Partial Mastectomy Cost in Iowa
Partial mastectomy
$4,633Hospital outpatient total2026 Medicare, physician + facility- ✓Your ZIP's wage-adjusted hospital and surgery centre rates
- ✓Five nearby hospitals by name, with CMS star ratings
- ✓The add-on codes that typically land on the bill
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Iowa Medicare physician rate (2026)
-11.0% vs nationalSingle statewide locality.
What the whole procedure costs
The rate above is the physician’s fee on its own. The facility bills separately, and for most procedures the facility is the larger half of the bill. These are 2026 national Medicare amounts.
Choosing a surgery centre over a hospital saves about $2,397 on the Medicare allowed amount for partial mastectomy. Ask whether your procedure can be done at an ambulatory surgery centre.
Medicare pays the hospital a single comprehensive amount for this procedure, covering the facility's share of the encounter including implants and supplies. Medicare allowed amounts are not what an uninsured patient is charged, and not a quote. Private plans typically allow more.
Your ZIP in Iowa
Try your ZIP code to see local context, whether you are in Des Moines, Iowa City, Cedar Rapids, the Quad Cities, Sioux City, or one of Iowa's many rural counties.
What partial mastectomy costs at hospitals near you
Everything above is a national average. The hospital you pick in Iowa moves the bill more than anything else you control.
Rates for your ZIP, 5 named hospitals with CMS ratings, the add-on codes, and the scheduler script.
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What these numbers are
Every figure on this page is a 2026 Medicare allowed amount: the physician line comes from the Physician Fee Schedule adjusted by geographic practice-cost indices, and the facility totals come from the CMS hospital outpatient (OPPS) and ambulatory surgery centre rates. None of them is a hospital chargemaster price, your insurer's contracted rate, or a quote. Anesthesia, pathology, imaging reads and follow-up care are billed under their own codes when they apply, and an inpatient stay is paid a different way again.
National vs Iowa
Where Iowa ranks for this CPT
Partial Mastectomy and how Iowa is priced
Iowa is priced as one statewide locality, and its low geographic indices have long placed Medicare-approved amounts here among the lowest in the nation, a point the state's medical community has repeatedly raised with Washington. Des Moines and the smallest farm towns share the same fee schedule adjustments. The single locality means the university medical center in Iowa City bills against the same geographic factors as a rural clinic. Consumers comparing across state lines will often find Iowa procedure prices lower than in Illinois or Minnesota metros.
Care in Iowa is organized around Des Moines, the university hospital in Iowa City, and regional hubs like Cedar Rapids, Davenport, and Sioux City, each serving broad rural catchments. Many small counties have hospitals with limited procedure offerings, so referrals up the chain are routine. Residents on the state's edges commonly cross into Omaha, the Quad Cities, or Rochester, Minnesota for specialty care.
This procedure: A partial mastectomy, commonly called a lumpectomy, removes a breast tumor along with a rim of surrounding healthy tissue while preserving the rest of the breast. It is the surgical core of breast-conserving treatment for early-stage breast cancer. The operation is done under general anesthesia in a hospital or surgery center, usually takes one to two hours, and most patients go home the same day with soreness managed by oral medication.
What Is Partial Mastectomy?
A partial mastectomy, commonly called a lumpectomy, removes a breast tumor along with a rim of surrounding healthy tissue while preserving the rest of the breast. It is the surgical core of breast-conserving treatment for early-stage breast cancer. The operation is done under general anesthesia in a hospital or surgery center, usually takes one to two hours, and most patients go home the same day with soreness managed by oral medication.
What Affects the Cost
- –Lymph node procedures done at the same time, such as sentinel node biopsy with radioactive tracer and dye, are billed as separate surgical codes.
- –Pre-surgical wire or radioactive seed localization to mark a tumor that cannot be felt adds a radiology procedure charge.
- –The anesthesia team bills separately based on the length of the operation.
- –Pathology charges for examining the tumor, the margins, and any lymph nodes are substantial and billed by the lab.
- –Hospital outpatient departments usually cost more than ambulatory surgery centers for the identical operation.
- –If margins come back positive, a second re-excision surgery repeats many of these charges.
Questions to Ask Before Booking
- 1.Will you also do a sentinel lymph node biopsy, and what does that add to the total?
- 2.Is the surgery scheduled at a hospital or an ambulatory surgery center, and can I choose the cheaper setting?
- 3.What happens to my costs if the margins are positive and you need to operate again?
- 4.Are the anesthesiologist and pathology lab in my network?
- 5.Which follow-up visits are included in the 90-day global surgical period?
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Partial Mastectomy in Iowa: questions
Iowa is a single Medicare locality for this fee schedule. The 2026 physician rate for CPT 19301 is $562.94 in an office and $562.94 in a hospital, statewide. A ZIP lookup still confirms the locality mapping.
Not on the physician fee schedule. Iowa uses one locality, so the Medicare physician rate is the same from one end of the state to the other. What still changes is site of service (office vs hospital) and any facility fee the hospital bills on its own claim.
After the Part B deductible, coinsurance is usually 20% of the allowed amount: about $113 for the office physician line or $113 for the hospital physician line in Iowa. Medigap may cover that 20%. This is not the hospital facility fee.
No. $562.94 is only the physician's share. Adding Medicare's facility payment brings the total to about $4,633 in a hospital outpatient department, or about $2,236 at an ambulatory surgery centre. Anesthesia, pathology and other codes billed the same day are extra. Iowa ranks #2 of 51 states on the physician line (11% below the national office rate of $632.61).