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: UPMC Health Plan
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. Where a state has both, the table and each state’s popup show the doctor’s fee and the facility fee side by side; their sum is a rough total for the visit, before anything else done during it.
Who is counted: UPMC Health Plan lists clinicians individually: 91% of the 40,606 provider IDs (NPIs) it names are individual doctors, nurse practitioners and therapists; the rest are practices, clinics and hospitals. “Providers” counts those IDs. UPMC Health Plan’s files name 27,839 providers for this procedure; 3,191 are counted here: the clinicians whose specialty performs it — mostly Durable Medical Equipment & Medical Supplies, Specialist and Pharmacy — 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.
StateProvidersNamed in filesOrganisationsZip codes Lowest25th pctMedian75th pctHighestDoctor’s feeFacility fee
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.