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Procedure price report · Diagnostic procedures, male genital

Template-guided saturation biopsy of the prostate

CPT 55706the billing code this page is about

Many needle samples are taken from the prostate through the skin behind the scrotum using a guiding grid and imaging, in one session.

Hospitals typically charge $3,566 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 529 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $3,196. Most fall between $835 and $6,961 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
529
States
48
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 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
$556$942$3,566$5,367$9,342

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 17× what the cheapest tenth charges ($556 vs $9,342).

How the prices are spread

$419 – $586: 32 hospitals$419$586 – $819: 47 hospitals$819 – $1,145: 46 hospitals$819$1,145 – $1,601: 40 hospitals$1,601 – $2,239: 32 hospitals$1,601$2,239 – $3,130: 24 hospitals$3,130 – $4,377: 93 hospitals$3,130$4,377 – $6,120: 64 hospitals$6,120 – $8,556: 59 hospitals$6,120$8,556 – $11,964: 40 hospitals$8,556median $3,566price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (477 of 529 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$419$58632
$586$81947
$819$1,14546
$1,145$1,60140
$1,601$2,23932
$2,239$3,13024
$3,130$4,37793
$4,377$6,12064
$6,120$8,55659
$8,556$11,96440

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$3,601
Median cash price$3,566
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.99×

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 $3,566.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $1,574 across 13 hospitalsWA$1,574Idaho: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $1,479 across 21 hospitalsIL$1,479Wisconsin: median $1,437 across 21 hospitalsWI$1,437Michigan: median $589 across 28 hospitalsMI$589New York: median $4,081 across 39 hospitalsNY$4,081Massachusetts: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $904 across 12 hospitalsOR$904Nevada: 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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $942 across 23 hospitalsIA$942Indiana: median $966 across 16 hospitalsIN$966Ohio: median $8,626 across 28 hospitalsOH$8,626Pennsylvania: median $5,356 across 12 hospitalsPA$5,356New Jersey: median $4,524 across 33 hospitalsNJ$4,524Connecticut: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $7,185 across 47 hospitalsCA$7,185Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: median $745 across 10 hospitalsNE$745Missouri: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $2,689 across 13 hospitalsWV$2,689Virginia: median $5,163 across 15 hospitalsVA$5,163Maryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: median $1,712 across 10 hospitalsNC$1,712South Carolina: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $621 across 13 hospitalsOK$621Louisiana: 7 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: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $4,097 across 28 hospitalsTX$4,097Florida: median $3,941 across 20 hospitalsFL$3,941
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $3,566. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Ohio OH28$8,626+142%$3,858 – $10,312
California CA47$7,185+101%$3,661 – $7,185
Pennsylvania PA12$5,356+50%$4,044 – $7,055
Virginia VA15$5,163+45%$4,311 – $5,163
New Jersey NJ33$4,524+27%$3,818 – $5,339
Texas TX28$4,097+15%$3,319 – $7,194
New York NY39$4,081+14%$2,045 – $4,595
Florida FL20$3,941+11%$3,462 – $9,142
West Virginia WV13$2,689−25%$926 – $4,350
North Carolina NC10$1,712−52%$760 – $1,911
Washington WA13$1,574−56%$690 – $8,186
Illinois IL21$1,479−59%$407 – $3,986
Wisconsin WI21$1,437−60%$1,437 – $1,922
Indiana IN16$966−73%$407 – $1,282
Iowa IA23$942−74%$942 – $1,274
Oregon OR12$904−75%$690 – $904
Nebraska NE10$745−79%$470 – $1,591
Oklahoma OK13$621−83%$621 – $7,032
Michigan MI28$589−83%$441 – $2,723
Colorado CO9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not 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 $3,566.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care447$3,858$925 – $7,185
Children’s3fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access77$1,232$584 – $1,922
Ownership
For-profit54$3,053$656 – $9,609
Government73$2,545$760 – $5,088
Non-profit400$3,661$904 – $6,773
System affiliation
Part of a system443$3,661$904 – $7,185
Independent86$1,604$745 – $4,561

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$4,785
Median cash price$3,566
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

287 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $3,319 and the average of the middle 60% is $3,464; most fall between $745 and $7,185.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 287 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
$530$942$3,319$6,307$8,773

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 17× what the cheapest tenth charges ($530 vs $8,773).

Of the 326 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 287 gave a usable cash price; 25 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 14 a list price only.

How complete is this

529 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (13%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 593 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted529
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) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded4
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded17
Hospitals that filed this code593

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 Bx Prostate Strtctc Saturation Sampling Img Gid.

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, “Template-guided saturation biopsy of the prostate (CPT 55706) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-55706-template-guided-saturation-biopsy-of-the-prostate