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Procedure price report · Lumpectomy, quadrantectomy of breast

Open removal of one or more breast lumps

CPT 19120the billing code this page is about

Through an incision, the surgeon removes one or more breast lesions such as a cyst, fibroadenoma, or other abnormal tissue; the code covers the lesions removed from one breast.

Hospitals typically charge $2,662 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,519 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,883. Most fall between $874 and $5,849 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,519
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 1,519 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
$630$1,006$2,662$5,110$8,042

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($630 vs $8,042).

How the prices are spread

$449 – $619: 69 hospitals$449$619 – $853: 129 hospitals$853 – $1,177: 177 hospitals$853$1,177 – $1,623: 143 hospitals$1,623 – $2,238: 108 hospitals$1,623$2,238 – $3,086: 121 hospitals$3,086 – $4,255: 164 hospitals$3,086$4,255 – $5,868: 232 hospitals$5,868 – $8,092: 152 hospitals$5,868$8,092 – $11,159: 75 hospitals$8,092median $2,662price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,370 of 1,519 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$449$61969
$619$853129
$853$1,177177
$1,177$1,623143
$1,623$2,238108
$2,238$3,086121
$3,086$4,255164
$4,255$5,868232
$5,868$8,092152
$8,092$11,15975

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$4,000
Median cash price$2,662
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.67×

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 $2,662.

Alaska: median $3,223 across 10 hospitalsAK$3,223Maine: median $1,183 across 13 hospitalsME$1,183Vermont: median $869 across 12 hospitalsVT$869New Hampshire: median $879 across 12 hospitalsNH$879Washington: median $3,432 across 45 hospitalsWA$3,432Idaho: median $4,070 across 15 hospitalsID$4,070Montana: median $902 across 17 hospitalsMT$902North Dakota: median $1,224 across 16 hospitalsND$1,224Minnesota: median $1,313 across 53 hospitalsMN$1,313Illinois: median $1,414 across 50 hospitalsIL$1,414Wisconsin: median $2,153 across 61 hospitalsWI$2,153Michigan: median $2,545 across 69 hospitalsMI$2,545New York: median $4,531 across 76 hospitalsNY$4,531Massachusetts: median $5,224 across 30 hospitalsMA$5,224Oregon: median $1,225 across 39 hospitalsOR$1,225Nevada: median $2,136 across 11 hospitalsNV$2,136Wyoming: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $1,390 across 10 hospitalsSD$1,390Iowa: median $1,227 across 61 hospitalsIA$1,227Indiana: median $1,800 across 45 hospitalsIN$1,800Ohio: median $4,451 across 66 hospitalsOH$4,451Pennsylvania: median $4,515 across 54 hospitalsPA$4,515New Jersey: median $4,641 across 36 hospitalsNJ$4,641Connecticut: 8 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 $4,196 across 79 hospitalsCA$4,196Utah: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $1,208 across 17 hospitalsCO$1,208Nebraska: median $1,293 across 39 hospitalsNE$1,293Missouri: median $1,245 across 46 hospitalsMO$1,245Kentucky: median $865 across 19 hospitalsKY$865West Virginia: median $1,936 across 27 hospitalsWV$1,936Virginia: median $4,896 across 32 hospitalsVA$4,896Maryland: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $2,475 across 15 hospitalsAZ$2,475New Mexico: median $1,800 across 14 hospitalsNM$1,800Kansas: median $1,169 across 50 hospitalsKS$1,169Arkansas: median $1,992 across 18 hospitalsAR$1,992Tennessee: median $2,495 across 26 hospitalsTN$2,495North Carolina: median $4,632 across 37 hospitalsNC$4,632South Carolina: median $7,110 across 21 hospitalsSC$7,110Oklahoma: median $848 across 19 hospitalsOK$848Louisiana: median $2,162 across 29 hospitalsLA$2,162Mississippi: median $1,662 across 30 hospitalsMS$1,662Alabama: median $3,459 across 19 hospitalsAL$3,459Georgia: median $6,550 across 27 hospitalsGA$6,550Hawaii: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $4,921 across 73 hospitalsTX$4,921Florida: median $3,535 across 36 hospitalsFL$3,535
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,662. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
South Carolina SC21$7,110+167%$4,573 – $10,001
Georgia GA27$6,550+146%$958 – $8,038
Massachusetts MA30$5,224+96%$2,884 – $8,536
Texas TX73$4,921+85%$3,114 – $6,027
Virginia VA32$4,896+84%$1,705 – $8,093
New Jersey NJ36$4,641+74%$4,242 – $5,339
North Carolina NC37$4,632+74%$1,569 – $6,324
New York NY76$4,531+70%$864 – $4,888
Pennsylvania PA54$4,515+70%$620 – $8,246
Ohio OH66$4,451+67%$2,120 – $7,467
California CA79$4,196+58%$1,468 – $8,042
Idaho ID15$4,070+53%$1,023 – $10,392
Florida FL36$3,535+33%$2,939 – $5,544
Alabama AL19$3,459+30%$1,388 – $6,814
Washington WA45$3,432+29%$1,007 – $5,539
Alaska AK10$3,223+21%$2,481 – $3,747
Michigan MI69$2,545−4%$500 – $9,580
Tennessee TN26$2,495−6%$898 – $5,174
Arizona AZ15$2,475−7%$644 – $7,369
Louisiana LA29$2,162−19%$809 – $4,688
Wisconsin WI61$2,153−19%$868 – $4,423
Nevada NV11$2,136−20%$1,891 – $4,258
Arkansas AR18$1,992−25%$922 – $3,919
West Virginia WV27$1,936−27%$466 – $4,721
New Mexico NM14$1,800−32%$912 – $7,104
Indiana IN45$1,800−32%$663 – $3,931
Mississippi MS30$1,662−38%$777 – $4,319
Illinois IL50$1,414−47%$867 – $3,294
South Dakota SD10$1,390−48%$1,218 – $1,883
Minnesota MN53$1,313−51%$765 – $2,950
Nebraska NE39$1,293−51%$1,030 – $3,360
Missouri MO46$1,245−53%$672 – $3,902
Iowa IA61$1,227−54%$834 – $1,869
Oregon OR39$1,225−54%$756 – $3,158
North Dakota ND16$1,224−54%$915 – $3,936
Colorado CO17$1,208−55%$732 – $2,651
Maine ME13$1,183−56%$529 – $1,980
Kansas KS50$1,169−56%$597 – $3,334
Montana MT17$902−66%$467 – $1,950
New Hampshire NH12$879−67%$524 – $1,158
Vermont VT12$869−67%$692 – $2,938
Kentucky KY19$865−68%$655 – $5,214
Oklahoma OK19$848−68%$848 – $6,175
Hawaii HI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD4not 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 $2,662.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,042$3,936$1,160 – $6,876
Children’s17fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access458$1,152$700 – $2,681
Ownership
For-profit160$4,784$1,462 – $8,310
Government321$1,436$817 – $4,501
Non-profit1,036$2,893$898 – $6,018
System affiliation
Part of a system1,165$3,114$942 – $6,076
Independent354$1,548$749 – $4,386

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,875
Median cash price$2,662
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

817 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,536 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,831; most fall between $868 and $5,948.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 817 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
$641$948$2,536$5,217$7,906

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($641 vs $7,906).

Of the 907 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 817 gave a usable cash price; 34 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 56 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,519 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (38%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,670 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,519
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here78
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 — excluded65
Hospitals that filed this code1,670

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 Lumpectomy, quadrantectomy of breast family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Exc Cyst/Aberrant Breast Tissue Open 1/> Lesion.

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, “Open removal of one or more breast lumps (CPT 19120) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-19120-open-removal-of-one-or-more-breast-lumps