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

Breast marker placement with MRI guidance, first lesion

CPT 19287the billing code this page is about

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

Hospitals typically charge $1,456 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,132 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,512. Most fall between $702 and $2,550 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,132
States
49
Filings dated
Jun 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 1,132 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
$413$793$1,456$2,341$3,634

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($413 vs $3,634).

How the prices are spread

$251 – $338: 34 hospitals$251$338 – $455: 38 hospitals$455 – $614: 54 hospitals$455$614 – $827: 134 hospitals$827 – $1,114: 134 hospitals$827$1,114 – $1,501: 141 hospitals$1,501 – $2,023: 139 hospitals$1,501$2,023 – $2,726: 206 hospitals$2,726 – $3,673: 85 hospitals$2,726$3,673 – $4,950: 55 hospitals$3,673median $1,456price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,020 of 1,132 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$251$33834
$338$45538
$455$61454
$614$827134
$827$1,114134
$1,114$1,501141
$1,501$2,023139
$2,023$2,726206
$2,726$3,67385
$3,673$4,95055

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$723
Median cash price$1,456
Cash as a multiple of Medicare2.0×

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 $1,456.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $1,434 across 25 hospitalsWA$1,434Idaho: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $1,588 across 18 hospitalsMN$1,588Illinois: median $1,442 across 62 hospitalsIL$1,442Wisconsin: median $2,266 across 63 hospitalsWI$2,266Michigan: median $1,428 across 49 hospitalsMI$1,428New York: median $841 across 41 hospitalsNY$841Massachusetts: median $728 across 18 hospitalsMA$728Oregon: median $2,349 across 22 hospitalsOR$2,349Nevada: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $1,897 across 22 hospitalsIA$1,897Indiana: median $1,370 across 44 hospitalsIN$1,370Ohio: median $2,194 across 63 hospitalsOH$2,194Pennsylvania: median $963 across 61 hospitalsPA$963New Jersey: median $2,162 across 42 hospitalsNJ$2,162Connecticut: median $1,662 across 11 hospitalsCT$1,662Rhode Island: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $2,196 across 89 hospitalsCA$2,196Utah: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $2,803 across 27 hospitalsCO$2,803Nebraska: median $1,561 across 16 hospitalsNE$1,561Missouri: median $1,591 across 22 hospitalsMO$1,591Kentucky: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $873 across 28 hospitalsVA$873Maryland: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $1,838 across 17 hospitalsAZ$1,838New Mexico: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $1,120 across 11 hospitalsKS$1,120Arkansas: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $823 across 18 hospitalsTN$823North Carolina: median $1,491 across 19 hospitalsNC$1,491South Carolina: median $2,370 across 24 hospitalsSC$2,370Oklahoma: median $1,180 across 24 hospitalsOK$1,180Louisiana: median $556 across 16 hospitalsLA$556Mississippi: median $699 across 10 hospitalsMS$699Alabama: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $1,010 across 47 hospitalsGA$1,010Hawaii: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $1,347 across 77 hospitalsTX$1,347Florida: median $1,363 across 56 hospitalsFL$1,363
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,456. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Colorado CO27$2,803+93%$1,493 – $9,245
South Carolina SC24$2,370+63%$2,047 – $7,934
Oregon OR22$2,349+61%$696 – $6,514
Wisconsin WI63$2,266+56%$576 – $2,708
California CA89$2,196+51%$906 – $2,540
Ohio OH63$2,194+51%$1,300 – $4,497
New Jersey NJ42$2,162+48%$779 – $5,110
Iowa IA22$1,897+30%$1,078 – $2,570
Arizona AZ17$1,838+26%$820 – $2,426
Connecticut CT11$1,662+14%$1,396 – $3,327
Missouri MO22$1,591+9%$1,128 – $1,878
Minnesota MN18$1,588+9%$884 – $1,895
Nebraska NE16$1,561+7%$1,066 – $2,914
North Carolina NC19$1,491+2%$866 – $1,886
Illinois IL62$1,442−1%$570 – $2,341
Washington WA25$1,434−2%$931 – $1,646
Michigan MI49$1,428−2%$917 – $2,266
Indiana IN44$1,370−6%$580 – $2,006
Florida FL56$1,363−6%$442 – $1,993
Texas TX77$1,347−8%$506 – $2,282
Oklahoma OK24$1,180−19%$523 – $1,981
Kansas KS11$1,120−23%$784 – $2,342
Georgia GA47$1,010−31%$722 – $2,257
Pennsylvania PA61$963−34%$421 – $2,153
Virginia VA28$873−40%$410 – $3,363
New York NY41$841−42%$723 – $2,636
Tennessee TN18$823−43%$280 – $1,057
Massachusetts MA18$728−50%$345 – $1,156
Mississippi MS10$699−52%$600 – $1,089
Louisiana LA16$556−62%$206 – $1,260
Idaho ID8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV1not 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 $1,456.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,016$1,439$709 – $2,550
Children’s9fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access103$1,549$580 – $2,458
Ownership
For-profit96$1,070$648 – $2,426
Government122$1,215$783 – $2,209
Non-profit910$1,464$696 – $2,636
System affiliation
Part of a system1,006$1,484$722 – $2,570
Independent126$1,046$506 – $2,104

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,479
Median cash price$1,456
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

887 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,626 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,640; most fall between $722 and $2,701.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 887 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
$442$823$1,626$2,426$3,821

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($442 vs $3,821).

Of the 942 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 887 gave a usable cash price; 25 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 30 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,132 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (29%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,213 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,132
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here41
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded2
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded37
Hospitals that filed this code1,213

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 MR Guid.

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 MRI guidance, first lesion (CPT 19287) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-19287-breast-marker-placement-with-mri-guidance-first-lesion