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Procedure price report · Other diagnostic procedures on skin and subcutaneous tissue

Placement of a marker in soft tissue with imaging, first

CPT 10035the billing code this page is about

A marker or clip is placed through the skin into soft tissue to mark a spot for later surgery or treatment, using imaging to guide it; covers the first marked area.

Hospitals typically charge $1,087 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,689 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,136. Most fall between $647 and $1,846 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,689
States
50
Filings dated
Mar 2023 – 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 1,689 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
$407$717$1,087$1,644$2,730

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($407 vs $2,730).

How the prices are spread

$232 – $304: 37 hospitals$232$304 – $399: 41 hospitals$399 – $524: 80 hospitals$399$524 – $689: 136 hospitals$689 – $904: 263 hospitals$689$904 – $1,188: 289 hospitals$1,188 – $1,560: 287 hospitals$1,188$1,560 – $2,048: 184 hospitals$2,048 – $2,690: 116 hospitals$2,048$2,690 – $3,532: 91 hospitals$2,690median $1,087price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,524 of 1,689 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$232$30437
$304$39941
$399$52480
$524$689136
$689$904263
$904$1,188289
$1,188$1,560287
$1,560$2,048184
$2,048$2,690116
$2,690$3,53291

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$723
Median cash price$1,087
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.50×

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 $1,087.

Alaska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $576 across 14 hospitalsNH$576Washington: median $1,147 across 48 hospitalsWA$1,147Idaho: median $1,593 across 12 hospitalsID$1,593Montana: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $983 across 50 hospitalsMN$983Illinois: median $1,055 across 74 hospitalsIL$1,055Wisconsin: median $1,102 across 74 hospitalsWI$1,102Michigan: median $974 across 59 hospitalsMI$974New York: median $1,041 across 57 hospitalsNY$1,041Massachusetts: median $1,215 across 26 hospitalsMA$1,215Oregon: median $1,349 across 38 hospitalsOR$1,349Nevada: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $877 across 28 hospitalsIA$877Indiana: median $979 across 58 hospitalsIN$979Ohio: median $1,087 across 103 hospitalsOH$1,087Pennsylvania: median $1,326 across 82 hospitalsPA$1,326New Jersey: median $923 across 50 hospitalsNJ$923Connecticut: median $939 across 18 hospitalsCT$939Rhode Island: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $1,488 across 129 hospitalsCA$1,488Utah: median $1,593 across 26 hospitalsUT$1,593Colorado: median $1,215 across 38 hospitalsCO$1,215Nebraska: median $653 across 26 hospitalsNE$653Missouri: median $805 across 39 hospitalsMO$805Kentucky: median $860 across 17 hospitalsKY$860West Virginia: median $793 across 19 hospitalsWV$793Virginia: median $1,000 across 33 hospitalsVA$1,000Maryland: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $713 across 27 hospitalsAZ$713New Mexico: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $592 across 18 hospitalsKS$592Arkansas: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $315 across 36 hospitalsTN$315North Carolina: median $1,292 across 35 hospitalsNC$1,292South Carolina: median $1,472 across 32 hospitalsSC$1,472Oklahoma: median $711 across 28 hospitalsOK$711Louisiana: median $700 across 26 hospitalsLA$700Mississippi: median $493 across 25 hospitalsMS$493Alabama: median $872 across 17 hospitalsAL$872Georgia: median $860 across 56 hospitalsGA$860Hawaii: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $1,260 across 100 hospitalsTX$1,260Florida: median $1,696 across 79 hospitalsFL$1,696
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,087. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL79$1,696+56%$925 – $2,596
Idaho ID12$1,593+47%$1,324 – $1,783
Utah UT26$1,593+47%$1,593 – $1,874
California CA129$1,488+37%$701 – $2,796
South Carolina SC32$1,472+35%$929 – $1,609
Oregon OR38$1,349+24%$534 – $1,846
Pennsylvania PA82$1,326+22%$786 – $3,674
North Carolina NC35$1,292+19%$644 – $1,326
Texas TX100$1,260+16%$932 – $1,337
Massachusetts MA26$1,215+12%$443 – $1,984
Colorado CO38$1,215+12%$870 – $1,591
Washington WA48$1,147+6%$647 – $1,879
Wisconsin WI74$1,102+1%$945 – $1,230
Ohio OH103$1,0870%$829 – $1,544
Illinois IL74$1,055−3%$579 – $1,928
New York NY57$1,041−4%$833 – $2,097
Virginia VA33$1,000−8%$685 – $1,099
Minnesota MN50$983−10%$717 – $1,347
Indiana IN58$979−10%$617 – $2,907
Michigan MI59$974−10%$609 – $1,453
Connecticut CT18$939−14%$803 – $1,867
New Jersey NJ50$923−15%$779 – $3,986
Iowa IA28$877−19%$371 – $1,246
Alabama AL17$872−20%$543 – $1,098
Georgia GA56$860−21%$822 – $2,091
Kentucky KY17$860−21%$218 – $2,825
Missouri MO39$805−26%$734 – $1,664
West Virginia WV19$793−27%$252 – $1,274
Arizona AZ27$713−34%$486 – $3,532
Oklahoma OK28$711−35%$139 – $1,081
Louisiana LA26$700−36%$469 – $1,440
Nebraska NE26$653−40%$571 – $1,437
Kansas KS18$592−46%$241 – $1,818
New Hampshire NH14$576−47%$107 – $1,653
Mississippi MS25$493−55%$272 – $581
Tennessee TN36$315−71%$304 – $1,013
Maine ME9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT4not 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 $1,087.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,434$1,098$670 – $1,874
Children’s30$1,070$569 – $2,445
Critical access217$1,040$512 – $1,593
Ownership
For-profit118$1,063$670 – $1,997
Government211$883$444 – $1,512
Non-profit1,352$1,114$667 – $1,874
System affiliation
Part of a system1,473$1,099$672 – $1,867
Independent216$1,050$459 – $1,732

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,037
Median cash price$1,087
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

1,323 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,173 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,206; most fall between $695 and $1,905.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,323 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
$455$785$1,173$1,729$2,730

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($455 vs $2,730).

Of the 1,401 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,323 gave a usable cash price; 24 carried a plausibility flag, 2 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 52 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,689 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (43%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,804 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,689
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here53
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded2
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded6
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded54
Hospitals that filed this code1,804

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 Plmt Sft Tiss Loclzj Dev Perq 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, “Placement of a marker in soft tissue with imaging, first (CPT 10035) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-10035-placement-of-a-marker-in-soft-tissue-with-imaging-first