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Procedure price report · Breast biopsy and other diagnostic procedures on breast

Dye injection into a breast duct for imaging

CPT 19030the billing code this page is about

Contrast dye is injected into a milk duct so the duct can be seen on breast X-ray images; the code covers the injection itself, not the imaging.

Hospitals typically charge $348 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,263 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $371. Most fall between $160 and $661 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,263
States
49
Filings dated
Aug 2022 – 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 1,263 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
$107$182$348$605$1,066

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($107 vs $1,066).

How the prices are spread

$84 – $112: 68 hospitals$84$112 – $149: 91 hospitals$149 – $198: 103 hospitals$149$198 – $264: 156 hospitals$264 – $351: 156 hospitals$264$351 – $467: 146 hospitals$467 – $621: 179 hospitals$467$621 – $825: 108 hospitals$825 – $1,098: 68 hospitals$825$1,098 – $1,460: 63 hospitals$1,098median $348price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,138 of 1,263 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$84$11268
$112$14991
$149$198103
$198$264156
$264$351156
$351$467146
$467$621179
$621$825108
$825$1,09868
$1,098$1,46063

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $348.

Alaska: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $427 across 24 hospitalsWA$427Idaho: median $815 across 10 hospitalsID$815Montana: 5 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 $249 across 22 hospitalsMN$249Illinois: median $336 across 66 hospitalsIL$336Wisconsin: median $309 across 58 hospitalsWI$309Michigan: median $605 across 41 hospitalsMI$605New York: median $228 across 36 hospitalsNY$228Massachusetts: median $214 across 18 hospitalsMA$214Oregon: median $294 across 26 hospitalsOR$294Nevada: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $273 across 26 hospitalsIA$273Indiana: median $456 across 47 hospitalsIN$456Ohio: median $385 across 98 hospitalsOH$385Pennsylvania: median $167 across 52 hospitalsPA$167New Jersey: median $836 across 33 hospitalsNJ$836Connecticut: median $551 across 10 hospitalsCT$551Rhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $487 across 103 hospitalsCA$487Utah: median $831 across 25 hospitalsUT$831Colorado: median $384 across 35 hospitalsCO$384Nebraska: median $252 across 16 hospitalsNE$252Missouri: median $326 across 26 hospitalsMO$326Kentucky: median $211 across 12 hospitalsKY$211West Virginia: median $356 across 12 hospitalsWV$356Virginia: median $368 across 33 hospitalsVA$368Maryland: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $452 across 24 hospitalsAZ$452New Mexico: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $463 across 11 hospitalsKS$463Arkansas: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $161 across 35 hospitalsTN$161North Carolina: median $130 across 26 hospitalsNC$130South Carolina: median $629 across 15 hospitalsSC$629Oklahoma: median $278 across 31 hospitalsOK$278Louisiana: median $164 across 15 hospitalsLA$164Mississippi: median $216 across 10 hospitalsMS$216Alabama: median $200 across 15 hospitalsAL$200Georgia: median $1,127 across 47 hospitalsGA$1,127Hawaii: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $360 across 93 hospitalsTX$360Florida: median $234 across 46 hospitalsFL$234
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $348. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Georgia GA47$1,127+224%$249 – $1,154
New Jersey NJ33$836+141%$93 – $5,110
Utah UT25$831+139%$831 – $978
Idaho ID10$815+135%$283 – $815
South Carolina SC15$629+81%$358 – $2,410
Michigan MI41$605+74%$222 – $961
Connecticut CT10$551+59%$308 – $685
California CA103$487+40%$249 – $1,146
Kansas KS11$463+33%$318 – $610
Indiana IN47$456+31%$202 – $611
Arizona AZ24$452+30%$346 – $887
Washington WA24$427+23%$294 – $576
Ohio OH98$385+11%$241 – $730
Colorado CO35$384+10%$123 – $510
Virginia VA33$368+6%$142 – $1,563
Texas TX93$360+4%$216 – $622
West Virginia WV12$356+2%$202 – $583
Illinois IL66$336−3%$203 – $630
Missouri MO26$326−6%$127 – $413
Wisconsin WI58$309−11%$173 – $590
Oregon OR26$294−15%$194 – $371
Oklahoma OK31$278−20%$200 – $434
Iowa IA26$273−22%$140 – $454
Nebraska NE16$252−27%$207 – $333
Minnesota MN22$249−28%$154 – $421
Florida FL46$234−33%$127 – $506
New York NY36$228−34%$101 – $399
Mississippi MS10$216−38%$89 – $495
Massachusetts MA18$214−38%$174 – $714
Kentucky KY12$211−39%$165 – $621
Alabama AL15$200−42%$122 – $359
Pennsylvania PA52$167−52%$57 – $307
Louisiana LA15$164−53%$102 – $491
Tennessee TN35$161−54%$130 – $269
North Carolina NC26$130−63%$96 – $318
Hawaii HI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not 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 $348.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,074$338$156 – $653
Children’s12fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access170$352$168 – $662
Ownership
For-profit107$447$209 – $870
Government165$250$128 – $507
Non-profit984$352$161 – $682
System affiliation
Part of a system1,084$352$161 – $662
Independent179$309$150 – $660

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$599
Median cash price$348
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

1,026 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $381 and the average of the middle 60% is $395; most fall between $161 and $738.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,026 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
$115$202$381$622$1,127

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($115 vs $1,127).

Of the 1,105 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,026 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 60 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,263 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (32%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,392 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,263
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here44
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 — excluded85
Hospitals that filed this code1,392

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 Breast biopsy and other diagnostic procedures on breast family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Injection Px Only Mammary Ductogram/Galactogram.

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.

Download this page’s figures: JSON · CSV. Aggregates only — the per-hospital prices are on the compare tool.

Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Dye injection into a breast duct for imaging (CPT 19030) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-19030-dye-injection-into-a-breast-duct-for-imaging