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Needle biopsy of a lump using MRI guidance, first lump

CPT 10011the billing code this page is about

Uses a thin needle guided by MRI imaging to draw a sample of cells from a lump or abnormal area; this code covers the first lump sampled during the visit.

Hospitals typically charge $994 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 758 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,163. Most fall between $670 and $1,994 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
758
States
49
Filings dated
Jun 2024 – 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 758 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
$491$743$994$1,850$3,104

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($491 vs $3,104).

How the prices are spread

$302 – $397: 18 hospitals$302$397 – $520: 34 hospitals$520 – $682: 67 hospitals$520$682 – $894: 150 hospitals$894 – $1,172: 110 hospitals$894$1,172 – $1,537: 100 hospitals$1,537 – $2,016: 95 hospitals$1,537$2,016 – $2,643: 33 hospitals$2,643 – $3,466: 55 hospitals$2,643$3,466 – $4,545: 22 hospitals$3,466median $994price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (684 of 758 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$302$39718
$397$52034
$520$68267
$682$894150
$894$1,172110
$1,172$1,537100
$1,537$2,01695
$2,016$2,64333
$2,643$3,46655
$3,466$4,54522

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$723
Median cash price$994
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.37×

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 $994.

Alaska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $1,267 across 15 hospitalsWA$1,267Idaho: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $2,857 across 14 hospitalsMN$2,857Illinois: median $1,540 across 34 hospitalsIL$1,540Wisconsin: median $947 across 24 hospitalsWI$947Michigan: median $974 across 25 hospitalsMI$974New York: median $841 across 36 hospitalsNY$841Massachusetts: median $964 across 10 hospitalsMA$964Oregon: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIAIndiana: median $1,272 across 25 hospitalsIN$1,272Ohio: median $901 across 48 hospitalsOH$901Pennsylvania: median $802 across 59 hospitalsPA$802New Jersey: median $1,739 across 37 hospitalsNJ$1,739Connecticut: median $1,402 across 10 hospitalsCT$1,402Rhode Island: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $1,833 across 69 hospitalsCA$1,833Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $3,177 across 12 hospitalsCO$3,177Nebraska: median $670 across 11 hospitalsNE$670Missouri: median $1,220 across 18 hospitalsMO$1,220Kentucky: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $1,474 across 11 hospitalsVA$1,474Maryland: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $304 across 12 hospitalsTN$304North Carolina: median $994 across 19 hospitalsNC$994South Carolina: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $519 across 20 hospitalsOK$519Louisiana: median $918 across 14 hospitalsLA$918Mississippi: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $1,332 across 25 hospitalsGA$1,332Hawaii: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $909 across 53 hospitalsTX$909Florida: median $1,052 across 37 hospitalsFL$1,052
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $994. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Colorado CO12$3,177+220%$559 – $3,177
Minnesota MN14$2,857+187%$812 – $3,553
California CA69$1,833+84%$906 – $1,994
New Jersey NJ37$1,739+75%$779 – $4,881
Illinois IL34$1,540+55%$889 – $3,104
Virginia VA11$1,474+48%$1,258 – $1,474
Connecticut CT10$1,402+41%$971 – $3,032
Georgia GA25$1,332+34%$897 – $1,835
Indiana IN25$1,272+28%$617 – $1,918
Washington WA15$1,267+27%$990 – $1,648
Missouri MO18$1,220+23%$711 – $1,928
Florida FL37$1,052+6%$662 – $2,630
North Carolina NC19$9940%$652 – $1,537
Michigan MI25$974−2%$715 – $1,686
Massachusetts MA10$964−3%$500 – $1,570
Wisconsin WI24$947−5%$810 – $1,854
Louisiana LA14$918−8%$743 – $1,487
Texas TX53$909−9%$663 – $2,894
Ohio OH48$901−9%$699 – $1,220
New York NY36$841−15%$833 – $1,782
Pennsylvania PA59$802−19%$575 – $1,498
Nebraska NE11$670−33%$636 – $762
Oklahoma OK20$519−48%$407 – $1,047
Tennessee TN12$304−69%$109 – $751
Hawaii HI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Iowa IA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY1not 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 $994.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care659$1,022$670 – $2,043
Children’s23$925$794 – $3,211
Critical access74$947$675 – $1,783
Ownership
For-profit61$906$656 – $1,861
Government96$845$533 – $1,464
Non-profit599$1,105$699 – $2,111
System affiliation
Part of a system655$1,052$699 – $2,008
Independent103$932$548 – $1,782

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,027
Median cash price$994
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

556 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,150 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,249; most fall between $670 and $2,124.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 556 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
$478$761$1,150$1,994$3,177

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($478 vs $3,177).

Of the 599 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 556 gave a usable cash price; 19 carried a plausibility flag, 2 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 22 a list price only.

How complete is this

758 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (19%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 811 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted758
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here26
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded2
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded25
Hospitals that filed this code811

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 diagnostic procedures on skin and subcutaneous tissue family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Fine Needle Aspiration Bx W/MR Gdn 1st Lesion.

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, “Needle biopsy of a lump using MRI guidance, first lump (CPT 10011) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-10011-needle-biopsy-of-a-lump-using-mri-guidance-first-lump