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Ultrasound-Guided Breast Needle Biopsy, Additional Site

Louisiana rates for HCPCS 19084

This procedure removes a small tissue sample from a breast lesion using a needle guided by real-time ultrasound imaging, for an additional area sampled in the same visit beyond the first site. A small marker may be left at the biopsy site to help locate it later if needed.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Ultrasound-Guided Breast Needle Biopsy, Additional Site cost?

$1,461

Typical total for the visit. In Louisiana, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,461 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $339 to the doctor who performs it, and $1,122 to the hospital or surgery center where it takes place. Done somewhere without a facility charge, you pay only the first.

These are rates insurers have negotiated with providers, not the amount a patient is billed. What you owe depends on your plan's deductible and coinsurance. Based on rates published by 5 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$339$89.13 to $501
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,122$479 to $2,399

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,122 · 10th to 90th $79 to $3,467Professionalmedian $339 · 10th to 90th $71 to $617
$0.1$1$10$100$1Kfacility $1,122professional $339

Distribution of negotiated rates across all payers (price axis is log-scale). Each curve is scaled to its own total: facility and professional rates are different services, shown together to compare where they cluster. Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$398.11
Median
$1,288.25
Typical High
$3,467.37
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$69.18
Median
$389.05
Typical High
$588.84
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$0.02
Median
$0.87
Typical High
$2.09
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$74.13
Median
$147.91
Typical High
$575.44
Christus
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$39.81
Median
$79.43
Typical High
$79.43
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$81.28
Median
$269.15
Typical High
$724.44
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$213.80
Median
$562.34
Typical High
$1,318.26
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$75.86
Median
$398.11
Typical High
$758.58

Where Louisiana sits

The same service costs 6.6 times more in California than in Kentucky. Every bar is a state, most expensive first. Touch or drag across it to read any state, then open that state for its carriers and full range.

Physician feeFacility fee

Louisiana· 36th of 51

$1,461

$339 physician + $1,122 facility

CA $5,942KY $900

Median negotiated rate in each state, from every insurer that publishes one. States where no insurer publishes a rate for this service are not shown.