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

Breast marker placement with ultrasound, first lesion

CPT 19285the billing code this page is about

Placement of a small marker or clip inside the breast through the skin to mark a target area, using ultrasound to guide the needle; this code covers the first area marked.

Hospitals typically charge $1,115 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,282 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,175. Most fall between $519 and $2,075 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,282
States
50
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 2,282 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
$290$653$1,115$1,847$2,996

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 10× what the cheapest tenth charges ($290 vs $2,996).

How the prices are spread

$177 – $240: 56 hospitals$177$240 – $327: 92 hospitals$327 – $446: 117 hospitals$327$446 – $607: 157 hospitals$607 – $827: 253 hospitals$607$827 – $1,125: 361 hospitals$1,125 – $1,533: 375 hospitals$1,125$1,533 – $2,087: 313 hospitals$2,087 – $2,841: 205 hospitals$2,087$2,841 – $3,869: 125 hospitals$2,841median $1,115price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,054 of 2,282 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$177$24056
$240$32792
$327$446117
$446$607157
$607$827253
$827$1,125361
$1,125$1,533375
$1,533$2,087313
$2,087$2,841205
$2,841$3,869125

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$723
Median cash price$1,115
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.54×

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 $1,115.

Alaska: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $767 across 15 hospitalsME$767Vermont: median $857 across 12 hospitalsVT$857New Hampshire: median $472 across 16 hospitalsNH$472Washington: median $1,225 across 44 hospitalsWA$1,225Idaho: median $1,783 across 16 hospitalsID$1,783Montana: median $489 across 21 hospitalsMT$489North Dakota: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $748 across 76 hospitalsMN$748Illinois: median $1,180 across 102 hospitalsIL$1,180Wisconsin: median $1,154 across 95 hospitalsWI$1,154Michigan: median $974 across 83 hospitalsMI$974New York: median $1,386 across 92 hospitalsNY$1,386Massachusetts: median $554 across 42 hospitalsMA$554Oregon: median $1,024 across 44 hospitalsOR$1,024Nevada: median $770 across 13 hospitalsNV$770Wyoming: median $1,073 across 13 hospitalsWY$1,073South Dakota: median $1,979 across 11 hospitalsSD$1,979Iowa: median $1,107 across 49 hospitalsIA$1,107Indiana: median $1,081 across 75 hospitalsIN$1,081Ohio: median $1,372 across 130 hospitalsOH$1,372Pennsylvania: median $1,050 across 102 hospitalsPA$1,050New Jersey: median $939 across 57 hospitalsNJ$939Connecticut: median $2,827 across 21 hospitalsCT$2,827Rhode Island: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $2,094 across 163 hospitalsCA$2,094Utah: median $1,285 across 27 hospitalsUT$1,285Colorado: median $1,237 across 49 hospitalsCO$1,237Nebraska: median $1,129 across 34 hospitalsNE$1,129Missouri: median $1,680 across 48 hospitalsMO$1,680Kentucky: median $1,100 across 29 hospitalsKY$1,100West Virginia: median $822 across 23 hospitalsWV$822Virginia: median $873 across 43 hospitalsVA$873Maryland: median $735 across 16 hospitalsMD$735Delaware: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $891 across 28 hospitalsAZ$891New Mexico: median $1,405 across 10 hospitalsNM$1,405Kansas: median $833 across 33 hospitalsKS$833Arkansas: median $789 across 12 hospitalsAR$789Tennessee: median $589 across 51 hospitalsTN$589North Carolina: median $1,194 across 65 hospitalsNC$1,194South Carolina: median $1,837 across 37 hospitalsSC$1,837Oklahoma: median $668 across 36 hospitalsOK$668Louisiana: median $480 across 43 hospitalsLA$480Mississippi: median $542 across 40 hospitalsMS$542Alabama: median $874 across 24 hospitalsAL$874Georgia: median $1,020 across 73 hospitalsGA$1,020Hawaii: median $791 across 14 hospitalsHI$791Texas: median $1,214 across 132 hospitalsTX$1,214Florida: median $1,656 across 92 hospitalsFL$1,656
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,115. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Connecticut CT21$2,827+154%$1,023 – $2,996
California CA163$2,094+88%$789 – $3,009
South Dakota SD11$1,979+77%$1,483 – $3,626
South Carolina SC37$1,837+65%$1,119 – $2,065
Idaho ID16$1,783+60%$763 – $2,111
Missouri MO48$1,680+51%$641 – $2,384
Florida FL92$1,656+48%$624 – $3,204
New Mexico NM10$1,405+26%$574 – $1,739
New York NY92$1,386+24%$731 – $4,095
Ohio OH130$1,372+23%$794 – $2,838
Utah UT27$1,285+15%$1,096 – $1,511
Colorado CO49$1,237+11%$662 – $2,997
Washington WA44$1,225+10%$363 – $1,628
Texas TX132$1,214+9%$490 – $2,300
North Carolina NC65$1,194+7%$866 – $1,509
Illinois IL102$1,180+6%$473 – $2,098
Wisconsin WI95$1,154+4%$589 – $1,388
Nebraska NE34$1,129+1%$843 – $1,579
Iowa IA49$1,107−1%$594 – $1,587
Kentucky KY29$1,100−1%$279 – $2,150
Indiana IN75$1,081−3%$711 – $1,658
Wyoming WY13$1,073−4%$545 – $1,806
Pennsylvania PA102$1,050−6%$723 – $2,011
Oregon OR44$1,024−8%$555 – $1,767
Georgia GA73$1,020−9%$786 – $1,652
Michigan MI83$974−13%$631 – $1,602
New Jersey NJ57$939−16%$779 – $4,350
Arizona AZ28$891−20%$495 – $2,426
Alabama AL24$874−22%$468 – $7,335
Virginia VA43$873−22%$410 – $2,504
Vermont VT12$857−23%$368 – $1,387
Kansas KS33$833−25%$434 – $1,373
West Virginia WV23$822−26%$87 – $2,183
Hawaii HI14$791−29%$407 – $1,404
Arkansas AR12$789−29%$499 – $1,122
Nevada NV13$770−31%$413 – $2,587
Maine ME15$767−31%$530 – $1,561
Minnesota MN76$748−33%$400 – $1,037
Maryland MD16$735−34%$206 – $2,821
Oklahoma OK36$668−40%$258 – $1,487
Tennessee TN51$589−47%$280 – $1,461
Massachusetts MA42$554−50%$335 – $1,632
Mississippi MS40$542−51%$313 – $794
Montana MT21$489−56%$121 – $660
Louisiana LA43$480−57%$143 – $991
New Hampshire NH16$472−58%$158 – $1,119
Alaska AK9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE5not 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 $1,115.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,847$1,165$576 – $2,197
Children’s14fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access412$890$378 – $1,566
Ownership
For-profit220$1,176$627 – $2,827
Government344$895$403 – $1,487
Non-profit1,709$1,160$534 – $2,102
System affiliation
Part of a system1,887$1,155$543 – $2,126
Independent395$966$408 – $1,655

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,956
Median cash price$1,115
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

1,690 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,186 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,260; most fall between $555 and $2,111.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,690 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
$324$694$1,186$1,936$2,838

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($324 vs $2,838).

Of the 1,820 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,690 gave a usable cash price; 47 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 2 gave an estimate, and 81 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,282 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (58%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,459 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,282
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here81
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 — excluded88
Hospitals that filed this code2,459

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 Breast biopsy and other diagnostic procedures on breast family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Perq Breast Loc Device Placemt 1st Lesio US Imag.

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 with ultrasound, first lesion (CPT 19285) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-19285-breast-marker-placement-with-ultrasound-first-lesion