How Much Does a Screening Mammogram Cost in Washington?
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$140.67Washington physician fee2026 Medicare office rateUnder 2026 Medicare rates, a screening mammogram costs about $141 in Washington at an imaging center or office, from $131 in Rest of Washington to $150 in Seattle (King Cnty). In a hospital, the doctor is paid about $37 for the reading and the hospital bills separately for the test.
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Washington Medicare physician rate (2026)
+11.4% vs nationalAverage of 2 localities. Office range $131.47–$149.86.
Your ZIP in Washington
Enter your ZIP code to see whether Seattle-area or rest-of-state pricing applies, from Seattle, Tacoma, and Everett to Spokane, the Tri-Cities, Vancouver, Bellingham, and the Olympic Peninsula.
What screening mammogram costs at hospitals near you
Everything above is a national average. The hospital you pick in Washington moves the bill more than anything else you control.
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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 center 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. In Washington the office and hospital physician lines for this CPT differ by $103.84.
National vs Washington
Where Washington ranks for this CPT
CPT 77067 by Washington locality
| Locality | Office |
|---|---|
| seattle (king cnty) | $149.86 |
| rest of washington | $131.47 |
PE GPCI ranges from 1.053 to 1.227 in Washington. That index is why the same CPT is not one price statewide.
Screening Mammogram and how Washington is priced
Washington divides into a Seattle-area locality and a rest-of-state locality, so Puget Sound's biggest market carries higher geographic adjustments than Spokane, the Tri-Cities, or the coast. The Seattle locality reflects some of the highest wages in the western United States, while everywhere else in the state shares one lower-cost set of factors. An identical procedure is therefore approved at more in Seattle than in Spokane, a two-tier pattern much like Oregon's. Rest-of-state Washington still prices respectably against national averages.
Seattle is the referral capital of the Pacific Northwest, with academic medicine that serves not just Washington but Alaska, Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming through long-standing regional arrangements. Spokane anchors the Inland Northwest, drawing patients from northern Idaho and beyond, while the Olympic Peninsula and southwest coast are comparatively underserved. Rapid consolidation has concentrated much of the state's care into a few large systems.
This procedure: A screening bilateral mammogram is the routine X-ray check of both breasts in women with no symptoms, looking for cancers too small to feel. A technologist takes two standard views of each breast with brief compression; the visit takes about 20 minutes, and a radiologist reads the images afterward, with results sent within days. It is the test guidelines recommend at regular intervals starting in a woman's 40s.
What Is Screening Mammogram?
A screening bilateral mammogram is the routine X-ray check of both breasts in women with no symptoms, looking for cancers too small to feel. A technologist takes two standard views of each breast with brief compression; the visit takes about 20 minutes, and a radiologist reads the images afterward, with results sent within days. It is the test guidelines recommend at regular intervals starting in a woman's 40s.
What Affects the Cost
- –The screening itself is free under ACA preventive rules at in-network facilities, so out-of-pocket cost usually arises only from what follows.
- –3D tomosynthesis screening is an add-on code; most plans and Medicare now cover it as part of screening, but a few still pass its cost to patients.
- –Callbacks for additional views are billed as diagnostic mammography with normal cost sharing, and roughly one in ten screenings generates a callback.
- –Out-of-network facilities are not bound by the zero-cost-share screening rule.
- –Dense-breast supplemental imaging, like ultrasound or MRI, is billed separately and often with cost sharing.
Questions to Ask Before Booking
- 1.Is this facility in network so my screening is fully free?
- 2.Is 3D tomosynthesis included at no charge under my plan?
- 3.If I get called back for more views, what will that diagnostic visit cost me?
- 4.Am I inside my plan's allowed screening interval so the claim will not be denied for timing?
- 5.If I have dense breasts, what supplemental imaging might be recommended and does my plan cover it?
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Screening Mammogram in Washington: questions
Under 2026 Medicare rates, a screening mammogram costs about $141 in Washington at an imaging center or office, from $131 in Rest of Washington to $150 in Seattle (King Cnty). In a hospital, the doctor is paid about $37 for the reading and the hospital bills separately for the test. Enter a ZIP for the exact Washington locality.
Yes. CMS splits Washington into 2 payment localities. For this CPT the office physician fee spans $18.39 from the lowest to highest locality. Enter your ZIP code to see whether Seattle-area or rest-of-state pricing applies, from Seattle, Tacoma, and Everett to Spokane, the Tri-Cities, Vancouver, Bellingham, and the Olympic Peninsula.
After the Part B deductible, coinsurance is usually 20% of the allowed amount: about $28 for the office physician line or $7 for the hospital physician line in Washington. Medigap may cover that 20%. This is not the hospital facility fee.
At an imaging center or office, $140.67 is Medicare's full rate in Washington, covering the test and the reading. In a hospital, the physician bills only the reading (about $36.83) and the hospital bills separately for the test. Washington ranks #48 of 51 states on this rate (11% above the national office rate of $126.26).