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

Breast marker placement with MRI guidance, each added lesion

CPT 19288the billing code this page is about

Add-on charge for each additional breast area marked under MRI guidance during the same visit.

Hospitals typically charge $848 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 937 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $985. Most fall between $264 and $1,865 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
937
States
48
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 937 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
$143$378$848$1,705$2,731

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 19× what the cheapest tenth charges ($143 vs $2,731).

How the prices are spread

$86 – $128: 40 hospitals$86$128 – $189: 34 hospitals$189 – $279: 75 hospitals$189$279 – $412: 67 hospitals$412 – $610: 99 hospitals$412$610 – $901: 130 hospitals$901 – $1,332: 98 hospitals$901$1,332 – $1,968: 190 hospitals$1,968 – $2,910: 70 hospitals$1,968$2,910 – $4,301: 43 hospitals$2,910median $848price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (846 of 937 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$86$12840
$128$18934
$189$27975
$279$41267
$412$61099
$610$901130
$901$1,33298
$1,332$1,968190
$1,968$2,91070
$2,910$4,30143

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $848.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 3 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 $602 across 20 hospitalsWA$602Idaho: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 3 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 $1,368 across 14 hospitalsMN$1,368Illinois: median $931 across 57 hospitalsIL$931Wisconsin: median $1,145 across 50 hospitalsWI$1,145Michigan: median $1,145 across 25 hospitalsMI$1,145New York: median $563 across 23 hospitalsNY$563Massachusetts: median $398 across 18 hospitalsMA$398Oregon: median $527 across 22 hospitalsOR$527Nevada: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $1,506 across 21 hospitalsIA$1,506Indiana: median $779 across 32 hospitalsIN$779Ohio: median $1,843 across 48 hospitalsOH$1,843Pennsylvania: median $836 across 31 hospitalsPA$836New Jersey: median $4,350 across 28 hospitalsNJ$4,350Connecticut: 7 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 $1,160 across 79 hospitalsCA$1,160Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $3,566 across 21 hospitalsCO$3,566Nebraska: median $609 across 15 hospitalsNE$609Missouri: median $1,664 across 18 hospitalsMO$1,664Kentucky: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWVVirginia: median $3,360 across 26 hospitalsVA$3,360Maryland: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $790 across 15 hospitalsAZ$790New 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: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $658 across 18 hospitalsTN$658North Carolina: median $1,595 across 26 hospitalsNC$1,595South Carolina: median $2,051 across 19 hospitalsSC$2,051Oklahoma: median $195 across 23 hospitalsOK$195Louisiana: median $68 across 14 hospitalsLA$68Mississippi: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $683 across 45 hospitalsGA$683Hawaii: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $471 across 88 hospitalsTX$471Florida: median $728 across 49 hospitalsFL$728
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $848. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ28$4,350+413%$1,238 – $5,855
Colorado CO21$3,566+321%$873 – $9,903
Virginia VA26$3,360+296%$208 – $3,363
South Carolina SC19$2,051+142%$998 – $2,410
Ohio OH48$1,843+117%$767 – $4,301
Missouri MO18$1,664+96%$736 – $2,072
North Carolina NC26$1,595+88%$433 – $1,595
Iowa IA21$1,506+78%$866 – $1,636
Minnesota MN14$1,368+61%$904 – $1,421
California CA79$1,160+37%$411 – $1,865
Michigan MI25$1,145+35%$77 – $1,433
Wisconsin WI50$1,145+35%$222 – $2,565
Illinois IL57$931+10%$319 – $2,015
Pennsylvania PA31$836−1%$388 – $1,705
Arizona AZ15$790−7%$614 – $790
Indiana IN32$779−8%$530 – $1,573
Florida FL49$728−14%$86 – $1,925
Georgia GA45$683−19%$564 – $1,517
Tennessee TN18$658−22%$70 – $978
Nebraska NE15$609−28%$102 – $1,832
Washington WA20$602−29%$163 – $1,598
New York NY23$563−34%$120 – $1,358
Oregon OR22$527−38%$416 – $835
Texas TX88$471−44%$199 – $843
Massachusetts MA18$398−53%$113 – $1,025
Oklahoma OK23$195−77%$98 – $215
Louisiana LA14$68−92%$50 – $679
Mississippi MS9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY1not 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 $848.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care835$843$264 – $1,865
Children’s10fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access89$873$222 – $1,517
Ownership
For-profit76$683$378 – $1,517
Government114$922$192 – $1,815
Non-profit744$883$251 – $1,886
System affiliation
Part of a system830$885$308 – $1,865
Independent107$641$143 – $1,458

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,513
Median cash price$848
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

760 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $948 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,075; most fall between $366 and $1,865.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 760 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
$179$436$948$1,715$2,909

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 16× what the cheapest tenth charges ($179 vs $2,909).

Of the 810 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 760 gave a usable cash price; 23 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 27 a list price only.

How complete is this

937 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (24%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,049 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted937
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here45
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded66
Hospitals that filed this code1,049

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 5, 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 Add 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.

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

Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Breast marker placement with MRI guidance, each added lesion (CPT 19288) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-19288-breast-marker-placement-with-mri-guidance-each-added-lesion