Scans and imaging CPT 77049 Outpatient

Breast MRI, both breasts cost in Kennewick, WA

In Kennewick-Richland, WA, 1 hospital lists a cash price for MRI of both breasts, without and then with contrast dye: from $2,272.90 to $2,272.90, with a median of $2,272.90. Across Washington, the median is $2,064.91 at 8 hospitals.

Cash prices at 1 facility for code 77049, as an outpatient — the setting a self-pay patient normally buys. Collected Sep 23, 2026; the hospital files themselves were last updated between Apr 1, 2026 and Apr 1, 2026.

Lowest$2,272.90Kadlec Regional Medical Center
Median$2,272.90half pay less
Highest$2,272.90in 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 Kennewick-Richland, WA.

median
Lowest $1,230.60Highest $2,272.90
one sideboth sides

Hospitals, cheapest first

HospitalCash price List priceInsurers payOff listFile date
Kadlec Regional Medical Center lowest Richland, WA HC MRI BREAST W/O & W/ CONTRAST W/ CAD BIL $2,272.90 $3,247.00 — 30% Apr 1, 2026
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Kadlec Regional Medical Center both sides Richland, WA HC MRI BREAST W/CONTRAST BILATERAL $1,230.60 $1,758.00 — 30% Apr 1, 2026
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Outpatient: lowest $2,272.90, median $2,272.90, highest $2,272.90.

Both sides : lowest $1,230.60, median $1,230.60, highest $1,230.60.

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 inpatient, the same code is billed by 1 facility here, median $2,272.90. Inpatient and outpatient prices are not comparable and are kept on separate pages: the inpatient charge covers admission, not the same purchase.

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.