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

Needle biopsy of the breast without imaging guidance

CPT 19100the billing code this page is about

A needle is used to take a tissue sample from the breast, guided by touch rather than by ultrasound, X-ray or MRI.

Hospitals typically charge $941 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,370 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,016. Most fall between $245 and $2,236 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,370
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 1,370 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
$161$324$941$1,917$3,769

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 23× what the cheapest tenth charges ($161 vs $3,769).

How the prices are spread

$99 – $146: 50 hospitals$99$146 – $216: 105 hospitals$216 – $319: 115 hospitals$216$319 – $471: 126 hospitals$471 – $696: 135 hospitals$471$696 – $1,028: 114 hospitals$1,028 – $1,518: 189 hospitals$1,028$1,518 – $2,241: 201 hospitals$2,241 – $3,308: 108 hospitals$2,241$3,308 – $4,885: 91 hospitals$3,308median $941price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,234 of 1,370 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$99$14650
$146$216105
$216$319115
$319$471126
$471$696135
$696$1,028114
$1,028$1,518189
$1,518$2,241201
$2,241$3,308108
$3,308$4,88591

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$1,687
Median cash price$941
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.56×

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 $941.

Alaska: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $300 across 12 hospitalsME$300Vermont: 9 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 $937 across 42 hospitalsWA$937Idaho: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: median $173 across 12 hospitalsMT$173North Dakota: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $561 across 45 hospitalsMN$561Illinois: median $638 across 54 hospitalsIL$638Wisconsin: median $632 across 51 hospitalsWI$632Michigan: median $632 across 59 hospitalsMI$632New York: median $1,795 across 49 hospitalsNY$1,795Massachusetts: median $1,823 across 20 hospitalsMA$1,823Oregon: median $267 across 32 hospitalsOR$267Nevada: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 9 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 $373 across 45 hospitalsIA$373Indiana: median $526 across 29 hospitalsIN$526Ohio: median $1,448 across 70 hospitalsOH$1,448Pennsylvania: median $1,497 across 51 hospitalsPA$1,497New Jersey: median $2,137 across 37 hospitalsNJ$2,137Connecticut: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $2,236 across 100 hospitalsCA$2,236Utah: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $1,354 across 29 hospitalsCO$1,354Nebraska: median $376 across 29 hospitalsNE$376Missouri: median $813 across 34 hospitalsMO$813Kentucky: median $394 across 17 hospitalsKY$394West Virginia: median $1,899 across 24 hospitalsWV$1,899Virginia: median $1,066 across 27 hospitalsVA$1,066Maryland: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $3,108 across 17 hospitalsAZ$3,108New Mexico: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $293 across 37 hospitalsKS$293Arkansas: median $332 across 11 hospitalsAR$332Tennessee: median $683 across 23 hospitalsTN$683North Carolina: median $898 across 36 hospitalsNC$898South Carolina: median $1,341 across 22 hospitalsSC$1,341Oklahoma: median $114 across 19 hospitalsOK$114Louisiana: median $480 across 32 hospitalsLA$480Mississippi: median $270 across 20 hospitalsMS$270Alabama: median $874 across 12 hospitalsAL$874Georgia: median $966 across 34 hospitalsGA$966Hawaii: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $1,069 across 102 hospitalsTX$1,069Florida: median $1,496 across 42 hospitalsFL$1,496
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $941. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Arizona AZ17$3,108+230%$1,134 – $7,718
California CA100$2,236+138%$636 – $3,769
New Jersey NJ37$2,137+127%$1,771 – $5,228
West Virginia WV24$1,899+102%$74 – $2,685
Massachusetts MA20$1,823+94%$705 – $2,138
New York NY49$1,795+91%$205 – $2,250
Pennsylvania PA51$1,497+59%$333 – $1,985
Florida FL42$1,496+59%$611 – $5,204
Ohio OH70$1,448+54%$341 – $2,320
Colorado CO29$1,354+44%$422 – $1,881
South Carolina SC22$1,341+42%$952 – $1,341
Texas TX102$1,069+14%$537 – $1,650
Virginia VA27$1,066+13%$683 – $1,681
Georgia GA34$966+3%$423 – $5,400
Washington WA42$9370%$332 – $2,330
North Carolina NC36$898−5%$565 – $1,161
Alabama AL12$874−7%$201 – $2,618
Missouri MO34$813−14%$218 – $1,875
Tennessee TN23$683−27%$274 – $683
Illinois IL54$638−32%$274 – $1,657
Michigan MI59$632−33%$66 – $2,271
Wisconsin WI51$632−33%$230 – $1,085
Minnesota MN45$561−40%$287 – $1,211
Indiana IN29$526−44%$190 – $1,225
Louisiana LA32$480−49%$326 – $1,649
Kentucky KY17$394−58%$169 – $6,506
Nebraska NE29$376−60%$267 – $1,038
Iowa IA45$373−60%$208 – $946
Arkansas AR11$332−65%$242 – $1,235
Maine ME12$300−68%$171 – $706
Kansas KS37$293−69%$163 – $741
Mississippi MS20$270−71%$162 – $651
Oregon OR32$267−72%$157 – $2,943
Montana MT12$173−82%$76 – $329
Oklahoma OK19$114−88%$114 – $2,423
Hawaii HI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT2not 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 $941.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,016$1,161$342 – $2,567
Children’s16fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access332$348$183 – $1,134
Ownership
For-profit123$1,113$494 – $3,108
Government265$482$208 – $1,626
Non-profit976$1,038$260 – $2,317
System affiliation
Part of a system1,099$1,045$296 – $2,339
Independent271$458$192 – $1,736

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,741
Median cash price$941
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

930 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,066 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,103; most fall between $296 and $2,383.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 930 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
$176$373$1,066$1,974$3,769

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 21× what the cheapest tenth charges ($176 vs $3,769).

Of the 1,013 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 930 gave a usable cash price; 35 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 48 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,370 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (35%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,501 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,370
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here71
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded2
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded58
Hospitals that filed this code1,501

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 July 20, 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 Needle Core W/O Imaging Guidance Spx.

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, “Needle biopsy of the breast without imaging guidance (CPT 19100) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-19100-needle-biopsy-of-the-breast-without-imaging-guidance