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Procedure price report · Radioisotope scan and function studies

Unlisted nuclear medicine scan of an endocrine gland

CPT 78099the billing code this page is about

A nuclear medicine imaging or function study of an endocrine gland, such as the thyroid or adrenal, that has no specific billing code of its own.

Hospitals typically charge $476 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 191 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $544. Most fall between $306 and $889 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
191
States
31
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 191 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
$182$340$476$847$1,066

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($182 vs $1,066).

How the prices are spread

$101 – $130: 5 hospitals$101$130 – $167: 1 hospitals$167 – $215: 19 hospitals$167$215 – $277: 4 hospitals$277 – $356: 23 hospitals$277$356 – $459: 25 hospitals$459 – $591: 42 hospitals$459$591 – $760: 10 hospitals$760 – $979: 30 hospitals$760$979 – $1,260: 17 hospitals$979median $476price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (176 of 191 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$101$1305
$130$1671
$167$21519
$215$2774
$277$35623
$356$45925
$459$59142
$591$76010
$760$97930
$979$1,26017

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$408
Median cash price$476
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.16×

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 $476.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVTNew Hampshire: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNHWashington: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceIDMontana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNDMinnesota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMNIllinois: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureILWisconsin: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: median $476 across 19 hospitalsNY$476Massachusetts: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceORNevada: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNVWyoming: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIAIndiana: median $340 across 14 hospitalsIN$340Ohio: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: median $964 across 13 hospitalsPA$964New Jersey: median $445 across 14 hospitalsNJ$445Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $182 across 36 hospitalsCA$182Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMOKentucky: 1 hospital 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: 1 hospital 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: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNMKansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOKLouisiana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceALGeorgia: median $347 across 11 hospitalsGA$347Hawaii: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceHITexas: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTXFlorida: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $476. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Pennsylvania PA13$964+103%$577 – $1,139
New York NY19$4760%$475 – $499
New Jersey NJ14$445−6%$101 – $473
Georgia GA11$347−27%$347 – $347
Indiana IN14$340−28%$298 – $481
California CA36$182−62%$182 – $889
Colorado CO9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Michigan MI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Texas TX7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Illinois IL6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Iowa IA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oklahoma OK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI1not 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 $476.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care177$476$298 – $889
Children’s3fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access11fewer than 20 hospitals
Ownership
For-profit31$437$306 – $975
Government28$476$331 – $533
Non-profit132$478$253 – $889
System affiliation
Part of a system170$476$247 – $889
Independent21$517$370 – $1,068

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,135
Median cash price$476
Cash as a share of list, median hospital55%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 45%. 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

117 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $653 and the average of the middle 60% is $531; most fall between $182 and $968.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 117 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
$182$328$653$889$1,183

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($182 vs $1,183).

Of the 125 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 117 gave a usable cash price; 6 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 2 a list price only.

How complete is this

191 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (5%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 201 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted191
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here8
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 — excluded2
Hospitals that filed this code201

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 24, 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 Unlisted Endocrine Px Dx Nuclear Medicine.

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, “Unlisted nuclear medicine scan of an endocrine gland (CPT 78099) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-78099-unlisted-nuclear-medicine-scan-of-an-endocrine-gland