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: HealthPartners
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: HealthPartners lists clinicians individually: 91% of the 103,739 provider IDs (NPIs) it names are individual doctors, nurse practitioners and therapists; the rest are practices, clinics and hospitals. “Providers” counts those IDs. HealthPartners’s files name 86,376 providers for this procedure; 6,539 are counted here: the clinicians whose specialty performs it — mostly Clinic/Center, Clinical Medical Laboratory and Specialist — 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: Care outside HealthPartners' area: for some plans, HealthPartners rents Cigna's national network and the Midlands Choice network. Those prices are set by those networks, so they are not included here (Cigna's are in this site's Cigna section).
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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.