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Procedure price report · Other OR therapeutic procedures on skin and breast

Exploration of the nipple with possible duct removal

CPT 19110the billing code this page is about

Surgery that opens and examines the tissue behind the nipple, with or without removal of a single milk duct.

Hospitals typically charge $1,208 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 497 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,970. Most fall between $633 and $4,888 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
497
States
48
Filings dated
Mar 2023 – 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 497 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
$488$745$1,208$4,443$8,546

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 18× what the cheapest tenth charges ($488 vs $8,546).

How the prices are spread

$348 – $483: 25 hospitals$348$483 – $669: 63 hospitals$669 – $927: 72 hospitals$669$927 – $1,285: 77 hospitals$1,285 – $1,782: 30 hospitals$1,285$1,782 – $2,470: 14 hospitals$2,470 – $3,423: 20 hospitals$2,470$3,423 – $4,745: 69 hospitals$4,745 – $6,578: 30 hospitals$4,745$6,578 – $9,118: 49 hospitals$6,578median $1,208price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (449 of 497 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$348$48325
$483$66963
$669$92772
$927$1,28577
$1,285$1,78230
$1,782$2,47014
$2,470$3,42320
$3,423$4,74569
$4,745$6,57830
$6,578$9,11849

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$4,000
Median cash price$1,208
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.30×

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 $1,208.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 7 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 $1,124 across 11 hospitalsWA$1,124Idaho: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $1,237 across 22 hospitalsMN$1,237Illinois: median $976 across 19 hospitalsIL$976Wisconsin: median $1,210 across 31 hospitalsWI$1,210Michigan: median $537 across 30 hospitalsMI$537New York: median $4,531 across 31 hospitalsNY$4,531Massachusetts: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $1,178 across 18 hospitalsOR$1,178Nevada: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 5 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 $1,186 across 25 hospitalsIA$1,186Indiana: median $909 across 13 hospitalsIN$909Ohio: median $1,154 across 16 hospitalsOH$1,154Pennsylvania: median $708 across 23 hospitalsPA$708New Jersey: median $4,510 across 30 hospitalsNJ$4,510Connecticut: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $8,753 across 33 hospitalsCA$8,753Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $1,176 across 13 hospitalsWV$1,176Virginia: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $835 across 10 hospitalsKS$835Arkansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $579 across 13 hospitalsOK$579Louisiana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $3,847 across 23 hospitalsTX$3,847Florida: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,208. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA33$8,753+625%$1,061 – $8,753
New York NY31$4,531+275%$1,061 – $4,648
New Jersey NJ30$4,510+273%$4,185 – $5,110
Texas TX23$3,847+219%$2,993 – $3,847
Minnesota MN22$1,237+2%$869 – $1,354
Wisconsin WI31$1,2100%$835 – $2,926
Iowa IA25$1,186−2%$781 – $1,186
Oregon OR18$1,178−2%$879 – $1,493
West Virginia WV13$1,176−3%$401 – $8,791
Ohio OH16$1,154−4%$792 – $3,109
Washington WA11$1,124−7%$879 – $3,894
Illinois IL19$976−19%$592 – $1,527
Indiana IN13$909−25%$592 – $1,894
Kansas KS10$835−31%$716 – $2,370
Pennsylvania PA23$708−41%$229 – $6,474
Oklahoma OK13$579−52%$579 – $1,133
Michigan MI30$537−56%$537 – $835
Florida FL9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not 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 $1,208.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care373$1,676$592 – $5,795
Children’s4fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access119$988$645 – $1,493
Ownership
For-profit44$2,765$633 – $7,011
Government94$1,124$719 – $3,894
Non-profit358$1,186$592 – $5,110
System affiliation
Part of a system381$1,354$610 – $5,384
Independent116$1,044$661 – $2,986

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,482
Median cash price$1,208
Cash as a share of list, median hospital65%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 35%. 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

264 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $996 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,506; most fall between $579 and $5,649.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 264 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
$454$610$996$3,847$8,753

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 19× what the cheapest tenth charges ($454 vs $8,753).

Of the 295 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 264 gave a usable cash price; 20 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 11 a list price only.

How complete is this

497 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (13%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 550 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted497
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here42
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded9
Hospitals that filed this code550

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 Other OR therapeutic procedures on skin and breast family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Nipple Exploration.

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, “Exploration of the nipple with possible duct removal (CPT 19110) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-19110-exploration-of-the-nipple-with-possible-duct-removal