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Procedure price report · Radioisotope bone scan

Bone marrow scan of one limited area

CPT 78102the billing code this page is about

A nuclear medicine scan that uses an injected radioactive tracer to image bone marrow in a single limited area of the body.

Hospitals typically charge $729 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,321 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $770. Most fall between $438 and $1,291 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,321
States
50
Filings dated
Feb 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 1,321 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
$315$461$729$1,217$1,815

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($315 vs $1,815).

How the prices are spread

$236 – $299: 52 hospitals$236$299 – $380: 90 hospitals$380 – $483: 181 hospitals$380$483 – $614: 156 hospitals$614 – $779: 161 hospitals$614$779 – $990: 170 hospitals$990 – $1,257: 164 hospitals$990$1,257 – $1,597: 110 hospitals$1,597 – $2,028: 58 hospitals$1,597$2,028 – $2,576: 51 hospitals$2,028median $729price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,193 of 1,321 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$236$29952
$299$38090
$380$483181
$483$614156
$614$779161
$779$990170
$990$1,257164
$1,257$1,597110
$1,597$2,02858
$2,028$2,57651

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$408
Median cash price$729
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.79×

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 $729.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $877 across 33 hospitalsWA$877Idaho: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $565 across 13 hospitalsMN$565Illinois: median $788 across 37 hospitalsIL$788Wisconsin: median $865 across 47 hospitalsWI$865Michigan: median $523 across 47 hospitalsMI$523New York: median $865 across 58 hospitalsNY$865Massachusetts: median $1,188 across 20 hospitalsMA$1,188Oregon: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $290 across 21 hospitalsIA$290Indiana: median $470 across 47 hospitalsIN$470Ohio: median $1,064 across 84 hospitalsOH$1,064Pennsylvania: median $622 across 82 hospitalsPA$622New Jersey: median $463 across 46 hospitalsNJ$463Connecticut: median $666 across 11 hospitalsCT$666Rhode Island: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $1,217 across 113 hospitalsCA$1,217Utah: median $559 across 24 hospitalsUT$559Colorado: median $921 across 25 hospitalsCO$921Nebraska: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $605 across 26 hospitalsMO$605Kentucky: median $429 across 14 hospitalsKY$429West Virginia: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $743 across 40 hospitalsVA$743Maryland: median $873 across 26 hospitalsMD$873Delaware: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $631 across 28 hospitalsAZ$631New Mexico: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: median $460 across 11 hospitalsAR$460Tennessee: median $452 across 30 hospitalsTN$452North Carolina: median $698 across 38 hospitalsNC$698South Carolina: median $1,100 across 19 hospitalsSC$1,100Oklahoma: median $373 across 22 hospitalsOK$373Louisiana: median $379 across 21 hospitalsLA$379Mississippi: median $306 across 13 hospitalsMS$306Alabama: median $478 across 14 hospitalsAL$478Georgia: median $592 across 47 hospitalsGA$592Hawaii: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $729 across 118 hospitalsTX$729Florida: median $1,106 across 74 hospitalsFL$1,106
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $729. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA113$1,217+67%$689 – $2,050
Massachusetts MA20$1,188+63%$535 – $1,385
Florida FL74$1,106+52%$790 – $1,984
South Carolina SC19$1,100+51%$787 – $1,358
Ohio OH84$1,064+46%$594 – $1,802
Colorado CO25$921+26%$412 – $1,355
Washington WA33$877+20%$526 – $1,272
Maryland MD26$873+20%$454 – $1,291
Wisconsin WI47$865+19%$474 – $1,419
New York NY58$865+19%$476 – $1,535
Illinois IL37$788+8%$237 – $1,065
Virginia VA40$743+2%$457 – $1,109
Texas TX118$7290%$461 – $1,200
North Carolina NC38$698−4%$693 – $906
Connecticut CT11$666−9%$528 – $1,379
Arizona AZ28$631−13%$337 – $2,983
Pennsylvania PA82$622−15%$444 – $1,714
Missouri MO26$605−17%$435 – $1,232
Georgia GA47$592−19%$510 – $1,109
Minnesota MN13$565−22%$496 – $830
Utah UT24$559−23%$559 – $658
Michigan MI47$523−28%$443 – $1,058
Alabama AL14$478−34%$356 – $1,058
Indiana IN47$470−36%$307 – $859
New Jersey NJ46$463−37%$295 – $550
Arkansas AR11$460−37%$300 – $647
Tennessee TN30$452−38%$401 – $751
Kentucky KY14$429−41%$214 – $673
Louisiana LA21$379−48%$224 – $605
Oklahoma OK22$373−49%$43 – $803
Mississippi MS13$306−58%$173 – $385
Iowa IA21$290−60%$64 – $905
Nebraska NE9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not 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 $729.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,183$736$439 – $1,304
Children’s16fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access115$566$380 – $1,081
Ownership
For-profit172$875$443 – $2,577
Government147$658$403 – $1,068
Non-profit995$729$439 – $1,243
System affiliation
Part of a system1,186$731$443 – $1,313
Independent135$673$379 – $1,153

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,348
Median cash price$729
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

1,035 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $770 and the average of the middle 60% is $804; most fall between $445 and $1,274.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,035 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
$329$483$770$1,225$1,768

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($329 vs $1,768).

Of the 1,119 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,035 gave a usable cash price; 39 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 45 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,321 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (33%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,462 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,321
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here83
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 — excluded57
Hospitals that filed this code1,462

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 bone scan family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Bone Marrow Imaging Limited Area|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.

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

Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Bone marrow scan of one limited area (CPT 78102) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-78102-bone-marrow-scan-of-one-limited-area