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

Breast marker placement, mammogram guided, extra lesion

CPT 19282the billing code this page is about

Placement of a marker into the breast using mammogram guidance, billed once for each additional lesion marked in the same session beyond the first.

Hospitals typically charge $598 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,870 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $650. Most fall between $211 and $1,344 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,870
States
50
Filings dated
Jan 2024 – 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 1,870 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
$106$269$598$1,191$2,118

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 20× what the cheapest tenth charges ($106 vs $2,118).

How the prices are spread

$71 – $103: 88 hospitals$71$103 – $150: 89 hospitals$150 – $217: 114 hospitals$150$217 – $315: 170 hospitals$315 – $458: 225 hospitals$315$458 – $665: 271 hospitals$665 – $965: 226 hospitals$665$965 – $1,401: 248 hospitals$1,401 – $2,034: 153 hospitals$1,401$2,034 – $2,954: 100 hospitals$2,034median $598price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,684 of 1,870 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$71$10388
$103$15089
$150$217114
$217$315170
$315$458225
$458$665271
$665$965226
$965$1,401248
$1,401$2,034153
$2,034$2,954100

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $598.

Alaska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $267 across 11 hospitalsME$267Vermont: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $298 across 11 hospitalsNH$298Washington: median $602 across 35 hospitalsWA$602Idaho: median $692 across 14 hospitalsID$692Montana: median $269 across 15 hospitalsMT$269North Dakota: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $477 across 41 hospitalsMN$477Illinois: median $800 across 90 hospitalsIL$800Wisconsin: median $612 across 83 hospitalsWI$612Michigan: median $633 across 72 hospitalsMI$633New York: median $295 across 69 hospitalsNY$295Massachusetts: median $284 across 40 hospitalsMA$284Oregon: median $321 across 38 hospitalsOR$321Nevada: median $456 across 11 hospitalsNV$456Wyoming: 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 $583 across 46 hospitalsIA$583Indiana: median $652 across 62 hospitalsIN$652Ohio: median $939 across 119 hospitalsOH$939Pennsylvania: median $448 across 84 hospitalsPA$448New Jersey: median $1,305 across 42 hospitalsNJ$1,305Connecticut: median $1,411 across 17 hospitalsCT$1,411Rhode Island: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $810 across 141 hospitalsCA$810Utah: median $928 across 16 hospitalsUT$928Colorado: median $862 across 43 hospitalsCO$862Nebraska: median $412 across 31 hospitalsNE$412Missouri: median $775 across 40 hospitalsMO$775Kentucky: median $275 across 25 hospitalsKY$275West Virginia: median $585 across 16 hospitalsWV$585Virginia: median $386 across 43 hospitalsVA$386Maryland: median $735 across 14 hospitalsMD$735Delaware: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $415 across 21 hospitalsAZ$415New Mexico: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $773 across 14 hospitalsKS$773Arkansas: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $348 across 43 hospitalsTN$348North Carolina: median $668 across 62 hospitalsNC$668South Carolina: median $1,191 across 37 hospitalsSC$1,191Oklahoma: median $163 across 30 hospitalsOK$163Louisiana: median $96 across 34 hospitalsLA$96Mississippi: median $331 across 28 hospitalsMS$331Alabama: median $337 across 14 hospitalsAL$337Georgia: median $546 across 61 hospitalsGA$546Hawaii: median $587 across 10 hospitalsHI$587Texas: median $688 across 114 hospitalsTX$688Florida: median $973 across 71 hospitalsFL$973
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $598. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Connecticut CT17$1,411+136%$500 – $3,060
New Jersey NJ42$1,305+118%$146 – $4,959
South Carolina SC37$1,191+99%$867 – $1,457
Florida FL71$973+63%$160 – $2,304
Ohio OH119$939+57%$315 – $2,658
Utah UT16$928+55%$548 – $928
Colorado CO43$862+44%$222 – $2,335
California CA141$810+35%$276 – $1,378
Illinois IL90$800+34%$209 – $1,376
Missouri MO40$775+30%$298 – $968
Kansas KS14$773+29%$331 – $1,188
Maryland MD14$735+23%$266 – $1,282
Idaho ID14$692+16%$148 – $1,651
Texas TX114$688+15%$361 – $1,168
North Carolina NC62$668+12%$344 – $1,095
Indiana IN62$652+9%$446 – $1,886
Michigan MI72$633+6%$330 – $1,231
Wisconsin WI83$612+2%$246 – $795
Washington WA35$602+1%$226 – $1,598
Hawaii HI10$587−2%$362 – $750
West Virginia WV16$585−2%$237 – $1,529
Iowa IA46$583−2%$241 – $1,264
Georgia GA61$546−9%$368 – $619
Minnesota MN41$477−20%$211 – $1,648
Nevada NV11$456−24%$163 – $840
Pennsylvania PA84$448−25%$129 – $1,322
Arizona AZ21$415−31%$237 – $790
Nebraska NE31$412−31%$265 – $999
Virginia VA43$386−35%$272 – $2,598
Tennessee TN43$348−42%$88 – $405
Alabama AL14$337−44%$168 – $1,077
Mississippi MS28$331−45%$120 – $405
Oregon OR38$321−46%$147 – $1,094
New Hampshire NH11$298−50%$63 – $645
New York NY69$295−51%$128 – $2,717
Massachusetts MA40$284−53%$111 – $801
Kentucky KY25$275−54%$106 – $1,463
Montana MT15$269−55%$171 – $290
Maine ME11$267−55%$122 – $812
Oklahoma OK30$163−73%$80 – $1,076
Louisiana LA34$96−84%$50 – $518
Arkansas AR9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE4not 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 $598.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,565$619$218 – $1,378
Children’s12fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access284$456$175 – $1,090
Ownership
For-profit140$629$237 – $1,233
Government270$456$163 – $1,095
Non-profit1,451$609$222 – $1,383
System affiliation
Part of a system1,577$619$235 – $1,383
Independent293$407$129 – $1,082

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,019
Median cash price$598
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

1,459 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $656 and the average of the middle 60% is $718; most fall between $260 and $1,400.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,459 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
$128$299$656$1,265$2,165

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 17× what the cheapest tenth charges ($128 vs $2,165).

Of the 1,573 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,459 gave a usable cash price; 42 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 72 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,870 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (47%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,077 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,870
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here75
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded4
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded127
Hospitals that filed this code2,077

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 Perq Device Placemt Breast Loc Ea Lesion W/Gdnce.

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, “Breast marker placement, mammogram guided, extra lesion (CPT 19282) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-19282-breast-marker-placement-mammogram-guided-extra-lesion