Scans and imaging CPT 77049 Inpatient — admitted to hospital

Breast MRI, both breasts cost in Green Bay, WI — inpatient

In Green Bay, WI, 1 hospital lists a cash price for MRI of both breasts, without and then with contrast dye as an inpatient: from $614.40 to $614.40, with a median of $614.40. Across Wisconsin, the median is $5,005.55 at 12 hospitals.

Cash prices at 2 facilities for code 77049, as an inpatient (admitted to hospital) . Collected Sep 23, 2026; the hospital files themselves were last updated between Nov 21, 2025 and Jun 27, 2026.

Lowest$614.40Bellin Memorial Health
Median$614.40half pay less
Highest$614.40in this market
Difference1.0×highest vs lowest

Where each hospital's price falls

Each dot is one hospital's cash price on a scale from the lowest to the highest in Green Bay, WI.

median
Lowest $614.40Highest $3,245.00
one sideboth sides

Hospitals, cheapest first

HospitalCash price List priceInsurers payOff listFile date
Bellin Memorial Health lowest Green Bay, WI · (920) 433-3500 HCHG 77049 MRI, BREAST, WWO CONTRAST MATERIAL; BIILATERAL $614.40 $1,327.00 $656.87–$1,194.30 54% Jun 27, 2026
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Aurora BayCare Medical Center both sides Green Bay, WI · (920) 288-8000 MR BREAST W/WO W/CAD CONTRAST BILAT $3,245.00 $6,490.00 $3,894.00–$5,516.50 50% Nov 21, 2025
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Inpatient: lowest $614.40, median $614.40, highest $614.40.

Both sides : lowest $3,245.00, median $3,245.00, highest $3,245.00.

The two groups are not comparable and are not averaged together: a price for both sides of the body covers twice the work. Merging them is how a single published "median" ends up far above what one side actually costs.

As an outpatient, the same code is billed by 1 facility here, median $614.40 — that is the price to compare if you are not being admitted.

Cash or insurance?

At the one hospital here that publishes insurer rates for this code, the cash price is below the highest rate a health plan has negotiated and below every plan's rate. If you have insurance but have not met your deductible, you usually pay your plan's negotiated rate, which falls somewhere in the "Insurers pay" column. Paying cash can cost less, but a cash payment usually does not count toward your deductible. Ask the hospital for both numbers before you book.

What it is

A breast MRI takes pictures of both breasts before and after contrast dye is injected into a vein, and the code includes computer-aided analysis of the images. It is used to screen women at high risk of breast cancer and to check the extent of a cancer that has already been found.

What the price covers

The hospital price usually covers the imaging of both breasts and the computer analysis; the contrast agent may appear as a separate line. The radiologist's reading is often billed separately.

4 rows held back from this comparison

They are priced below $1 or below a tenth of the national median for code 77049 ($1,875.95). Such a line is almost always a physician's fee billed separately, an assistant's share or a placeholder — a real charge, but not the price of the procedure itself.

Bellin Health Oconto Hospital Oconto, WIHCHG 77049 MRI BREAST SCREENING W/WO CONTRAST, BILATERAL,CASH SV $162.05 file
Bellin Memorial Health Green Bay, WIHCHG 77049 MRI BREAST SCREENING W/WO CONTRAST, BILATERAL,CASH SV $162.05 file
Bellin Memorial Health Green Bay, WIHCHG 77049 MRI BREAST SCREENING W/WO CONTRAST, BILATERAL,CASH SV $162.05 file
Bellin Memorial Health Green Bay, WIHCHG 77049 MRI, BREAST, WWO CONTRAST MATERIAL; BIILATERAL $170.38 file