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Procedure price report · Radioisotope scan and function studies

Breath sample collection for stomach bacteria test

CPT 78267the billing code this page is about

Covers giving the carbon-14 urea capsule and collecting the breath samples used to test for Helicobacter pylori infection; the laboratory analysis is billed separately.

Hospitals typically charge $118 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 598 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $149. Most fall between $22 and $413 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
598
States
40
Filings dated
Jun 2024 – 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 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
$13$29$118$332$656

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 52× what the cheapest tenth charges ($13 vs $656).

How the prices are spread

$11 – $18: 72 hospitals$11$18 – $29: 62 hospitals$29 – $47: 48 hospitals$29$47 – $76: 43 hospitals$76 – $123: 61 hospitals$76$123 – $199: 58 hospitals$199 – $323: 84 hospitals$199$323 – $522: 62 hospitals$522 – $845: 46 hospitals$522$845 – $1,369: 22 hospitals$845median $118price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (558 of 598 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$11$1872
$18$2962
$29$4748
$47$7643
$76$12361
$123$19958
$199$32384
$323$52262
$522$84546
$845$1,36922

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $118.

Alaska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAKMaine: median $200 across 11 hospitalsME$200Vermont: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVTNew Hampshire: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNHWashington: median $129 across 21 hospitalsWA$129Idaho: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNDMinnesota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMNIllinois: median $89 across 29 hospitalsIL$89Wisconsin: median $181 across 11 hospitalsWI$181Michigan: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: median $11 across 19 hospitalsNY$11Massachusetts: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $314 across 21 hospitalsOR$314Nevada: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $22 across 13 hospitalsIA$22Indiana: median $34 across 32 hospitalsIN$34Ohio: median $225 across 13 hospitalsOH$225Pennsylvania: median $23 across 30 hospitalsPA$23New Jersey: median $12 across 25 hospitalsNJ$12Connecticut: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $197 across 66 hospitalsCA$197Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $218 across 18 hospitalsCO$218Nebraska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $298 across 11 hospitalsMO$298Kentucky: median $163 across 10 hospitalsKY$163West Virginia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $109 across 16 hospitalsVA$109Maryland: median $600 across 17 hospitalsMD$600Delaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: median $212 across 16 hospitalsAZ$212New Mexico: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceKSArkansas: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceARTennessee: median $419 across 11 hospitalsTN$419North Carolina: median $26 across 22 hospitalsNC$26South Carolina: median $185 across 19 hospitalsSC$185Oklahoma: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOKLouisiana: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $257 across 10 hospitalsGA$257Hawaii: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $58 across 51 hospitalsTX$58Florida: median $591 across 42 hospitalsFL$591
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $118. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Maryland MD17$600+407%$202 – $756
Florida FL42$591+399%$272 – $1,369
Tennessee TN11$419+254%$20 – $419
Oregon OR21$314+166%$115 – $449
Missouri MO11$298+152%$221 – $331
Georgia GA10$257+117%$257 – $257
Ohio OH13$225+90%$138 – $326
Colorado CO18$218+84%$58 – $488
Arizona AZ16$212+79%$149 – $1,932
Maine ME11$200+69%$92 – $533
California CA66$197+66%$86 – $333
South Carolina SC19$185+56%$23 – $754
Wisconsin WI11$181+53%$155 – $186
Kentucky KY10$163+38%$16 – $300
Washington WA21$129+9%$32 – $249
Virginia VA16$109−8%$40 – $109
Illinois IL29$89−25%$44 – $389
Texas TX51$58−51%$33 – $194
Indiana IN32$34−71%$22 – $205
North Carolina NC22$26−78%$21 – $932
Pennsylvania PA30$23−81%$8 – $54
Iowa IA13$22−81%$22 – $91
New Jersey NJ25$12−90%$11 – $12
New York NY19$11−91%$11 – $91
Idaho ID9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Michigan MI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oklahoma OK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not 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 $118.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care521$115$22 – $408
Children’s5fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access69$162$29 – $536
Ownership
For-profit70$75$20 – $1,056
Government59$153$22 – $409
Non-profit466$115$23 – $352
System affiliation
Part of a system547$125$23 – $419
Independent51$108$17 – $279

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$231
Median cash price$118
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

442 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $167 and the average of the middle 60% is $169; most fall between $33 and $419.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 442 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
$22$50$167$333$662

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 30× what the cheapest tenth charges ($22 vs $662).

Of the 477 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 442 gave a usable cash price; 18 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 17 a list price only.

How complete is this

598 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (15%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 641 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted598
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here28
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 — excluded15
Hospitals that filed this code641

Sections not shown for this setting

  • Against Medicare: Medicare has no separately payable national outpatient (OPPS) rate for this code, so there is nothing honest to compare against.
  • 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 UREA BREATH TST C-14 ACQUISJ.

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, “Breath sample collection for stomach bacteria test (CPT 78267) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-78267-breath-sample-collection-for-stomach-bacteria-test