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Procedure price report · Radioisotope scan and function studies

Parathyroid gland scan with 3-D imaging and CT

CPT 78072the billing code this page is about

Nuclear medicine imaging of the parathyroid glands with a radioactive tracer, including three-dimensional pictures combined with a CT scan taken at the same time.

Hospitals typically charge $1,483 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,462 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,541. Most fall between $737 and $2,481 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,462
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 1,462 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
$523$822$1,483$2,364$3,384

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($523 vs $3,384).

How the prices are spread

$380 – $486: 55 hospitals$380$486 – $622: 85 hospitals$622 – $795: 124 hospitals$622$795 – $1,017: 164 hospitals$1,017 – $1,300: 135 hospitals$1,017$1,300 – $1,663: 182 hospitals$1,663 – $2,126: 159 hospitals$1,663$2,126 – $2,720: 261 hospitals$2,720 – $3,478: 79 hospitals$2,720$3,478 – $4,448: 75 hospitals$3,478median $1,483price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,319 of 1,462 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$380$48655
$486$62285
$622$795124
$795$1,017164
$1,017$1,300135
$1,300$1,663182
$1,663$2,126159
$2,126$2,720261
$2,720$3,47879
$3,478$4,44875

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$555
Median cash price$1,483
Cash as a multiple of Medicare2.7×

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 $1,483.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $1,243 across 29 hospitalsWA$1,243Idaho: median $1,761 across 10 hospitalsID$1,761Montana: 2 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 $1,061 across 43 hospitalsMN$1,061Illinois: median $2,196 across 58 hospitalsIL$2,196Wisconsin: median $1,363 across 76 hospitalsWI$1,363Michigan: median $983 across 48 hospitalsMI$983New York: median $678 across 52 hospitalsNY$678Massachusetts: median $1,847 across 31 hospitalsMA$1,847Oregon: median $1,471 across 30 hospitalsOR$1,471Nevada: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $1,899 across 15 hospitalsSD$1,899Iowa: median $1,116 across 27 hospitalsIA$1,116Indiana: median $1,292 across 30 hospitalsIN$1,292Ohio: median $1,990 across 88 hospitalsOH$1,990Pennsylvania: median $1,574 across 67 hospitalsPA$1,574New Jersey: median $629 across 32 hospitalsNJ$629Connecticut: median $1,222 across 11 hospitalsCT$1,222Rhode Island: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $2,481 across 109 hospitalsCA$2,481Utah: median $2,285 across 31 hospitalsUT$2,285Colorado: median $1,848 across 41 hospitalsCO$1,848Nebraska: median $808 across 21 hospitalsNE$808Missouri: median $767 across 30 hospitalsMO$767Kentucky: median $1,040 across 20 hospitalsKY$1,040West Virginia: median $834 across 15 hospitalsWV$834Virginia: median $1,373 across 45 hospitalsVA$1,373Maryland: median $2,128 across 25 hospitalsMD$2,128Delaware: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $814 across 19 hospitalsAZ$814New Mexico: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $1,483 across 11 hospitalsKS$1,483Arkansas: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $467 across 26 hospitalsTN$467North Carolina: median $1,117 across 40 hospitalsNC$1,117South Carolina: median $1,580 across 26 hospitalsSC$1,580Oklahoma: median $556 across 18 hospitalsOK$556Louisiana: median $673 across 15 hospitalsLA$673Mississippi: median $467 across 15 hospitalsMS$467Alabama: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $1,990 across 53 hospitalsGA$1,990Hawaii: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $2,081 across 112 hospitalsTX$2,081Florida: median $1,797 across 72 hospitalsFL$1,797
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,483. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA109$2,481+67%$1,390 – $3,509
Utah UT31$2,285+54%$1,880 – $2,689
Illinois IL58$2,196+48%$998 – $3,188
Maryland MD25$2,128+44%$1,433 – $2,470
Texas TX112$2,081+40%$1,318 – $2,839
Ohio OH88$1,990+34%$1,087 – $2,434
Georgia GA53$1,990+34%$653 – $3,068
South Dakota SD15$1,899+28%$1,332 – $2,256
Colorado CO41$1,848+25%$783 – $4,482
Massachusetts MA31$1,847+25%$870 – $2,484
Florida FL72$1,797+21%$1,014 – $2,647
Idaho ID10$1,761+19%$955 – $1,761
South Carolina SC26$1,580+7%$1,500 – $1,947
Pennsylvania PA67$1,574+6%$728 – $3,602
Kansas KS11$1,4830%$652 – $4,229
Oregon OR30$1,471−1%$1,231 – $2,025
Virginia VA45$1,373−7%$856 – $1,997
Wisconsin WI76$1,363−8%$830 – $2,019
Indiana IN30$1,292−13%$879 – $1,762
Washington WA29$1,243−16%$876 – $1,752
Connecticut CT11$1,222−18%$858 – $3,384
North Carolina NC40$1,117−25%$760 – $2,774
Iowa IA27$1,116−25%$230 – $2,013
Minnesota MN43$1,061−28%$612 – $2,179
Kentucky KY20$1,040−30%$509 – $3,043
Michigan MI48$983−34%$745 – $1,828
West Virginia WV15$834−44%$520 – $1,134
Arizona AZ19$814−45%$582 – $1,560
Nebraska NE21$808−46%$336 – $1,367
Missouri MO30$767−48%$737 – $1,193
New York NY52$678−54%$592 – $2,199
Louisiana LA15$673−55%$383 – $980
New Jersey NJ32$629−58%$560 – $1,569
Oklahoma OK18$556−63%$126 – $1,187
Mississippi MS15$467−69%$340 – $903
Tennessee TN26$467−69%$452 – $679
Arkansas AR9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not 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 $1,483.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,255$1,510$745 – $2,581
Children’s30$1,900$1,243 – $3,814
Critical access168$1,111$544 – $2,002
Ownership
For-profit151$1,761$760 – $3,589
Government144$1,144$637 – $1,878
Non-profit1,158$1,504$745 – $2,481
System affiliation
Part of a system1,316$1,510$737 – $2,522
Independent146$1,251$729 – $2,192

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,547
Median cash price$1,483
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

1,106 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,580 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,661; most fall between $807 and $2,481.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,106 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
$509$932$1,580$2,396$3,509

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($509 vs $3,509).

Of the 1,213 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,106 gave a usable cash price; 63 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 44 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,462 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (37%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,601 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,462
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here88
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 — excluded51
Hospitals that filed this code1,601

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 Parathyroid Imaging W/Tomographic Spect & CT|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, “Parathyroid gland scan with 3-D imaging and CT (CPT 78072) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-78072-parathyroid-gland-scan-with-3-d-imaging-and-ct