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Procedure price report · Radioisotope scan and function studies

Liver and spleen nuclear scan with blood flow imaging

CPT 78216the billing code this page is about

A nuclear medicine imaging study of the liver and spleen using an injected radioactive tracer, including images of blood flow through the organs.

Hospitals typically charge $957 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,143 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $971. Most fall between $479 and $1,666 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,143
States
50
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 1,143 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
$369$517$957$1,451$2,592

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($369 vs $2,592).

How the prices are spread

$231 – $308: 34 hospitals$231$308 – $412: 61 hospitals$412 – $551: 173 hospitals$412$551 – $736: 121 hospitals$736 – $984: 142 hospitals$736$984 – $1,315: 210 hospitals$1,315 – $1,757: 128 hospitals$1,315$1,757 – $2,348: 87 hospitals$2,348 – $3,138: 38 hospitals$2,348$3,138 – $4,193: 43 hospitals$3,138median $957price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,037 of 1,143 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$231$30834
$308$41261
$412$551173
$551$736121
$736$984142
$984$1,315210
$1,315$1,757128
$1,757$2,34887
$2,348$3,13838
$3,138$4,19343

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$408
Median cash price$957
Cash as a multiple of Medicare2.3×

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 $957.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $842 across 11 hospitalsME$842Vermont: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $879 across 25 hospitalsWA$879Idaho: 9 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 $1,260 across 15 hospitalsMN$1,260Illinois: median $987 across 36 hospitalsIL$987Wisconsin: median $1,243 across 13 hospitalsWI$1,243Michigan: median $550 across 13 hospitalsMI$550New York: median $499 across 42 hospitalsNY$499Massachusetts: median $1,188 across 15 hospitalsMA$1,188Oregon: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $706 across 26 hospitalsIA$706Indiana: median $701 across 40 hospitalsIN$701Ohio: median $1,265 across 27 hospitalsOH$1,265Pennsylvania: median $714 across 50 hospitalsPA$714New Jersey: median $527 across 34 hospitalsNJ$527Connecticut: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $1,276 across 141 hospitalsCA$1,276Utah: median $3,564 across 24 hospitalsUT$3,564Colorado: median $881 across 27 hospitalsCO$881Nebraska: median $1,080 across 28 hospitalsNE$1,080Missouri: median $949 across 25 hospitalsMO$949Kentucky: median $1,000 across 26 hospitalsKY$1,000West Virginia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $1,208 across 27 hospitalsVA$1,208Maryland: median $593 across 27 hospitalsMD$593Delaware: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $571 across 18 hospitalsAZ$571New Mexico: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $969 across 14 hospitalsKS$969Arkansas: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $499 across 25 hospitalsTN$499North Carolina: median $561 across 20 hospitalsNC$561South Carolina: median $313 across 10 hospitalsSC$313Oklahoma: median $429 across 21 hospitalsOK$429Louisiana: median $424 across 25 hospitalsLA$424Mississippi: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $691 across 44 hospitalsGA$691Hawaii: median $857 across 11 hospitalsHI$857Texas: median $1,069 across 140 hospitalsTX$1,069Florida: median $1,302 across 55 hospitalsFL$1,302
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $957. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Utah UT24$3,564+272%$3,564 – $4,193
Florida FL55$1,302+36%$778 – $4,311
California CA141$1,276+33%$843 – $2,072
Ohio OH27$1,265+32%$473 – $1,765
Minnesota MN15$1,260+32%$747 – $1,260
Wisconsin WI13$1,243+30%$575 – $1,936
Virginia VA27$1,208+26%$568 – $1,381
Massachusetts MA15$1,188+24%$550 – $1,372
Nebraska NE28$1,080+13%$480 – $1,937
Texas TX140$1,069+12%$505 – $1,816
Kentucky KY26$1,000+4%$644 – $1,328
Illinois IL36$987+3%$724 – $1,465
Kansas KS14$969+1%$460 – $1,542
Missouri MO25$949−1%$588 – $1,866
Colorado CO27$881−8%$483 – $2,592
Washington WA25$879−8%$761 – $1,382
Hawaii HI11$857−10%$856 – $1,199
Maine ME11$842−12%$369 – $1,299
Pennsylvania PA50$714−25%$472 – $1,262
Iowa IA26$706−26%$346 – $1,081
Indiana IN40$701−27%$505 – $1,003
Georgia GA44$691−28%$176 – $1,451
Maryland MD27$593−38%$424 – $731
Arizona AZ18$571−40%$316 – $3,168
North Carolina NC20$561−41%$514 – $936
Michigan MI13$550−43%$468 – $643
New Jersey NJ34$527−45%$445 – $1,567
New York NY42$499−48%$476 – $1,647
Tennessee TN25$499−48%$196 – $500
Oklahoma OK21$429−55%$375 – $589
Louisiana LA25$424−56%$247 – $795
South Carolina SC10$313−67%$287 – $1,849
Arkansas AR9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not 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 $957.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care958$955$476 – $1,651
Children’s25$1,332$458 – $2,091
Critical access155$1,043$593 – $1,666
Ownership
For-profit179$1,231$552 – $3,754
Government152$750$460 – $1,231
Non-profit807$957$476 – $1,559
System affiliation
Part of a system971$968$480 – $1,733
Independent172$881$460 – $1,542

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,774
Median cash price$957
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

807 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,051 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,016; most fall between $505 and $1,651.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 807 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
$363$552$1,051$1,443$2,424

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($363 vs $2,424).

Of the 903 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 807 gave a usable cash price; 50 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 46 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,143 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (29%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,295 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,143
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here100
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 — excluded52
Hospitals that filed this code1,295

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 & Spleen Imaging W/Vascular Flow|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, “Liver and spleen nuclear scan with blood flow imaging (CPT 78216) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-78216-liver-and-spleen-nuclear-scan-with-blood-flow-imaging