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Procedure price report · Radioisotope bone scan

Whole body bone marrow scan

CPT 78104the billing code this page is about

A nuclear medicine scan using an injected radioactive tracer to image the bone marrow throughout the entire body.

Hospitals typically charge $974 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,037 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $980. Most fall between $480 and $1,617 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,037
States
49
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 1,037 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
$393$555$974$1,469$1,936

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 4.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($393 vs $1,936).

How the prices are spread

$211 – $278: 16 hospitals$211$278 – $366: 21 hospitals$366 – $482: 125 hospitals$366$482 – $636: 96 hospitals$636 – $838: 144 hospitals$636$838 – $1,105: 155 hospitals$1,105 – $1,457: 169 hospitals$1,105$1,457 – $1,921: 156 hospitals$1,921 – $2,533: 35 hospitals$1,921$2,533 – $3,339: 22 hospitals$2,533median $974price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (939 of 1,037 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$211$27816
$278$36621
$366$482125
$482$63696
$636$838144
$838$1,105155
$1,105$1,457169
$1,457$1,921156
$1,921$2,53335
$2,533$3,33922

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$408
Median cash price$974
Cash as a multiple of Medicare2.4×

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 $974.

Alaska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAKMaine: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $871 across 31 hospitalsWA$871Idaho: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $601 across 21 hospitalsMN$601Illinois: median $1,004 across 33 hospitalsIL$1,004Wisconsin: median $1,295 across 34 hospitalsWI$1,295Michigan: median $679 across 17 hospitalsMI$679New York: median $548 across 46 hospitalsNY$548Massachusetts: median $1,201 across 18 hospitalsMA$1,201Oregon: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 2 hospitals 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 $89 across 15 hospitalsIA$89Indiana: median $829 across 27 hospitalsIN$829Ohio: median $1,379 across 62 hospitalsOH$1,379Pennsylvania: median $1,069 across 51 hospitalsPA$1,069New Jersey: median $488 across 43 hospitalsNJ$488Connecticut: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $1,321 across 101 hospitalsCA$1,321Utah: median $767 across 25 hospitalsUT$767Colorado: median $1,488 across 21 hospitalsCO$1,488Nebraska: median $480 across 12 hospitalsNE$480Missouri: median $595 across 18 hospitalsMO$595Kentucky: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $1,089 across 30 hospitalsVA$1,089Maryland: median $1,267 across 23 hospitalsMD$1,267Delaware: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $725 across 18 hospitalsAZ$725New Mexico: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: median $1,004 across 30 hospitalsNC$1,004South Carolina: median $854 across 11 hospitalsSC$854Oklahoma: median $746 across 18 hospitalsOK$746Louisiana: median $410 across 14 hospitalsLA$410Mississippi: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: median $806 across 13 hospitalsAL$806Georgia: median $642 across 38 hospitalsGA$642Hawaii: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $1,010 across 115 hospitalsTX$1,010Florida: median $1,165 across 67 hospitalsFL$1,165
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $974. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Colorado CO21$1,488+53%$651 – $2,549
Ohio OH62$1,379+42%$658 – $1,802
California CA101$1,321+36%$737 – $1,903
Wisconsin WI34$1,295+33%$686 – $1,693
Maryland MD23$1,267+30%$892 – $1,875
Massachusetts MA18$1,201+23%$535 – $1,593
Florida FL67$1,165+20%$894 – $2,253
Virginia VA30$1,089+12%$548 – $1,794
Pennsylvania PA51$1,069+10%$472 – $4,470
Texas TX115$1,010+4%$591 – $1,479
North Carolina NC30$1,004+3%$514 – $1,120
Illinois IL33$1,004+3%$296 – $1,397
Washington WA31$871−11%$636 – $1,077
South Carolina SC11$854−12%$318 – $1,400
Indiana IN27$829−15%$540 – $1,315
Alabama AL13$806−17%$372 – $1,919
Utah UT25$767−21%$767 – $902
Oklahoma OK18$746−23%$211 – $1,153
Arizona AZ18$725−26%$522 – $1,024
Michigan MI17$679−30%$550 – $1,238
Georgia GA38$642−34%$596 – $1,122
Minnesota MN21$601−38%$162 – $980
Missouri MO18$595−39%$451 – $1,100
New York NY46$548−44%$476 – $1,638
New Jersey NJ43$488−50%$439 – $648
Nebraska NE12$480−51%$191 – $1,127
Louisiana LA14$410−58%$370 – $704
Iowa IA15$89−91%$89 – $191
Oregon OR9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT1not 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 $974.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care919$968$478 – $1,617
Children’s23$1,251$795 – $1,773
Critical access90$903$408 – $1,693
Ownership
For-profit133$1,089$481 – $3,320
Government133$842$476 – $1,317
Non-profit766$974$478 – $1,556
System affiliation
Part of a system929$982$487 – $1,631
Independent108$795$440 – $1,256

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,819
Median cash price$974
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

792 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,051 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,053; most fall between $596 and $1,627.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 792 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
$451$658$1,051$1,488$1,876

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 4.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($451 vs $1,876).

Of the 877 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 792 gave a usable cash price; 47 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 38 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,037 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (26%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,160 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,037
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here77
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 — excluded46
Hospitals that filed this code1,160

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 Whole Body|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, “Whole body bone marrow scan (CPT 78104) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-78104-whole-body-bone-marrow-scan