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

Breast biopsy with ultrasound guidance, first lesion

CPT 19083the billing code this page is about

A needle sample is taken from a breast lesion using ultrasound to guide the needle, including placement of a marker clip and the imaging used; covers the first lesion sampled.

Hospitals typically charge $2,181 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,544 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,314. Most fall between $1,094 and $3,875 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,544
States
50
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 2,544 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
$675$1,317$2,181$3,506$4,905

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($675 vs $4,905).

How the prices are spread

$386 – $506: 65 hospitals$386$506 – $663: 59 hospitals$663 – $869: 105 hospitals$663$869 – $1,140: 170 hospitals$1,140 – $1,495: 221 hospitals$1,140$1,495 – $1,961: 367 hospitals$1,961 – $2,571: 369 hospitals$1,961$2,571 – $3,371: 364 hospitals$3,371 – $4,421: 342 hospitals$3,371$4,421 – $5,797: 228 hospitals$4,421median $2,181price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,290 of 2,544 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$386$50665
$506$66359
$663$869105
$869$1,140170
$1,140$1,495221
$1,495$1,961367
$1,961$2,571369
$2,571$3,371364
$3,371$4,421342
$4,421$5,797228

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$1,687
Median cash price$2,181
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.29×

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 $2,181.

Alaska: median $3,086 across 10 hospitalsAK$3,086Maine: median $1,334 across 18 hospitalsME$1,334Vermont: median $1,316 across 12 hospitalsVT$1,316New Hampshire: median $1,389 across 21 hospitalsNH$1,389Washington: median $2,166 across 55 hospitalsWA$2,166Idaho: median $2,210 across 21 hospitalsID$2,210Montana: median $879 across 22 hospitalsMT$879North Dakota: median $2,217 across 11 hospitalsND$2,217Minnesota: median $1,733 across 84 hospitalsMN$1,733Illinois: median $2,353 across 116 hospitalsIL$2,353Wisconsin: median $1,830 across 96 hospitalsWI$1,830Michigan: median $1,830 across 84 hospitalsMI$1,830New York: median $2,787 across 95 hospitalsNY$2,787Massachusetts: median $2,181 across 47 hospitalsMA$2,181Oregon: median $1,973 across 51 hospitalsOR$1,973Nevada: median $1,632 across 16 hospitalsNV$1,632Wyoming: median $1,758 across 14 hospitalsWY$1,758South Dakota: median $3,691 across 13 hospitalsSD$3,691Iowa: median $1,752 across 63 hospitalsIA$1,752Indiana: median $2,703 across 82 hospitalsIN$2,703Ohio: median $3,225 across 135 hospitalsOH$3,225Pennsylvania: median $2,516 across 101 hospitalsPA$2,516New Jersey: median $2,162 across 57 hospitalsNJ$2,162Connecticut: median $3,625 across 19 hospitalsCT$3,625Rhode Island: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $3,214 across 169 hospitalsCA$3,214Utah: median $2,031 across 31 hospitalsUT$2,031Colorado: median $1,858 across 55 hospitalsCO$1,858Nebraska: median $1,753 across 48 hospitalsNE$1,753Missouri: median $2,467 across 58 hospitalsMO$2,467Kentucky: median $2,152 across 41 hospitalsKY$2,152West Virginia: median $2,240 across 31 hospitalsWV$2,240Virginia: median $1,974 across 49 hospitalsVA$1,974Maryland: median $1,719 across 15 hospitalsMD$1,719Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $1,165 across 35 hospitalsAZ$1,165New Mexico: median $1,895 across 18 hospitalsNM$1,895Kansas: median $1,792 across 53 hospitalsKS$1,792Arkansas: median $1,080 across 18 hospitalsAR$1,080Tennessee: median $990 across 54 hospitalsTN$990North Carolina: median $1,944 across 68 hospitalsNC$1,944South Carolina: median $3,479 across 41 hospitalsSC$3,479Oklahoma: median $1,799 across 43 hospitalsOK$1,799Louisiana: median $1,144 across 44 hospitalsLA$1,144Mississippi: median $1,128 across 42 hospitalsMS$1,128Alabama: median $2,430 across 32 hospitalsAL$2,430Georgia: median $2,277 across 82 hospitalsGA$2,277Hawaii: median $1,517 across 13 hospitalsHI$1,517Texas: median $3,092 across 147 hospitalsTX$3,092Florida: median $3,514 across 99 hospitalsFL$3,514
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,181. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
South Dakota SD13$3,691+69%$2,004 – $3,779
Connecticut CT19$3,625+66%$2,624 – $5,717
Florida FL99$3,514+61%$1,496 – $5,341
South Carolina SC41$3,479+60%$1,731 – $3,776
Ohio OH135$3,225+48%$1,734 – $4,049
California CA169$3,214+47%$1,536 – $5,093
Texas TX147$3,092+42%$2,017 – $4,473
Alaska AK10$3,086+42%$2,292 – $3,803
New York NY95$2,787+28%$1,549 – $4,595
Indiana IN82$2,703+24%$1,199 – $3,476
Pennsylvania PA101$2,516+15%$1,688 – $5,202
Missouri MO58$2,467+13%$860 – $3,778
Alabama AL32$2,430+11%$1,276 – $6,002
Illinois IL116$2,353+8%$934 – $3,976
Georgia GA82$2,277+4%$1,648 – $3,693
West Virginia WV31$2,240+3%$991 – $3,887
North Dakota ND11$2,217+2%$868 – $2,837
Idaho ID21$2,210+1%$698 – $4,347
Massachusetts MA47$2,1810%$1,480 – $4,003
Washington WA55$2,166−1%$1,168 – $3,561
New Jersey NJ57$2,162−1%$1,793 – $5,419
Kentucky KY41$2,152−1%$709 – $3,465
Utah UT31$2,031−7%$1,744 – $2,389
Virginia VA49$1,974−9%$1,451 – $3,120
Oregon OR51$1,973−10%$744 – $4,213
North Carolina NC68$1,944−11%$1,325 – $3,144
New Mexico NM18$1,895−13%$996 – $3,657
Colorado CO55$1,858−15%$928 – $3,875
Michigan MI84$1,830−16%$554 – $3,367
Wisconsin WI96$1,830−16%$1,069 – $2,445
Oklahoma OK43$1,799−17%$1,301 – $2,227
Kansas KS53$1,792−18%$679 – $2,522
Wyoming WY14$1,758−19%$821 – $2,795
Nebraska NE48$1,753−20%$1,250 – $2,498
Iowa IA63$1,752−20%$737 – $2,745
Minnesota MN84$1,733−21%$954 – $2,286
Maryland MD15$1,719−21%$577 – $3,161
Nevada NV16$1,632−25%$1,170 – $3,500
Hawaii HI13$1,517−30%$1,297 – $2,230
New Hampshire NH21$1,389−36%$374 – $2,349
Maine ME18$1,334−39%$445 – $3,069
Vermont VT12$1,316−40%$856 – $4,411
Arizona AZ35$1,165−47%$870 – $5,759
Louisiana LA44$1,144−48%$432 – $2,229
Mississippi MS42$1,128−48%$678 – $1,759
Arkansas AR18$1,080−50%$859 – $2,632
Tennessee TN54$990−55%$638 – $2,888
Montana MT22$879−60%$226 – $1,985
Rhode Island RI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE7not 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 $2,181.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,943$2,389$1,295 – $4,068
Children’s30$2,565$846 – $5,068
Critical access562$1,733$661 – $2,901
Ownership
For-profit241$2,403$1,297 – $4,562
Government432$1,817$780 – $2,962
Non-profit1,862$2,293$1,189 – $3,976
System affiliation
Part of a system2,063$2,298$1,197 – $3,986
Independent481$1,833$749 – $3,317

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,900
Median cash price$2,181
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

1,856 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,389 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,465; most fall between $1,197 and $4,030.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,856 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
$816$1,421$2,389$3,678$5,049

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($816 vs $5,049).

Of the 1,998 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,856 gave a usable cash price; 51 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 91 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,544 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (64%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,750 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,544
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here98
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded8
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded100
Hospitals that filed this code2,750

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 Breast biopsy and other diagnostic procedures on breast family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Bx Breast W/Device 1st Lesion Ultrasound Guid.

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, “Breast biopsy with ultrasound guidance, first lesion (CPT 19083) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-19083-breast-biopsy-with-ultrasound-guidance-first-lesion