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Procedure price report · Lumpectomy, quadrantectomy of breast

Removal of each additional imaging-marked breast lesion

CPT 19126the billing code this page is about

Add-on charge for each extra marked breast lesion removed during the same operation, billed in addition to the first lesion.

Hospitals typically charge $531 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 519 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,088. Most fall between $263 and $3,847 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
519
States
48
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 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
$176$288$531$2,732$5,322

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 30× what the cheapest tenth charges ($176 vs $5,322).

How the prices are spread

$129 – $196: 34 hospitals$129$196 – $299: 88 hospitals$299 – $454: 87 hospitals$299$454 – $691: 46 hospitals$691 – $1,051: 45 hospitals$691$1,051 – $1,599: 43 hospitals$1,599 – $2,432: 13 hospitals$1,599$2,432 – $3,699: 23 hospitals$3,699 – $5,626: 69 hospitals$3,699$5,626 – $8,557: 21 hospitals$5,626median $531price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (469 of 519 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$129$19634
$196$29988
$299$45487
$454$69146
$691$1,05145
$1,051$1,59943
$1,599$2,43213
$2,432$3,69923
$3,699$5,62669
$5,626$8,55721

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $531.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $371 across 16 hospitalsWA$371Idaho: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $867 across 17 hospitalsMN$867Illinois: median $311 across 21 hospitalsIL$311Wisconsin: median $1,133 across 29 hospitalsWI$1,133Michigan: median $288 across 32 hospitalsMI$288New York: median $2,205 across 36 hospitalsNY$2,205Massachusetts: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $374 across 18 hospitalsOR$374Nevada: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $394 across 24 hospitalsIA$394Indiana: median $313 across 18 hospitalsIN$313Ohio: median $725 across 13 hospitalsOH$725Pennsylvania: median $115 across 21 hospitalsPA$115New Jersey: median $5,110 across 22 hospitalsNJ$5,110Connecticut: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $3,847 across 34 hospitalsCA$3,847Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $253 across 14 hospitalsMO$253Kentucky: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $278 across 13 hospitalsWV$278Virginia: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 5 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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $263 across 11 hospitalsOK$263Louisiana: median $1,037 across 11 hospitalsLA$1,037Mississippi: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $3,503 across 26 hospitalsTX$3,503Florida: median $3,064 across 11 hospitalsFL$3,064
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $531. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ22$5,110+863%$4,443 – $5,741
California CA34$3,847+625%$656 – $3,939
Texas TX26$3,503+560%$746 – $3,707
Florida FL11$3,064+477%$762 – $6,271
New York NY36$2,205+316%$342 – $4,595
Wisconsin WI29$1,133+114%$531 – $1,525
Louisiana LA11$1,037+95%$606 – $5,617
Minnesota MN17$867+63%$608 – $948
Ohio OH13$725+37%$286 – $762
Iowa IA24$394−26%$320 – $484
Oregon OR18$374−30%$291 – $483
Washington WA16$371−30%$327 – $1,574
Indiana IN18$313−41%$206 – $1,317
Illinois IL21$311−41%$262 – $932
Michigan MI32$288−46%$224 – $310
West Virginia WV13$278−48%$174 – $1,626
Oklahoma OK11$263−50%$263 – $263
Missouri MO14$253−52%$109 – $695
Pennsylvania PA21$115−78%$98 – $297
Georgia GA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not 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 $531.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care380$695$263 – $4,350
Children’s5fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access133$420$278 – $1,133
Ownership
For-profit41$2,370$311 – $8,505
Government91$374$263 – $1,118
Non-profit386$585$263 – $3,847
System affiliation
Part of a system401$624$263 – $3,847
Independent118$409$266 – $1,529

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$679
Median cash price$531
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

282 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $429 and the average of the middle 60% is $878; most fall between $263 and $3,503.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 282 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
$185$281$429$2,205$3,847

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 21× what the cheapest tenth charges ($185 vs $3,847).

Of the 320 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 282 gave a usable cash price; 18 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 20 a list price only.

How complete is this

519 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 591 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted519
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here43
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded3
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded26
Hospitals that filed this code591

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 Lumpectomy, quadrantectomy of breast family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Exc Brst Les Preop Plmt Rad Marker Opn Ea Addl.

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, “Removal of each additional imaging-marked breast lesion (CPT 19126) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-19126-removal-of-each-additional-imaging-marked-breast-lesion