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MRI-Guided Breast Needle Biopsy

Minnesota 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?

$3,647

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $3,647 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $955 to the doctor who performs it, and $2,692 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 6 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$955$427 to $1,905
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$2,692$1,862 to $4,467

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $2,692 · 10th to 90th $794 to $6,026Professionalmedian $955 · 10th to 90th $275 to $2,818
$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $2,692professional $955

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
$169.82
Median
$794.33
Typical High
$4,168.69
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$169.82
Median
$933.25
Typical High
$4,168.69
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,096.48
Median
$3,162.28
Typical High
$7,413.10
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$316.23
Median
$933.25
Typical High
$2,570.40
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,949.84
Median
$2,691.53
Typical High
$7,413.10
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$407.38
Median
$1,258.93
Typical High
$3,162.28
Health Partners
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,089.30
Median
$3,019.95
Typical High
$5,888.44
Health Partners
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$380.19
Median
$1,202.26
Typical High
$2,818.38
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$269.15
Median
$1,698.24
Typical High
$3,981.07
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,122.02
Median
$2,041.74
Typical High
$3,630.78
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,584.89
Median
$4,265.80
Typical High
$6,309.57
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$275.42
Median
$933.25
Typical High
$2,884.03

Where Minnesota 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

Minnesota· 27th of 51

$3,647

$955 physician + $2,692 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.