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Needle Biopsy of Muscle

Louisiana rates for HCPCS 20206

A provider inserts a needle through the skin and into a muscle to remove a small tissue sample for laboratory examination. This helps diagnose muscle diseases, inflammation, or other conditions affecting muscle tissue. It's a less invasive alternative to an open surgical muscle biopsy.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Needle Biopsy of Muscle cost?

$1,488

Typical total for the visit. In Louisiana, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,488 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $200 to the doctor who performs it, and $1,288 to the hospital or surgery center where it takes place. Done somewhere without a facility charge, you pay only the first.

These are rates insurers have negotiated with providers, not the amount a patient is billed. What you owe depends on your plan's deductible and coinsurance. Based on rates published by 6 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$200$70.79 to $275
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,288$891 to $2,692

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,288 · 10th to 90th $380 to $3,715Professionalmedian $200 · 10th to 90th $52 to $355
$50$200$1K$5Kfacility $1,288professional $200

Distribution of negotiated rates across all payers (price axis is log-scale). Each curve is scaled to its own total: facility and professional rates are different services, shown together to compare where they cluster. Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$281.84
Median
$1,288.25
Typical High
$3,715.35
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$52.48
Median
$199.53
Typical High
$354.81
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$64.57
Median
$64.57
Typical High
$64.57
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$602.56
Median
$1,445.44
Typical High
$3,311.31
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$60.26
Median
$114.82
Typical High
$331.13
Christus
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$39.81
Median
$1,288.25
Typical High
$1,288.25
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$426.58
Median
$426.58
Typical High
$426.58
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$64.57
Median
$147.91
Typical High
$380.19
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$489.78
Median
$1,698.24
Typical High
$4,265.80
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$53.70
Median
$169.82
Typical High
$389.05

Where Louisiana sits

The same service costs 12.1 times more in Indiana than in Delaware. Every bar is a state, most expensive first. Touch or drag across it to read any state, then open that state for its carriers and full range.

Physician feeFacility fee

Louisiana· 34th of 51

$1,488

$200 physician + $1,288 facility

IN $5,056DE $416

Median negotiated rate in each state, from every insurer that publishes one. States where no insurer publishes a rate for this service are not shown.