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Needle biopsy of the prostate

CPT 55700the billing code this page is about

Tissue samples are taken from the prostate with a needle or punch device for laboratory examination.

Hospitals typically charge $1,939 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,537 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,003. Most fall between $551 and $4,050 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,537
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 1,537 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
$353$715$1,939$3,383$5,872

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 17× what the cheapest tenth charges ($353 vs $5,872).

How the prices are spread

$230 – $331: 69 hospitals$230$331 – $476: 132 hospitals$476 – $685: 96 hospitals$476$685 – $985: 121 hospitals$985 – $1,417: 137 hospitals$985$1,417 – $2,039: 172 hospitals$2,039 – $2,934: 241 hospitals$2,039$2,934 – $4,220: 197 hospitals$4,220 – $6,072: 146 hospitals$4,220$6,072 – $8,735: 74 hospitals$6,072median $1,939price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,385 of 1,537 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$230$33169
$331$476132
$476$68596
$685$985121
$985$1,417137
$1,417$2,039172
$2,039$2,934241
$2,934$4,220197
$4,220$6,072146
$6,072$8,73574

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $1,939.

Alaska: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $845 across 15 hospitalsME$845Vermont: 9 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 $1,579 across 30 hospitalsWA$1,579Idaho: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: median $523 across 13 hospitalsMT$523North Dakota: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $1,254 across 33 hospitalsMN$1,254Illinois: median $1,980 across 66 hospitalsIL$1,980Wisconsin: median $1,210 across 62 hospitalsWI$1,210Michigan: median $1,403 across 63 hospitalsMI$1,403New York: median $2,424 across 78 hospitalsNY$2,424Massachusetts: median $2,678 across 23 hospitalsMA$2,678Oregon: median $584 across 30 hospitalsOR$584Nevada: median $852 across 10 hospitalsNV$852Wyoming: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $2,319 across 11 hospitalsSD$2,319Iowa: median $874 across 49 hospitalsIA$874Indiana: median $2,226 across 34 hospitalsIN$2,226Ohio: median $1,458 across 68 hospitalsOH$1,458Pennsylvania: median $2,465 across 64 hospitalsPA$2,465New Jersey: median $2,687 across 46 hospitalsNJ$2,687Connecticut: median $2,968 across 13 hospitalsCT$2,968Rhode Island: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $3,584 across 84 hospitalsCA$3,584Utah: median $643 across 23 hospitalsUT$643Colorado: median $1,422 across 33 hospitalsCO$1,422Nebraska: median $835 across 41 hospitalsNE$835Missouri: median $2,365 across 41 hospitalsMO$2,365Kentucky: median $1,836 across 19 hospitalsKY$1,836West Virginia: median $1,826 across 17 hospitalsWV$1,826Virginia: median $2,419 across 40 hospitalsVA$2,419Maryland: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $2,674 across 31 hospitalsAZ$2,674New Mexico: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $1,226 across 21 hospitalsKS$1,226Arkansas: median $1,730 across 12 hospitalsAR$1,730Tennessee: median $390 across 29 hospitalsTN$390North Carolina: median $1,159 across 35 hospitalsNC$1,159South Carolina: median $3,793 across 21 hospitalsSC$3,793Oklahoma: median $2,412 across 24 hospitalsOK$2,412Louisiana: median $1,142 across 35 hospitalsLA$1,142Mississippi: median $954 across 26 hospitalsMS$954Alabama: median $2,124 across 19 hospitalsAL$2,124Georgia: median $2,632 across 37 hospitalsGA$2,632Hawaii: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $2,627 across 113 hospitalsTX$2,627Florida: median $4,337 across 65 hospitalsFL$4,337
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,939. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL65$4,337+124%$1,614 – $5,788
South Carolina SC21$3,793+96%$1,542 – $3,793
California CA84$3,584+85%$1,969 – $8,356
Connecticut CT13$2,968+53%$1,627 – $3,932
New Jersey NJ46$2,687+39%$2,239 – $5,110
Massachusetts MA23$2,678+38%$1,220 – $3,000
Arizona AZ31$2,674+38%$496 – $3,313
Georgia GA37$2,632+36%$950 – $5,810
Texas TX113$2,627+35%$1,741 – $3,139
Pennsylvania PA64$2,465+27%$616 – $6,557
New York NY78$2,424+25%$378 – $4,595
Virginia VA40$2,419+25%$1,428 – $6,081
Oklahoma OK24$2,412+24%$390 – $5,362
Missouri MO41$2,365+22%$1,052 – $9,878
South Dakota SD11$2,319+20%$776 – $4,942
Indiana IN34$2,226+15%$600 – $4,687
Alabama AL19$2,124+10%$599 – $4,962
Illinois IL66$1,980+2%$735 – $5,029
Kentucky KY19$1,836−5%$266 – $3,600
West Virginia WV17$1,826−6%$840 – $3,330
Arkansas AR12$1,730−11%$413 – $2,654
Washington WA30$1,579−19%$438 – $3,202
Ohio OH68$1,458−25%$658 – $4,666
Colorado CO33$1,422−27%$1,075 – $3,324
Michigan MI63$1,403−28%$177 – $1,999
Minnesota MN33$1,254−35%$414 – $2,146
Kansas KS21$1,226−37%$377 – $1,889
Wisconsin WI62$1,210−38%$382 – $2,366
North Carolina NC35$1,159−40%$898 – $2,507
Louisiana LA35$1,142−41%$547 – $2,391
Mississippi MS26$954−51%$525 – $1,885
Iowa IA49$874−55%$431 – $2,768
Nevada NV10$852−56%$569 – $2,180
Maine ME15$845−56%$276 – $1,398
Nebraska NE41$835−57%$444 – $1,642
Utah UT23$643−67%$643 – $715
Oregon OR30$584−70%$359 – $3,816
Montana MT13$523−73%$278 – $741
Tennessee TN29$390−80%$317 – $2,052
New Hampshire NH9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not 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 $1,939.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,245$2,240$751 – $4,509
Children’s18fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access268$681$308 – $2,245
Ownership
For-profit160$2,725$954 – $6,557
Government238$1,440$424 – $2,875
Non-profit1,133$1,969$536 – $4,006
System affiliation
Part of a system1,277$1,994$616 – $4,177
Independent260$1,620$361 – $3,692

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,250
Median cash price$1,939
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

1,022 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,645 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,775; most fall between $512 and $3,324.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,022 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
$330$643$1,645$3,031$5,206

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 16× what the cheapest tenth charges ($330 vs $5,206).

Of the 1,121 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,022 gave a usable cash price; 30 carried a plausibility flag, 5 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 64 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,537 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (39%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,677 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,537
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here65
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded5
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded5
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded65
Hospitals that filed this code1,677

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.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Prostate Needle Biopsy Any Approach.

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 prostate (CPT 55700) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-55700-needle-biopsy-of-the-prostate