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Procedure price report · Magnetic resonance imaging

Breast MRI of one breast, no contrast

CPT 77046the billing code this page is about

Magnetic resonance imaging of a single breast performed without injected contrast dye.

Hospitals typically charge $1,277 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,583 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,275. Most fall between $472 and $2,460 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,583
States
50
Filings dated
Jan 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 1,583 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
$311$563$1,277$2,063$3,313

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($311 vs $3,313).

How the prices are spread

$244 – $326: 103 hospitals$244$326 – $437: 104 hospitals$437 – $584: 120 hospitals$437$584 – $782: 138 hospitals$782 – $1,046: 151 hospitals$782$1,046 – $1,400: 177 hospitals$1,400 – $1,874: 244 hospitals$1,400$1,874 – $2,508: 159 hospitals$2,508 – $3,356: 154 hospitals$2,508$3,356 – $4,491: 75 hospitals$3,356median $1,277price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,425 of 1,583 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$244$326103
$326$437104
$437$584120
$584$782138
$782$1,046151
$1,046$1,400177
$1,400$1,874244
$1,874$2,508159
$2,508$3,356154
$3,356$4,49175

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$244
Median cash price$1,277
Cash as a multiple of Medicare5.2×

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 $1,277.

Alaska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $419 across 14 hospitalsME$419Vermont: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $1,280 across 26 hospitalsWA$1,280Idaho: median $1,946 across 10 hospitalsID$1,946Montana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $410 across 25 hospitalsMN$410Illinois: median $1,944 across 75 hospitalsIL$1,944Wisconsin: median $1,423 across 66 hospitalsWI$1,423Michigan: median $1,392 across 49 hospitalsMI$1,392New York: median $627 across 82 hospitalsNY$627Massachusetts: median $1,980 across 28 hospitalsMA$1,980Oregon: median $888 across 22 hospitalsOR$888Nevada: median $1,268 across 10 hospitalsNV$1,268Wyoming: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $1,325 across 25 hospitalsIA$1,325Indiana: median $752 across 60 hospitalsIN$752Ohio: median $1,310 across 76 hospitalsOH$1,310Pennsylvania: median $799 across 70 hospitalsPA$799New Jersey: median $323 across 40 hospitalsNJ$323Connecticut: median $496 across 11 hospitalsCT$496Rhode Island: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $2,506 across 83 hospitalsCA$2,506Utah: median $1,514 across 30 hospitalsUT$1,514Colorado: median $976 across 35 hospitalsCO$976Nebraska: median $1,075 across 23 hospitalsNE$1,075Missouri: median $826 across 33 hospitalsMO$826Kentucky: median $919 across 22 hospitalsKY$919West Virginia: median $2,518 across 13 hospitalsWV$2,518Virginia: median $2,613 across 42 hospitalsVA$2,613Maryland: median $816 across 23 hospitalsMD$816Delaware: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $554 across 31 hospitalsAZ$554New Mexico: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $753 across 18 hospitalsKS$753Arkansas: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $598 across 44 hospitalsTN$598North Carolina: median $1,342 across 34 hospitalsNC$1,342South Carolina: median $1,977 across 30 hospitalsSC$1,977Oklahoma: median $664 across 19 hospitalsOK$664Louisiana: median $520 across 20 hospitalsLA$520Mississippi: median $862 across 23 hospitalsMS$862Alabama: median $730 across 24 hospitalsAL$730Georgia: median $1,278 across 62 hospitalsGA$1,278Hawaii: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $1,248 across 116 hospitalsTX$1,248Florida: median $1,543 across 100 hospitalsFL$1,543
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,277. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Virginia VA42$2,613+105%$637 – $3,135
West Virginia WV13$2,518+97%$915 – $4,155
California CA83$2,506+96%$923 – $4,161
Massachusetts MA28$1,980+55%$811 – $4,126
South Carolina SC30$1,977+55%$684 – $2,460
Idaho ID10$1,946+52%$1,514 – $3,087
Illinois IL75$1,944+52%$1,200 – $3,056
Florida FL100$1,543+21%$1,132 – $4,119
Utah UT30$1,514+19%$1,038 – $1,682
Wisconsin WI66$1,423+11%$735 – $3,313
Michigan MI49$1,392+9%$476 – $2,298
North Carolina NC34$1,342+5%$833 – $2,218
Iowa IA25$1,325+4%$139 – $1,682
Ohio OH76$1,310+3%$999 – $2,178
Washington WA26$1,2800%$498 – $1,613
Georgia GA62$1,2780%$439 – $1,826
Nevada NV10$1,268−1%$759 – $2,243
Texas TX116$1,248−2%$367 – $2,063
Nebraska NE23$1,075−16%$202 – $2,241
Colorado CO35$976−24%$511 – $1,840
Kentucky KY22$919−28%$527 – $3,015
Oregon OR22$888−30%$432 – $2,314
Mississippi MS23$862−33%$705 – $1,354
Missouri MO33$826−35%$682 – $2,042
Maryland MD23$816−36%$475 – $1,671
Pennsylvania PA70$799−37%$313 – $1,868
Kansas KS18$753−41%$460 – $2,989
Indiana IN60$752−41%$417 – $1,270
Alabama AL24$730−43%$289 – $1,828
Oklahoma OK19$664−48%$231 – $900
New York NY82$627−51%$298 – $2,277
Tennessee TN44$598−53%$243 – $967
Arizona AZ31$554−57%$329 – $1,463
Louisiana LA20$520−59%$249 – $1,200
Connecticut CT11$496−61%$395 – $1,229
Maine ME14$419−67%$242 – $1,849
Minnesota MN25$410−68%$350 – $924
New Jersey NJ40$323−75%$276 – $924
Hawaii HI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not 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 $1,277.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,348$1,233$467 – $2,345
Children’s15fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access212$1,388$526 – $2,851
Ownership
For-profit211$1,645$563 – $4,591
Government203$967$374 – $1,904
Non-profit1,161$1,280$481 – $2,305
System affiliation
Part of a system1,368$1,307$474 – $2,506
Independent215$1,086$460 – $2,302

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,218
Median cash price$1,277
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

1,116 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,392 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,381; most fall between $516 and $2,408.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,116 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
$332$637$1,392$2,122$3,203

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($332 vs $3,203).

Of the 1,228 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,116 gave a usable cash price; 63 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 49 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,583 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (40%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,761 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,583
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here113
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 — excluded64
Hospitals that filed this code1,761

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 Magnetic resonance imaging family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as MRI Breast Without Contrast Material Unilateral.

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, “Breast MRI of one breast, no contrast (CPT 77046) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-77046-breast-mri-of-one-breast-no-contrast