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Procedure price report · Radioisotope scan and function studies

Parathyroid gland scan, standard images

CPT 78070the billing code this page is about

Nuclear medicine imaging of the parathyroid glands using a radioactive tracer, producing flat two-dimensional pictures, including image subtraction when done.

Hospitals typically charge $997 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,644 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,034. Most fall between $512 and $1,785 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,644
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 2,644 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
$401$580$997$1,560$2,517

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($401 vs $2,517).

How the prices are spread

$286 – $370: 67 hospitals$286$370 – $478: 259 hospitals$478 – $619: 267 hospitals$478$619 – $801: 273 hospitals$801 – $1,036: 392 hospitals$801$1,036 – $1,341: 365 hospitals$1,341 – $1,735: 333 hospitals$1,341$1,735 – $2,244: 232 hospitals$2,244 – $2,904: 121 hospitals$2,244$2,904 – $3,757: 71 hospitals$2,904median $997price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,380 of 2,644 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$286$37067
$370$478259
$478$619267
$619$801273
$801$1,036392
$1,036$1,341365
$1,341$1,735333
$1,735$2,244232
$2,244$2,904121
$2,904$3,75771

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$408
Median cash price$997
Cash as a multiple of Medicare2.4×

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 $997.

Alaska: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $463 across 21 hospitalsME$463Vermont: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $1,361 across 12 hospitalsNH$1,361Washington: median $906 across 49 hospitalsWA$906Idaho: median $1,289 across 16 hospitalsID$1,289Montana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: median $866 across 14 hospitalsND$866Minnesota: median $955 across 67 hospitalsMN$955Illinois: median $1,073 across 107 hospitalsIL$1,073Wisconsin: median $1,000 across 92 hospitalsWI$1,000Michigan: median $752 across 64 hospitalsMI$752New York: median $812 across 93 hospitalsNY$812Massachusetts: median $1,096 across 37 hospitalsMA$1,096Oregon: median $931 across 36 hospitalsOR$931Nevada: median $1,226 across 16 hospitalsNV$1,226Wyoming: median $1,170 across 11 hospitalsWY$1,170South Dakota: median $1,798 across 15 hospitalsSD$1,798Iowa: median $882 across 53 hospitalsIA$882Indiana: median $869 across 82 hospitalsIN$869Ohio: median $1,251 across 124 hospitalsOH$1,251Pennsylvania: median $890 across 98 hospitalsPA$890New Jersey: median $505 across 55 hospitalsNJ$505Connecticut: median $735 across 12 hospitalsCT$735Rhode Island: median $979 across 10 hospitalsRI$979California: median $1,519 across 189 hospitalsCA$1,519Utah: median $1,195 across 36 hospitalsUT$1,195Colorado: median $1,150 across 52 hospitalsCO$1,150Nebraska: median $1,221 across 62 hospitalsNE$1,221Missouri: median $806 across 66 hospitalsMO$806Kentucky: median $928 across 57 hospitalsKY$928West Virginia: median $787 across 32 hospitalsWV$787Virginia: median $825 across 58 hospitalsVA$825Maryland: median $1,582 across 33 hospitalsMD$1,582Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $1,130 across 41 hospitalsAZ$1,130New Mexico: median $1,024 across 12 hospitalsNM$1,024Kansas: median $834 across 52 hospitalsKS$834Arkansas: median $468 across 24 hospitalsAR$468Tennessee: median $539 across 75 hospitalsTN$539North Carolina: median $841 across 74 hospitalsNC$841South Carolina: median $1,204 across 48 hospitalsSC$1,204Oklahoma: median $798 across 42 hospitalsOK$798Louisiana: median $462 across 49 hospitalsLA$462Mississippi: median $504 across 40 hospitalsMS$504Alabama: median $713 across 31 hospitalsAL$713Georgia: median $872 across 89 hospitalsGA$872Hawaii: median $818 across 11 hospitalsHI$818Texas: median $1,239 across 200 hospitalsTX$1,239Florida: median $1,677 across 161 hospitalsFL$1,677
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $997. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
South Dakota SD15$1,798+80%$1,291 – $2,087
Florida FL161$1,677+68%$1,010 – $3,757
Maryland MD33$1,582+59%$800 – $2,211
California CA189$1,519+52%$630 – $2,414
New Hampshire NH12$1,361+36%$465 – $1,930
Idaho ID16$1,289+29%$780 – $1,425
Ohio OH124$1,251+25%$689 – $1,802
Texas TX200$1,239+24%$504 – $2,198
Nevada NV16$1,226+23%$483 – $3,033
Nebraska NE62$1,221+22%$782 – $1,597
South Carolina SC48$1,204+21%$832 – $1,646
Utah UT36$1,195+20%$1,078 – $1,405
Wyoming WY11$1,170+17%$731 – $1,883
Colorado CO52$1,150+15%$651 – $2,580
Arizona AZ41$1,130+13%$476 – $2,435
Massachusetts MA37$1,096+10%$730 – $1,695
Illinois IL107$1,073+8%$706 – $1,557
New Mexico NM12$1,024+3%$554 – $1,693
Wisconsin WI92$1,0000%$603 – $1,927
Rhode Island RI10$979−2%$447 – $1,060
Minnesota MN67$955−4%$500 – $1,532
Oregon OR36$931−7%$680 – $1,144
Kentucky KY57$928−7%$476 – $1,614
Washington WA49$906−9%$684 – $1,382
Pennsylvania PA98$890−11%$472 – $1,859
Iowa IA53$882−12%$583 – $1,188
Georgia GA89$872−13%$460 – $1,282
Indiana IN82$869−13%$610 – $1,203
North Dakota ND14$866−13%$570 – $1,356
North Carolina NC74$841−16%$514 – $1,086
Kansas KS52$834−16%$408 – $1,349
Virginia VA58$825−17%$498 – $1,391
Hawaii HI11$818−18%$743 – $998
New York NY93$812−19%$476 – $1,676
Missouri MO66$806−19%$512 – $1,261
Oklahoma OK42$798−20%$526 – $1,341
West Virginia WV32$787−21%$519 – $1,521
Michigan MI64$752−25%$550 – $1,574
Connecticut CT12$735−26%$637 – $1,248
Alabama AL31$713−29%$356 – $1,710
Tennessee TN75$539−46%$392 – $1,065
New Jersey NJ55$505−49%$439 – $927
Mississippi MS40$504−49%$371 – $635
Arkansas AR24$468−53%$237 – $693
Maine ME21$463−54%$321 – $1,404
Louisiana LA49$462−54%$323 – $862
Vermont VT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE6not 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 $997.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,088$982$502 – $1,840
Children’s40$1,635$627 – $2,294
Critical access506$995$534 – $1,468
Ownership
For-profit409$1,371$594 – $3,738
Government411$871$460 – $1,332
Non-profit1,814$977$513 – $1,703
System affiliation
Part of a system2,228$1,017$514 – $1,802
Independent416$886$500 – $1,469

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,735
Median cash price$997
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

1,833 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,042 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,083; most fall between $551 and $1,768.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,833 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
$431$646$1,042$1,561$2,227

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($431 vs $2,227).

Of the 2,019 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,833 gave a usable cash price; 101 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 85 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,644 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (67%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,908 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,644
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here170
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded93
Hospitals that filed this code2,908

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 HC Parathyroid Scan.

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.

Download this page’s figures: JSON · CSV. Aggregates only — the per-hospital prices are on the compare tool.

Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Parathyroid gland scan, standard images (CPT 78070) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-78070-parathyroid-gland-scan-standard-images