CPT 60100 · 1,445 hospitals reporting

Biopsy of thyroid

The same procedure costs $60.05 at one hospital and $5,729 at another — a 95× spread for what's billed under the same code. Median: $784.

Cheapest published

$60.05

15 entries below $50 already filtered. Remaining low values usually reflect partial-cost line items (professional fee only), not full bills.

Median across 1,445 hospitals

$784

The realistic middle of the cash-price distribution. Use this as your benchmark.

Most expensive

$5,729

Highest published price. Often a gross-charge "list price" rarely actually paid.

Price distribution

500 hospitals · log-scale x-axis

Each bar = number of hospitals charging in that price range. Emerald bar contains the median. Amber dots = entries we flagged as likely partial-cost line items (excluded from the table below).

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Why some prices look unrealistically low or high

Hospitals publish their machine-readable files (MRFs) the way they choose. A single procedure code can appear with very different prices depending on what's being charged:

Global price — facility + implant + anesthesia + surgeon. This is what you'd actually be billed.
Professional fee only — surgeon's portion. Often $500–$2,500 for a major procedure that costs $20K+ globally.
Facility fee only — operating room and recovery, no implant or surgeon.
Per-unit / per-minute charges — e.g. anesthesia time billed at $0.68/min appearing under a CPT code.
Rate multipliers — values like 0.85 meaning "85% of Medicare" rather than dollars.

We filter the most obvious artifacts (under $50, or 25× above the median), but rows in the $500–$2K range for a major procedure are typically professional-only and we can't always tell. Use the median and high-end as the realistic range; treat very low rows as partial-cost line items, not full bills.

500 hospitals reporting

Hospital	State	Gross	Cash price	Min negotiated	Max negotiated	Your insurer
WALKER BAPTIST MEDICAL CENTER	AL	$1,306	$784	$588	$6,771	5 insurers
CITIZENS BAPTIST MEDICAL CENTER	AL	$1,306	$784	$588	$6,771	5 insurers
JOHN F KENNEDY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL	CA	$1,306	$784	$588	$6,771	5 insurers
SIBLEY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL	DC	$1,306	$784	$588	$6,771	5 insurers
ARCHBOLD MEMORIAL HOSPITAL	GA	$1,306	$784	$588	$6,771	5 insurers
ALTON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL	IL	$1,306	$784	$588	$6,771	5 insurers
MEMORIAL HOSPITAL	IL	$1,306	$784	$588	$6,771	5 insurers
ADAMS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL	IN	$1,306	$784	$588	$6,771	5 insurers
MISSOURI BAPTIST MEDICAL CENTER	MO	$1,306	$784	$588	$6,771	5 insurers
CHRISTIAN HOSPITAL NORTHEAST	MO	$1,306	$784	$588	$6,771	5 insurers
BARNES-JEWISH ST PETERS HOSPITAL	MO	$1,306	$784	$588	$6,771	5 insurers
PROGRESS WEST HOSPITAL	MO	$1,306	$784	$588	$6,771	5 insurers
UCH-MEMORIAL HEALTH SYSTEM	CO	$2,238	$783	—	—	5 insurers
UCHEALTH BROOMFIELD HOSPITAL	CO	$2,238	$783	—	—	5 insurers
UCHEALTH GRANDVIEW HOSPITAL	CO	$2,238	$783	—	—	5 insurers
SIERRA NEVADA MEMORIAL HOSPITAL	CA	$1,434	$782	$61.09	$12,737	5 insurers
USC ARCADIA HOSPITAL	CA	$2,232	$781	—	—	5 insurers
CARLE HOOPESTON REGIONAL HEALTH CENTER	IL	$788	$788	—	—	5 insurers
ST JOSEPH'S MEDICAL CENTER	NY	$1,355	$779	—	—	5 insurers
SPRING VIEW HOSPITAL	KY	$1,973	$789	—	—	0 insurers
NAVICENT HEALTH BALDWIN	GA	$1,556	$778	—	—	1 insurers
ATRIUM HEALTH NAVICENT PEACH	GA	$1,556	$778	—	—	1 insurers
CHI HEALTH ST. ELIZABETH	NE	$1,552	$776	$962	$1,242	3 insurers
CHI HEALTH ST. ELIZABETH	NE	$1,552	$776	$144	$6,169	5 insurers
LANDMARK MEDICAL CENTER	RI	$2,403	$792	$256	$2,403	5 insurers
M HEALTH FAIRVIEW RIDGES HOSPITAL	MN	$1,819	$773	—	—	5 insurers
University of Arkansas Medical Sciences	AR	$1,325	$795	—	—	5 insurers
NORTH VISTA HOSPITAL	NV	$2,403	$770	$62.25	$2,403	5 insurers
BELL HOSPITAL	MI	$1,330	$798	—	—	0 insurers
ADVENTHEALTH CENTRAL TEXAS	TX	$1,607	$804	$719	$1,447	5 insurers
ADVENTHEALTH ROLLINS BROOK	TX	$1,607	$804	$719	$1,447	5 insurers
GENEVA GENERAL HOSPITAL	NY	$1,907	$763	—	—	0 insurers
SOLDIERS AND SAILORS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL OF YATES	NY	$1,907	$763	—	—	5 insurers
FRENCH HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER	CA	$2,059	$807	$556	$2,018	5 insurers
FRENCH HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER	CA	$2,059	$807	$61.09	$5,432	5 insurers
MADISON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL	ID	$893	$759	—	—	5 insurers
MADISON HOSPITAL	MN	$893	$759	—	—	5 insurers
CHOCTAW HEALTH CENTER	MS	$1,618	$809	—	—	1 insurers
CHOCTAW MEMORIAL HOSPITAL	OK	$1,618	$809	—	—	1 insurers
ST JOSEPHS COMMUNITY HOSPITAL WEST BEND	WI	$1,473	$810	—	—	5 insurers