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Procedure price report · Diagnostic procedures, male genital

Needle biopsy of the testicle

CPT 54500the billing code this page is about

A needle is used to take a small tissue sample from the testicle for laboratory examination.

Hospitals typically charge $2,968 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 300 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,675. Most fall between $272 and $5,179 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
300
States
45
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 300 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
$166$343$2,968$4,459$7,655

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 46× what the cheapest tenth charges ($166 vs $7,655).

How the prices are spread

$140 – $209: 37 hospitals$140$209 – $313: 10 hospitals$313 – $467: 25 hospitals$313$467 – $698: 3 hospitals$698 – $1,043: 12 hospitals$698$1,043 – $1,558: 8 hospitals$1,558 – $2,328: 12 hospitals$1,558$2,328 – $3,478: 69 hospitals$3,478 – $5,197: 55 hospitals$3,478$5,197 – $7,765: 43 hospitals$5,197median $2,968price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (274 of 300 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$140$20937
$209$31310
$313$46725
$467$6983
$698$1,04312
$1,043$1,5588
$1,558$2,32812
$2,328$3,47869
$3,478$5,19755
$5,197$7,76543

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$2,968
Median cash price$2,968
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.00×

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 $2,968.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $463 across 18 hospitalsIL$463Wisconsin: median $343 across 19 hospitalsWI$343Michigan: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: median $3,387 across 22 hospitalsNY$3,387Massachusetts: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $187 across 13 hospitalsIA$187Indiana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: median $4,191 across 12 hospitalsPA$4,191New Jersey: median $3,986 across 23 hospitalsNJ$3,986Connecticut: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $3,557 across 38 hospitalsCA$3,557Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCONebraska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVAMaryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: median $8,696 across 11 hospitalsAZ$8,696New Mexico: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOKLouisiana: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $5,179 across 14 hospitalsGA$5,179Hawaii: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $2,559 across 20 hospitalsTX$2,559Florida: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,968. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Arizona AZ11$8,696+193%$3,565 – $8,696
Georgia GA14$5,179+75%$1,171 – $5,179
Pennsylvania PA12$4,191+41%$3,356 – $5,393
New Jersey NJ23$3,986+34%$3,168 – $5,419
California CA38$3,557+20%$3,182 – $7,655
New York NY22$3,387+14%$2,968 – $3,626
Texas TX20$2,559−14%$2,559 – $2,559
Illinois IL18$463−84%$166 – $3,820
Wisconsin WI19$343−88%$343 – $3,535
Iowa IA13$187−94%$187 – $187
Louisiana LA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Michigan MI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oklahoma OK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY1not 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 $2,968.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care254$3,171$341 – $5,179
Children’s7fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access37$343$254 – $4,559
Ownership
For-profit33$2,767$206 – $7,765
Government33$2,873$146 – $3,575
Non-profit232$3,128$343 – $5,308
System affiliation
Part of a system258$3,168$341 – $5,179
Independent42$2,302$157 – $4,191

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,444
Median cash price$2,968
Cash as a share of list, median hospital61%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 39%. 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

239 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,094 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,038; most fall between $166 and $5,179.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 239 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
$127$187$2,094$4,457$7,655

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 60× what the cheapest tenth charges ($127 vs $7,655).

Of the 262 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 239 gave a usable cash price; 17 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 6 a list price only.

How complete is this

300 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (8%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 357 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted300
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here50
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 — excluded6
Hospitals that filed this code357

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 23, 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 Testis Needle 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, “Needle biopsy of the testicle (CPT 54500) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-54500-needle-biopsy-of-the-testicle