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MRI of one breast without and then with contrast

HCPCS C8905the billing code this page is about

Magnetic resonance imaging of a single breast done first without contrast dye and then repeated after contrast is given, in one session.

Hospitals typically charge $1,633 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 151 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,762. Most fall between $1,005 and $2,572 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
151
States
31
Filings dated
Nov 2024 – Jul 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 151 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
$649$1,159$1,633$2,554$3,746

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($649 vs $3,746).

How the prices are spread

$477 – $639: 9 hospitals$477$639 – $857: 10 hospitals$857 – $1,150: 11 hospitals$857$1,150 – $1,542: 28 hospitals$1,542 – $2,068: 36 hospitals$1,542$2,068 – $2,774: 28 hospitals$2,774 – $3,720: 6 hospitals$2,774$3,720 – $4,989: 6 hospitals$4,989 – $6,692: 2 hospitals$4,989$6,692 – $8,975: 2 hospitals$6,692median $1,633price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (138 of 151 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$477$6399
$639$85710
$857$1,15011
$1,150$1,54228
$1,542$2,06836
$2,068$2,77428
$2,774$3,7206
$3,720$4,9896
$4,989$6,6922
$6,692$8,9752

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$356
Median cash price$1,633
Cash as a multiple of Medicare4.6×

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 $1,633.

Alaska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVTNew Hampshire: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNHWashington: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMTNorth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNDMinnesota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMNIllinois: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceILWisconsin: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWIMichigan: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNYMassachusetts: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNVWyoming: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIAIndiana: median $1,165 across 16 hospitalsIN$1,165Ohio: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: median $8,975 across 13 hospitalsPA$8,975New Jersey: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNJConnecticut: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCAUtah: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCONebraska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNEMissouri: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceARTennessee: 7 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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceOKLouisiana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMSAlabama: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceHITexas: median $1,567 across 28 hospitalsTX$1,567Florida: median $2,572 across 17 hospitalsFL$2,572
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,633. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Pennsylvania PA13$8,975+449%$753 – $9,032
Florida FL17$2,572+57%$1,633 – $2,572
Texas TX28$1,567−4%$1,410 – $1,939
Indiana IN16$1,165−29%$1,020 – $1,826
Michigan MI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Jersey NJ8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New York NY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
California CA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Iowa IA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA1not 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 $1,633.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care137$1,884$948 – $2,572
Critical access13fewer than 20 hospitals
Ownership
For-profit30$1,939$1,177 – $2,868
Government14fewer than 20 hospitals
Non-profit106$1,567$948 – $2,572
System affiliation
Part of a system137$1,633$1,135 – $2,572
Independent14fewer than 20 hospitals

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,231
Median cash price$1,633
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

108 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,884 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,856; most fall between $1,135 and $2,572.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 108 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
$736$1,410$1,884$2,446$3,746

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($736 vs $3,746).

Of the 109 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 108 gave a usable cash price; 1 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 0 a list price only.

How complete is this

151 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (4%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 161 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted151
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here5
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded5
Hospitals that filed this code161

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 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.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Mri w/o fol w/cont brst un.

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, “MRI of one breast without and then with contrast (CPT C8905) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-c8905-mri-of-one-breast-without-and-then-with-contrast