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MRI-Guided Breast Needle Biopsy

Oregon 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?

$2,379

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $2,379 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $933 to the doctor who performs it, and $1,445 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 8 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$933$316 to $1,585
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,445$1,202 to $5,370

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,445 · 10th to 90th $347 to $9,333Professionalmedian $933 · 10th to 90th $195 to $2,239
$100$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $1,445professional $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
$446.68
Median
$5,495.41
Typical High
$13,182.57
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$177.83
Median
$933.25
Typical High
$3,467.37
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$281.84
Median
$724.44
Typical High
$2,238.72
Kaiser Permanente
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$288.40
Median
$707.95
Typical High
$1,819.70
Moda Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$204.17
Median
$676.08
Typical High
$1,862.09
Moda Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$263.03
Median
$575.44
Typical High
$1,949.84
Pacific Source
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,047.13
Median
$1,445.44
Typical High
$1,819.70
Providence
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$204.17
Median
$707.95
Typical High
$1,995.26
Providence
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$79.43
Median
$478.63
Typical High
$2,137.96
Regence BlueShield
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$4,073.80
Median
$5,248.07
Typical High
$6,918.31
Regence BlueShield
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$354.81
Median
$602.56
Typical High
$2,089.30
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,137.96
Median
$5,011.87
Typical High
$7,244.36
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$288.40
Median
$794.33
Typical High
$2,238.72

Where Oregon 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

Oregon· 44th of 51

$2,379

$933 physician + $1,445 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.