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Procedure price report · Other radioisotope scan

Scan for red blood cell breakdown in spleen or liver

CPT 78140the billing code this page is about

A study using labeled red blood cells and imaging to show where the cells are being trapped or destroyed, such as in the spleen or liver.

Hospitals typically charge $591 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 329 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $671. Most fall between $314 and $1,209 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
329
States
43
Filings dated
Jun 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 329 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
$91$408$591$1,058$2,440

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 27× what the cheapest tenth charges ($91 vs $2,440).

How the prices are spread

$63 – $94: 18 hospitals$63$94 – $139: 4 hospitals$139 – $206: 11 hospitals$139$206 – $306: 17 hospitals$306 – $453: 52 hospitals$306$453 – $673: 64 hospitals$673 – $997: 49 hospitals$673$997 – $1,479: 51 hospitals$1,479 – $2,194: 11 hospitals$1,479$2,194 – $3,254: 32 hospitals$2,194median $591price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (309 of 329 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$63$9418
$94$1394
$139$20611
$206$30617
$306$45352
$453$67364
$673$99749
$997$1,47951
$1,479$2,19411
$2,194$3,25432

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$408
Median cash price$591
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.45×

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 $591.

Alaska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAKMaine: 2 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: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMNIllinois: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureILWisconsin: median $1,170 across 12 hospitalsWI$1,170Michigan: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: median $476 across 30 hospitalsNY$476Massachusetts: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 3 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 $63 across 13 hospitalsIA$63Indiana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $853 across 19 hospitalsOH$853Pennsylvania: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figurePANew Jersey: median $445 across 10 hospitalsNJ$445Connecticut: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $3,254 across 34 hospitalsCA$3,254Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWVVirginia: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceKSArkansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $42 across 10 hospitalsOK$42Louisiana: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceALGeorgia: median $1,058 across 13 hospitalsGA$1,058Hawaii: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $445 across 40 hospitalsTX$445Florida: median $968 across 20 hospitalsFL$968
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $591. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA34$3,254+450%$670 – $3,254
Wisconsin WI12$1,170+98%$986 – $1,232
Georgia GA13$1,058+79%$1,058 – $1,058
Florida FL20$968+64%$185 – $2,294
Ohio OH19$853+44%$473 – $924
New York NY30$476−20%$338 – $1,033
Texas TX40$445−25%$408 – $513
New Jersey NJ10$445−25%$439 – $473
Iowa IA13$63−89%$63 – $63
Oklahoma OK10$42−93%$42 – $42
Louisiana LA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Illinois IL8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Pennsylvania PA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Michigan MI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not 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 $591.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care284$561$338 – $1,170
Children’s13fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access30$683$129 – $1,232
Ownership
For-profit42$513$295 – $1,410
Government50$566$348 – $968
Non-profit235$608$274 – $1,261
System affiliation
Part of a system285$608$289 – $1,186
Independent44$566$348 – $1,402

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$984
Median cash price$591
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

233 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $738 and the average of the middle 60% is $789; most fall between $338 and $1,527.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 233 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
$91$408$738$1,261$2,721

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 30× what the cheapest tenth charges ($91 vs $2,721).

Of the 275 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 233 gave a usable cash price; 40 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

329 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (8%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 398 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted329
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here61
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 — excluded8
Hospitals that filed this code398

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 Labeled RBC Sequestration Differntl Organ/Tissue|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, “Scan for red blood cell breakdown in spleen or liver (CPT 78140) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-78140-scan-for-red-blood-cell-breakdown-in-spleen-or-liver