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Procedure price report · Other OR therapeutic procedures on skin and breast

Radiation balloon catheter placed in breast on a later day

CPT 19296the billing code this page is about

A balloon catheter is placed into the breast cavity to deliver internal radiation after partial breast removal, done on a different day than the surgery.

Hospitals typically charge $9,478 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 413 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $9,086. Most fall between $4,905 and $14,623 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
413
States
46
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 413 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
$2,501$5,728$9,478$12,795$19,849

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($2,501 vs $19,849).

How the prices are spread

$702 – $998: 21 hospitals$702$998 – $1,418: 2 hospitals$1,418 – $2,015: 1 hospitals$1,418$2,015 – $2,864: 6 hospitals$2,864 – $4,069: 13 hospitals$2,864$4,069 – $5,783: 49 hospitals$5,783 – $8,218: 82 hospitals$5,783$8,218 – $11,678: 108 hospitals$11,678 – $16,595: 52 hospitals$11,678$16,595 – $23,583: 45 hospitals$16,595median $9,478price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (379 of 413 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$702$99821
$998$1,4182
$1,418$2,0151
$2,015$2,8646
$2,864$4,06913
$4,069$5,78349
$5,783$8,21882
$8,218$11,678108
$11,678$16,59552
$16,595$23,58345

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$8,350
Median cash price$9,478
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.14×

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 $9,478.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNHWashington: median $5,674 across 15 hospitalsWA$5,674Idaho: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $5,057 across 20 hospitalsIL$5,057Wisconsin: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: median $8,394 across 10 hospitalsMI$8,394New York: median $11,324 across 28 hospitalsNY$11,324Massachusetts: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $6,288 across 11 hospitalsOR$6,288Nevada: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $9,731 across 16 hospitalsIA$9,731Indiana: median $4,842 across 12 hospitalsIN$4,842Ohio: median $4,905 across 14 hospitalsOH$4,905Pennsylvania: median $8,767 across 21 hospitalsPA$8,767New Jersey: median $9,478 across 26 hospitalsNJ$9,478Connecticut: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $9,509 across 39 hospitalsCA$9,509Utah: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $7,148 across 16 hospitalsCO$7,148Nebraska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $8,321 across 20 hospitalsMO$8,321Kentucky: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $13,845 across 16 hospitalsVA$13,845Maryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOKLouisiana: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceALGeorgia: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceHITexas: median $6,782 across 22 hospitalsTX$6,782Florida: median $17,215 across 18 hospitalsFL$17,215
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $9,478. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL18$17,215+82%$3,460 – $33,657
Virginia VA16$13,845+46%$12,653 – $17,078
New York NY28$11,324+19%$8,350 – $15,656
Iowa IA16$9,731+3%$9,731 – $9,731
California CA39$9,5090%$9,509 – $17,445
New Jersey NJ26$9,4780%$5,110 – $10,601
Pennsylvania PA21$8,767−8%$6,654 – $17,747
Michigan MI10$8,394−11%$4,950 – $11,239
Missouri MO20$8,321−12%$3,670 – $11,067
Colorado CO16$7,148−25%$7,148 – $19,849
Texas TX22$6,782−28%$6,312 – $11,241
Oregon OR11$6,288−34%$5,483 – $14,152
Washington WA15$5,674−40%$5,207 – $6,288
Illinois IL20$5,057−47%$2,223 – $10,742
Ohio OH14$4,905−48%$944 – $13,703
Indiana IN12$4,842−49%$4,386 – $7,497
Georgia GA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oklahoma OK3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not 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 $9,478.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care367$9,509$5,207 – $14,623
Children’s6fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access39$7,192$702 – $14,152
Ownership
For-profit40$7,351$4,386 – $16,360
Government45$10,417$6,844 – $13,960
Non-profit327$9,431$4,905 – $14,152
System affiliation
Part of a system359$9,509$4,998 – $14,623
Independent54$7,850$3,460 – $12,066

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$12,532
Median cash price$9,478
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

286 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $9,509 and the average of the middle 60% is $10,105; most fall between $5,922 and $17,078.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 286 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
$4,296$6,312$9,509$14,854$21,011

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 4.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($4,296 vs $21,011).

Of the 331 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 286 gave a usable cash price; 39 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 6 a list price only.

How complete is this

413 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (10%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 495 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted413
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here76
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded6
Hospitals that filed this code495

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 Other OR therapeutic procedures on skin and breast family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Plmt Expandable Cath Brst Following Prtl Mast.

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, “Radiation balloon catheter placed in breast on a later day (CPT 19296) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-19296-radiation-balloon-catheter-placed-in-breast-on-a-later-day