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Procedure price report · Other radioisotope scan

Plasma volume measurement, single blood sample

CPT 78110the billing code this page is about

A test that measures the volume of plasma in the bloodstream using a radioactive tracer, with one blood sample drawn after the tracer is given.

Hospitals typically charge $1,537 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 142 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,310. Most fall between $217 and $2,662 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
142
States
31
Filings dated
Dec 2024 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 23, 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 142 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
$23$269$1,537$1,877$4,301

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 184× what the cheapest tenth charges ($23 vs $4,301).

How the prices are spread

$20 – $34: 15 hospitals$20$34 – $59: 2 hospitals$59 – $100: 5 hospitals$59$100 – $171: 5 hospitals$171 – $293: 9 hospitals$171$293 – $502: 8 hospitals$502 – $859: 5 hospitals$502$859 – $1,469: 18 hospitals$1,469 – $2,514: 46 hospitals$1,469$2,514 – $4,301: 23 hospitals$2,514median $1,537price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (136 of 142 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$20$3415
$34$592
$59$1005
$100$1715
$171$2939
$293$5028
$502$8595
$859$1,46918
$1,469$2,51446
$2,514$4,30123

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$1,323
Median cash price$1,537
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 $1,537.

Alaska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAKMaine: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNHWashington: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceIDMontana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMTNorth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNDMinnesota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMNIllinois: median $73 across 10 hospitalsIL$73Wisconsin: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWIMichigan: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: median $1,545 across 21 hospitalsNY$1,545Massachusetts: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $20 across 13 hospitalsIA$20Indiana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceINOhio: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figurePANew Jersey: median $1,445 across 10 hospitalsNJ$1,445Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $4,301 across 26 hospitalsCA$4,301Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCONebraska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceKSArkansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOKLouisiana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceALGeorgia: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTXFlorida: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,537. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA26$4,301+180%$4,301 – $4,301
New York NY21$1,545+1%$253 – $1,545
New Jersey NJ10$1,445−6%$1,427 – $1,537
Illinois IL10$73−95%$73 – $312
Iowa IA13$20−99%$20 – $20
Georgia GA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Michigan MI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Pennsylvania PA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oklahoma OK3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Texas TX2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN1not 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 $1,537.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care134$1,545$238 – $3,644
Children’s2fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access6fewer than 20 hospitals
Ownership
For-profit22$1,057$165 – $1,877
Government19fewer than 20 hospitals
Non-profit101$1,531$144 – $4,301
System affiliation
Part of a system120$1,537$165 – $3,396
Independent22$938$238 – $1,868

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$209
Median cash price$1,537
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.

How complete is this

142 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (4%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 212 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted142
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here60
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 — excluded10
Hospitals that filed this code212

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 23, 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 Other radioisotope scan family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Plasma Vol Radiopharm Vol Dilution Spx 1 Sample|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, “Plasma volume measurement, single blood sample (CPT 78110) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-78110-plasma-volume-measurement-single-blood-sample