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Detailed measurement analysis of muscle tissue

CPT 88355the billing code this page is about

Microscopic measurement and counting of cell structures in a skeletal muscle sample, such as fiber size and type distribution, reported per specimen.

Hospitals typically charge $234 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 453 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $257. Most fall between $129 and $477 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
453
States
44
Filings dated
Jun 2024 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 25, 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 453 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
$83$162$234$384$575

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($83 vs $575).

How the prices are spread

$59 – $77: 15 hospitals$59$77 – $101: 22 hospitals$101 – $132: 32 hospitals$101$132 – $173: 48 hospitals$173 – $227: 81 hospitals$173$227 – $297: 57 hospitals$297 – $389: 64 hospitals$297$389 – $510: 45 hospitals$510 – $668: 32 hospitals$510$668 – $874: 18 hospitals$668median $234price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (414 of 453 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$59$7715
$77$10122
$101$13232
$132$17348
$173$22781
$227$29757
$297$38964
$389$51045
$510$66832
$668$87418

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$174
Median cash price$234
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.35×

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 $234.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNHWashington: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMTNorth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNDMinnesota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $169 across 21 hospitalsIL$169Wisconsin: median $874 across 13 hospitalsWI$874Michigan: median $98 across 17 hospitalsMI$98New York: median $203 across 21 hospitalsNY$203Massachusetts: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $162 across 11 hospitalsIA$162Indiana: median $235 across 31 hospitalsIN$235Ohio: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: median $59 across 16 hospitalsPA$59New Jersey: median $190 across 12 hospitalsNJ$190Connecticut: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $510 across 37 hospitalsCA$510Utah: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $357 across 15 hospitalsCO$357Nebraska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $241 across 17 hospitalsMO$241Kentucky: median $361 across 13 hospitalsKY$361West Virginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWVVirginia: median $106 across 11 hospitalsVA$106Maryland: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $530 across 13 hospitalsAZ$530New Mexico: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNMKansas: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $106 across 14 hospitalsTN$106North Carolina: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $171 across 26 hospitalsOK$171Louisiana: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $327 across 40 hospitalsTX$327Florida: median $349 across 42 hospitalsFL$349
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $234. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Wisconsin WI13$874+273%$559 – $874
Arizona AZ13$530+126%$209 – $530
California CA37$510+118%$510 – $575
Kentucky KY13$361+54%$153 – $361
Colorado CO15$357+52%$168 – $417
Florida FL42$349+49%$95 – $590
Texas TX40$327+40%$274 – $327
Missouri MO17$241+3%$220 – $305
Indiana IN31$2350%$187 – $302
New York NY21$203−13%$202 – $213
New Jersey NJ12$190−19%$187 – $202
Oklahoma OK26$171−27%$121 – $441
Illinois IL21$169−28%$78 – $421
Iowa IA11$162−31%$162 – $162
Tennessee TN14$106−55%$103 – $213
Virginia VA11$106−55%$106 – $227
Michigan MI17$98−58%$62 – $234
Pennsylvania PA16$59−75%$50 – $174
South Carolina SC8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not 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 $234.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care398$234$139 – $477
Children’s10fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access44$208$91 – $334
Ownership
For-profit87$327$107 – $590
Government47$203$124 – $361
Non-profit318$227$151 – $400
System affiliation
Part of a system396$227$134 – $477
Independent57$265$125 – $458

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$457
Median cash price$234
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

267 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $265 and the average of the middle 60% is $289; most fall between $136 and $510.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 267 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
$96$162$265$477$575

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($96 vs $575).

Of the 306 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 267 gave a usable cash price; 30 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 8 a list price only.

How complete is this

453 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (11%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 489 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted453
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here27
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded2
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded7
Hospitals that filed this code489

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 5, 2026 and September 25, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 25, 2026. The percentiles and averages use only the “counted” row.

Related procedures

Part of the Pathology family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Morphometric Analysis Skeletal Muscle.

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, “Detailed measurement analysis of muscle tissue (CPT 88355) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-88355-detailed-measurement-analysis-of-muscle-tissue