Prostate biopsy

Taking small tissue samples from the prostate to check for cancer.
Code 55700 · Surgery & procedures · statewide summary · negotiated in-network prices
Payers shown: Arkansas Blue Cross and Blue Shield
Prices shown: surgery centers and hospital outpatient departments
Doctor’s fee or facility fee? These are doctors' (professional) fees only. If this is done in a hospital or surgery center, the facility bills its own fee on top — for the room, nurses and equipment — often larger than the doctor's. That fee is not included here.
Who is counted: Arkansas Blue Cross and Blue Shield lists clinicians individually: 87% of the 4,028 provider IDs (NPIs) it names are individual doctors, nurse practitioners and therapists; the rest are practices, clinics and hospitals. “Providers” counts those IDs. Arkansas Blue Cross and Blue Shield’s files name 3,252 providers for this procedure; 280 are counted here: the clinicians whose specialty performs it — mostly Durable Medical Equipment & Medical Supplies, Specialist and Clinic/Center — and the practices, clinics and hospitals. Insurers attach their whole fee schedule to every contracted provider, so the rest are clinicians listed at a price for something they never do; counting them would inflate the provider count and pull the typical price towards the fee schedule’s floor.
Not on this map: These prices come from the file set every Blue plan publishes centrally for members of other Blue plans (BlueCard). It may leave out networks the plan publishes only on its own site. Arkansas Blue Cross's own file site listed links that did not work when this was built (October 2026).
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This is a statewide summary. Prices vary far more between towns and between practices than these medians suggest; zip-code and provider-level detail is not published here; this specific data can be requested here.