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Procedure price report · Other diagnostic procedures, female organs

Colposcopy of cervix with wire loop biopsy

CPT 57460the billing code this page is about

A magnified scope exam of the cervix during which a heated wire loop removes a sample of cervical tissue for laboratory testing.

Hospitals typically charge $1,792 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,117 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,059. Most fall between $462 and $4,659 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,117
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 1,117 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
$274$542$1,792$4,188$7,109

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 26× what the cheapest tenth charges ($274 vs $7,109).

How the prices are spread

$201 – $296: 68 hospitals$201$296 – $435: 81 hospitals$435 – $639: 125 hospitals$435$639 – $940: 122 hospitals$940 – $1,382: 52 hospitals$940$1,382 – $2,033: 95 hospitals$2,033 – $2,989: 98 hospitals$2,033$2,989 – $4,396: 164 hospitals$4,396 – $6,465: 107 hospitals$4,396$6,465 – $9,507: 100 hospitals$6,465median $1,792price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,012 of 1,117 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$201$29668
$296$43581
$435$639125
$639$940122
$940$1,38252
$1,382$2,03395
$2,033$2,98998
$2,989$4,396164
$4,396$6,465107
$6,465$9,507100

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$3,307
Median cash price$1,792
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.54×

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 $1,792.

Alaska: median $2,083 across 10 hospitalsAK$2,083Maine: median $449 across 11 hospitalsME$449Vermont: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $365 across 10 hospitalsNH$365Washington: median $1,414 across 32 hospitalsWA$1,414Idaho: median $2,402 across 12 hospitalsID$2,402Montana: median $414 across 12 hospitalsMT$414North Dakota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $1,059 across 35 hospitalsMN$1,059Illinois: median $1,455 across 43 hospitalsIL$1,455Wisconsin: median $860 across 53 hospitalsWI$860Michigan: median $2,809 across 62 hospitalsMI$2,809New York: median $1,457 across 60 hospitalsNY$1,457Massachusetts: median $2,441 across 28 hospitalsMA$2,441Oregon: median $562 across 27 hospitalsOR$562Nevada: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $2,862 across 11 hospitalsSD$2,862Iowa: median $754 across 48 hospitalsIA$754Indiana: median $910 across 28 hospitalsIN$910Ohio: median $3,292 across 67 hospitalsOH$3,292Pennsylvania: median $3,733 across 39 hospitalsPA$3,733New Jersey: median $4,243 across 39 hospitalsNJ$4,243Connecticut: median $1,559 across 10 hospitalsCT$1,559Rhode Island: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $4,659 across 75 hospitalsCA$4,659Utah: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $575 across 12 hospitalsCO$575Nebraska: median $646 across 13 hospitalsNE$646Missouri: median $1,955 across 30 hospitalsMO$1,955Kentucky: median $411 across 10 hospitalsKY$411West Virginia: median $683 across 17 hospitalsWV$683Virginia: median $1,140 across 18 hospitalsVA$1,140Maryland: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $4,778 across 13 hospitalsAZ$4,778New Mexico: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $479 across 21 hospitalsKS$479Arkansas: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $1,140 across 18 hospitalsTN$1,140North Carolina: median $183 across 25 hospitalsNC$183South Carolina: median $1,936 across 21 hospitalsSC$1,936Oklahoma: median $375 across 14 hospitalsOK$375Louisiana: median $1,624 across 19 hospitalsLA$1,624Mississippi: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: median $3,199 across 11 hospitalsAL$3,199Georgia: median $3,231 across 21 hospitalsGA$3,231Hawaii: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $3,235 across 44 hospitalsTX$3,235Florida: median $3,192 across 30 hospitalsFL$3,192
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,792. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Arizona AZ13$4,778+167%$3,972 – $4,778
California CA75$4,659+160%$1,165 – $6,776
New Jersey NJ39$4,243+137%$3,522 – $6,311
Pennsylvania PA39$3,733+108%$117 – $5,859
Ohio OH67$3,292+84%$822 – $9,507
Texas TX44$3,235+81%$989 – $4,010
Georgia GA21$3,231+80%$612 – $5,849
Alabama AL11$3,199+79%$1,483 – $8,682
Florida FL30$3,192+78%$1,501 – $6,558
South Dakota SD11$2,862+60%$887 – $6,132
Michigan MI62$2,809+57%$209 – $6,617
Massachusetts MA28$2,441+36%$870 – $4,017
Idaho ID12$2,402+34%$821 – $8,592
Alaska AK10$2,083+16%$517 – $2,740
Missouri MO30$1,955+9%$484 – $4,740
South Carolina SC21$1,936+8%$488 – $2,771
Louisiana LA19$1,624−9%$981 – $5,065
Connecticut CT10$1,559−13%$845 – $3,422
New York NY60$1,457−19%$353 – $4,041
Illinois IL43$1,455−19%$669 – $6,499
Washington WA32$1,414−21%$540 – $6,280
Tennessee TN18$1,140−36%$286 – $4,286
Virginia VA18$1,140−36%$201 – $5,216
Minnesota MN35$1,059−41%$385 – $1,743
Indiana IN28$910−49%$411 – $1,420
Wisconsin WI53$860−52%$542 – $2,205
Iowa IA48$754−58%$468 – $1,126
West Virginia WV17$683−62%$170 – $3,577
Nebraska NE13$646−64%$527 – $1,637
Colorado CO12$575−68%$445 – $2,033
Oregon OR27$562−69%$330 – $5,603
Kansas KS21$479−73%$217 – $745
Maine ME11$449−75%$272 – $842
Montana MT12$414−77%$242 – $925
Kentucky KY10$411−77%$272 – $2,285
Oklahoma OK14$375−79%$375 – $6,254
New Hampshire NH10$365−80%$266 – $517
North Carolina NC25$183−90%$183 – $1,971
Vermont VT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD2not 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 $1,792.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care818$2,650$562 – $5,849
Children’s14fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access283$666$346 – $1,743
Ownership
For-profit89$3,876$612 – $7,717
Government211$882$389 – $3,192
Non-profit815$1,884$475 – $4,944
System affiliation
Part of a system889$2,063$517 – $4,990
Independent228$834$372 – $3,292

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,834
Median cash price$1,792
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

684 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,828 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,065; most fall between $449 and $4,659.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 684 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
$305$542$1,828$4,185$6,776

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 22× what the cheapest tenth charges ($305 vs $6,776).

Of the 741 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 684 gave a usable cash price; 21 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 36 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,117 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (28%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,214 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,117
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) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded2
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded45
Hospitals that filed this code1,214

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 Vag Loop Eltrd Bx Cervix.

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 cervix with wire loop biopsy (CPT 57460) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-57460-colposcopy-of-cervix-with-wire-loop-biopsy