 – $2,022
Montana MT20$484−70%$347 – $1,586
Rhode Island RI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD6not 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 $1,628.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,972$1,681$910 – $3,078
Children’s50$1,793$1,053 – $4,161
Critical access459$1,117$425 – $2,313
Ownership
For-profit275$1,670$924 – $3,739
Government395$1,387$569 – $2,390
Non-profit1,811$1,650$812 – $2,912
System affiliation
Part of a system2,034$1,657$847 – $2,980
Independent455$1,397$469 – $2,536

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,934
Median cash price$1,628
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

1,855 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,669 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,753; most fall between $842 and $2,980.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,855 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
$534$1,035$1,669$2,709$4,220

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($534 vs $4,220).

Of the 1,987 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,855 gave a usable cash price; 44 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 87 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,489 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (63%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,688 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,489
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here93
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded8
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded97
Hospitals that filed this code2,688

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 Biopsy of liver family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Biopsy Liver Needle Percutaneous.

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 the liver through the skin (CPT 47000) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-47000-needle-biopsy-of-the-liver-through-the-skin