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Procedure price report · Other gastrointestinal diagnostic procedures

Biopsy inside the bile ducts through the skin

CPT 47543the billing code this page is about

Tissue samples are taken from the lining of the bile ducts through a catheter placed through the skin; billed once whether one or several samples are taken, in addition to the main procedure.

Hospitals typically charge $1,982 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,159 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,057. Most fall between $796 and $4,105 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,159
States
50
Filings dated
Feb 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 1,159 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
$382$914$1,982$3,469$5,880

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 15× what the cheapest tenth charges ($382 vs $5,880).

How the prices are spread

$260 – $364: 40 hospitals$260$364 – $508: 47 hospitals$508 – $709: 62 hospitals$508$709 – $991: 103 hospitals$991 – $1,384: 126 hospitals$991$1,384 – $1,933: 133 hospitals$1,933 – $2,699: 211 hospitals$1,933$2,699 – $3,770: 108 hospitals$3,770 – $5,265: 132 hospitals$3,770$5,265 – $7,353: 88 hospitals$5,265median $1,982price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,050 of 1,159 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$260$36440
$364$50847
$508$70962
$709$991103
$991$1,384126
$1,384$1,933133
$1,933$2,699211
$2,699$3,770108
$3,770$5,265132
$5,265$7,35388

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $1,982.

Alaska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $2,016 across 25 hospitalsWA$2,016Idaho: median $3,975 across 12 hospitalsID$3,975Montana: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $2,854 across 20 hospitalsMN$2,854Illinois: median $2,612 across 53 hospitalsIL$2,612Wisconsin: median $2,789 across 46 hospitalsWI$2,789Michigan: median $2,226 across 54 hospitalsMI$2,226New York: median $664 across 36 hospitalsNY$664Massachusetts: median $2,080 across 15 hospitalsMA$2,080Oregon: median $3,896 across 21 hospitalsOR$3,896Nevada: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $1,138 across 18 hospitalsIA$1,138Indiana: median $1,383 across 32 hospitalsIN$1,383Ohio: median $2,477 across 67 hospitalsOH$2,477Pennsylvania: median $1,583 across 39 hospitalsPA$1,583New Jersey: median $4,500 across 30 hospitalsNJ$4,500Connecticut: median $2,231 across 10 hospitalsCT$2,231Rhode Island: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $2,293 across 104 hospitalsCA$2,293Utah: median $1,913 across 23 hospitalsUT$1,913Colorado: median $1,553 across 29 hospitalsCO$1,553Nebraska: median $204 across 12 hospitalsNE$204Missouri: median $2,577 across 22 hospitalsMO$2,577Kentucky: median $2,637 across 10 hospitalsKY$2,637West Virginia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $1,005 across 32 hospitalsVA$1,005Maryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $1,273 across 22 hospitalsAZ$1,273New Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: median $346 across 10 hospitalsAR$346Tennessee: median $825 across 32 hospitalsTN$825North Carolina: median $1,939 across 30 hospitalsNC$1,939South Carolina: median $826 across 21 hospitalsSC$826Oklahoma: median $645 across 15 hospitalsOK$645Louisiana: median $1,256 across 19 hospitalsLA$1,256Mississippi: median $1,363 across 15 hospitalsMS$1,363Alabama: median $1,686 across 10 hospitalsAL$1,686Georgia: median $2,614 across 49 hospitalsGA$2,614Hawaii: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $2,115 across 94 hospitalsTX$2,115Florida: median $1,230 across 62 hospitalsFL$1,230
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,982. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ30$4,500+127%$1,852 – $6,217
Idaho ID12$3,975+101%$1,773 – $4,100
Oregon OR21$3,896+97%$254 – $6,726
Minnesota MN20$2,854+44%$1,321 – $4,172
Wisconsin WI46$2,789+41%$796 – $4,105
Kentucky KY10$2,637+33%$466 – $3,333
Georgia GA49$2,614+32%$915 – $4,102
Illinois IL53$2,612+32%$750 – $3,469
Missouri MO22$2,577+30%$1,045 – $4,815
Ohio OH67$2,477+25%$1,175 – $6,959
California CA104$2,293+16%$1,085 – $6,446
Connecticut CT10$2,231+13%$632 – $4,978
Michigan MI54$2,226+12%$378 – $4,662
Texas TX94$2,115+7%$1,500 – $2,628
Massachusetts MA15$2,080+5%$305 – $5,823
Washington WA25$2,016+2%$1,166 – $6,008
North Carolina NC30$1,939−2%$437 – $3,344
Utah UT23$1,913−3%$1,913 – $2,251
Alabama AL10$1,686−15%$1,299 – $7,469
Pennsylvania PA39$1,583−20%$870 – $6,267
Colorado CO29$1,553−22%$987 – $4,314
Indiana IN32$1,383−30%$1,019 – $2,940
Mississippi MS15$1,363−31%$757 – $1,872
Arizona AZ22$1,273−36%$1,028 – $11,142
Louisiana LA19$1,256−37%$184 – $2,484
Florida FL62$1,230−38%$382 – $3,856
Iowa IA18$1,138−43%$1,094 – $2,323
Virginia VA32$1,005−49%$841 – $1,392
South Carolina SC21$826−58%$826 – $2,410
Tennessee TN32$825−58%$570 – $841
New York NY36$664−66%$182 – $4,995
Oklahoma OK15$645−67%$645 – $2,666
Arkansas AR10$346−83%$296 – $1,194
Nebraska NE12$204−90%$171 – $2,354
Hawaii HI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT1not 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 $1,982.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,035$1,998$796 – $4,105
Children’s22$2,658$1,299 – $5,301
Critical access95$1,913$796 – $3,333
Ownership
For-profit89$2,354$732 – $4,526
Government127$1,500$600 – $3,344
Non-profit936$2,016$814 – $4,123
System affiliation
Part of a system1,057$2,015$826 – $4,105
Independent102$1,712$334 – $4,240

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,589
Median cash price$1,982
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

968 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,026 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,102; most fall between $825 and $4,105.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 968 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
$437$915$2,026$3,469$6,267

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 14× what the cheapest tenth charges ($437 vs $6,267).

Of the 1,045 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 968 gave a usable cash price; 28 carried a plausibility flag, 2 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 47 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,159 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (29%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,288 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,159
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here43
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded2
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded84
Hospitals that filed this code1,288

Sections not shown for this setting

  • Against Medicare: Medicare has no separately payable national outpatient (OPPS) rate for this code, so there is nothing honest to compare against.
  • 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 gastrointestinal diagnostic procedures family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Endoluminal Bx Biliary Tree Prq Any Meth 1/Mlt.

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 inside the bile ducts through the skin (CPT 47543) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-47543-biopsy-inside-the-bile-ducts-through-the-skin