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Procedure price report · Other diagnostic procedures, female organs

Biopsy of the vaginal lining, simple

CPT 57100the billing code this page is about

A small sample of tissue is taken from the lining of the vagina for laboratory examination.

Hospitals typically charge $715 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,299 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $820. Most fall between $171 and $1,950 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,299
States
49
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 1,299 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
$115$211$715$1,723$2,721

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 24× what the cheapest tenth charges ($115 vs $2,721).

How the prices are spread

$78 – $117: 73 hospitals$78$117 – $175: 128 hospitals$175 – $262: 141 hospitals$175$262 – $393: 114 hospitals$393 – $589: 68 hospitals$393$589 – $882: 132 hospitals$882 – $1,322: 179 hospitals$882$1,322 – $1,980: 155 hospitals$1,980 – $2,967: 144 hospitals$1,980$2,967 – $4,445: 39 hospitals$2,967median $715price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,173 of 1,299 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$78$11773
$117$175128
$175$262141
$262$393114
$393$58968
$589$882132
$882$1,322179
$1,322$1,980155
$1,980$2,967144
$2,967$4,44539

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$941
Median cash price$715
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.76×

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 $715.

Alaska: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $473 across 11 hospitalsME$473Vermont: 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 $781 across 33 hospitalsWA$781Idaho: median $742 across 14 hospitalsID$742Montana: median $156 across 18 hospitalsMT$156North Dakota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $413 across 39 hospitalsMN$413Illinois: median $550 across 48 hospitalsIL$550Wisconsin: median $271 across 58 hospitalsWI$271Michigan: median $711 across 61 hospitalsMI$711New York: median $1,030 across 61 hospitalsNY$1,030Massachusetts: median $930 across 23 hospitalsMA$930Oregon: median $211 across 40 hospitalsOR$211Nevada: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $1,495 across 13 hospitalsSD$1,495Iowa: median $235 across 41 hospitalsIA$235Indiana: median $294 across 29 hospitalsIN$294Ohio: median $1,283 across 62 hospitalsOH$1,283Pennsylvania: median $967 across 47 hospitalsPA$967New Jersey: median $1,163 across 44 hospitalsNJ$1,163Connecticut: median $1,241 across 11 hospitalsCT$1,241Rhode Island: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $1,950 across 87 hospitalsCA$1,950Utah: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $611 across 17 hospitalsCO$611Nebraska: median $322 across 24 hospitalsNE$322Missouri: median $591 across 24 hospitalsMO$591Kentucky: median $111 across 12 hospitalsKY$111West Virginia: median $658 across 24 hospitalsWV$658Virginia: median $887 across 31 hospitalsVA$887Maryland: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: median $2,360 across 13 hospitalsAZ$2,360New Mexico: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $166 across 24 hospitalsKS$166Arkansas: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $247 across 26 hospitalsTN$247North Carolina: median $371 across 33 hospitalsNC$371South Carolina: median $1,814 across 26 hospitalsSC$1,814Oklahoma: median $123 across 21 hospitalsOK$123Louisiana: median $545 across 24 hospitalsLA$545Mississippi: median $154 across 10 hospitalsMS$154Alabama: median $1,103 across 16 hospitalsAL$1,103Georgia: median $1,256 across 41 hospitalsGA$1,256Hawaii: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $1,174 across 76 hospitalsTX$1,174Florida: median $1,983 across 42 hospitalsFL$1,983
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $715. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Arizona AZ13$2,360+230%$347 – $2,360
Florida FL42$1,983+177%$682 – $3,254
California CA87$1,950+173%$656 – $2,918
South Carolina SC26$1,814+154%$513 – $1,814
South Dakota SD13$1,495+109%$381 – $1,601
Ohio OH62$1,283+80%$563 – $2,603
Georgia GA41$1,256+76%$273 – $1,668
Connecticut CT11$1,241+74%$350 – $1,510
Texas TX76$1,174+64%$216 – $1,723
New Jersey NJ44$1,163+63%$1,011 – $4,627
Alabama AL16$1,103+54%$656 – $8,747
New York NY61$1,030+44%$190 – $1,823
Pennsylvania PA47$967+35%$118 – $1,468
Massachusetts MA23$930+30%$248 – $1,438
Virginia VA31$887+24%$247 – $1,466
Washington WA33$781+9%$182 – $1,437
Idaho ID14$742+4%$237 – $2,423
Michigan MI61$711−1%$78 – $1,284
West Virginia WV24$658−8%$107 – $1,166
Colorado CO17$611−15%$152 – $2,050
Missouri MO24$591−17%$136 – $3,171
Illinois IL48$550−23%$185 – $2,653
Louisiana LA24$545−24%$336 – $1,118
Maine ME11$473−34%$128 – $606
Minnesota MN39$413−42%$147 – $918
North Carolina NC33$371−48%$279 – $699
Nebraska NE24$322−55%$226 – $724
Indiana IN29$294−59%$111 – $450
Wisconsin WI58$271−62%$170 – $698
Tennessee TN26$247−66%$230 – $529
Iowa IA41$235−67%$149 – $338
Oregon OR40$211−71%$143 – $2,241
Kansas KS24$166−77%$116 – $1,901
Montana MT18$156−78%$101 – $302
Mississippi MS10$154−78%$136 – $560
Oklahoma OK21$123−83%$123 – $1,775
Kentucky KY12$111−85%$95 – $325
Alaska AK9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT2not 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 $715.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care991$1,025$238 – $2,075
Children’s16fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access290$212$119 – $544
Ownership
For-profit94$1,170$273 – $2,360
Government234$371$158 – $1,256
Non-profit969$788$176 – $1,950
System affiliation
Part of a system1,065$832$191 – $2,001
Independent234$291$134 – $1,149

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,119
Median cash price$715
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

868 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $784 and the average of the middle 60% is $855; most fall between $186 and $1,938.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 868 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
$123$230$784$1,723$2,423

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 20× what the cheapest tenth charges ($123 vs $2,423).

Of the 924 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 868 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 31 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,299 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (33%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,398 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,299
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here62
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded2
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded35
Hospitals that filed this code1,398

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 Other diagnostic procedures, female organs family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Biopsy Vaginal Mucosa Simple.

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 of the vaginal lining, simple (CPT 57100) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-57100-biopsy-of-the-vaginal-lining-simple