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Procedure price report · Radioisotope scan and function studies

Nuclear medicine liver scan with blood flow imaging

CPT 78202the billing code this page is about

A nuclear medicine scan of the liver using an injected radioactive tracer, including imaging of blood flow into the liver.

Hospitals typically charge $1,070 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 857 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,166. Most fall between $573 and $2,331 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
857
States
48
Filings dated
Mar 2023 – 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 857 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
$396$637$1,070$1,865$4,155

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 10× what the cheapest tenth charges ($396 vs $4,155).

How the prices are spread

$294 – $391: 45 hospitals$294$391 – $520: 50 hospitals$520 – $691: 111 hospitals$520$691 – $918: 129 hospitals$918 – $1,221: 90 hospitals$918$1,221 – $1,623: 126 hospitals$1,623 – $2,157: 81 hospitals$1,623$2,157 – $2,868: 47 hospitals$2,868 – $3,812: 39 hospitals$2,868$3,812 – $5,068: 64 hospitals$3,812median $1,070price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (782 of 857 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$294$39145
$391$52050
$520$691111
$691$918129
$918$1,22190
$1,221$1,623126
$1,623$2,15781
$2,157$2,86847
$2,868$3,81239
$3,812$5,06864

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$555
Median cash price$1,070
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.93×

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 $1,070.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $972 across 11 hospitalsME$972Vermont: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $1,124 across 26 hospitalsWA$1,124Idaho: 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: median $997 across 13 hospitalsMN$997Illinois: median $1,310 across 33 hospitalsIL$1,310Wisconsin: median $1,380 across 12 hospitalsWI$1,380Michigan: median $697 across 10 hospitalsMI$697New York: median $645 across 40 hospitalsNY$645Massachusetts: median $1,995 across 13 hospitalsMA$1,995Oregon: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $58 across 16 hospitalsIA$58Indiana: median $457 across 21 hospitalsIN$457Ohio: median $1,357 across 38 hospitalsOH$1,357Pennsylvania: median $1,510 across 45 hospitalsPA$1,510New Jersey: median $629 across 30 hospitalsNJ$629Connecticut: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $1,685 across 90 hospitalsCA$1,685Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $2,661 across 14 hospitalsCO$2,661Nebraska: median $1,003 across 14 hospitalsNE$1,003Missouri: median $1,228 across 17 hospitalsMO$1,228Kentucky: median $4,527 across 17 hospitalsKY$4,527West Virginia: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $979 across 26 hospitalsVA$979Maryland: median $814 across 20 hospitalsMD$814Delaware: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $666 across 15 hospitalsAZ$666New Mexico: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $475 across 23 hospitalsTN$475North Carolina: median $783 across 19 hospitalsNC$783South Carolina: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOKLouisiana: median $484 across 14 hospitalsLA$484Mississippi: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: median $827 across 10 hospitalsAL$827Georgia: median $904 across 27 hospitalsGA$904Hawaii: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $1,255 across 101 hospitalsTX$1,255Florida: median $2,294 across 53 hospitalsFL$2,294
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,070. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Kentucky KY17$4,527+323%$522 – $5,068
Colorado CO14$2,661+149%$1,241 – $11,008
Florida FL53$2,294+114%$1,070 – $4,229
Massachusetts MA13$1,995+86%$1,348 – $3,189
California CA90$1,685+57%$747 – $4,161
Pennsylvania PA45$1,510+41%$626 – $4,929
Wisconsin WI12$1,380+29%$1,380 – $2,257
Ohio OH38$1,357+27%$716 – $1,838
Illinois IL33$1,310+22%$545 – $2,945
Texas TX101$1,255+17%$820 – $2,996
Missouri MO17$1,228+15%$565 – $2,022
Washington WA26$1,124+5%$754 – $2,271
Nebraska NE14$1,003−6%$400 – $1,597
Minnesota MN13$997−7%$612 – $1,436
Virginia VA26$979−9%$475 – $1,223
Maine ME11$972−9%$535 – $2,296
Georgia GA27$904−15%$802 – $1,451
Alabama AL10$827−23%$381 – $1,058
Maryland MD20$814−24%$544 – $1,200
North Carolina NC19$783−27%$668 – $1,374
Michigan MI10$697−35%$322 – $747
Arizona AZ15$666−38%$364 – $867
New York NY40$645−40%$555 – $2,331
New Jersey NJ30$629−41%$544 – $718
Louisiana LA14$484−55%$350 – $1,138
Tennessee TN23$475−56%$404 – $730
Indiana IN21$457−57%$338 – $1,072
Iowa IA16$58−95%$58 – $865
Arkansas AR9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oklahoma OK7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not 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 $1,070.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care746$1,070$585 – $2,544
Children’s14fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access92$1,018$536 – $1,666
Ownership
For-profit144$1,685$669 – $4,440
Government101$882$565 – $1,454
Non-profit607$1,058$554 – $2,022
System affiliation
Part of a system742$1,124$588 – $2,544
Independent115$873$542 – $1,712

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,092
Median cash price$1,070
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

598 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,228 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,216; most fall between $607 and $2,190.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 598 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
$396$703$1,228$1,800$3,824

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($396 vs $3,824).

Of the 682 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 598 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 37 a list price only.

How complete is this

857 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (22%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 987 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted857
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here91
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 — excluded38
Hospitals that filed this code987

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 scan and function studies family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Liver Imaging W/Vascular Flow.

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, “Nuclear medicine liver scan with blood flow imaging (CPT 78202) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-78202-nuclear-medicine-liver-scan-with-blood-flow-imaging