Scans and imaging CPT 77049 Outpatient

Breast MRI, both breasts cost in Seaford, DE

In Seaford, DE, 1 hospital lists a cash price for MRI of both breasts, without and then with contrast dye: from $5,418.75 to $5,418.75, with a median of $5,418.75.

Cash prices at 2 facilities across 2 cities 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 — and —.

Lowest$5,418.75Beebe Medical Center
Median$5,418.75half pay less
Highest$5,418.75in 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 Seaford, DE.

median
Lowest $2,731.00Highest $5,418.75
one sideboth sides

Hospitals, cheapest first

HospitalCash price List priceInsurers payOff listFile date
Beebe Medical Center lowest Lewes, DE · (302) 645-3300 MRI SCAN OF BOTH BREASTS $5,418.75 $6,375.00 — 15% —
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TidalHealth Nanticoke both sides Seaford, DE · (302) 629-6611 HC Bd MRI Breast Bilateral W/WO Contrast $2,731.00 $2,731.00 $230.91–$2,470.02 — —
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Outpatient: lowest $5,418.75, median $5,418.75, highest $5,418.75.

Both sides : lowest $2,731.00, median $2,731.00, highest $2,731.00.

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 inpatient, the same code is billed by 1 facility here, median $2,731.00. 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.