Surgery and procedures CPT 55700 Outpatient

Prostate biopsy in Corning, NY

In Corning, NY, 2 hospitals list a cash price for Prostate biopsy: from $377.50 to $4,575.20, with a median of $412.34. The lowest listed price is at Corning Hospital.

Cash prices at 2 facilities across 2 cities for code 55700, as an outpatient — the setting a self-pay patient normally buys. Collected Sep 23, 2026; the hospital files themselves were last updated between — and —.

Lowest$377.50Corning Hospital
Median$412.34half pay less
Highest$4,575.20in this market
Difference12.1×highest vs lowest

Where each hospital's price falls

Each dot is one hospital's cash price on a scale from the lowest to the highest in Corning, NY.

median
Lowest $377.50Highest $4,575.20

Hospitals, cheapest first

HospitalCash price List priceOff listFile date
Corning Hospital lowest Corning, NY Prostate Needle Biopsy Any Approach $377.50 $471.87 20%
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St. James Hospital Hornell, NY PR PROSTATE NEEDLE BIOPSY ANY APPROACH $412.34 $691.50 40%
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Corning Hospital Corning, NY Needle Biopsy, Prostrate,Sngle/Multiple $4,575.20 $5,719.00 20%
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Outpatient: lowest $377.50, median $412.34, highest $4,575.20 — a 12.1× difference within the same market.

As an inpatient, the same code is billed by 1 facility here, median $412.34. Inpatient and outpatient prices are not comparable and are kept on separate pages: the inpatient charge covers admission, not the same purchase.

What it is

A prostate biopsy uses a needle to take small tissue samples from the prostate, usually guided by ultrasound through the rectum or the skin between the scrotum and anus. It is used to check for prostate cancer, often after a high PSA or abnormal exam.

What the price covers

The price covers the biopsy procedure. Ultrasound or MRI guidance, the pathologist's exam of each sample, and sedation are usually billed separately.

1 row held back from this comparison

It is priced below $1 or below a tenth of the national median for code 55700 ($1,794.46). Such a line is almost always a physician's fee billed separately, an assistant's share or a placeholder — a real charge, but not the price of the procedure itself.

Ira Davenport Memorial Hospital Bath, NYHC Biopsy of Prostate,Needle/Punch $167.57 file