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Needle Biopsy of Muscle

Mississippi 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?

$757

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $757 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $182 to the doctor who performs it, and $575 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$182$66.07 to $295
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$575$437 to $1,318

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $575 · 10th to 90th $51 to $2,399Professionalmedian $182 · 10th to 90th $51 to $427
$50$100$200$500$1K$2K$5Kfacility $575professional $182

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
$51.29
Median
$537.03
Typical High
$1,318.26
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$51.29
Median
$181.97
Typical High
$389.05
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$47.86
Median
$70.79
Typical High
$128.82
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$741.31
Median
$741.31
Typical High
$741.31
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$144.54
Median
$144.54
Typical High
$724.44
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$660.69
Median
$724.44
Typical High
$1,819.70
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$70.79
Median
$151.36
Typical High
$446.68
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$32.36
Median
$32.36
Typical High
$33.11
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$616.60
Median
$1,513.56
Typical High
$3,162.28
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$53.70
Median
$181.97
Typical High
$524.81

Where Mississippi 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

Mississippi· 42nd of 51

$757

$182 physician + $575 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.