Percutaneous breast biopsy
Image-guided needle biopsy of the breast.
Minimally invasive biopsy of breast tissue using imaging guidance (ultrasound, stereotactic mammography, or MRI). Outpatient with local anesthesia. Pathology lab fees for examining the tissue typically arrive as a separate bill.
Typical cost
Cash · across 2064 hospitals
$3,032median
$990 – $6,584 (10th–90th percentile)
Negotiated · across 8 hospitals
$8,477median
$295 – $10,585 (10th–90th percentile)
Across hospitals with published core package prices plus CMS benchmarks where physician, anesthesia, or pathology components are usually billed separately. Partial estimates that cannot be completed this way are excluded.
What's included
Each component is a category of charge that contributes to the total bill. Items marked “billed separately” are still part of the episode, but you'll receive that bill from a different provider.
Image-guided breast biopsy
Base procedureCPT 19081 · CPT 19083 · CPT 19085
Procedure facility
FacilityOptionalREVENUE 0490
Pathology lab fee
PathologyBilled separatelyTissue examination; typically a separate bill from the pathologist.
CPT 88305
Medicare professional benchmark: $71 facility / $71 non-facility (CMS PFS 2026)
Provider prices — cash
Showing 50 of 3163 hospitals - nationwide
Median cash-pay price across components that hospitals have published for this package. Completeness reflects how many of the package's expected components had matching data. Partial rows missing only a benchmarked professional component show a separate published-plus-CMS estimate. Public pages show up to 50 hospitals at a time; use ZIP search to narrow the list.
Provider prices — negotiated
Showing 8 hospitals - NJ, NY
Lowest negotiated rate the hospital or insurer has published for this package. Each row is labeled with its source — Hospital MRF or Payer Transparency in Coverage file. Use the insurer selector to switch between the cross-payer rollup and per-insurer rates. Rows from TiC files older than 3 months are dimmed. Partial rows missing only a benchmarked professional component show a separate published-plus-CMS estimate. Public pages show a comparison-sized sample; bulk provider exports belong in the data API.
| Hospital | Min negotiated | Payer types | Completeness |
|---|---|---|---|
| Robert Wood Johnson University HospitalNew Brunswick, NJ Hospital MRF | $295 | BCBSCommercialMedicaid MCO | 100% |
| Lenox Hill HospitalNew York, NY Hospital MRF | $1,847 | CommercialMedicaid MCO | 100% |
| NewYork-Presbyterian HospitalNew York, NY Hospital MRF | $1,849 | BCBSCommercialMedicaid MCO | 100% |
| NYU Langone Hospital Long IslandMineola, NY Hospital MRFThin evidence | $8,399 | — | 100% |
| NYU Langone Health - SuffolkPatchogue, NY Hospital MRFThin evidence | $8,556 | — | 100% |
| NYU Langone Hospital BrooklynBrooklyn, NY Hospital MRFThin evidence | $8,844 | — | 100% |
| NYU Langone Orthopedic HospitalNew York, NY Hospital MRFThin evidence | $9,744 | — | 100% |
| NYU Langone HealthNew York, NY Hospital MRFThin evidence | $10,585 | — | 100% |
Common questions
- How much does percutaneous breast biopsy cost?
- Percutaneous breast biopsy cash prices on cleartau range from $990 to $6,584 (10th–90th percentile) across 2064 US hospitals, with a median of $3,032. Individual hospital prices vary widely; the per-hospital table below shows the spread.
- What's included in the percutaneous breast biopsy package?
- Minimally invasive biopsy of breast tissue using imaging guidance (ultrasound, stereotactic mammography, or MRI). Outpatient with local anesthesia. Pathology lab fees for examining the tissue typically arrive as a separate bill.
- What's typically billed separately for percutaneous breast biopsy?
- These components are usually billed by a different provider on a separate invoice: pathology lab fee. They're still part of the episode of care.
- How does the percutaneous breast biopsy package price get calculated?
- Cleartau sums per-component representative prices across the procedure, facility, anesthesia, and (where applicable) implant lines. The package median equals the sum of per-component medians; min and max work the same way. When a hospital publishes a formula (e.g. "150% of Medicare") instead of a dollar amount, the formula is resolved against the matching CMS fee schedule before aggregation.
Also known as
breast biopsy package · core needle breast biopsy package · stereotactic breast biopsy package