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Procedure price report · Mastectomy

Radical mastectomy with chest muscle and lymph nodes

CPT 19305the billing code this page is about

Surgical removal of the whole breast together with the underlying chest muscles and the lymph nodes in the armpit.

Hospitals typically charge $2,516 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 334 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,666. Most fall between $1,449 and $4,881 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
334
States
46
Filings dated
Mar 2023 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 23, 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 334 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
$1,226$1,634$2,516$4,098$7,432

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,226 vs $7,432).

How the prices are spread

$770 – $1,035: 9 hospitals$770$1,035 – $1,391: 32 hospitals$1,391 – $1,870: 56 hospitals$1,391$1,870 – $2,515: 54 hospitals$2,515 – $3,381: 52 hospitals$2,515$3,381 – $4,545: 41 hospitals$4,545 – $6,111: 29 hospitals$4,545$6,111 – $8,216: 16 hospitals$8,216 – $11,047: 11 hospitals$8,216$11,047 – $14,852: 3 hospitals$11,047median $2,516price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (303 of 334 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$770$1,0359
$1,035$1,39132
$1,391$1,87056
$1,870$2,51554
$2,515$3,38152
$3,381$4,54541
$4,545$6,11129
$6,111$8,21616
$8,216$11,04711
$11,047$14,8523

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $2,516.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 9 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: median $5,316 across 14 hospitalsMN$5,316Illinois: median $2,216 across 18 hospitalsIL$2,216Wisconsin: median $3,591 across 26 hospitalsWI$3,591Michigan: median $1,578 across 28 hospitalsMI$1,578New York: median $1,595 across 12 hospitalsNY$1,595Massachusetts: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $2,109 across 11 hospitalsOR$2,109Nevada: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $2,781 across 26 hospitalsIA$2,781Indiana: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $1,772 across 12 hospitalsOH$1,772Pennsylvania: median $838 across 16 hospitalsPA$838New Jersey: median $5,741 across 20 hospitalsNJ$5,741Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCAUtah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: median $2,602 across 10 hospitalsNE$2,602Missouri: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $2,413 across 12 hospitalsOK$2,413Louisiana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $3,720 across 10 hospitalsTX$3,720Florida: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,516. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ20$5,741+128%$4,350 – $22,776
Minnesota MN14$5,316+111%$3,054 – $5,316
Texas TX10$3,720+48%$1,978 – $6,330
Wisconsin WI26$3,591+43%$3,591 – $9,672
Iowa IA26$2,781+11%$2,148 – $2,796
Nebraska NE10$2,602+3%$1,684 – $3,168
Oklahoma OK12$2,413−4%$2,413 – $2,413
Illinois IL18$2,216−12%$1,449 – $4,870
Oregon OR11$2,109−16%$2,109 – $2,491
Ohio OH12$1,772−30%$1,433 – $4,268
New York NY12$1,595−37%$1,000 – $3,374
Michigan MI28$1,578−37%$1,321 – $1,990
Pennsylvania PA16$838−67%$709 – $5,660
California CA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not 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 $2,516.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care218$2,413$1,433 – $5,110
Children’s5fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access110$2,599$1,558 – $4,764
Ownership
For-profit25$3,221$1,449 – $9,168
Government59$2,367$1,710 – $3,520
Non-profit249$2,553$1,433 – $5,200
System affiliation
Part of a system249$2,571$1,433 – $5,316
Independent85$2,440$1,726 – $3,965

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,447
Median cash price$2,516
Cash as a share of list, median hospital65%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 35%. 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

186 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,413 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,519; most fall between $1,467 and $3,591.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 186 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
$1,187$1,635$2,413$3,591$5,660

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 4.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,187 vs $5,660).

Of the 221 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 186 gave a usable cash price; 17 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 18 a list price only.

How complete is this

334 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (8%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 396 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted334
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here40
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded21
Hospitals that filed this code396

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 23, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 23, 2026. The percentiles and averages use only the “counted” row.

Related procedures

Part of the Mastectomy family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as PR Mast Rad W/Pectoral Muscles Axillary Lymph Nodes.

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, “Radical mastectomy with chest muscle and lymph nodes (CPT 19305) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-19305-radical-mastectomy-with-chest-muscle-and-lymph-nodes