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3-D breast imaging added to a mammogram

HCPCS G0279the billing code this page is about

Three-dimensional breast X-ray imaging of one or both breasts, billed in addition to the standard mammogram performed at the same visit.

Hospitals typically charge $71 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 250 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $70. Most fall between $32 and $129 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
250
States
41
Filings dated
Nov 2024 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 25, 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 250 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
$25$38$71$101$228

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($25 vs $228).

How the prices are spread

$18 – $24: 11 hospitals$18$24 – $31: 28 hospitals$31 – $41: 24 hospitals$31$41 – $54: 29 hospitals$54 – $72: 26 hospitals$54$72 – $95: 47 hospitals$95 – $125: 23 hospitals$95$125 – $165: 14 hospitals$165 – $217: 8 hospitals$165$217 – $286: 21 hospitals$217median $71price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (231 of 250 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$18$2411
$24$3128
$31$4124
$41$5429
$54$7226
$72$9547
$95$12523
$125$16514
$165$2178
$217$28621

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $71.

Alaska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAKMaine: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVTNew Hampshire: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNDMinnesota: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureILWisconsin: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWIMichigan: median $83 across 19 hospitalsMI$83New York: median $91 across 25 hospitalsNY$91Massachusetts: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $76 across 14 hospitalsIA$76Indiana: median $61 across 23 hospitalsIN$61Ohio: median $38 across 11 hospitalsOH$38Pennsylvania: median $220 across 18 hospitalsPA$220New Jersey: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNJConnecticut: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCAUtah: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $30 across 10 hospitalsMO$30Kentucky: 3 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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 2 hospitals 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: median $46 across 18 hospitalsTN$46North Carolina: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceOKLouisiana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceHITexas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTXFlorida: median $85 across 19 hospitalsFL$85
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $71. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Pennsylvania PA18$220+212%$85 – $286
New York NY25$91+29%$39 – $112
Florida FL19$85+20%$18 – $85
Michigan MI19$83+17%$16 – $83
Iowa IA14$76+7%$44 – $148
Indiana IN23$61−13%$42 – $83
Tennessee TN18$46−35%$20 – $71
Ohio OH11$38−47%$38 – $95
Missouri MO10$30−57%$28 – $30
Illinois IL8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Jersey NJ8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
California CA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Texas TX2not 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
Colorado CO1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC1not 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 $71.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care202$75$33 – $129
Critical access46$67$26 – $117
Ownership
For-profit38$61$27 – $123
Government37$50$30 – $88
Non-profit173$83$33 – $148
System affiliation
Part of a system212$71$32 – $129
Independent38$63$36 – $130

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$127
Median cash price$71
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

165 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $71 and the average of the middle 60% is $68; most fall between $31 and $123.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 165 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
$27$38$71$101$221

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($27 vs $221).

Of the 172 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 165 gave a usable cash price; 0 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 7 a list price only.

How complete is this

250 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (6%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 259 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted250
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 — excluded8
Hospitals that filed this code259

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 25, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 25, 2026. The percentiles and averages use only the “counted” row.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as HC Breast Hi Risk Tomo Rt.

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, “3-D breast imaging added to a mammogram (CPT G0279) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-g0279-3-d-breast-imaging-added-to-a-mammogram