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Procedure price report · Radioisotope scan and function studies

Thyroid scan pictures with radioactive tracer

CPT 78013the billing code this page is about

Imaging of the thyroid gland after a radioactive tracer is given, including blood flow images when performed, without a separate uptake measurement.

Hospitals typically charge $699 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,144 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $733. Most fall between $403 and $1,253 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,144
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 2,144 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
$297$448$699$1,109$1,724

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($297 vs $1,724).

How the prices are spread

$202 – $261: 77 hospitals$202$261 – $337: 99 hospitals$337 – $435: 216 hospitals$337$435 – $561: 302 hospitals$561 – $725: 334 hospitals$561$725 – $935: 299 hospitals$935 – $1,207: 248 hospitals$935$1,207 – $1,558: 193 hospitals$1,558 – $2,011: 116 hospitals$1,558$2,011 – $2,596: 54 hospitals$2,011median $699price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,938 of 2,144 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$202$26177
$261$33799
$337$435216
$435$561302
$561$725334
$725$935299
$935$1,207248
$1,207$1,558193
$1,558$2,011116
$2,011$2,59654

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$408
Median cash price$699
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.71×

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 $699.

Alaska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $441 across 17 hospitalsME$441Vermont: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $722 across 43 hospitalsWA$722Idaho: median $1,143 across 13 hospitalsID$1,143Montana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: median $856 across 12 hospitalsND$856Minnesota: median $695 across 36 hospitalsMN$695Illinois: median $795 across 88 hospitalsIL$795Wisconsin: median $811 across 73 hospitalsWI$811Michigan: median $550 across 70 hospitalsMI$550New York: median $649 across 72 hospitalsNY$649Massachusetts: median $823 across 30 hospitalsMA$823Oregon: median $629 across 19 hospitalsOR$629Nevada: median $615 across 11 hospitalsNV$615Wyoming: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $1,083 across 16 hospitalsSD$1,083Iowa: median $677 across 51 hospitalsIA$677Indiana: median $582 across 62 hospitalsIN$582Ohio: median $814 across 91 hospitalsOH$814Pennsylvania: median $739 across 82 hospitalsPA$739New Jersey: median $447 across 45 hospitalsNJ$447Connecticut: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: median $926 across 10 hospitalsRI$926California: median $970 across 150 hospitalsCA$970Utah: median $1,299 across 31 hospitalsUT$1,299Colorado: median $895 across 45 hospitalsCO$895Nebraska: median $773 across 37 hospitalsNE$773Missouri: median $516 across 57 hospitalsMO$516Kentucky: median $663 across 49 hospitalsKY$663West Virginia: median $821 across 16 hospitalsWV$821Virginia: median $574 across 48 hospitalsVA$574Maryland: median $1,023 across 35 hospitalsMD$1,023Delaware: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $518 across 31 hospitalsAZ$518New Mexico: median $420 across 17 hospitalsNM$420Kansas: median $530 across 45 hospitalsKS$530Arkansas: median $437 across 13 hospitalsAR$437Tennessee: median $368 across 65 hospitalsTN$368North Carolina: median $520 across 72 hospitalsNC$520South Carolina: median $728 across 47 hospitalsSC$728Oklahoma: median $373 across 22 hospitalsOK$373Louisiana: median $389 across 27 hospitalsLA$389Mississippi: median $376 across 35 hospitalsMS$376Alabama: median $574 across 32 hospitalsAL$574Georgia: median $743 across 72 hospitalsGA$743Hawaii: median $824 across 10 hospitalsHI$824Texas: median $697 across 169 hospitalsTX$697Florida: median $1,148 across 129 hospitalsFL$1,148
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $699. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Utah UT31$1,299+86%$804 – $1,529
Florida FL129$1,148+64%$586 – $3,952
Idaho ID13$1,143+63%$576 – $1,425
South Dakota SD16$1,083+55%$957 – $1,215
Maryland MD35$1,023+46%$540 – $1,260
California CA150$970+39%$323 – $1,350
Rhode Island RI10$926+32%$447 – $1,002
Colorado CO45$895+28%$613 – $2,002
North Dakota ND12$856+22%$566 – $983
Hawaii HI10$824+18%$376 – $998
Massachusetts MA30$823+18%$506 – $1,266
West Virginia WV16$821+17%$461 – $1,521
Ohio OH91$814+16%$471 – $1,529
Wisconsin WI73$811+16%$480 – $1,352
Illinois IL88$795+14%$454 – $1,290
Nebraska NE37$773+11%$439 – $1,257
Georgia GA72$743+6%$353 – $1,109
Pennsylvania PA82$739+6%$439 – $1,450
South Carolina SC47$728+4%$600 – $994
Washington WA43$722+3%$538 – $936
Texas TX169$6970%$507 – $1,331
Minnesota MN36$695−1%$490 – $999
Iowa IA51$677−3%$402 – $885
Kentucky KY49$663−5%$424 – $1,614
New York NY72$649−7%$437 – $1,402
Oregon OR19$629−10%$448 – $1,154
Nevada NV11$615−12%$421 – $2,256
Indiana IN62$582−17%$354 – $894
Alabama AL32$574−18%$420 – $1,284
Virginia VA48$574−18%$452 – $904
Michigan MI70$550−21%$382 – $1,079
Kansas KS45$530−24%$376 – $883
North Carolina NC72$520−26%$365 – $821
Arizona AZ31$518−26%$297 – $777
Missouri MO57$516−26%$398 – $982
New Jersey NJ45$447−36%$188 – $1,123
Maine ME17$441−37%$276 – $759
Arkansas AR13$437−38%$222 – $899
New Mexico NM17$420−40%$148 – $809
Louisiana LA27$389−44%$246 – $601
Mississippi MS35$376−46%$254 – $630
Oklahoma OK22$373−47%$341 – $805
Tennessee TN65$368−47%$198 – $489
Connecticut CT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT5not 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 $699.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,715$697$401 – $1,261
Children’s39$1,135$613 – $1,703
Critical access380$711$402 – $1,154
Ownership
For-profit313$899$432 – $2,533
Government326$585$372 – $909
Non-profit1,495$697$410 – $1,219
System affiliation
Part of a system1,812$707$412 – $1,299
Independent332$666$378 – $1,040

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,205
Median cash price$699
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

1,520 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $722 and the average of the middle 60% is $761; most fall between $412 and $1,229.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,520 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
$294$462$722$1,121$1,614

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($294 vs $1,614).

Of the 1,666 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,520 gave a usable cash price; 81 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 65 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,144 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (54%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,368 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,144
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here153
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 code2,368

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 Imaging With Vascular Flow|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 scan pictures with radioactive tracer (CPT 78013) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-78013-thyroid-scan-pictures-with-radioactive-tracer