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Procedure price report · Other diagnostic radiology and related techniques

X-ray of breast tissue removed during surgery

CPT 76098the billing code this page is about

X-ray imaging of the tissue specimen taken out during breast surgery, done to confirm that the targeted area is contained in the removed tissue.

Hospitals typically charge $490 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,731 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $531. Most fall between $209 and $1,037 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,731
States
50
Filings dated
Aug 2022 – 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 2,731 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
$116$261$490$896$1,466

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($116 vs $1,466).

How the prices are spread

$77 – $107: 121 hospitals$77$107 – $148: 119 hospitals$148 – $205: 167 hospitals$148$205 – $283: 256 hospitals$283 – $391: 315 hospitals$283$391 – $541: 344 hospitals$541 – $747: 423 hospitals$541$747 – $1,033: 300 hospitals$1,033 – $1,429: 263 hospitals$1,033$1,429 – $1,975: 155 hospitals$1,429median $490price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,463 of 2,731 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$77$107121
$107$148119
$148$205167
$205$283256
$283$391315
$391$541344
$541$747423
$747$1,033300
$1,033$1,429263
$1,429$1,975155

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$558
Median cash price$490
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.88×

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 $490.

Alaska: median $339 across 10 hospitalsAK$339Maine: median $244 across 24 hospitalsME$244Vermont: median $664 across 10 hospitalsVT$664New Hampshire: median $419 across 19 hospitalsNH$419Washington: median $480 across 53 hospitalsWA$480Idaho: median $1,485 across 14 hospitalsID$1,485Montana: median $225 across 10 hospitalsMT$225North Dakota: median $154 across 14 hospitalsND$154Minnesota: median $279 across 65 hospitalsMN$279Illinois: median $539 across 110 hospitalsIL$539Wisconsin: median $217 across 90 hospitalsWI$217Michigan: median $541 across 78 hospitalsMI$541New York: median $649 across 104 hospitalsNY$649Massachusetts: median $872 across 45 hospitalsMA$872Oregon: median $469 across 40 hospitalsOR$469Nevada: median $532 across 15 hospitalsNV$532Wyoming: median $372 across 12 hospitalsWY$372South Dakota: median $820 across 12 hospitalsSD$820Iowa: median $277 across 60 hospitalsIA$277Indiana: median $440 across 88 hospitalsIN$440Ohio: median $454 across 135 hospitalsOH$454Pennsylvania: median $652 across 106 hospitalsPA$652New Jersey: median $607 across 54 hospitalsNJ$607Connecticut: median $787 across 20 hospitalsCT$787Rhode Island: median $624 across 10 hospitalsRI$624California: median $905 across 203 hospitalsCA$905Utah: median $272 across 36 hospitalsUT$272Colorado: median $453 across 56 hospitalsCO$453Nebraska: median $277 across 44 hospitalsNE$277Missouri: median $472 across 58 hospitalsMO$472Kentucky: median $513 across 53 hospitalsKY$513West Virginia: median $702 across 28 hospitalsWV$702Virginia: median $520 across 58 hospitalsVA$520Maryland: median $62 across 36 hospitalsMD$62Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $403 across 45 hospitalsAZ$403New Mexico: median $476 across 15 hospitalsNM$476Kansas: median $352 across 45 hospitalsKS$352Arkansas: median $258 across 21 hospitalsAR$258Tennessee: median $277 across 73 hospitalsTN$277North Carolina: median $445 across 86 hospitalsNC$445South Carolina: median $613 across 47 hospitalsSC$613Oklahoma: median $396 across 45 hospitalsOK$396Louisiana: median $277 across 45 hospitalsLA$277Mississippi: median $272 across 41 hospitalsMS$272Alabama: median $543 across 33 hospitalsAL$543Georgia: median $419 across 84 hospitalsGA$419Hawaii: median $704 across 16 hospitalsHI$704Texas: median $565 across 202 hospitalsTX$565Florida: median $771 across 157 hospitalsFL$771
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $490. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Idaho ID14$1,485+203%$404 – $2,265
California CA203$905+85%$482 – $1,383
Massachusetts MA45$872+78%$505 – $1,779
South Dakota SD12$820+67%$698 – $1,211
Connecticut CT20$787+61%$473 – $1,745
Florida FL157$771+57%$224 – $1,761
Hawaii HI16$704+44%$497 – $1,888
West Virginia WV28$702+43%$364 – $1,519
Vermont VT10$664+36%$313 – $994
Pennsylvania PA106$652+33%$446 – $1,130
New York NY104$649+32%$100 – $1,382
Rhode Island RI10$624+27%$454 – $1,284
South Carolina SC47$613+25%$368 – $1,006
New Jersey NJ54$607+24%$168 – $785
Texas TX202$565+15%$291 – $957
Alabama AL33$543+11%$335 – $1,170
Michigan MI78$541+10%$188 – $829
Illinois IL110$539+10%$231 – $887
Nevada NV15$532+9%$228 – $641
Virginia VA58$520+6%$277 – $913
Kentucky KY53$513+5%$206 – $2,078
Washington WA53$480−2%$287 – $1,293
New Mexico NM15$476−3%$180 – $622
Missouri MO58$472−4%$277 – $744
Oregon OR40$469−4%$71 – $1,673
Ohio OH135$454−7%$343 – $1,096
Colorado CO56$453−8%$313 – $894
North Carolina NC86$445−9%$273 – $743
Indiana IN88$440−10%$258 – $826
Georgia GA84$419−14%$176 – $832
New Hampshire NH19$419−14%$137 – $859
Arizona AZ45$403−18%$134 – $1,633
Oklahoma OK45$396−19%$289 – $660
Wyoming WY12$372−24%$182 – $612
Kansas KS45$352−28%$173 – $518
Alaska AK10$339−31%$83 – $746
Minnesota MN65$279−43%$82 – $490
Iowa IA60$277−43%$121 – $573
Nebraska NE44$277−43%$150 – $458
Louisiana LA45$277−44%$160 – $640
Tennessee TN73$277−44%$169 – $683
Mississippi MS41$272−45%$137 – $388
Utah UT36$272−45%$272 – $817
Arkansas AR21$258−47%$206 – $377
Maine ME24$244−50%$94 – $663
Montana MT10$225−54%$168 – $770
Wisconsin WI90$217−56%$93 – $375
North Dakota ND14$154−69%$50 – $734
Maryland MD36$62−87%$48 – $76
Delaware DE6not 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 $490.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,181$551$258 – $1,115
Children’s27$449$172 – $1,170
Critical access513$293$119 – $715
Ownership
For-profit409$729$313 – $1,396
Government416$419$194 – $828
Non-profit1,896$465$194 – $1,008
System affiliation
Part of a system2,298$495$210 – $1,081
Independent433$479$192 – $919

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$847
Median cash price$490
Cash as a share of list, median hospital61%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 39%. 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

1,917 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $473 and the average of the middle 60% is $527; most fall between $225 and $1,058.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,917 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
$124$272$473$886$1,461

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($124 vs $1,461).

Of the 2,123 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,917 gave a usable cash price; 114 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 92 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,731 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (69%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,029 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,731
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here197
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded2
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded99
Hospitals that filed this code3,029

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 July 20, 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 diagnostic radiology and related techniques family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Radiological Examination Surgical Specimen|PROFESSIONAL COMPONENT.

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, “X-ray of breast tissue removed during surgery (CPT 76098) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-76098-x-ray-of-breast-tissue-removed-during-surgery