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MRI-Guided Breast Needle Biopsy

Louisiana rates for HCPCS 19085

This procedure removes a small tissue sample from a breast lesion that was found on MRI, using MRI imaging in real time to guide the needle to the correct spot. It covers the first area sampled this way in a given visit, and a small marker may be left at the site to help locate it later.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does MRI-Guided Breast Needle Biopsy cost?

$2,523

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $2,523 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $661 to the doctor who performs it, and $1,862 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$661$209 to $955
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,862$977 to $3,311

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,862 · 10th to 90th $676 to $4,365Professionalmedian $661 · 10th to 90th $166 to $1,122
$200$500$1K$2K$5Kfacility $1,862professional $661

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
$741.31
Median
$1,905.46
Typical High
$4,897.79
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$162.18
Median
$588.84
Typical High
$1,122.02
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$741.31
Median
$1,513.56
Typical High
$3,311.31
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$173.78
Median
$346.74
Typical High
$1,096.48
Christus
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$39.81
Median
$1,071.52
Typical High
$1,071.52
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$177.83
Median
$537.03
Typical High
$1,412.54
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$489.78
Median
$1,698.24
Typical High
$4,265.80
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$177.83
Median
$776.25
Typical High
$1,445.44

Where Louisiana sits

The same service costs 5.7 times more in Nebraska than in Delaware. 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· 43rd of 51

$2,523

$661 physician + $1,862 facility

NE $7,390DE $1,304

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.