# Prostate biopsy in Rome, GA

Billing code `55700`. Prices for this code at 5 hospitals within 35 miles of Rome, taken from the machine-readable standard charge files each hospital is required to publish under the CMS Hospital Price Transparency Rule (45 CFR 180.50).

Source page: https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/rome/prostate-biopsy

Biopsy of prostate

## Before quoting any figure below

- **Hospital charges only.** The surgeon, anaesthetist, radiologist and pathologist bill separately and appear in no hospital price file, by construction. Every figure below is part of a total, never the total.
- **A negotiated rate is not a bill.** It is what a hospital and an insurer agreed. What a patient owes depends on their deductible, coinsurance and out-of-pocket maximum.
- **Each hospital's figure is a median across its own plans.** The spread inside one hospital is often wider than the gap between two of them.
- **"not mentioned" is not $0.** It means this hospital's file does not label a row that way. Silence is not a statement that the charge does not exist.
- **A hospital absent from the table says nothing about its prices.** It may publish this code under a revenue or drug code this site cannot map to a procedure.

A procedure code is billed twice -- once by the hospital for its own costs, once by the doctor for their work -- and hospitals publish different sides of that split under the same code. Of the hospitals here, 5 publish a facility charge.

## Typical price

|  | Amount |
|---|---|
| Lowest reported | $2,016 |
| Typical | $2,219 |
| Highest reported | $2,738 |

Too few hospitals here for a decile to mean anything, so these are the true extremes and a single unusual figure can set one of them.

## Every hospital publishing this code

| Hospital | Where | CMS rating | Typical | Facility charge | Physician fee | Self-pay | Lowest | Highest | Plans on file |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Atrium Health Floyd Medical Center | ROME (~0 mi) | 2/5 | $2,016 | $2,016 | not mentioned | not published | $1,515 | $3,992 | 15 |
| Floyd Cherokee Medical Center | CENTRE, AL (21.2 mi) | not rated | $2,020 | $2,020 | not mentioned | not published | $1,817 | $3,535 | 13 |
| Hamilton Medical Center | DALTON (33.5 mi) | 3/5 | $2,219 | $2,219 | not mentioned | not published | $2,114 | $5,392 | 3 |
| AdventHealth Gordon | CALHOUN (22.0 mi) | 3/5 | $2,234 | $2,234 | not mentioned | not published | $964 | $2,246 | 5 |
| AdventHealth Redmond | ROME (0.0 mi) | 4/5 | $2,738 | $2,738 | not mentioned | not published | $2,112 | $5,045 | 8 |

## The doctor's side, roughly

Nationally, Medicare allows about $358 for the clinician who performs or reads this service, across 2,686 billing providers in 2024. That is a separate bill from everything above and is NOT added to any figure on this page -- it is here to show the rough size of what a hospital price leaves out.

1 of these 5 hospitals have not published an updated price file in over a year, or do not say when they last did. Hospitals are required to update at least annually, so those figures may not reflect what they charge now: Floyd Cherokee Medical Center.

## Others in urology

- [Prostate removal with lymph nodes (keyhole surgery)](https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/prostate-removal-with-lymph-nodes-keyhole-surgery) -- 50 hospitals, typically $10,928

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Compiled by Clearcharge (clearcharge.org) from each hospital's machine-readable standard-charge file. When quoting a figure, cite the source page above. The hospital files behind these figures state data through dates from 2025-11-19 to 2026-04-01; per-hospital staleness is flagged above.