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Procedure price report · Radioisotope bone scan

Bone nuclear scan of a limited area

CPT 78300the billing code this page is about

A nuclear medicine bone scan using an injected radioactive tracer, covering one limited region of the body rather than the whole skeleton.

Hospitals typically charge $928 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,643 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $967. Most fall between $509 and $1,577 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,643
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 2,643 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
$376$576$928$1,426$2,383

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($376 vs $2,383).

How the prices are spread

$252 – $326: 67 hospitals$252$326 – $423: 140 hospitals$423 – $547: 271 hospitals$423$547 – $709: 311 hospitals$709 – $918: 390 hospitals$709$918 – $1,188: 389 hospitals$1,188 – $1,539: 377 hospitals$1,188$1,539 – $1,993: 233 hospitals$1,993 – $2,580: 110 hospitals$1,993$2,580 – $3,342: 91 hospitals$2,580median $928price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,379 of 2,643 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$252$32667
$326$423140
$423$547271
$547$709311
$709$918390
$918$1,188389
$1,188$1,539377
$1,539$1,993233
$1,993$2,580110
$2,580$3,34291

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$408
Median cash price$928
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 $928.

Alaska: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $515 across 23 hospitalsME$515Vermont: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $1,040 across 14 hospitalsNH$1,040Washington: median $1,000 across 54 hospitalsWA$1,000Idaho: median $1,417 across 16 hospitalsID$1,417Montana: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: median $779 across 22 hospitalsND$779Minnesota: median $744 across 78 hospitalsMN$744Illinois: median $1,030 across 107 hospitalsIL$1,030Wisconsin: median $901 across 99 hospitalsWI$901Michigan: median $663 across 74 hospitalsMI$663New York: median $792 across 79 hospitalsNY$792Massachusetts: median $1,264 across 35 hospitalsMA$1,264Oregon: median $930 across 33 hospitalsOR$930Nevada: median $1,182 across 16 hospitalsNV$1,182Wyoming: median $1,081 across 12 hospitalsWY$1,081South Dakota: median $1,344 across 17 hospitalsSD$1,344Iowa: median $797 across 61 hospitalsIA$797Indiana: median $898 across 81 hospitalsIN$898Ohio: median $1,071 across 118 hospitalsOH$1,071Pennsylvania: median $758 across 97 hospitalsPA$758New Jersey: median $517 across 51 hospitalsNJ$517Connecticut: median $758 across 16 hospitalsCT$758Rhode Island: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $1,394 across 189 hospitalsCA$1,394Utah: median $1,417 across 35 hospitalsUT$1,417Colorado: median $1,237 across 56 hospitalsCO$1,237Nebraska: median $986 across 62 hospitalsNE$986Missouri: median $660 across 66 hospitalsMO$660Kentucky: median $1,097 across 62 hospitalsKY$1,097West Virginia: median $788 across 28 hospitalsWV$788Virginia: median $859 across 61 hospitalsVA$859Maryland: median $962 across 31 hospitalsMD$962Delaware: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $989 across 37 hospitalsAZ$989New Mexico: median $812 across 19 hospitalsNM$812Kansas: median $679 across 56 hospitalsKS$679Arkansas: median $392 across 16 hospitalsAR$392Tennessee: median $530 across 67 hospitalsTN$530North Carolina: median $962 across 77 hospitalsNC$962South Carolina: median $933 across 49 hospitalsSC$933Oklahoma: median $670 across 42 hospitalsOK$670Louisiana: median $388 across 42 hospitalsLA$388Mississippi: median $484 across 38 hospitalsMS$484Alabama: median $601 across 33 hospitalsAL$601Georgia: median $677 across 83 hospitalsGA$677Hawaii: median $743 across 12 hospitalsHI$743Texas: median $1,059 across 188 hospitalsTX$1,059Florida: median $1,819 across 154 hospitalsFL$1,819
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $928. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL154$1,819+96%$799 – $5,690
Idaho ID16$1,417+53%$730 – $1,425
Utah UT35$1,417+53%$1,237 – $1,667
California CA189$1,394+50%$700 – $2,173
South Dakota SD17$1,344+45%$1,206 – $1,693
Massachusetts MA35$1,264+36%$692 – $1,425
Colorado CO56$1,237+33%$698 – $2,123
Nevada NV16$1,182+27%$663 – $2,589
Kentucky KY62$1,097+18%$738 – $1,614
Wyoming WY12$1,081+17%$746 – $1,558
Ohio OH118$1,071+15%$704 – $1,549
Texas TX188$1,059+14%$582 – $2,383
New Hampshire NH14$1,040+12%$605 – $2,383
Illinois IL107$1,030+11%$506 – $1,838
Washington WA54$1,000+8%$752 – $1,421
Arizona AZ37$989+7%$468 – $3,057
Nebraska NE62$986+6%$734 – $1,423
Maryland MD31$962+4%$615 – $1,353
North Carolina NC77$962+4%$510 – $1,192
South Carolina SC49$933+1%$742 – $1,234
Oregon OR33$9300%$582 – $1,256
Wisconsin WI99$901−3%$282 – $1,237
Indiana IN81$898−3%$548 – $1,301
Virginia VA61$859−7%$653 – $1,591
New Mexico NM19$812−12%$446 – $1,342
Iowa IA61$797−14%$631 – $974
New York NY79$792−15%$475 – $1,514
West Virginia WV28$788−15%$525 – $1,426
North Dakota ND22$779−16%$643 – $1,146
Connecticut CT16$758−18%$637 – $1,583
Pennsylvania PA97$758−18%$472 – $1,849
Minnesota MN78$744−20%$541 – $1,199
Hawaii HI12$743−20%$740 – $1,199
Kansas KS56$679−27%$435 – $1,184
Georgia GA83$677−27%$399 – $1,432
Oklahoma OK42$670−28%$264 – $1,058
Michigan MI74$663−29%$533 – $1,256
Missouri MO66$660−29%$528 – $1,125
Alabama AL33$601−35%$386 – $1,304
Tennessee TN67$530−43%$357 – $964
New Jersey NJ51$517−44%$381 – $1,547
Maine ME23$515−44%$361 – $1,034
Mississippi MS38$484−48%$331 – $805
Arkansas AR16$392−58%$314 – $849
Louisiana LA42$388−58%$266 – $831
Montana MT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE4not 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 $928.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,039$930$504 – $1,663
Children’s45$1,129$622 – $1,724
Critical access549$906$515 – $1,346
Ownership
For-profit388$1,326$578 – $3,444
Government415$789$454 – $1,303
Non-profit1,830$912$507 – $1,521
System affiliation
Part of a system2,224$951$521 – $1,635
Independent419$816$447 – $1,387

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,570
Median cash price$928
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

1,828 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $961 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,000; most fall between $540 and $1,549.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,828 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
$392$600$961$1,442$2,066

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($392 vs $2,066).

Of the 2,006 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,828 gave a usable cash price; 89 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 89 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,643 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (67%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,906 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,643
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here165
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 — excluded98
Hospitals that filed this code2,906

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 bone scan family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Bone &/Joint Imaging Limited Area|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, “Bone nuclear scan of a limited area (CPT 78300) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-78300-bone-nuclear-scan-of-a-limited-area