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Procedure price report · Radioisotope bone scan

Nuclear bone scan of multiple body areas

CPT 78305the billing code this page is about

Imaging of bones and joints in more than one area of the body after a small amount of radioactive tracer is injected into a vein.

Hospitals typically charge $1,086 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,628 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,104. Most fall between $535 and $1,792 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,628
States
50
Filings dated
Jan 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 1,628 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
$419$626$1,086$1,649$2,453

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($419 vs $2,453).

How the prices are spread

$309 – $395: 60 hospitals$309$395 – $503: 160 hospitals$503 – $642: 118 hospitals$503$642 – $818: 157 hospitals$818 – $1,044: 191 hospitals$818$1,044 – $1,331: 279 hospitals$1,331 – $1,697: 211 hospitals$1,331$1,697 – $2,164: 174 hospitals$2,164 – $2,760: 59 hospitals$2,164$2,760 – $3,520: 57 hospitals$2,760median $1,086price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,466 of 1,628 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$309$39560
$395$503160
$503$642118
$642$818157
$818$1,044191
$1,044$1,331279
$1,331$1,697211
$1,697$2,164174
$2,164$2,76059
$2,760$3,52057

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$408
Median cash price$1,086
Cash as a multiple of Medicare2.7×

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 $1,086.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $563 across 20 hospitalsME$563Vermont: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $1,185 across 42 hospitalsWA$1,185Idaho: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: median $1,171 across 19 hospitalsND$1,171Minnesota: median $959 across 28 hospitalsMN$959Illinois: median $1,352 across 64 hospitalsIL$1,352Wisconsin: median $1,170 across 65 hospitalsWI$1,170Michigan: median $950 across 43 hospitalsMI$950New York: median $778 across 58 hospitalsNY$778Massachusetts: median $1,323 across 22 hospitalsMA$1,323Oregon: median $1,052 across 30 hospitalsOR$1,052Nevada: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 8 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 $1,015 across 42 hospitalsIA$1,015Indiana: median $731 across 59 hospitalsIN$731Ohio: median $1,269 across 71 hospitalsOH$1,269Pennsylvania: median $865 across 68 hospitalsPA$865New Jersey: median $473 across 42 hospitalsNJ$473Connecticut: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $1,649 across 142 hospitalsCA$1,649Utah: median $1,734 across 23 hospitalsUT$1,734Colorado: median $1,538 across 45 hospitalsCO$1,538Nebraska: median $1,279 across 47 hospitalsNE$1,279Missouri: median $983 across 40 hospitalsMO$983Kentucky: median $753 across 30 hospitalsKY$753West Virginia: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $975 across 39 hospitalsVA$975Maryland: median $1,224 across 24 hospitalsMD$1,224Delaware: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $1,059 across 25 hospitalsAZ$1,059New Mexico: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $827 across 42 hospitalsKS$827Arkansas: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $452 across 31 hospitalsTN$452North Carolina: median $765 across 31 hospitalsNC$765South Carolina: median $1,100 across 20 hospitalsSC$1,100Oklahoma: median $592 across 25 hospitalsOK$592Louisiana: median $447 across 23 hospitalsLA$447Mississippi: median $438 across 14 hospitalsMS$438Alabama: median $643 across 17 hospitalsAL$643Georgia: median $1,024 across 49 hospitalsGA$1,024Hawaii: median $987 across 12 hospitalsHI$987Texas: median $1,150 across 120 hospitalsTX$1,150Florida: median $1,516 across 67 hospitalsFL$1,516
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,086. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Utah UT23$1,734+60%$1,734 – $2,040
California CA142$1,649+52%$862 – $2,971
Colorado CO45$1,538+42%$873 – $4,568
Florida FL67$1,516+40%$790 – $4,078
Illinois IL64$1,352+25%$457 – $1,742
Massachusetts MA22$1,323+22%$774 – $1,570
Nebraska NE47$1,279+18%$842 – $1,778
Ohio OH71$1,269+17%$846 – $1,609
Maryland MD24$1,224+13%$841 – $2,118
Washington WA42$1,185+9%$789 – $1,792
North Dakota ND19$1,171+8%$672 – $1,375
Wisconsin WI65$1,170+8%$687 – $1,871
Texas TX120$1,150+6%$616 – $2,005
South Carolina SC20$1,100+1%$499 – $1,472
Arizona AZ25$1,059−2%$566 – $4,275
Oregon OR30$1,052−3%$780 – $1,338
Georgia GA49$1,024−6%$334 – $1,238
Iowa IA42$1,015−6%$558 – $1,207
Hawaii HI12$987−9%$812 – $1,199
Missouri MO40$983−9%$618 – $1,475
Virginia VA39$975−10%$799 – $1,574
Minnesota MN28$959−12%$879 – $1,496
Michigan MI43$950−12%$589 – $1,877
Pennsylvania PA68$865−20%$471 – $2,209
Kansas KS42$827−24%$520 – $1,205
New York NY58$778−28%$476 – $1,789
North Carolina NC31$765−30%$535 – $1,333
Kentucky KY30$753−31%$428 – $1,893
Indiana IN59$731−33%$459 – $1,329
Alabama AL17$643−41%$390 – $1,304
Oklahoma OK25$592−45%$303 – $926
Maine ME20$563−48%$285 – $1,968
New Jersey NJ42$473−56%$439 – $1,542
Tennessee TN31$452−58%$335 – $669
Louisiana LA23$447−59%$309 – $840
Mississippi MS14$438−60%$294 – $614
Arkansas AR9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not 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 $1,086.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,253$1,058$500 – $1,823
Children’s33$1,390$846 – $2,354
Critical access336$1,168$672 – $1,668
Ownership
For-profit206$1,304$574 – $4,069
Government237$863$491 – $1,440
Non-profit1,179$1,118$546 – $1,737
System affiliation
Part of a system1,388$1,116$550 – $1,823
Independent240$886$466 – $1,658

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,794
Median cash price$1,086
Cash as a share of list, median hospital61%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 39%. 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

1,159 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,158 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,180; most fall between $640 and $1,819.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,159 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
$452$753$1,158$1,697$2,311

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($452 vs $2,311).

Of the 1,293 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,159 gave a usable cash price; 82 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 52 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,628 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (41%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,818 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,628
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here137
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 — excluded53
Hospitals that filed this code1,818

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 Multiple Areas|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, “Nuclear bone scan of multiple body areas (CPT 78305) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-78305-nuclear-bone-scan-of-multiple-body-areas