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Procedure price report · Radioisotope scan and function studies

Thyroid cancer spread scan with extra studies

CPT 78016the billing code this page is about

Nuclear medicine imaging for spread of thyroid cancer in a limited area, along with additional measurements such as urine or blood tracer recovery.

Hospitals typically charge $588 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 252 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $717. Most fall between $342 and $1,378 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
252
States
36
Filings dated
Sep 2024 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 23, 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 252 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
$86$408$588$1,287$2,727

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 32× what the cheapest tenth charges ($86 vs $2,727).

How the prices are spread

$56 – $85: 8 hospitals$56$85 – $130: 15 hospitals$130 – $197: 3 hospitals$130$197 – $301: 11 hospitals$301 – $458: 35 hospitals$301$458 – $696: 61 hospitals$696 – $1,060: 31 hospitals$696$1,060 – $1,613: 38 hospitals$1,613 – $2,456: 7 hospitals$1,613$2,456 – $3,738: 27 hospitals$2,456median $588price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (236 of 252 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$56$858
$85$13015
$130$1973
$197$30111
$301$45835
$458$69661
$696$1,06031
$1,060$1,61338
$1,613$2,4567
$2,456$3,73827

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$408
Median cash price$588
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.44×

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 $588.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNHWashington: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceIDMontana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMTNorth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNDMinnesota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMNIllinois: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureILWisconsin: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWIMichigan: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: median $476 across 24 hospitalsNY$476Massachusetts: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceORNevada: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $86 across 11 hospitalsIA$86Indiana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: median $472 across 19 hospitalsPA$472New Jersey: median $463 across 22 hospitalsNJ$463Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $1,912 across 50 hospitalsCA$1,912Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWVVirginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVAMaryland: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceKSArkansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $56 across 10 hospitalsOK$56Louisiana: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $768 across 23 hospitalsTX$768Florida: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $588. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA50$1,912+225%$1,269 – $2,727
Texas TX23$768+31%$731 – $2,199
New York NY24$476−19%$475 – $738
Pennsylvania PA19$472−20%$408 – $1,229
New Jersey NJ22$463−21%$439 – $536
Iowa IA11$86−85%$86 – $86
Oklahoma OK10$56−90%$56 – $56
Florida FL9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Illinois IL7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Michigan MI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY1not 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 $588.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care237$607$385 – $1,378
Children’s4fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access11fewer than 20 hospitals
Ownership
For-profit44$607$370 – $2,199
Government25$476$403 – $1,155
Non-profit183$607$292 – $1,382
System affiliation
Part of a system224$607$342 – $1,382
Independent28$527$356 – $1,170

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,280
Median cash price$588
Cash as a share of list, median hospital56%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 44%. 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

164 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $917 and the average of the middle 60% is $962; most fall between $319 and $1,997.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 164 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
$86$473$917$1,378$2,727

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 32× what the cheapest tenth charges ($86 vs $2,727).

Of the 193 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 164 gave a usable cash price; 26 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 3 a list price only.

How complete is this

252 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (6%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 306 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted252
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here45
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 — excluded9
Hospitals that filed this code306

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 5, 2026 and September 23, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 23, 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 Carcinoma Metastases Img Addl Study|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 cancer spread scan with extra studies (CPT 78016) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-78016-thyroid-cancer-spread-scan-with-extra-studies