Scans and imaging CPT 77049 Outpatient

Breast MRI, both breasts cost in Elizabethtown, NC

In Elizabethtown, NC, 1 hospital lists a cash price for MRI of both breasts, without and then with contrast dye: from $1,227.75 to $1,227.75, with a median of $1,227.75. Across North Carolina, the median is $4,774.56 at 14 hospitals.

Cash prices at 1 facility for code 77049, as an outpatient — the setting a self-pay patient normally buys. Collected Sep 27, 2026; the hospital files themselves were last updated between — and —.

Lowest$1,227.75Cape Fear Valley - Bladen County Hospital
Median$1,227.75half pay less
Highest$1,227.75in 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 Elizabethtown, NC.

median
Lowest $1,227.75Highest $1,347.75
one sideboth sides

Hospitals, cheapest first

HospitalCash price List priceInsurers payOff listFile date
Cape Fear Valley - Bladen County Hospital lowest Elizabethtown, NC · (910) 862-5100 MRI SCAN OF BOTH BREASTS $1,227.75 $2,046.25 — 40% —
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Cape Fear Valley - Bladen County Hospital both sides Elizabethtown, NC · (910) 862-5100 MRI BREAST C-+ W/CAD BI $1,347.75 $2,246.25 — 40% —
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Outpatient: lowest $1,227.75, median $1,227.75, highest $1,227.75.

Both sides : lowest $1,347.75, median $1,347.75, highest $1,347.75.

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.

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.