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Nuclear medicine liver and spleen scan, images only

CPT 78215the billing code this page is about

A nuclear medicine scan imaging both the liver and the spleen after a radioactive tracer is injected, producing still images without a blood flow study.

Hospitals typically charge $994 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,325 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,021. Most fall between $511 and $1,707 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,325
States
50
Filings dated
Aug 2022 – 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 2,325 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
$394$584$994$1,551$2,727

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($394 vs $2,727).

How the prices are spread

$255 – $336: 56 hospitals$255$336 – $444: 146 hospitals$444 – $586: 267 hospitals$444$586 – $773: 304 hospitals$773 – $1,020: 307 hospitals$773$1,020 – $1,346: 374 hospitals$1,346 – $1,776: 316 hospitals$1,346$1,776 – $2,344: 159 hospitals$2,344 – $3,093: 82 hospitals$2,344$3,093 – $4,082: 82 hospitals$3,093median $994price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,093 of 2,325 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$255$33656
$336$444146
$444$586267
$586$773304
$773$1,020307
$1,020$1,346374
$1,346$1,776316
$1,776$2,344159
$2,344$3,09382
$3,093$4,08282

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$408
Median cash price$994
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 $994.

Alaska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $667 across 21 hospitalsME$667Vermont: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $883 across 46 hospitalsWA$883Idaho: median $1,229 across 12 hospitalsID$1,229Montana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: median $811 across 16 hospitalsND$811Minnesota: median $602 across 47 hospitalsMN$602Illinois: median $1,152 across 96 hospitalsIL$1,152Wisconsin: median $951 across 77 hospitalsWI$951Michigan: median $660 across 50 hospitalsMI$660New York: median $914 across 83 hospitalsNY$914Massachusetts: median $1,237 across 35 hospitalsMA$1,237Oregon: median $983 across 29 hospitalsOR$983Nevada: median $1,330 across 15 hospitalsNV$1,330Wyoming: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $1,559 across 15 hospitalsSD$1,559Iowa: median $844 across 48 hospitalsIA$844Indiana: median $890 across 64 hospitalsIN$890Ohio: median $1,130 across 114 hospitalsOH$1,130Pennsylvania: median $865 across 92 hospitalsPA$865New Jersey: median $473 across 51 hospitalsNJ$473Connecticut: median $755 across 14 hospitalsCT$755Rhode Island: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $1,355 across 178 hospitalsCA$1,355Utah: median $765 across 32 hospitalsUT$765Colorado: median $1,159 across 49 hospitalsCO$1,159Nebraska: median $1,254 across 45 hospitalsNE$1,254Missouri: median $884 across 55 hospitalsMO$884Kentucky: median $1,105 across 52 hospitalsKY$1,105West Virginia: median $1,003 across 20 hospitalsWV$1,003Virginia: median $913 across 52 hospitalsVA$913Maryland: median $1,041 across 32 hospitalsMD$1,041Delaware: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $936 across 40 hospitalsAZ$936New Mexico: median $730 across 16 hospitalsNM$730Kansas: median $748 across 28 hospitalsKS$748Arkansas: median $629 across 17 hospitalsAR$629Tennessee: median $541 across 66 hospitalsTN$541North Carolina: median $1,013 across 63 hospitalsNC$1,013South Carolina: median $1,344 across 46 hospitalsSC$1,344Oklahoma: median $567 across 33 hospitalsOK$567Louisiana: median $493 across 43 hospitalsLA$493Mississippi: median $516 across 38 hospitalsMS$516Alabama: median $841 across 34 hospitalsAL$841Georgia: median $707 across 78 hospitalsGA$707Hawaii: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $1,124 across 185 hospitalsTX$1,124Florida: median $1,877 across 144 hospitalsFL$1,877
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $994. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL144$1,877+89%$792 – $6,161
South Dakota SD15$1,559+57%$1,396 – $1,614
California CA178$1,355+36%$725 – $2,727
South Carolina SC46$1,344+35%$974 – $1,742
Nevada NV15$1,330+34%$467 – $2,341
Nebraska NE45$1,254+26%$581 – $1,716
Massachusetts MA35$1,237+24%$617 – $1,592
Idaho ID12$1,229+24%$835 – $1,425
Colorado CO49$1,159+17%$767 – $2,592
Illinois IL96$1,152+16%$595 – $1,704
Ohio OH114$1,130+14%$692 – $1,774
Texas TX185$1,124+13%$594 – $2,970
Kentucky KY52$1,105+11%$522 – $1,811
Maryland MD32$1,041+5%$698 – $1,454
North Carolina NC63$1,013+2%$638 – $1,227
West Virginia WV20$1,003+1%$512 – $1,521
Oregon OR29$983−1%$834 – $1,559
Wisconsin WI77$951−4%$116 – $1,463
Arizona AZ40$936−6%$423 – $3,250
New York NY83$914−8%$476 – $1,644
Virginia VA52$913−8%$641 – $1,321
Indiana IN64$890−10%$561 – $1,446
Missouri MO55$884−11%$602 – $1,334
Washington WA46$883−11%$711 – $1,114
Pennsylvania PA92$865−13%$472 – $2,527
Iowa IA48$844−15%$512 – $1,237
Alabama AL34$841−15%$642 – $3,382
North Dakota ND16$811−18%$553 – $964
Utah UT32$765−23%$650 – $876
Connecticut CT14$755−24%$516 – $1,578
Kansas KS28$748−25%$406 – $1,124
New Mexico NM16$730−27%$628 – $1,562
Georgia GA78$707−29%$423 – $1,418
Maine ME21$667−33%$368 – $1,443
Michigan MI50$660−34%$407 – $1,063
Arkansas AR17$629−37%$293 – $841
Minnesota MN47$602−39%$121 – $1,164
Oklahoma OK33$567−43%$373 – $1,153
Tennessee TN66$541−46%$360 – $810
Mississippi MS38$516−48%$377 – $749
Louisiana LA43$493−50%$300 – $836
New Jersey NJ51$473−52%$425 – $733
Hawaii HI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT4not 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 $994.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,871$999$503 – $1,775
Children’s45$1,541$692 – $2,172
Critical access401$947$516 – $1,559
Ownership
For-profit364$1,472$628 – $4,460
Government339$844$476 – $1,397
Non-profit1,614$967$500 – $1,601
System affiliation
Part of a system1,966$1,019$514 – $1,758
Independent359$881$502 – $1,535

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,767
Median cash price$994
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

1,650 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,069 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,056; most fall between $545 and $1,667.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,650 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
$407$628$1,069$1,535$2,296

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($407 vs $2,296).

Of the 1,802 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,650 gave a usable cash price; 73 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 79 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,325 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (59%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,557 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,325
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here144
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 — excluded88
Hospitals that filed this code2,557

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 Other radioisotope scan family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Liver & Spleen Imaging Static Only.

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 and spleen scan, images only (CPT 78215) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-78215-nuclear-medicine-liver-and-spleen-scan-images-only