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Procedure price report · Radioisotope bone scan

Bone marrow scan of several areas

CPT 78103the billing code this page is about

A nuclear medicine scan using an injected radioactive tracer to image bone marrow in multiple separate areas of the body, but not the whole body.

Hospitals typically charge $841 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 745 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $869. Most fall between $445 and $1,424 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
745
States
47
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 745 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
$340$476$841$1,321$2,081

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($340 vs $2,081).

How the prices are spread

$255 – $327: 35 hospitals$255$327 – $419: 47 hospitals$419 – $538: 105 hospitals$419$538 – $690: 76 hospitals$690 – $885: 89 hospitals$690$885 – $1,136: 105 hospitals$1,136 – $1,457: 111 hospitals$1,136$1,457 – $1,870: 55 hospitals$1,870 – $2,399: 24 hospitals$1,870$2,399 – $3,078: 26 hospitals$2,399median $841price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (673 of 745 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$255$32735
$327$41947
$419$538105
$538$69076
$690$88589
$885$1,136105
$1,136$1,457111
$1,457$1,87055
$1,870$2,39924
$2,399$3,07826

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$408
Median cash price$841
Cash as a multiple of Medicare2.1×

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 $841.

Alaska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAKMaine: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $761 across 27 hospitalsWA$761Idaho: 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: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $846 across 15 hospitalsIL$846Wisconsin: median $1,035 across 12 hospitalsWI$1,035Michigan: median $550 across 22 hospitalsMI$550New York: median $840 across 40 hospitalsNY$840Massachusetts: median $799 across 11 hospitalsMA$799Oregon: 7 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 $566 across 16 hospitalsIA$566Indiana: median $736 across 18 hospitalsIN$736Ohio: median $994 across 54 hospitalsOH$994Pennsylvania: median $504 across 40 hospitalsPA$504New Jersey: median $445 across 28 hospitalsNJ$445Connecticut: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $1,243 across 74 hospitalsCA$1,243Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $1,399 across 10 hospitalsCO$1,399Nebraska: median $381 across 10 hospitalsNE$381Missouri: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: median $1,457 across 12 hospitalsKY$1,457West Virginia: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $934 across 31 hospitalsVA$934Maryland: median $1,181 across 14 hospitalsMD$1,181Delaware: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $915 across 23 hospitalsAZ$915New Mexico: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $475 across 14 hospitalsTN$475North Carolina: median $823 across 19 hospitalsNC$823South Carolina: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $395 across 18 hospitalsOK$395Louisiana: median $325 across 10 hospitalsLA$325Mississippi: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $560 across 29 hospitalsGA$560Hawaii: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $1,010 across 75 hospitalsTX$1,010Florida: median $1,418 across 41 hospitalsFL$1,418
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $841. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Kentucky KY12$1,457+73%$255 – $1,457
Florida FL41$1,418+69%$1,026 – $2,398
Colorado CO10$1,399+66%$518 – $1,399
California CA74$1,243+48%$821 – $2,266
Maryland MD14$1,181+40%$863 – $2,273
Wisconsin WI12$1,035+23%$543 – $1,309
Texas TX75$1,010+20%$367 – $1,646
Ohio OH54$994+18%$432 – $1,802
Virginia VA31$934+11%$609 – $1,719
Arizona AZ23$915+9%$491 – $3,035
Illinois IL15$8460%$602 – $1,045
New York NY40$8400%$476 – $1,729
North Carolina NC19$823−2%$687 – $1,114
Massachusetts MA11$799−5%$535 – $1,512
Washington WA27$761−10%$526 – $942
Indiana IN18$736−13%$216 – $1,333
Iowa IA16$566−33%$79 – $791
Georgia GA29$560−33%$560 – $611
Michigan MI22$550−35%$282 – $938
Pennsylvania PA40$504−40%$393 – $1,229
Tennessee TN14$475−44%$475 – $759
New Jersey NJ28$445−47%$311 – $1,210
Oklahoma OK18$395−53%$57 – $639
Nebraska NE10$381−55%$320 – $423
Louisiana LA10$325−61%$314 – $410
Connecticut CT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV1not 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 $841.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care687$838$445 – $1,418
Children’s12fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access41$938$421 – $1,546
Ownership
For-profit108$1,076$399 – $3,078
Government74$700$475 – $958
Non-profit558$849$449 – $1,399
System affiliation
Part of a system666$849$451 – $1,418
Independent79$738$421 – $1,619

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,596
Median cash price$841
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

565 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $915 and the average of the middle 60% is $905; most fall between $473 and $1,399.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 565 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
$367$523$915$1,305$1,802

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 4.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($367 vs $1,802).

Of the 621 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 565 gave a usable cash price; 37 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 19 a list price only.

How complete is this

745 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (19%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 850 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted745
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here76
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 — excluded29
Hospitals that filed this code850

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 Multiple Areas|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, “Bone marrow scan of several areas (CPT 78103) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-78103-bone-marrow-scan-of-several-areas