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

Placement of a soft tissue marker, each additional site

CPT 10036the billing code this page is about

Billed once for each additional area marked with a localization device under imaging guidance during the same visit, in addition to the code for the first area.

Hospitals typically charge $685 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,077 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $713. Most fall between $340 and $1,314 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,077
States
50
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 1,077 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
$166$395$685$1,162$2,091

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($166 vs $2,091).

How the prices are spread

$78 – $112: 31 hospitals$78$112 – $161: 28 hospitals$161 – $232: 27 hospitals$161$232 – $334: 67 hospitals$334 – $481: 193 hospitals$334$481 – $692: 161 hospitals$692 – $995: 201 hospitals$692$995 – $1,431: 122 hospitals$1,431 – $2,059: 89 hospitals$1,431$2,059 – $2,962: 63 hospitals$2,059median $685price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (982 of 1,077 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$78$11231
$112$16128
$161$23227
$232$33467
$334$481193
$481$692161
$692$995201
$995$1,431122
$1,431$2,05989
$2,059$2,96263

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $685.

Alaska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $579 across 26 hospitalsWA$579Idaho: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $884 across 26 hospitalsMN$884Illinois: median $590 across 45 hospitalsIL$590Wisconsin: median $911 across 64 hospitalsWI$911Michigan: median $624 across 27 hospitalsMI$624New York: median $402 across 24 hospitalsNY$402Massachusetts: median $162 across 18 hospitalsMA$162Oregon: median $527 across 20 hospitalsOR$527Nevada: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $745 across 20 hospitalsIA$745Indiana: median $525 across 44 hospitalsIN$525Ohio: median $455 across 85 hospitalsOH$455Pennsylvania: median $601 across 46 hospitalsPA$601New Jersey: median $3,786 across 27 hospitalsNJ$3,786Connecticut: median $497 across 14 hospitalsCT$497Rhode Island: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $619 across 89 hospitalsCA$619Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $552 across 26 hospitalsCO$552Nebraska: median $611 across 19 hospitalsNE$611Missouri: median $759 across 29 hospitalsMO$759Kentucky: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $399 across 22 hospitalsVA$399Maryland: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $279 across 18 hospitalsAZ$279New Mexico: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $175 across 20 hospitalsTN$175North Carolina: median $645 across 14 hospitalsNC$645South Carolina: median $983 across 22 hospitalsSC$983Oklahoma: median $393 across 23 hospitalsOK$393Louisiana: median $374 across 15 hospitalsLA$374Mississippi: median $381 across 10 hospitalsMS$381Alabama: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $916 across 51 hospitalsGA$916Hawaii: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $686 across 81 hospitalsTX$686Florida: median $720 across 57 hospitalsFL$720
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $685. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ27$3,786+453%$1,984 – $5,339
South Carolina SC22$983+44%$722 – $1,693
Georgia GA51$916+34%$786 – $2,091
Wisconsin WI64$911+33%$405 – $1,314
Minnesota MN26$884+29%$739 – $1,162
Missouri MO29$759+11%$347 – $1,336
Iowa IA20$745+9%$371 – $934
Florida FL57$720+5%$520 – $1,314
Texas TX81$6860%$457 – $878
North Carolina NC14$645−6%$260 – $1,788
Michigan MI27$624−9%$239 – $4,956
California CA89$619−10%$243 – $2,962
Nebraska NE19$611−11%$390 – $1,260
Pennsylvania PA46$601−12%$335 – $1,442
Illinois IL45$590−14%$252 – $1,075
Washington WA26$579−15%$361 – $970
Colorado CO26$552−19%$370 – $1,810
Oregon OR20$527−23%$432 – $1,016
Indiana IN44$525−23%$295 – $2,182
Connecticut CT14$497−27%$303 – $940
Ohio OH85$455−34%$401 – $772
New York NY24$402−41%$131 – $1,609
Virginia VA22$399−42%$373 – $1,075
Oklahoma OK23$393−43%$70 – $711
Mississippi MS10$381−44%$218 – $537
Louisiana LA15$374−45%$129 – $519
Arizona AZ18$279−59%$223 – $564
Tennessee TN20$175−74%$91 – $1,080
Massachusetts MA18$162−76%$73 – $508
Kentucky KY9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not 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 $685.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care933$671$338 – $1,280
Children’s22$587$213 – $2,824
Critical access116$818$402 – $1,549
Ownership
For-profit66$657$354 – $1,204
Government115$520$280 – $911
Non-profit890$720$348 – $1,442
System affiliation
Part of a system966$686$354 – $1,304
Independent111$505$150 – $1,356

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,161
Median cash price$685
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

894 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $686 and the average of the middle 60% is $726; most fall between $345 and $1,324.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 894 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
$150$399$686$1,162$1,886

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($150 vs $1,886).

Of the 951 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 894 gave a usable cash price; 19 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 38 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,077 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (27%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,196 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,077
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here56
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 — excluded63
Hospitals that filed this code1,196

Sections not shown for this setting

  • Against Medicare: Medicare has no separately payable national outpatient (OPPS) rate for this code, so there is nothing honest to compare against.
  • 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 Each Addl 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 soft tissue marker, each additional site (CPT 10036) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-10036-placement-of-a-soft-tissue-marker-each-additional-site