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Procedure price report · Radioisotope scan and function studies

Thyroid uptake measurement with radioactive tracer

CPT 78012the billing code this page is about

Measures how much radioactive tracer the thyroid gland absorbs, taken at one or more time points, without producing pictures of the gland.

Hospitals typically charge $567 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,032 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $622. Most fall between $326 and $1,153 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,032
States
50
Filings dated
Aug 2022 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 24, 2026

Median: half of hospitals filed less, half more — and it is a price some hospital actually filed. Average of the middle 60%: the mean of the prices between the 20th and 80th percentiles. We never publish the plain average, the lowest or the highest price: the extremes in hospital price files are chargemaster artefacts, not prices anyone pays.

What hospitals charge, from cheapest to most expensive

Cash price percentiles, outpatient, across 2,032 hospitals. Each figure is a price a hospital filed. 10th: one in ten hospitals charges less; 25th: a quarter charge less; Median: half charge less; 75th: three quarters charge less; 90th: nine in ten charge less.
10th25thMedian75th90th
$206$362$567$963$1,614

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($206 vs $1,614).

How the prices are spread

$164 – $216: 123 hospitals$164$216 – $284: 108 hospitals$284 – $373: 202 hospitals$284$373 – $491: 330 hospitals$491 – $646: 255 hospitals$491$646 – $851: 304 hospitals$851 – $1,120: 202 hospitals$851$1,120 – $1,473: 169 hospitals$1,473 – $1,939: 103 hospitals$1,473$1,939 – $2,552: 44 hospitals$1,939median $567price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,840 of 2,032 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$164$216123
$216$284108
$284$373202
$373$491330
$491$646255
$646$851304
$851$1,120202
$1,120$1,473169
$1,473$1,939103
$1,939$2,55244

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$408
Median cash price$567
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.39×

The Medicare figure is the national unadjusted OPPS rate for this code — what Medicare itself pays a hospital before local wage adjustment. It is a benchmark, not a price anyone is charged.

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $567.

Alaska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $332 across 18 hospitalsME$332Vermont: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $601 across 45 hospitalsWA$601Idaho: median $676 across 14 hospitalsID$676Montana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $528 across 41 hospitalsMN$528Illinois: median $720 across 66 hospitalsIL$720Wisconsin: median $567 across 63 hospitalsWI$567Michigan: median $413 across 61 hospitalsMI$413New York: median $622 across 78 hospitalsNY$622Massachusetts: median $852 across 39 hospitalsMA$852Oregon: median $568 across 32 hospitalsOR$568Nevada: median $1,079 across 11 hospitalsNV$1,079Wyoming: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $1,012 across 13 hospitalsSD$1,012Iowa: median $524 across 50 hospitalsIA$524Indiana: median $491 across 46 hospitalsIN$491Ohio: median $727 across 110 hospitalsOH$727Pennsylvania: median $667 across 81 hospitalsPA$667New Jersey: median $463 across 41 hospitalsNJ$463Connecticut: median $637 across 14 hospitalsCT$637Rhode Island: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $1,080 across 158 hospitalsCA$1,080Utah: median $653 across 33 hospitalsUT$653Colorado: median $654 across 45 hospitalsCO$654Nebraska: median $459 across 29 hospitalsNE$459Missouri: median $516 across 47 hospitalsMO$516Kentucky: median $738 across 45 hospitalsKY$738West Virginia: median $1,003 across 15 hospitalsWV$1,003Virginia: median $452 across 51 hospitalsVA$452Maryland: median $437 across 34 hospitalsMD$437Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $491 across 33 hospitalsAZ$491New Mexico: median $643 across 13 hospitalsNM$643Kansas: median $440 across 30 hospitalsKS$440Arkansas: median $346 across 11 hospitalsAR$346Tennessee: median $319 across 48 hospitalsTN$319North Carolina: median $464 across 68 hospitalsNC$464South Carolina: median $401 across 42 hospitalsSC$401Oklahoma: median $453 across 21 hospitalsOK$453Louisiana: median $331 across 33 hospitalsLA$331Mississippi: median $296 across 29 hospitalsMS$296Alabama: median $459 across 23 hospitalsAL$459Georgia: median $644 across 65 hospitalsGA$644Hawaii: median $743 across 10 hospitalsHI$743Texas: median $589 across 167 hospitalsTX$589Florida: median $1,288 across 112 hospitalsFL$1,288
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $567. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL112$1,288+127%$634 – $4,195
California CA158$1,080+90%$387 – $1,785
Nevada NV11$1,079+90%$434 – $1,591
South Dakota SD13$1,012+78%$860 – $1,012
West Virginia WV15$1,003+77%$406 – $1,521
Massachusetts MA39$852+50%$430 – $1,372
Hawaii HI10$743+31%$537 – $998
Kentucky KY45$738+30%$291 – $821
Ohio OH110$727+28%$393 – $1,162
Illinois IL66$720+27%$352 – $959
Idaho ID14$676+19%$425 – $1,425
Pennsylvania PA81$667+18%$424 – $1,229
Colorado CO45$654+15%$480 – $1,076
Utah UT33$653+15%$555 – $848
Georgia GA65$644+14%$176 – $836
New Mexico NM13$643+13%$388 – $913
Connecticut CT14$637+12%$361 – $1,299
New York NY78$622+10%$321 – $1,073
Washington WA45$601+6%$330 – $896
Texas TX167$589+4%$383 – $1,181
Oregon OR32$5680%$432 – $834
Wisconsin WI63$5670%$200 – $762
Minnesota MN41$528−7%$102 – $1,031
Iowa IA50$524−8%$300 – $820
Missouri MO47$516−9%$310 – $818
Indiana IN46$491−13%$355 – $796
Arizona AZ33$491−13%$172 – $1,578
North Carolina NC68$464−18%$235 – $671
New Jersey NJ41$463−18%$211 – $536
Alabama AL23$459−19%$246 – $611
Nebraska NE29$459−19%$321 – $866
Oklahoma OK21$453−20%$211 – $851
Virginia VA51$452−20%$347 – $1,001
Kansas KS30$440−22%$288 – $707
Maryland MD34$437−23%$227 – $646
Michigan MI61$413−27%$224 – $942
South Carolina SC42$401−29%$379 – $836
Arkansas AR11$346−39%$139 – $524
Maine ME18$332−42%$261 – $536
Louisiana LA33$331−42%$148 – $499
Tennessee TN48$319−44%$196 – $452
Mississippi MS29$296−48%$223 – $458
North Dakota ND9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price

Hospitals like yours

The same distribution cut by the kind of hospital. Hospital type and ownership come from CMS; a hospital counts as part of a system when its price file is shared with at least one other hospital under the same brand. The national median is $567.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,674$568$328 – $1,229
Children’s29$734$330 – $1,192
Critical access320$553$296 – $922
Ownership
For-profit299$879$389 – $2,734
Government275$526$286 – $816
Non-profit1,449$553$323 – $1,012
System affiliation
Part of a system1,747$575$326 – $1,226
Independent285$533$288 – $922

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,006
Median cash price$567
Cash as a share of list, median hospital60%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 40%. The share is the median of each hospital’s own cash ÷ list ratio, over hospitals that filed both — not the ratio of the two medians above.

The same procedure, inpatient

1,469 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $597 and the average of the middle 60% is $635; most fall between $327 and $1,162.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,469 hospitals. Each figure is a price a hospital filed. 10th: one in ten hospitals charges less; 25th: a quarter charge less; Median: half charge less; 75th: three quarters charge less; 90th: nine in ten charge less.
10th25thMedian75th90th
$211$363$597$959$1,466

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($211 vs $1,466).

Of the 1,613 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,469 gave a usable cash price; 80 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 64 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,032 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (51%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,249 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,032
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here146
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded71
Hospitals that filed this code2,249

Sections not shown for this setting

  • Since our last snapshot: there is no earlier snapshot at least 90 days older than this one yet.

We last checked these hospitals’ price files for changes between September 4, 2026 and September 24, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 24, 2026. The percentiles and averages use only the “counted” row.

Related procedures

Part of the Radioisotope scan and function studies family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Thyroid Uptake Single/Multiple Quant Measurement|PROFESSIONAL COMPONENT.

Method

Source
The machine-readable price files every U.S. hospital is required by CMS to publish, parsed per hospital. Nothing is surveyed, sampled or modelled.
What counts
One cash (self-pay) price per hospital for this code and setting. A hospital’s own filing can rule its number out — a placeholder, a “not applicable” note, a list price standing in for cash — and our plausibility checks can flag a price far below what every other hospital files. Both kinds are disclosed above and excluded from the statistics; on the compare tool a flagged price is still shown.
Statistics
Percentiles are discrete: each is a price some hospital filed. The average is the mean of the prices between the 20th and 80th percentiles. We never publish the plain mean, the minimum or the maximum. A state needs 10 hospitals and a segment 20 to show a figure; otherwise the row shows its count and no number. Medicare is the national unadjusted OPPS rate where one exists.
Names
Procedure names on these pages are our own plain-language titles, not the AMA’s copyrighted CPT descriptors. The code is the identity.

The full rules — sources, statistics, thresholds, limitations — are on the methodology page.

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Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Thyroid uptake measurement with radioactive tracer (CPT 78012) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-78012-thyroid-uptake-measurement-with-radioactive-tracer