making minimum wage or less. ï· From 2013 to 2014, the number of Pennsylvania workers at or below the minimum. wage decreased (by 17.5 percent), while total employment and the number of all. hourly workers increased by 0.4 percent and 0.5 percent, respectively.
1 On average, the price of a biopsy without any type of insurance can range anywhere from $500 to as much as $8,000 for each procedure.2  For example, having a prostate biopsy can cost anywhere from $475 to $1,700. Higher-end procedures such as a liver or kidney biopsy can range anywhere from $2,000 to as much as $7,500. 2  HealthGrades.com offers an insight on the different prices of the procedure in different parts of the country.
A biopsy is a medical test commonly performed by a surgeon, interventional radiologist, or an interventional cardiologist involving sampling of cells or tissues for examination. It is the medical removal of tissue from a living subject to determine the presence or extent of a disease. The tissue is generally examined under a microscope by a pathologist, and can also be analyzed chemically. When an entire lump or suspicious area is removed, the procedure is called an excisional biopsy. When only a sample of tissue is removed with preservation of the histological architecture of the tissueâs cells, the procedure is called an incisional biopsy or core biopsy.