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X-ray guidance for needle placement, such as a biopsy

CPT 77002the billing code this page is about

Live X-ray imaging used to position a needle for a biopsy, fluid aspiration, injection or drainage; covers the guidance only, not the needle procedure.

Hospitals typically charge $434 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,948 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $457. Most fall between $195 and $850 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,948
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 2,948 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
$126$234$434$727$1,264

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 10× what the cheapest tenth charges ($126 vs $1,264).

How the prices are spread

$78 – $108: 91 hospitals$78$108 – $148: 148 hospitals$148 – $203: 225 hospitals$148$203 – $278: 321 hospitals$278 – $382: 368 hospitals$278$382 – $525: 438 hospitals$525 – $720: 468 hospitals$525$720 – $989: 303 hospitals$989 – $1,357: 179 hospitals$989$1,357 – $1,863: 116 hospitals$1,357median $434price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,657 of 2,948 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$78$10891
$108$148148
$148$203225
$203$278321
$278$382368
$382$525438
$525$720468
$720$989303
$989$1,357179
$1,357$1,863116

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $434.

Alaska: median $645 across 11 hospitalsAK$645Maine: median $272 across 23 hospitalsME$272Vermont: median $426 across 11 hospitalsVT$426New Hampshire: median $430 across 21 hospitalsNH$430Washington: median $410 across 60 hospitalsWA$410Idaho: median $459 across 20 hospitalsID$459Montana: median $269 across 10 hospitalsMT$269North Dakota: median $243 across 14 hospitalsND$243Minnesota: median $392 across 86 hospitalsMN$392Illinois: median $462 across 120 hospitalsIL$462Wisconsin: median $394 across 107 hospitalsWI$394Michigan: median $229 across 78 hospitalsMI$229New York: median $350 across 95 hospitalsNY$350Massachusetts: median $304 across 51 hospitalsMA$304Oregon: median $424 across 45 hospitalsOR$424Nevada: median $778 across 15 hospitalsNV$778Wyoming: median $279 across 13 hospitalsWY$279South Dakota: median $701 across 22 hospitalsSD$701Iowa: median $457 across 80 hospitalsIA$457Indiana: median $276 across 82 hospitalsIN$276Ohio: median $446 across 137 hospitalsOH$446Pennsylvania: median $500 across 103 hospitalsPA$500New Jersey: median $346 across 43 hospitalsNJ$346Connecticut: median $403 across 22 hospitalsCT$403Rhode Island: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $692 across 206 hospitalsCA$692Utah: median $629 across 40 hospitalsUT$629Colorado: median $519 across 64 hospitalsCO$519Nebraska: median $786 across 65 hospitalsNE$786Missouri: median $486 across 66 hospitalsMO$486Kentucky: median $466 across 55 hospitalsKY$466West Virginia: median $308 across 35 hospitalsWV$308Virginia: median $554 across 67 hospitalsVA$554Maryland: median $93 across 34 hospitalsMD$93Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $267 across 45 hospitalsAZ$267New Mexico: median $487 across 23 hospitalsNM$487Kansas: median $414 across 73 hospitalsKS$414Arkansas: median $239 across 25 hospitalsAR$239Tennessee: median $205 across 72 hospitalsTN$205North Carolina: median $539 across 90 hospitalsNC$539South Carolina: median $715 across 49 hospitalsSC$715Oklahoma: median $192 across 51 hospitalsOK$192Louisiana: median $157 across 47 hospitalsLA$157Mississippi: median $205 across 39 hospitalsMS$205Alabama: median $266 across 34 hospitalsAL$266Georgia: median $448 across 92 hospitalsGA$448Hawaii: median $366 across 16 hospitalsHI$366Texas: median $487 across 214 hospitalsTX$487Florida: median $965 across 162 hospitalsFL$965
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $434. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL162$965+123%$409 – $2,645
Nebraska NE65$786+81%$430 – $1,075
Nevada NV15$778+79%$445 – $1,239
South Carolina SC49$715+65%$416 – $933
South Dakota SD22$701+62%$442 – $1,004
California CA206$692+60%$347 – $1,415
Alaska AK11$645+49%$238 – $914
Utah UT40$629+45%$422 – $629
Virginia VA67$554+28%$308 – $954
North Carolina NC90$539+24%$287 – $749
Colorado CO64$519+20%$246 – $1,280
Pennsylvania PA103$500+15%$207 – $978
Texas TX214$487+12%$310 – $1,363
New Mexico NM23$487+12%$159 – $910
Missouri MO66$486+12%$182 – $838
Kentucky KY55$466+8%$244 – $974
Illinois IL120$462+7%$209 – $1,009
Idaho ID20$459+6%$191 – $695
Iowa IA80$457+5%$226 – $702
Georgia GA92$448+3%$232 – $647
Ohio OH137$446+3%$263 – $599
New Hampshire NH21$430−1%$331 – $897
Vermont VT11$426−2%$186 – $954
Oregon OR45$424−2%$255 – $588
Kansas KS73$414−5%$174 – $620
Washington WA60$410−5%$239 – $610
Connecticut CT22$403−7%$221 – $795
Wisconsin WI107$394−9%$229 – $517
Minnesota MN86$392−10%$255 – $466
Hawaii HI16$366−16%$326 – $484
New York NY95$350−19%$138 – $792
New Jersey NJ43$346−20%$179 – $854
West Virginia WV35$308−29%$163 – $557
Massachusetts MA51$304−30%$167 – $594
Wyoming WY13$279−36%$123 – $707
Indiana IN82$276−36%$153 – $488
Maine ME23$272−37%$114 – $557
Montana MT10$269−38%$243 – $484
Arizona AZ45$267−38%$135 – $846
Alabama AL34$266−39%$127 – $850
North Dakota ND14$243−44%$144 – $448
Arkansas AR25$239−45%$93 – $274
Michigan MI78$229−47%$126 – $506
Mississippi MS39$205−53%$98 – $677
Tennessee TN72$205−53%$69 – $425
Oklahoma OK51$192−56%$126 – $489
Louisiana LA47$157−64%$84 – $395
Maryland MD34$93−78%$69 – $127
Rhode Island RI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE6not 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 $434.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,201$454$200 – $913
Children’s62$599$303 – $1,121
Critical access675$388$178 – $655
Ownership
For-profit430$611$258 – $1,729
Government475$350$174 – $639
Non-profit2,033$430$192 – $808
System affiliation
Part of a system2,444$448$214 – $899
Independent504$356$146 – $684

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$730
Median cash price$434
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

2,090 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $448 and the average of the middle 60% is $469; most fall between $207 and $838.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,090 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
$131$243$448$720$1,140

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($131 vs $1,140).

Of the 2,340 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,090 gave a usable cash price; 131 carried a plausibility flag, 2 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 117 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,948 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (75%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,350 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,948
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here212
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded2
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded187
Hospitals that filed this code3,350

Sections not shown for this setting

  • Against Medicare: Medicare has no separately payable national outpatient (OPPS) rate for this code, so there is nothing honest to compare against.
  • 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 radiology and related techniques family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Fluoroscopic Guidance Needle Placement Add On.

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.

Download this page’s figures: JSON · CSV. Aggregates only — the per-hospital prices are on the compare tool.

Cite: HospitalRates.com, “X-ray guidance for needle placement, such as a biopsy (CPT 77002) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-77002-x-ray-guidance-for-needle-placement-such-as-a-biopsy