HRHospitalRates.comCompare prices

Procedure price report · Lumpectomy, quadrantectomy of breast

Radiation balloon catheter placed during breast lumpectomy

CPT 19297the billing code this page is about

Add-on charge for placing a balloon catheter for internal radiation into the breast cavity during the same operation as partial breast removal.

Hospitals typically charge $313 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 224 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,385. Most fall between $152 and $5,647 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
224
States
40
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 224 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
$112$154$313$4,261$7,578

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 68× what the cheapest tenth charges ($112 vs $7,578).

How the prices are spread

$78 – $128: 26 hospitals$78$128 – $209: 41 hospitals$209 – $341: 39 hospitals$209$341 – $556: 10 hospitals$556 – $907: 2 hospitals$556$907 – $1,480: 8 hospitals$1,480 – $2,415: 4 hospitals$1,480$2,415 – $3,941: 23 hospitals$3,941 – $6,431: 35 hospitals$3,941$6,431 – $10,493: 15 hospitals$6,431median $313price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (203 of 224 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$78$12826
$128$20941
$209$34139
$341$55610
$556$9072
$907$1,4808
$1,480$2,4154
$2,415$3,94123
$3,941$6,43135
$6,431$10,49315

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $313.

Alaska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAKMaine: 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: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 1 hospital 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 $178 across 14 hospitalsIL$178Wisconsin: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNYMassachusetts: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMAOregon: median $170 across 11 hospitalsOR$170Nevada: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $233 across 14 hospitalsIA$233Indiana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: median $68 across 16 hospitalsPA$68New Jersey: median $5,110 across 12 hospitalsNJ$5,110Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $3,332 across 36 hospitalsCA$3,332Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVAMaryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $154 across 11 hospitalsOK$154Louisiana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMSAlabama: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceALGeorgia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceGAHawaii: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceHITexas: median $6,157 across 18 hospitalsTX$6,157Florida: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $313. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Texas TX18$6,157+1866%$6,157 – $6,157
New Jersey NJ12$5,110+1532%$4,350 – $5,855
California CA36$3,332+964%$3,332 – $8,083
Iowa IA14$233−26%$233 – $233
Illinois IL14$178−43%$123 – $10,493
Oregon OR11$170−46%$170 – $221
Oklahoma OK11$154−51%$154 – $154
Pennsylvania PA16$68−78%$58 – $1,217
Michigan MI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New York NY8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not 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
South Carolina SC1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not 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 $313.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care199$447$154 – $5,741
Children’s4fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access20$221$123 – $313
Ownership
For-profit21$1,142$123 – $8,083
Government14fewer than 20 hospitals
Non-profit188$334$154 – $5,339
System affiliation
Part of a system191$447$152 – $5,855
Independent33$215$153 – $1,792

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$388
Median cash price$313
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

150 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $463 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,150; most fall between $154 and $6,157.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 150 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
$123$170$463$6,157$8,376

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 68× what the cheapest tenth charges ($123 vs $8,376).

Of the 165 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 150 gave a usable cash price; 12 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 3 a list price only.

How complete is this

224 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (6%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 259 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted224
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here22
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 — excluded12
Hospitals that filed this code259

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 Lumpectomy, quadrantectomy of breast family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Plmt Expandable Cath Brst Concurrent 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.

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

Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Radiation balloon catheter placed during breast lumpectomy (CPT 19297) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-19297-radiation-balloon-catheter-placed-during-breast-lumpectomy