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Computer-aided analysis of breast MRI images

HCPCS C8937the billing code this page is about

Software review of an already-performed breast MRI that flags areas of interest for the radiologist; billed in addition to the MRI itself.

Hospitals typically charge $153 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 145 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $238. Most fall between $90 and $450 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
145
States
21
Filings dated
Nov 2024 – Aug 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 145 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
$64$102$153$449$500

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($64 vs $500).

How the prices are spread

$55 – $72: 12 hospitals$55$72 – $94: 14 hospitals$94 – $122: 9 hospitals$94$122 – $159: 33 hospitals$159 – $207: 3 hospitals$159$207 – $269: 2 hospitals$269 – $351: 24 hospitals$269$351 – $457: 17 hospitals$457 – $594: 12 hospitals$457$594 – $774: 7 hospitals$594median $153price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (133 of 145 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$55$7212
$72$9414
$94$1229
$122$15933
$159$2073
$207$2692
$269$35124
$351$45717
$457$59412
$594$7747

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $153.

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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 2 hospitals 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: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMINew York: median $311 across 13 hospitalsNY$311Massachusetts: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceORNevada: 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: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceIAIndiana: median $64 across 14 hospitalsIN$64Ohio: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figurePANew Jersey: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNJConnecticut: 4 hospitals 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: median $450 across 22 hospitalsUT$450Colorado: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCONebraska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNEMissouri: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWVVirginia: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAZNew Mexico: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNMKansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceARTennessee: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceTNNorth Carolina: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceOKLouisiana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceLAMississippi: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMSAlabama: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceALGeorgia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceGAHawaii: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceHITexas: median $136 across 28 hospitalsTX$136Florida: median $153 across 15 hospitalsFL$153
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $153. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Utah UT22$450+194%$450 – $500
New York NY13$311+104%$311 – $311
Florida FL15$1530%$27 – $153
Texas TX28$136−11%$102 – $136
Indiana IN14$64−58%$56 – $86
Pennsylvania PA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Jersey NJ8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
California CA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not 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 $153.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care127$153$90 – $450
Children’s1fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access16fewer than 20 hospitals
Ownership
For-profit15fewer than 20 hospitals
Government12fewer than 20 hospitals
Non-profit117$295$102 – $450
System affiliation
Part of a system132$153$90 – $450
Independent13fewer than 20 hospitals

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$255
Median cash price$153
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

106 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $153 and the average of the middle 60% is $215; most fall between $90 and $450.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 106 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
$69$102$153$450$500

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($69 vs $500).

Of the 116 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 106 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 9 a list price only.

How complete is this

145 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 155 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted145
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here1
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 — excluded9
Hospitals that filed this code155

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 5, 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 Cad breast mri.

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, “Computer-aided analysis of breast MRI images (CPT C8937) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-c8937-computer-aided-analysis-of-breast-mri-images