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Placing A Breast Marker Using MRI Guidance

Nationwide rates for HCPCS 19287

This service places a small marker, clip, or wire inside the breast to mark the exact location of an area of concern, using MRI imaging to guide precise placement. It's typically used when an abnormality is visible on MRI but not clearly seen with other imaging methods, so a surgeon can later find and remove the correct tissue. It covers placement at a single location.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Placing A Breast Marker Using MRI Guidance cost?

$3,798

Typical total for the visit. Nationwide, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $3,798 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $562 to the doctor who performs it, and $3,236 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 69 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$562$151 to $933
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$3,236$1,230 to $5,888

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $3,236 · 10th to 90th $363 to $9,333Professionalmedian $562 · 10th to 90th $112 to $1,585
$100$500$2K$10Kfacility $3,236professional $562

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
$562.34
Median
$3,715.35
Typical High
$10,471.29
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$109.65
Median
$524.81
Typical High
$1,230.27
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,548.82
Median
$4,265.80
Typical High
$10,000.00
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$131.83
Median
$645.65
Typical High
$1,445.44
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$190.55
Median
$1,905.46
Typical High
$5,128.61
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$151.36
Median
$562.34
Typical High
$1,698.24
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$562.34
Median
$1,819.70
Typical High
$4,466.84
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$128.82
Median
$588.84
Typical High
$1,445.44

What it costs in each state

The same service costs 12.4 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

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NE $7,209DE $583

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.