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Procedure price report · Other diagnostic procedures, female organs

Colposcopy of the cervix with biopsy and tissue scraping

CPT 57454the billing code this page is about

Magnified examination of the cervix with both a tissue sample taken from the surface and scraping of cells from the cervical canal.

Hospitals typically charge $401 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,441 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $454. Most fall between $223 and $909 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,441
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 1,441 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
$147$247$401$771$1,639

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($147 vs $1,639).

How the prices are spread

$108 – $156: 81 hospitals$108$156 – $226: 142 hospitals$226 – $327: 250 hospitals$226$327 – $474: 290 hospitals$474 – $686: 194 hospitals$474$686 – $992: 169 hospitals$992 – $1,436: 86 hospitals$992$1,436 – $2,078: 54 hospitals$2,078 – $3,007: 7 hospitals$2,078$3,007 – $4,351: 29 hospitals$3,007median $401price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,302 of 1,441 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$108$15681
$156$226142
$226$327250
$327$474290
$474$686194
$686$992169
$992$1,43686
$1,436$2,07854
$2,078$3,0077
$3,007$4,35129

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$311
Median cash price$401
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.29×

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 $401.

Alaska: median $931 across 11 hospitalsAK$931Maine: median $239 across 12 hospitalsME$239Vermont: median $272 across 10 hospitalsVT$272New Hampshire: median $196 across 12 hospitalsNH$196Washington: median $408 across 41 hospitalsWA$408Idaho: median $369 across 14 hospitalsID$369Montana: median $236 across 16 hospitalsMT$236North Dakota: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $574 across 58 hospitalsMN$574Illinois: median $463 across 49 hospitalsIL$463Wisconsin: median $453 across 65 hospitalsWI$453Michigan: median $308 across 69 hospitalsMI$308New York: median $362 across 73 hospitalsNY$362Massachusetts: median $895 across 32 hospitalsMA$895Oregon: median $308 across 36 hospitalsOR$308Nevada: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $710 across 13 hospitalsSD$710Iowa: median $371 across 59 hospitalsIA$371Indiana: median $237 across 37 hospitalsIN$237Ohio: median $563 across 69 hospitalsOH$563Pennsylvania: median $351 across 61 hospitalsPA$351New Jersey: median $447 across 48 hospitalsNJ$447Connecticut: median $711 across 13 hospitalsCT$711Rhode Island: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $946 across 95 hospitalsCA$946Utah: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $307 across 19 hospitalsCO$307Nebraska: median $297 across 46 hospitalsNE$297Missouri: median $454 across 33 hospitalsMO$454Kentucky: median $267 across 11 hospitalsKY$267West Virginia: median $365 across 25 hospitalsWV$365Virginia: median $516 across 26 hospitalsVA$516Maryland: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $4,351 across 15 hospitalsAZ$4,351New Mexico: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $356 across 37 hospitalsKS$356Arkansas: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $157 across 17 hospitalsTN$157North Carolina: median $416 across 31 hospitalsNC$416South Carolina: median $614 across 29 hospitalsSC$614Oklahoma: median $355 across 15 hospitalsOK$355Louisiana: median $287 across 24 hospitalsLA$287Mississippi: median $214 across 10 hospitalsMS$214Alabama: median $407 across 11 hospitalsAL$407Georgia: median $568 across 38 hospitalsGA$568Hawaii: median $330 across 10 hospitalsHI$330Texas: median $324 across 62 hospitalsTX$324Florida: median $574 across 39 hospitalsFL$574
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $401. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Arizona AZ15$4,351+986%$306 – $4,351
California CA95$946+136%$354 – $1,686
Alaska AK11$931+132%$431 – $1,110
Massachusetts MA32$895+123%$468 – $1,303
Connecticut CT13$711+77%$627 – $1,880
South Dakota SD13$710+77%$344 – $746
South Carolina SC29$614+53%$548 – $1,639
Florida FL39$574+43%$235 – $1,174
Minnesota MN58$574+43%$256 – $774
Georgia GA38$568+42%$163 – $2,041
Ohio OH69$563+40%$286 – $1,141
Virginia VA26$516+29%$103 – $560
Illinois IL49$463+15%$240 – $1,386
Missouri MO33$454+13%$242 – $1,190
Wisconsin WI65$453+13%$293 – $688
New Jersey NJ48$447+12%$337 – $4,627
North Carolina NC31$416+4%$217 – $930
Washington WA41$408+2%$302 – $535
Alabama AL11$407+2%$239 – $837
Iowa IA59$371−7%$207 – $406
Idaho ID14$369−8%$292 – $851
West Virginia WV25$365−9%$285 – $636
New York NY73$362−10%$223 – $884
Kansas KS37$356−11%$230 – $630
Oklahoma OK15$355−11%$355 – $355
Pennsylvania PA61$351−13%$214 – $616
Hawaii HI10$330−18%$180 – $597
Texas TX62$324−19%$158 – $771
Oregon OR36$308−23%$160 – $678
Michigan MI69$308−23%$161 – $556
Colorado CO19$307−23%$209 – $647
Nebraska NE46$297−26%$202 – $402
Louisiana LA24$287−28%$180 – $536
Vermont VT10$272−32%$106 – $600
Kentucky KY11$267−34%$172 – $427
Maine ME12$239−40%$165 – $376
Indiana IN37$237−41%$159 – $604
Montana MT16$236−41%$142 – $350
Mississippi MS10$214−47%$180 – $242
New Hampshire NH12$196−51%$147 – $421
Tennessee TN17$157−61%$62 – $655
Arkansas AR9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT2not 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 $401.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,010$445$236 – $1,141
Children’s19fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access409$335$210 – $577
Ownership
For-profit96$573$255 – $3,007
Government301$352$218 – $655
Non-profit1,041$406$223 – $909
System affiliation
Part of a system1,144$408$223 – $946
Independent297$348$224 – $684

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$642
Median cash price$401
Cash as a share of list, median hospital65%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 35%. 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

926 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $416 and the average of the middle 60% is $473; most fall between $230 and $909.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 926 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
$163$247$416$774$1,229

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($163 vs $1,229).

Of the 997 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 926 gave a usable cash price; 31 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 40 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,441 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (36%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,561 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,441
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here63
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 — excluded55
Hospitals that filed this code1,561

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 Colposcopy Cervix Bx Cervix & Endocrv Curretage.

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, “Colposcopy of the cervix with biopsy and tissue scraping (CPT 57454) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-57454-colposcopy-of-the-cervix-with-biopsy-and-tissue-scraping