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X-Ray Imaging Of Multiple Milk Ducts With Contrast Dye

Louisiana rates for HCPCS 77054

An X-ray imaging study of the breast's milk ducts, performed by injecting a small amount of contrast dye into more than one duct opening at the nipple and then taking X-ray pictures. It is used to investigate unusual nipple discharge by showing the shape of the ducts and identifying any blockage, growth, or abnormality inside them. It is a more involved version of this study than one that examines a single duct.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does X-Ray Imaging Of Multiple Milk Ducts With Contrast Dye cost?

$83.18

Typical negotiated rate. In Louisiana, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $83.18 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $79.43 from a physician practice, and about $162 from a hospital or other facility. The two figures are alternatives, not parts of one bill.

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.

Where it's billed changes the price

Billed byTypicalRange
Physician practiceA doctor's office, clinic or independent provider$79.43$64.57 to $89.13
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$162$79.43 to $339

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $162 · 10th to 90th $66 to $513Professionalmedian $79 · 10th to 90th $56 to $126
$50$100$200$500facility $162professional $79

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
$53.70
Median
$79.43
Typical High
$109.65
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$45.71
Median
$79.43
Typical High
$107.15
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$147.91
Median
$295.12
Typical High
$562.34
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$72.44
Median
$87.10
Typical High
$112.20
Christus
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$39.81
Median
$66.07
Typical High
$66.07
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$97.72
Median
$169.82
Typical High
$251.19
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$44.67
Median
$74.13
Typical High
$158.49
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$173.78
Median
$363.08
Typical High
$549.54
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$56.23
Median
$81.28
Typical High
$158.49

Where Louisiana sits

The same service costs 2.8 times more in Alaska than in Tennessee. 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.

Louisiana· 27th of 51

$83.18

AK $174TN $61.66

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.