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Procedure price report · Diagnostic procedures, male genital

Biopsy of the penis

CPT 54100the billing code this page is about

A tissue sample is taken from the penis so it can be examined in the laboratory.

Hospitals typically charge $1,220 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 838 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,303. Most fall between $304 and $2,893 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
838
States
50
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 838 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
$200$352$1,220$2,588$4,641

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 23× what the cheapest tenth charges ($200 vs $4,641).

How the prices are spread

$136 – $196: 27 hospitals$136$196 – $283: 80 hospitals$283 – $409: 98 hospitals$283$409 – $590: 77 hospitals$590 – $852: 48 hospitals$590$852 – $1,230: 48 hospitals$1,230 – $1,775: 73 hospitals$1,230$1,775 – $2,563: 136 hospitals$2,563 – $3,699: 95 hospitals$2,563$3,699 – $5,339: 74 hospitals$3,699median $1,220price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (756 of 838 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$136$19627
$196$28380
$283$40998
$409$59077
$590$85248
$852$1,23048
$1,230$1,77573
$1,775$2,563136
$2,563$3,69995
$3,699$5,33974

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$1,687
Median cash price$1,220
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.72×

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 $1,220.

Alaska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $1,046 across 25 hospitalsWA$1,046Idaho: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $528 across 29 hospitalsMN$528Illinois: median $1,394 across 38 hospitalsIL$1,394Wisconsin: median $492 across 50 hospitalsWI$492Michigan: median $492 across 35 hospitalsMI$492New York: median $1,917 across 43 hospitalsNY$1,917Massachusetts: median $3,184 across 23 hospitalsMA$3,184Oregon: median $369 across 24 hospitalsOR$369Nevada: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $492 across 26 hospitalsIA$492Indiana: median $570 across 25 hospitalsIN$570Ohio: median $1,778 across 33 hospitalsOH$1,778Pennsylvania: median $1,900 across 38 hospitalsPA$1,900New Jersey: median $2,162 across 32 hospitalsNJ$2,162Connecticut: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $1,893 across 57 hospitalsCA$1,893Utah: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: median $352 across 10 hospitalsNE$352Missouri: median $293 across 27 hospitalsMO$293Kentucky: median $259 across 10 hospitalsKY$259West Virginia: median $508 across 22 hospitalsWV$508Virginia: median $2,170 across 23 hospitalsVA$2,170Maryland: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $281 across 17 hospitalsKS$281Arkansas: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: median $2,808 across 17 hospitalsNC$2,808South Carolina: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $200 across 14 hospitalsOK$200Louisiana: median $1,401 across 16 hospitalsLA$1,401Mississippi: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $1,605 across 17 hospitalsGA$1,605Hawaii: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $2,313 across 41 hospitalsTX$2,313Florida: median $4,876 across 17 hospitalsFL$4,876
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,220. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL17$4,876+300%$1,846 – $5,984
Massachusetts MA23$3,184+161%$979 – $5,031
North Carolina NC17$2,808+130%$932 – $2,808
Texas TX41$2,313+90%$1,668 – $2,743
Virginia VA23$2,170+78%$2,005 – $2,170
New Jersey NJ32$2,162+77%$1,795 – $5,339
New York NY43$1,917+57%$347 – $3,159
Pennsylvania PA38$1,900+56%$89 – $2,768
California CA57$1,893+55%$1,458 – $3,323
Ohio OH33$1,778+46%$287 – $4,844
Georgia GA17$1,605+32%$1,605 – $4,862
Louisiana LA16$1,401+15%$634 – $1,870
Illinois IL38$1,394+14%$334 – $4,983
Washington WA25$1,046−14%$390 – $2,131
Indiana IN25$570−53%$259 – $810
Minnesota MN29$528−57%$293 – $601
West Virginia WV22$508−58%$126 – $1,904
Michigan MI35$492−60%$326 – $2,735
Wisconsin WI50$492−60%$363 – $958
Iowa IA26$492−60%$289 – $492
Oregon OR24$369−70%$198 – $1,312
Nebraska NE10$352−71%$190 – $526
Missouri MO27$293−76%$241 – $2,615
Kansas KS17$281−77%$156 – $436
Kentucky KY10$259−79%$191 – $945
Oklahoma OK14$200−84%$200 – $4,765
Idaho ID9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not 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 $1,220.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care640$1,847$363 – $3,323
Children’s10fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access187$363$228 – $770
Ownership
For-profit54$1,564$352 – $4,347
Government152$945$281 – $2,753
Non-profit631$1,189$317 – $2,943
System affiliation
Part of a system684$1,515$326 – $3,254
Independent154$511$227 – $2,147

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,894
Median cash price$1,220
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

529 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,311 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,347; most fall between $345 and $2,808.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 529 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
$208$369$1,311$2,651$4,268

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 21× what the cheapest tenth charges ($208 vs $4,268).

Of the 570 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 529 gave a usable cash price; 19 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 22 a list price only.

How complete is this

838 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (21%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 914 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted838
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 — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded29
Hospitals that filed this code914

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, male genital family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Biopsy Penis Separate Procedure.

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.

Download this page’s figures: JSON · CSV. Aggregates only — the per-hospital prices are on the compare tool.

Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Biopsy of the penis (CPT 54100) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-54100-biopsy-of-the-penis