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Needle Biopsy of Muscle

Minnesota 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?

$1,163

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,163 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $251 to the doctor who performs it, and $912 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$251$135 to $537
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$912$575 to $2,188

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $912 · 10th to 90th $120 to $4,677Professionalmedian $251 · 10th to 90th $85 to $759
$50$200$1K$5Kfacility $912professional $251

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
$57.54
Median
$234.42
Typical High
$2,454.71
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$56.23
Median
$229.09
Typical High
$794.33
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$575.44
Median
$2,951.21
Typical High
$7,413.10
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$102.33
Median
$288.40
Typical High
$758.58
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$501.19
Median
$794.33
Typical High
$2,137.96
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$123.03
Median
$323.59
Typical High
$912.01
Health Partners
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$602.56
Median
$870.96
Typical High
$1,698.24
Health Partners
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$123.03
Median
$363.08
Typical High
$812.83
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$63.10
Median
$338.84
Typical High
$2,290.87
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$234.42
Median
$478.63
Typical High
$1,148.15
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,023.29
Median
$2,691.53
Typical High
$5,888.44
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$75.86
Median
$239.88
Typical High
$691.83

Where Minnesota 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

Minnesota· 38th of 51

$1,163

$251 physician + $912 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.