Price Atlas / Surgery rates / Sentinel lymph node biopsy (underarm) / St. Louis MO
Sentinel lymph node biopsy (underarm) in St. Louis MO Every commercial insurer rate these hospitals posted, as a dollar amount and as a multiple of the hospital's own Medicare base rate.
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CPT 38525 Hospital · insurer Rate × Medicare Plans Mercy Hospital St Louis median $4,953 · local Medicare $3,922 · file 2026-06-04 Elevance/Anthem/Empire $4,953 1.3× 6 Mercy Hospital Jefferson median $4,953 · local Medicare $3,922 · file 2026-06-10 Elevance/Anthem/Empire $4,953 1.3× 6 Mercy Hospital South median $4,953 · local Medicare $3,922 · file 2026-06-10 Elevance/Anthem/Empire $4,953 1.3× 6
Questions How much does sentinel lymph node biopsy (underarm) cost with commercial insurance in St. Louis MO? 3 St. Louis MO hospitals post usable commercial rates for CPT 38525, hospital outpatient. The median across hospitals is $4,953 ; hospital medians range from $4,953 to $4,953. Your cost depends on your plan's deductible and coinsurance.
Techy Surgeon Price Atlas · commercial rates from hospital price-transparency files as of 2026-09-27. Commercial plans only; payer-specific dollar amounts for the exact code and setting (grade A); no professional-fee, percent-of-charges, per-diem, algorithm or unnamed-payer rows; no duplicate campus files; each rate between 0.5x (outpatient) or 0.6x (inpatient) and 8x the same hospital's local Medicare base rate. Median across each insurer's plans. Historical rates the hospitals themselves posted. Percentiles only where the comparison group has 5 or more hospitals. Market transparency, not pricing guidance. Medicare anchor = the same hospital's local Medicare base rate (OPPS or IPPS FY2026, wage-adjusted; inpatient anchors exclude teaching and safety-net add-ons). Rates are posted contract amounts, not what any patient paid. Method . Free to use; cite as Techy Surgeon Price Atlas (2026).