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Procedure price report · Magnetic resonance imaging

Breast MRI of one breast, with and without contrast

CPT 77048the billing code this page is about

Magnetic resonance imaging of a single breast taken both before and after injection of contrast dye, including computer-aided image analysis when done.

Hospitals typically charge $1,623 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,203 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,645. Most fall between $672 and $3,080 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,203
States
49
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 1,203 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
$427$807$1,623$2,766$3,936

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($427 vs $3,936).

How the prices are spread

$306 – $403: 52 hospitals$306$403 – $530: 53 hospitals$530 – $697: 88 hospitals$530$697 – $918: 97 hospitals$918 – $1,208: 114 hospitals$918$1,208 – $1,590: 127 hospitals$1,590 – $2,093: 181 hospitals$1,590$2,093 – $2,754: 128 hospitals$2,754 – $3,625: 149 hospitals$2,754$3,625 – $4,771: 95 hospitals$3,625median $1,623price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,084 of 1,203 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$306$40352
$403$53053
$530$69788
$697$91897
$918$1,208114
$1,208$1,590127
$1,590$2,093181
$2,093$2,754128
$2,754$3,625149
$3,625$4,77195

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $1,623.

Alaska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $651 across 13 hospitalsME$651Vermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $1,499 across 29 hospitalsWA$1,499Idaho: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $1,011 across 24 hospitalsMN$1,011Illinois: median $2,340 across 60 hospitalsIL$2,340Wisconsin: median $1,753 across 60 hospitalsWI$1,753Michigan: median $1,281 across 23 hospitalsMI$1,281New York: median $1,197 across 59 hospitalsNY$1,197Massachusetts: median $1,800 across 35 hospitalsMA$1,800Oregon: median $1,534 across 22 hospitalsOR$1,534Nevada: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $805 across 24 hospitalsIA$805Indiana: median $938 across 53 hospitalsIN$938Ohio: median $1,675 across 76 hospitalsOH$1,675Pennsylvania: median $1,485 across 34 hospitalsPA$1,485New Jersey: median $1,256 across 18 hospitalsNJ$1,256Connecticut: median $1,782 across 17 hospitalsCT$1,782Rhode Island: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $2,580 across 74 hospitalsCA$2,580Utah: median $3,396 across 24 hospitalsUT$3,396Colorado: median $1,312 across 15 hospitalsCO$1,312Nebraska: median $1,760 across 18 hospitalsNE$1,760Missouri: median $930 across 14 hospitalsMO$930Kentucky: median $895 across 24 hospitalsKY$895West Virginia: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $1,792 across 24 hospitalsVA$1,792Maryland: median $1,231 across 20 hospitalsMD$1,231Delaware: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $560 across 20 hospitalsAZ$560New Mexico: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $1,388 across 16 hospitalsKS$1,388Arkansas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $702 across 25 hospitalsTN$702North Carolina: median $1,679 across 41 hospitalsNC$1,679South Carolina: median $1,824 across 30 hospitalsSC$1,824Oklahoma: median $288 across 10 hospitalsOK$288Louisiana: median $563 across 19 hospitalsLA$563Mississippi: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: median $427 across 14 hospitalsAL$427Georgia: median $1,669 across 37 hospitalsGA$1,669Hawaii: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $1,645 across 81 hospitalsTX$1,645Florida: median $2,239 across 67 hospitalsFL$2,239
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,623. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Utah UT24$3,396+109%$3,396 – $3,773
California CA74$2,580+59%$1,350 – $4,161
Illinois IL60$2,340+44%$902 – $3,670
Florida FL67$2,239+38%$1,607 – $3,418
South Carolina SC30$1,824+12%$1,759 – $3,936
Massachusetts MA35$1,800+11%$1,152 – $3,139
Virginia VA24$1,792+10%$987 – $2,406
Connecticut CT17$1,782+10%$732 – $2,847
Nebraska NE18$1,760+8%$655 – $3,220
Wisconsin WI60$1,753+8%$627 – $3,247
North Carolina NC41$1,679+3%$715 – $2,538
Ohio OH76$1,675+3%$351 – $3,231
Georgia GA37$1,669+3%$1,285 – $2,766
Texas TX81$1,645+1%$1,007 – $2,004
Oregon OR22$1,534−5%$1,120 – $2,314
Washington WA29$1,499−8%$1,064 – $2,168
Pennsylvania PA34$1,485−8%$384 – $2,922
Kansas KS16$1,388−14%$753 – $2,989
Colorado CO15$1,312−19%$615 – $1,714
Michigan MI23$1,281−21%$317 – $3,332
New Jersey NJ18$1,256−23%$540 – $3,431
Maryland MD20$1,231−24%$624 – $1,441
New York NY59$1,197−26%$867 – $3,611
Minnesota MN24$1,011−38%$900 – $1,679
Indiana IN53$938−42%$402 – $1,648
Missouri MO14$930−43%$717 – $2,311
Kentucky KY24$895−45%$759 – $3,312
Iowa IA24$805−50%$202 – $2,319
Tennessee TN25$702−57%$482 – $702
Maine ME13$651−60%$357 – $2,482
Louisiana LA19$563−65%$364 – $1,125
Arizona AZ20$560−66%$432 – $832
Alabama AL14$427−74%$258 – $2,162
Oklahoma OK10$288−82%$260 – $938
Hawaii HI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not 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 $1,623.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,011$1,624$677 – $3,022
Children’s12fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access174$1,537$641 – $3,274
Ownership
For-profit85$1,880$902 – $4,280
Government162$1,318$638 – $2,371
Non-profit950$1,624$663 – $3,231
System affiliation
Part of a system1,021$1,624$664 – $3,231
Independent182$1,499$710 – $2,580

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,766
Median cash price$1,623
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

906 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,736 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,776; most fall between $669 and $3,231.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 906 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
$429$835$1,736$2,887$4,161

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($429 vs $4,161).

Of the 1,020 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 906 gave a usable cash price; 79 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 35 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,203 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (30%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,408 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,203
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here124
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 — excluded80
Hospitals that filed this code1,408

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 Magnetic resonance imaging family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as MRI Breast W/Out&With Contrast W/Cad Unilateral|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.

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

Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Breast MRI of one breast, with and without contrast (CPT 77048) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-77048-breast-mri-of-one-breast-with-and-without-contrast