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

Breast biopsy with ultrasound, each additional lesion

CPT 19084the billing code this page is about

Billed once for each further breast lesion sampled by needle under ultrasound guidance, including marker placement and imaging, in addition to the first lesion.

Hospitals typically charge $1,238 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,226 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,328. Most fall between $466 and $2,501 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,226
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 2,226 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
$221$594$1,238$2,158$3,454

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 16× what the cheapest tenth charges ($221 vs $3,454).

How the prices are spread

$126 – $180: 61 hospitals$126$180 – $258: 87 hospitals$258 – $370: 78 hospitals$258$370 – $529: 154 hospitals$529 – $758: 201 hospitals$529$758 – $1,085: 298 hospitals$1,085 – $1,553: 319 hospitals$1,085$1,553 – $2,224: 383 hospitals$2,224 – $3,184: 273 hospitals$2,224$3,184 – $4,559: 152 hospitals$3,184median $1,238price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,006 of 2,226 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$126$18061
$180$25887
$258$37078
$370$529154
$529$758201
$758$1,085298
$1,085$1,553319
$1,553$2,224383
$2,224$3,184273
$3,184$4,559152

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $1,238.

Alaska: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $862 across 15 hospitalsME$862Vermont: median $1,054 across 11 hospitalsVT$1,054New Hampshire: median $746 across 16 hospitalsNH$746Washington: median $1,556 across 50 hospitalsWA$1,556Idaho: median $1,093 across 20 hospitalsID$1,093Montana: median $690 across 20 hospitalsMT$690North Dakota: median $1,328 across 10 hospitalsND$1,328Minnesota: median $972 across 68 hospitalsMN$972Illinois: median $1,484 across 110 hospitalsIL$1,484Wisconsin: median $1,083 across 90 hospitalsWI$1,083Michigan: median $1,175 across 80 hospitalsMI$1,175New York: median $1,504 across 74 hospitalsNY$1,504Massachusetts: median $447 across 41 hospitalsMA$447Oregon: median $1,209 across 47 hospitalsOR$1,209Nevada: median $816 across 11 hospitalsNV$816Wyoming: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $1,869 across 11 hospitalsSD$1,869Iowa: median $872 across 56 hospitalsIA$872Indiana: median $1,378 across 75 hospitalsIN$1,378Ohio: median $1,709 across 130 hospitalsOH$1,709Pennsylvania: median $1,043 across 84 hospitalsPA$1,043New Jersey: median $2,319 across 43 hospitalsNJ$2,319Connecticut: median $2,796 across 19 hospitalsCT$2,796Rhode Island: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $1,717 across 154 hospitalsCA$1,717Utah: median $1,824 across 29 hospitalsUT$1,824Colorado: median $1,615 across 50 hospitalsCO$1,615Nebraska: median $957 across 43 hospitalsNE$957Missouri: median $1,042 across 49 hospitalsMO$1,042Kentucky: median $719 across 29 hospitalsKY$719West Virginia: median $657 across 26 hospitalsWV$657Virginia: median $1,511 across 42 hospitalsVA$1,511Maryland: median $915 across 15 hospitalsMD$915Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $670 across 28 hospitalsAZ$670New Mexico: median $947 across 15 hospitalsNM$947Kansas: median $1,105 across 40 hospitalsKS$1,105Arkansas: median $303 across 13 hospitalsAR$303Tennessee: median $681 across 47 hospitalsTN$681North Carolina: median $1,559 across 63 hospitalsNC$1,559South Carolina: median $2,158 across 37 hospitalsSC$2,158Oklahoma: median $640 across 35 hospitalsOK$640Louisiana: median $300 across 36 hospitalsLA$300Mississippi: median $560 across 40 hospitalsMS$560Alabama: median $1,240 across 27 hospitalsAL$1,240Georgia: median $1,300 across 70 hospitalsGA$1,300Hawaii: median $545 across 10 hospitalsHI$545Texas: median $1,547 across 129 hospitalsTX$1,547Florida: median $2,045 across 87 hospitalsFL$2,045
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,238. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Connecticut CT19$2,796+126%$781 – $6,588
New Jersey NJ43$2,319+87%$350 – $5,339
South Carolina SC37$2,158+74%$1,096 – $2,410
Florida FL87$2,045+65%$809 – $3,341
South Dakota SD11$1,869+51%$594 – $4,559
Utah UT29$1,824+47%$1,426 – $2,145
California CA154$1,717+39%$877 – $3,118
Ohio OH130$1,709+38%$996 – $2,906
Colorado CO50$1,615+30%$509 – $3,540
North Carolina NC63$1,559+26%$716 – $2,291
Washington WA50$1,556+26%$235 – $1,851
Texas TX129$1,547+25%$919 – $2,495
Virginia VA42$1,511+22%$642 – $2,774
New York NY74$1,504+21%$341 – $4,595
Illinois IL110$1,484+20%$440 – $2,848
Indiana IN75$1,378+11%$867 – $2,825
North Dakota ND10$1,328+7%$132 – $2,211
Georgia GA70$1,300+5%$669 – $1,881
Alabama AL27$1,2400%$609 – $8,270
Oregon OR47$1,209−2%$229 – $2,378
Michigan MI80$1,175−5%$96 – $3,116
Kansas KS40$1,105−11%$459 – $2,200
Idaho ID20$1,093−12%$478 – $4,347
Wisconsin WI90$1,083−13%$444 – $1,619
Vermont VT11$1,054−15%$713 – $1,920
Pennsylvania PA84$1,043−16%$467 – $2,660
Missouri MO49$1,042−16%$442 – $2,339
Minnesota MN68$972−22%$616 – $1,415
Nebraska NE43$957−23%$670 – $1,629
New Mexico NM15$947−24%$222 – $2,196
Maryland MD15$915−26%$266 – $1,470
Iowa IA56$872−30%$367 – $1,906
Maine ME15$862−30%$171 – $2,181
Nevada NV11$816−34%$507 – $2,091
New Hampshire NH16$746−40%$133 – $1,587
Kentucky KY29$719−42%$418 – $2,515
Montana MT20$690−44%$114 – $1,055
Tennessee TN47$681−45%$115 – $967
Arizona AZ28$670−46%$531 – $3,040
West Virginia WV26$657−47%$254 – $1,265
Oklahoma OK35$640−48%$144 – $1,310
Mississippi MS40$560−55%$374 – $1,041
Hawaii HI10$545−56%$515 – $629
Massachusetts MA41$447−64%$200 – $3,454
Arkansas AR13$303−76%$271 – $750
Louisiana LA36$300−76%$129 – $1,055
Alaska AK9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE6not 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 $1,238.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,739$1,361$537 – $2,650
Children’s20$1,240$545 – $3,272
Critical access458$1,015$314 – $1,824
Ownership
For-profit187$1,367$482 – $2,713
Government355$984$312 – $1,944
Non-profit1,675$1,343$519 – $2,632
System affiliation
Part of a system1,832$1,360$551 – $2,620
Independent394$938$240 – $2,200

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,163
Median cash price$1,238
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

1,682 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,401 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,465; most fall between $577 and $2,632.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,682 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
$274$735$1,401$2,320$3,497

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($274 vs $3,497).

Of the 1,824 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,682 gave a usable cash price; 58 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 84 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,226 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (56%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,491 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,226
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here116
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 — excluded141
Hospitals that filed this code2,491

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 Bx Breast W/Device Addl 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.

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

Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Breast biopsy with ultrasound, each additional lesion (CPT 19084) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-19084-breast-biopsy-with-ultrasound-each-additional-lesion