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MRI-Guided Breast Needle Biopsy

North Dakota 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?

$1,867

Typical total for the visit. In North Dakota, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,867 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $933 to the doctor who performs it, and $933 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$933$347 to $1,622
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$933$186 to $2,951

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $933 · 10th to 90th $186 to $5,012Professionalmedian $933 · 10th to 90th $186 to $2,455
$200$500$1K$2K$5Kfacility $933professional $933

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
$933.25
Typical High
$5,011.87
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$177.83
Median
$933.25
Typical High
$3,981.07
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$338.84
Median
$489.78
Typical High
$1,778.28
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$257.04
Median
$467.74
Typical High
$2,344.23
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$186.21
Median
$1,000.00
Typical High
$2,818.38
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$954.99
Median
$1,737.80
Typical High
$2,041.74
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,819.70
Median
$2,041.74
Typical High
$2,041.74
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$229.09
Median
$602.56
Typical High
$1,949.84

Where North Dakota 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

North Dakota· 48th of 51

$1,867

$933 physician + $933 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.