Fine needle aspiration with ultrasound guidance
Ultrasound-guided needle sampling of a lesion.
Needle sampling of a suspicious lesion (thyroid nodule, lymph node, soft tissue mass, etc.) under real-time ultrasound. Outpatient with local anesthesia. Pathology lab fees apply for cytology examination of the sample.
Typical cost
Cash · across 2483 hospitals
$1,273median
$489 – $2,997 (10th–90th percentile)
Negotiated · across 8 hospitals
$3,664median
$67 – $5,173 (10th–90th percentile)
Across hospitals with published core package prices plus CMS benchmarks where physician, anesthesia, or pathology components are usually billed separately. Partial estimates that cannot be completed this way are excluded.
What's included
Each component is a category of charge that contributes to the total bill. Items marked “billed separately” are still part of the episode, but you'll receive that bill from a different provider.
FNA with ultrasound guidance
Base procedureCPT 10005 · CPT 10006
Procedure facility
FacilityOptionalMany hospital files publish CPT 10005 as the outpatient facility/procedure charge; revenue-code facility rows are optional supporting evidence for this package.
REVENUE 0490
Cytopathology lab fee
PathologyBilled separatelyCPT 88172 · CPT 88173
Medicare professional benchmark: $55 facility / $55 non-facility (CMS PFS 2026)
Provider prices — cash
Showing 50 of 2824 hospitals - nationwide
Median cash-pay price across components that hospitals have published for this package. Completeness reflects how many of the package's expected components had matching data. Partial rows missing only a benchmarked professional component show a separate published-plus-CMS estimate. Public pages show up to 50 hospitals at a time; use ZIP search to narrow the list.
Provider prices — negotiated
Showing 8 hospitals - NJ, NY
Lowest negotiated rate the hospital or insurer has published for this package. Each row is labeled with its source — Hospital MRF or Payer Transparency in Coverage file. Use the insurer selector to switch between the cross-payer rollup and per-insurer rates. Rows from TiC files older than 3 months are dimmed. Partial rows missing only a benchmarked professional component show a separate published-plus-CMS estimate. Public pages show a comparison-sized sample; bulk provider exports belong in the data API.
| Hospital | Min negotiated | Payer types | Completeness |
|---|---|---|---|
| Robert Wood Johnson University HospitalNew Brunswick, NJ Hospital MRF | $67 | BCBSCommercialMedicaid MCO | 100% |
| NewYork-Presbyterian HospitalNew York, NY Hospital MRF | $774 | BCBSCommercialMedicaid MCO | 100% |
| NYU Langone Health - SuffolkPatchogue, NY Hospital MRFThin evidence | $3,545 | — | 100% |
| NYU Langone Hospital Long IslandMineola, NY Hospital MRFThin evidence | $3,784 | — | 100% |
| NYU Langone Hospital BrooklynBrooklyn, NY Hospital MRFThin evidence | $4,057 | — | 100% |
| NYU Langone Orthopedic HospitalNew York, NY Hospital MRFThin evidence | $4,179 | — | 100% |
| NYU Langone HealthNew York, NY Hospital MRFThin evidence | $5,173 | — | 100% |
| Lenox Hill HospitalNew York, NY Partial: 1 of 2Hospital MRFPartial | $752published + CMS | CommercialMedicaid MCO | 50% |
Common questions
- How much does fine needle aspiration with ultrasound guidance cost?
- Fine needle aspiration with ultrasound guidance cash prices on cleartau range from $489 to $2,997 (10th–90th percentile) across 2483 US hospitals, with a median of $1,273. Individual hospital prices vary widely; the per-hospital table below shows the spread.
- What's included in the fine needle aspiration with ultrasound guidance package?
- Needle sampling of a suspicious lesion (thyroid nodule, lymph node, soft tissue mass, etc.) under real-time ultrasound. Outpatient with local anesthesia. Pathology lab fees apply for cytology examination of the sample.
- What's typically billed separately for fine needle aspiration with ultrasound guidance?
- These components are usually billed by a different provider on a separate invoice: cytopathology lab fee. They're still part of the episode of care.
- How does the fine needle aspiration with ultrasound guidance package price get calculated?
- Cleartau sums per-component representative prices across the procedure, facility, anesthesia, and (where applicable) implant lines. The package median equals the sum of per-component medians; min and max work the same way. When a hospital publishes a formula (e.g. "150% of Medicare") instead of a dollar amount, the formula is resolved against the matching CMS fee schedule before aggregation.
Also known as
fine needle biopsy package · fna package · ultrasound guided biopsy package