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

Breast marker placement, stereotactic, extra lesion

CPT 19284the billing code this page is about

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

Hospitals typically charge $632 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,235 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $703. Most fall between $214 and $1,598 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,235
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 1,235 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
$138$278$632$1,310$2,230

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 16× what the cheapest tenth charges ($138 vs $2,230).

How the prices are spread

$83 – $119: 42 hospitals$83$119 – $171: 65 hospitals$171 – $245: 112 hospitals$171$245 – $350: 119 hospitals$350 – $501: 123 hospitals$350$501 – $718: 155 hospitals$718 – $1,028: 161 hospitals$718$1,028 – $1,472: 132 hospitals$1,472 – $2,108: 128 hospitals$1,472$2,108 – $3,019: 78 hospitals$2,108median $632price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,115 of 1,235 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$83$11942
$119$17165
$171$245112
$245$350119
$350$501123
$501$718155
$718$1,028161
$1,028$1,472132
$1,472$2,108128
$2,108$3,01978

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $632.

Alaska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $489 across 29 hospitalsWA$489Idaho: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $764 across 29 hospitalsMN$764Illinois: median $634 across 57 hospitalsIL$634Wisconsin: median $608 across 55 hospitalsWI$608Michigan: median $713 across 61 hospitalsMI$713New York: median $288 across 30 hospitalsNY$288Massachusetts: median $129 across 20 hospitalsMA$129Oregon: median $358 across 22 hospitalsOR$358Nevada: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $583 across 26 hospitalsIA$583Indiana: median $748 across 40 hospitalsIN$748Ohio: median $878 across 79 hospitalsOH$878Pennsylvania: median $431 across 46 hospitalsPA$431New Jersey: median $2,104 across 32 hospitalsNJ$2,104Connecticut: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $532 across 95 hospitalsCA$532Utah: median $1,123 across 12 hospitalsUT$1,123Colorado: median $1,344 across 34 hospitalsCO$1,344Nebraska: median $465 across 19 hospitalsNE$465Missouri: median $898 across 31 hospitalsMO$898Kentucky: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $1,330 across 30 hospitalsVA$1,330Maryland: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $415 across 16 hospitalsAZ$415New Mexico: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $364 across 32 hospitalsTN$364North Carolina: median $996 across 36 hospitalsNC$996South Carolina: median $1,088 across 26 hospitalsSC$1,088Oklahoma: median $195 across 26 hospitalsOK$195Louisiana: median $50 across 10 hospitalsLA$50Mississippi: median $484 across 18 hospitalsMS$484Alabama: median $188 across 12 hospitalsAL$188Georgia: median $761 across 54 hospitalsGA$761Hawaii: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $685 across 100 hospitalsTX$685Florida: median $425 across 51 hospitalsFL$425
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $632. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ32$2,104+233%$315 – $5,110
Colorado CO34$1,344+113%$545 – $3,019
Virginia VA30$1,330+111%$222 – $3,363
Utah UT12$1,123+78%$1,123 – $1,123
South Carolina SC26$1,088+72%$1,088 – $2,410
North Carolina NC36$996+58%$302 – $1,618
Missouri MO31$898+42%$210 – $1,922
Ohio OH79$878+39%$315 – $1,871
Minnesota MN29$764+21%$253 – $900
Georgia GA54$761+20%$310 – $1,061
Indiana IN40$748+18%$516 – $2,306
Michigan MI61$713+13%$225 – $1,719
Texas TX100$685+8%$207 – $1,334
Illinois IL57$6340%$187 – $1,692
Wisconsin WI55$608−4%$174 – $1,731
Iowa IA26$583−8%$241 – $1,000
California CA95$532−16%$278 – $1,262
Washington WA29$489−23%$165 – $1,598
Mississippi MS18$484−23%$349 – $525
Nebraska NE19$465−26%$222 – $980
Pennsylvania PA46$431−32%$177 – $810
Florida FL51$425−33%$155 – $1,771
Arizona AZ16$415−34%$328 – $790
Tennessee TN32$364−42%$195 – $836
Oregon OR22$358−43%$312 – $1,165
New York NY30$288−54%$87 – $953
Oklahoma OK26$195−69%$142 – $772
Alabama AL12$188−70%$95 – $1,046
Massachusetts MA20$129−80%$83 – $460
Louisiana LA10$50−92%$36 – $71
Idaho ID9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI3not 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 $632.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,076$647$212 – $1,588
Children’s9fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access143$545$233 – $1,636
Ownership
For-profit103$666$204 – $1,257
Government168$490$176 – $1,464
Non-profit957$636$225 – $1,636
System affiliation
Part of a system1,074$666$225 – $1,618
Independent161$420$148 – $1,165

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,023
Median cash price$632
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

972 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $689 and the average of the middle 60% is $780; most fall between $253 and $1,618.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 972 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
$150$333$689$1,372$2,197

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 15× what the cheapest tenth charges ($150 vs $2,197).

Of the 1,047 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 972 gave a usable cash price; 28 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 47 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,235 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (31%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,366 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,235
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here44
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 — excluded85
Hospitals that filed this code1,366

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 Breast Loc Device Placemt Ea Lesion Strtctc.

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.

Download this page’s figures: JSON · CSV. Aggregates only — the per-hospital prices are on the compare tool.

Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Breast marker placement, stereotactic, extra lesion (CPT 19284) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-19284-breast-marker-placement-stereotactic-extra-lesion