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Procedure price report · Other OR therapeutic procedures, female organs

Freezing treatment of a breast cancer tumor, one breast

CPT 0581Tthe billing code this page is about

Destruction of one or more cancerous breast tumors using a needle-based freezing probe placed through the skin, treating one breast.

Hospitals typically charge $3,605 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 125 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $3,529. Most fall between $2,436 and $6,092 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
125
States
24
Filings dated
Sep 2025 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 24, 2026

Median: half of hospitals filed less, half more — and it is a price some hospital actually filed. Average of the middle 60%: the mean of the prices between the 20th and 80th percentiles. We never publish the plain average, the lowest or the highest price: the extremes in hospital price files are chargemaster artefacts, not prices anyone pays.

What hospitals charge, from cheapest to most expensive

Cash price percentiles, outpatient, across 125 hospitals. Each figure is a price a hospital filed. 10th: one in ten hospitals charges less; 25th: a quarter charge less; Median: half charge less; 75th: three quarters charge less; 90th: nine in ten charge less.
10th25thMedian75th90th
$1,736$2,514$3,605$4,867$8,950

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,736 vs $8,950).

How the prices are spread

$1,098 – $1,382: 2 hospitals$1,098$1,382 – $1,738: 5 hospitals$1,738 – $2,187: 8 hospitals$1,738$2,187 – $2,751: 26 hospitals$2,751 – $3,461: 1 hospitals$2,751$3,461 – $4,354: 41 hospitals$4,354 – $5,477: 9 hospitals$4,354$5,477 – $6,891: 6 hospitals$6,891 – $8,669: 8 hospitals$6,891$8,669 – $10,905: 7 hospitals$8,669median $3,605price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (113 of 125 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$1,098$1,3822
$1,382$1,7385
$1,738$2,1878
$2,187$2,75126
$2,751$3,4611
$3,461$4,35441
$4,354$5,4779
$5,477$6,8916
$6,891$8,6698
$8,669$10,9057

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$4,000
Median cash price$3,605
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.90×

The Medicare figure is the national unadjusted OPPS rate for this code — what Medicare itself pays a hospital before local wage adjustment. It is a benchmark, not a price anyone is charged.

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $3,605.

Alaska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVTNew Hampshire: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNHWashington: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWAIdaho: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMTNorth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNDMinnesota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureILWisconsin: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWIMichigan: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNYMassachusetts: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceORNevada: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIAIndiana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceINOhio: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figurePANew Jersey: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNJConnecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $2,514 across 24 hospitalsCA$2,514Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCONebraska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceKYWest Virginia: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAZNew Mexico: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceKSArkansas: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceARTennessee: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNCSouth Carolina: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSCOklahoma: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOKLouisiana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceLAMississippi: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMSAlabama: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceHITexas: median $3,605 across 34 hospitalsTX$3,605Florida: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $3,605. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Texas TX34$3,6050%$3,605 – $3,605
California CA24$2,514−30%$2,514 – $2,514
Illinois IL8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Jersey NJ5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New York NY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Michigan MI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oklahoma OK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Pennsylvania PA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Iowa IA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV1not enough hospitals filed a usable price

Hospitals like yours

The same distribution cut by the kind of hospital. Hospital type and ownership come from CMS; a hospital counts as part of a system when its price file is shared with at least one other hospital under the same brand. The national median is $3,605.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care117$3,605$2,436 – $5,467
Critical access8fewer than 20 hospitals
Ownership
For-profit16fewer than 20 hospitals
Government10fewer than 20 hospitals
Non-profit99$3,605$2,514 – $6,857
System affiliation
Part of a system116$3,605$2,436 – $5,197
Independent9fewer than 20 hospitals

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$6,008
Median cash price$3,605
Cash as a share of list, median hospital60%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 40%. The share is the median of each hospital’s own cash ÷ list ratio, over hospitals that filed both — not the ratio of the two medians above.

The same procedure, inpatient

104 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $3,605 and the average of the middle 60% is $3,219; most fall between $2,227 and $3,965.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 104 hospitals. Each figure is a price a hospital filed. 10th: one in ten hospitals charges less; 25th: a quarter charge less; Median: half charge less; 75th: three quarters charge less; 90th: nine in ten charge less.
10th25thMedian75th90th
$1,816$2,436$3,605$3,745$7,000

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 3.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,816 vs $7,000).

Of the 111 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 104 gave a usable cash price; 2 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 5 a list price only.

How complete is this

125 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (3%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 132 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted125
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here4
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded3
Hospitals that filed this code132

Sections not shown for this setting

  • Since our last snapshot: there is no earlier snapshot at least 90 days older than this one yet.

We last checked these hospitals’ price files for changes between September 4, 2026 and September 24, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 24, 2026. The percentiles and averages use only the “counted” row.

Related procedures

Part of the Other OR therapeutic procedures, female organs family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as ABLTJ MAL BRST TUM PERQ CRTX.

Method

Source
The machine-readable price files every U.S. hospital is required by CMS to publish, parsed per hospital. Nothing is surveyed, sampled or modelled.
What counts
One cash (self-pay) price per hospital for this code and setting. A hospital’s own filing can rule its number out — a placeholder, a “not applicable” note, a list price standing in for cash — and our plausibility checks can flag a price far below what every other hospital files. Both kinds are disclosed above and excluded from the statistics; on the compare tool a flagged price is still shown.
Statistics
Percentiles are discrete: each is a price some hospital filed. The average is the mean of the prices between the 20th and 80th percentiles. We never publish the plain mean, the minimum or the maximum. A state needs 10 hospitals and a segment 20 to show a figure; otherwise the row shows its count and no number. Medicare is the national unadjusted OPPS rate where one exists.
Names
Procedure names on these pages are our own plain-language titles, not the AMA’s copyrighted CPT descriptors. The code is the identity.

The full rules — sources, statistics, thresholds, limitations — are on the methodology page.

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Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Freezing treatment of a breast cancer tumor, one breast (CPT 0581T) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-0581t-freezing-treatment-of-a-breast-cancer-tumor-one-breast