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Procedure price report · Diagnostic endocrine procedures

Needle biopsy of the thyroid

CPT 60100the billing code this page is about

Removal of a small sample of thyroid tissue with a needle passed through the skin so it can be examined in a laboratory.

Hospitals typically charge $806 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,285 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $843. Most fall between $386 and $1,480 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,285
States
50
Filings dated
Aug 2022 – 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 2,285 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
$245$480$806$1,293$2,134

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($245 vs $2,134).

How the prices are spread

$169 – $223: 86 hospitals$169$223 – $295: 116 hospitals$295 – $391: 147 hospitals$295$391 – $517: 139 hospitals$517 – $683: 283 hospitals$517$683 – $903: 428 hospitals$903 – $1,194: 330 hospitals$903$1,194 – $1,579: 222 hospitals$1,579 – $2,088: 186 hospitals$1,579$2,088 – $2,762: 122 hospitals$2,088median $806price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,059 of 2,285 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$169$22386
$223$295116
$295$391147
$391$517139
$517$683283
$683$903428
$903$1,194330
$1,194$1,579222
$1,579$2,088186
$2,088$2,762122

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$723
Median cash price$806
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.11×

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 $806.

Alaska: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $698 across 16 hospitalsME$698Vermont: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $336 across 14 hospitalsNH$336Washington: median $1,037 across 56 hospitalsWA$1,037Idaho: median $945 across 17 hospitalsID$945Montana: median $280 across 16 hospitalsMT$280North Dakota: median $723 across 11 hospitalsND$723Minnesota: median $670 across 63 hospitalsMN$670Illinois: median $929 across 106 hospitalsIL$929Wisconsin: median $730 across 88 hospitalsWI$730Michigan: median $597 across 71 hospitalsMI$597New York: median $833 across 78 hospitalsNY$833Massachusetts: median $1,145 across 40 hospitalsMA$1,145Oregon: median $841 across 38 hospitalsOR$841Nevada: median $707 across 15 hospitalsNV$707Wyoming: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $1,437 across 13 hospitalsSD$1,437Iowa: median $573 across 46 hospitalsIA$573Indiana: median $745 across 68 hospitalsIN$745Ohio: median $1,147 across 127 hospitalsOH$1,147Pennsylvania: median $805 across 110 hospitalsPA$805New Jersey: median $939 across 58 hospitalsNJ$939Connecticut: median $1,020 across 16 hospitalsCT$1,020Rhode Island: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $1,384 across 165 hospitalsCA$1,384Utah: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $995 across 50 hospitalsCO$995Nebraska: median $541 across 36 hospitalsNE$541Missouri: median $778 across 58 hospitalsMO$778Kentucky: median $754 across 36 hospitalsKY$754West Virginia: median $814 across 21 hospitalsWV$814Virginia: median $668 across 43 hospitalsVA$668Maryland: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $380 across 38 hospitalsAZ$380New Mexico: median $550 across 16 hospitalsNM$550Kansas: median $667 across 43 hospitalsKS$667Arkansas: median $515 across 16 hospitalsAR$515Tennessee: median $412 across 48 hospitalsTN$412North Carolina: median $415 across 59 hospitalsNC$415South Carolina: median $1,151 across 40 hospitalsSC$1,151Oklahoma: median $742 across 48 hospitalsOK$742Louisiana: median $341 across 40 hospitalsLA$341Mississippi: median $448 across 36 hospitalsMS$448Alabama: median $764 across 30 hospitalsAL$764Georgia: median $958 across 74 hospitalsGA$958Hawaii: median $882 across 14 hospitalsHI$882Texas: median $833 across 145 hospitalsTX$833Florida: median $897 across 107 hospitalsFL$897
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $806. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
South Dakota SD13$1,437+78%$518 – $1,589
California CA165$1,384+72%$782 – $2,303
South Carolina SC40$1,151+43%$665 – $2,410
Ohio OH127$1,147+42%$593 – $1,615
Massachusetts MA40$1,145+42%$602 – $2,172
Washington WA56$1,037+29%$389 – $1,565
Connecticut CT16$1,020+27%$827 – $1,973
Colorado CO50$995+23%$475 – $1,495
Georgia GA74$958+19%$706 – $1,799
Idaho ID17$945+17%$580 – $1,783
New Jersey NJ58$939+16%$779 – $4,350
Illinois IL106$929+15%$457 – $1,804
Florida FL107$897+11%$663 – $2,385
Hawaii HI14$882+9%$119 – $1,680
Oregon OR38$841+4%$225 – $1,971
New York NY78$833+3%$312 – $1,627
Texas TX145$833+3%$546 – $1,284
West Virginia WV21$814+1%$219 – $956
Pennsylvania PA110$8050%$404 – $1,189
Missouri MO58$778−3%$415 – $1,657
Alabama AL30$764−5%$538 – $2,096
Kentucky KY36$754−7%$383 – $1,220
Indiana IN68$745−8%$463 – $1,092
Oklahoma OK48$742−8%$460 – $1,171
Wisconsin WI88$730−9%$308 – $962
North Dakota ND11$723−10%$181 – $1,206
Nevada NV15$707−12%$354 – $1,330
Maine ME16$698−13%$497 – $1,040
Minnesota MN63$670−17%$290 – $908
Virginia VA43$668−17%$517 – $1,078
Kansas KS43$667−17%$383 – $1,103
Michigan MI71$597−26%$169 – $974
Iowa IA46$573−29%$296 – $784
New Mexico NM16$550−32%$314 – $1,128
Nebraska NE36$541−33%$256 – $883
Arkansas AR16$515−36%$227 – $859
Mississippi MS36$448−44%$267 – $637
North Carolina NC59$415−48%$302 – $936
Tennessee TN48$412−49%$210 – $854
Arizona AZ38$380−53%$294 – $2,728
Louisiana LA40$341−58%$175 – $782
New Hampshire NH14$336−58%$98 – $1,115
Montana MT16$280−65%$169 – $421
Alaska AK9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD5not 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 $806.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,831$833$420 – $1,532
Children’s52$1,225$740 – $3,096
Critical access393$606$256 – $1,180
Ownership
For-profit233$839$457 – $1,797
Government347$662$284 – $1,121
Non-profit1,696$829$412 – $1,523
System affiliation
Part of a system1,888$827$412 – $1,502
Independent397$707$281 – $1,374

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,513
Median cash price$806
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

1,715 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $853 and the average of the middle 60% is $892; most fall between $404 and $1,587.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,715 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
$256$535$853$1,351$2,160

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($256 vs $2,160).

Of the 1,834 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,715 gave a usable cash price; 37 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 81 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,285 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (58%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,452 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,285
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here70
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded6
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded90
Hospitals that filed this code2,452

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 endocrine procedures family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Biopsy Thyroid Percutaneous Core Needle.

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 thyroid (CPT 60100) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-60100-needle-biopsy-of-the-thyroid