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Procedure price report · Radioisotope scan and function studies

Parathyroid gland scan with 3-D imaging

CPT 78071the billing code this page is about

Nuclear medicine imaging of the parathyroid glands with a radioactive tracer that includes three-dimensional tomographic pictures in addition to standard views.

Hospitals typically charge $1,236 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,959 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,269. Most fall between $578 and $2,111 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,959
States
50
Filings dated
Jun 2024 – 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 1,959 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
$444$707$1,236$1,884$2,919

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($444 vs $2,919).

How the prices are spread

$322 – $416: 68 hospitals$322$416 – $538: 191 hospitals$538 – $696: 130 hospitals$538$696 – $899: 214 hospitals$899 – $1,163: 224 hospitals$899$1,163 – $1,503: 265 hospitals$1,503 – $1,943: 306 hospitals$1,503$1,943 – $2,511: 199 hospitals$2,511 – $3,246: 105 hospitals$2,511$3,246 – $4,196: 66 hospitals$3,246median $1,236price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,768 of 1,959 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$322$41668
$416$538191
$538$696130
$696$899214
$899$1,163224
$1,163$1,503265
$1,503$1,943306
$1,943$2,511199
$2,511$3,246105
$3,246$4,19666

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$408
Median cash price$1,236
Cash as a multiple of Medicare3.0×

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 $1,236.

Alaska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $532 across 16 hospitalsME$532Vermont: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $1,380 across 12 hospitalsNH$1,380Washington: median $1,240 across 48 hospitalsWA$1,240Idaho: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $924 across 49 hospitalsMN$924Illinois: median $1,295 across 78 hospitalsIL$1,295Wisconsin: median $1,511 across 75 hospitalsWI$1,511Michigan: median $842 across 52 hospitalsMI$842New York: median $814 across 71 hospitalsNY$814Massachusetts: median $1,699 across 34 hospitalsMA$1,699Oregon: median $1,448 across 25 hospitalsOR$1,448Nevada: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $1,688 across 17 hospitalsSD$1,688Iowa: median $946 across 37 hospitalsIA$946Indiana: median $1,104 across 68 hospitalsIN$1,104Ohio: median $1,802 across 112 hospitalsOH$1,802Pennsylvania: median $1,229 across 91 hospitalsPA$1,229New Jersey: median $517 across 49 hospitalsNJ$517Connecticut: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $1,518 across 128 hospitalsCA$1,518Utah: median $1,493 across 27 hospitalsUT$1,493Colorado: median $1,833 across 44 hospitalsCO$1,833Nebraska: median $1,321 across 35 hospitalsNE$1,321Missouri: median $950 across 41 hospitalsMO$950Kentucky: median $1,009 across 33 hospitalsKY$1,009West Virginia: median $636 across 18 hospitalsWV$636Virginia: median $1,123 across 49 hospitalsVA$1,123Maryland: median $1,856 across 30 hospitalsMD$1,856Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $1,101 across 37 hospitalsAZ$1,101New Mexico: median $1,023 across 10 hospitalsNM$1,023Kansas: median $748 across 26 hospitalsKS$748Arkansas: median $515 across 11 hospitalsAR$515Tennessee: median $467 across 47 hospitalsTN$467North Carolina: median $1,088 across 60 hospitalsNC$1,088South Carolina: median $851 across 27 hospitalsSC$851Oklahoma: median $775 across 26 hospitalsOK$775Louisiana: median $535 across 36 hospitalsLA$535Mississippi: median $385 across 27 hospitalsMS$385Alabama: median $849 across 23 hospitalsAL$849Georgia: median $1,547 across 65 hospitalsGA$1,547Hawaii: median $780 across 10 hospitalsHI$780Texas: median $1,666 across 156 hospitalsTX$1,666Florida: median $1,695 across 102 hospitalsFL$1,695
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,236. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Maryland MD30$1,856+50%$1,272 – $2,193
Colorado CO44$1,833+48%$884 – $2,938
Ohio OH112$1,802+46%$949 – $2,323
Massachusetts MA34$1,699+37%$767 – $2,296
Florida FL102$1,695+37%$790 – $2,300
South Dakota SD17$1,688+37%$1,488 – $2,034
Texas TX156$1,666+35%$890 – $2,839
Georgia GA65$1,547+25%$399 – $2,111
California CA128$1,518+23%$645 – $3,484
Wisconsin WI75$1,511+22%$1,029 – $2,313
Utah UT27$1,493+21%$1,300 – $1,757
Oregon OR25$1,448+17%$960 – $1,554
New Hampshire NH12$1,380+12%$1,041 – $2,280
Nebraska NE35$1,321+7%$709 – $1,838
Illinois IL78$1,295+5%$655 – $2,304
Washington WA48$1,2400%$772 – $2,153
Pennsylvania PA91$1,229−1%$545 – $2,245
Virginia VA49$1,123−9%$575 – $1,582
Indiana IN68$1,104−11%$793 – $1,598
Arizona AZ37$1,101−11%$491 – $2,891
North Carolina NC60$1,088−12%$589 – $1,313
New Mexico NM10$1,023−17%$403 – $1,448
Kentucky KY33$1,009−18%$412 – $2,970
Missouri MO41$950−23%$747 – $1,472
Iowa IA37$946−23%$382 – $1,271
Minnesota MN49$924−25%$687 – $1,790
South Carolina SC27$851−31%$744 – $1,796
Alabama AL23$849−31%$444 – $2,918
Michigan MI52$842−32%$530 – $1,731
New York NY71$814−34%$476 – $1,458
Hawaii HI10$780−37%$743 – $1,199
Oklahoma OK26$775−37%$610 – $1,297
Kansas KS26$748−39%$523 – $1,843
West Virginia WV18$636−49%$61 – $1,521
Louisiana LA36$535−57%$351 – $1,013
Maine ME16$532−57%$418 – $1,513
New Jersey NJ49$517−58%$445 – $907
Arkansas AR11$515−58%$336 – $1,302
Tennessee TN47$467−62%$242 – $1,292
Mississippi MS27$385−69%$299 – $851
Connecticut CT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT3not 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 $1,236.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,609$1,229$575 – $2,137
Children’s33$1,601$1,051 – $3,087
Critical access307$1,175$570 – $1,860
Ownership
For-profit251$1,623$652 – $3,366
Government265$1,064$484 – $1,614
Non-profit1,433$1,267$600 – $2,085
System affiliation
Part of a system1,704$1,269$595 – $2,144
Independent255$1,131$515 – $1,916

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,078
Median cash price$1,236
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

1,477 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,346 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,349; most fall between $687 and $2,111.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,477 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
$462$775$1,346$1,900$2,891

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($462 vs $2,891).

Of the 1,606 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,477 gave a usable cash price; 78 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 51 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,959 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (50%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,146 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,959
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here130
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 — excluded57
Hospitals that filed this code2,146

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 Static,Spect.

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, “Parathyroid gland scan with 3-D imaging (CPT 78071) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-78071-parathyroid-gland-scan-with-3-d-imaging