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Procedure price report · Radioisotope bone scan

Three-phase nuclear bone scan

CPT 78315the billing code this page is about

Bone and joint imaging taken in three stages after tracer injection, showing blood flow, blood pooling, and tracer uptake in bone.

Hospitals typically charge $1,470 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,958 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,508. Most fall between $758 and $2,482 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,958
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 2,958 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
$514$895$1,470$2,210$3,603

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($514 vs $3,603).

How the prices are spread

$397 – $513: 147 hospitals$397$513 – $664: 180 hospitals$664 – $859: 226 hospitals$664$859 – $1,111: 297 hospitals$1,111 – $1,438: 447 hospitals$1,111$1,438 – $1,860: 503 hospitals$1,860 – $2,407: 392 hospitals$1,860$2,407 – $3,115: 227 hospitals$3,115 – $4,030: 133 hospitals$3,115$4,030 – $5,214: 112 hospitals$4,030median $1,470price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,664 of 2,958 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$397$513147
$513$664180
$664$859226
$859$1,111297
$1,111$1,438447
$1,438$1,860503
$1,860$2,407392
$2,407$3,115227
$3,115$4,030133
$4,030$5,214112

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$408
Median cash price$1,470
Cash as a multiple of Medicare3.6×

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 $1,470.

Alaska: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $722 across 23 hospitalsME$722Vermont: median $1,967 across 10 hospitalsVT$1,967New Hampshire: median $1,479 across 18 hospitalsNH$1,479Washington: median $1,489 across 56 hospitalsWA$1,489Idaho: median $1,425 across 16 hospitalsID$1,425Montana: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: median $1,414 across 19 hospitalsND$1,414Minnesota: median $1,232 across 91 hospitalsMN$1,232Illinois: median $1,710 across 119 hospitalsIL$1,710Wisconsin: median $1,443 across 104 hospitalsWI$1,443Michigan: median $1,086 across 80 hospitalsMI$1,086New York: median $979 across 91 hospitalsNY$979Massachusetts: median $1,599 across 49 hospitalsMA$1,599Oregon: median $1,370 across 40 hospitalsOR$1,370Nevada: median $1,400 across 15 hospitalsNV$1,400Wyoming: median $1,761 across 12 hospitalsWY$1,761South Dakota: median $2,249 across 23 hospitalsSD$2,249Iowa: median $1,366 across 76 hospitalsIA$1,366Indiana: median $1,583 across 86 hospitalsIN$1,583Ohio: median $1,784 across 142 hospitalsOH$1,784Pennsylvania: median $1,229 across 112 hospitalsPA$1,229New Jersey: median $536 across 54 hospitalsNJ$536Connecticut: median $967 across 18 hospitalsCT$967Rhode Island: median $602 across 10 hospitalsRI$602California: median $2,283 across 204 hospitalsCA$2,283Utah: median $1,839 across 37 hospitalsUT$1,839Colorado: median $1,844 across 56 hospitalsCO$1,844Nebraska: median $2,084 across 76 hospitalsNE$2,084Missouri: median $1,261 across 72 hospitalsMO$1,261Kentucky: median $1,425 across 60 hospitalsKY$1,425West Virginia: median $937 across 34 hospitalsWV$937Virginia: median $1,692 across 70 hospitalsVA$1,692Maryland: median $1,808 across 37 hospitalsMD$1,808Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $1,655 across 43 hospitalsAZ$1,655New Mexico: median $1,125 across 23 hospitalsNM$1,125Kansas: median $848 across 63 hospitalsKS$848Arkansas: median $608 across 25 hospitalsAR$608Tennessee: median $754 across 77 hospitalsTN$754North Carolina: median $1,394 across 88 hospitalsNC$1,394South Carolina: median $1,702 across 52 hospitalsSC$1,702Oklahoma: median $1,047 across 44 hospitalsOK$1,047Louisiana: median $666 across 51 hospitalsLA$666Mississippi: median $626 across 42 hospitalsMS$626Alabama: median $993 across 34 hospitalsAL$993Georgia: median $1,276 across 91 hospitalsGA$1,276Hawaii: median $1,001 across 12 hospitalsHI$1,001Texas: median $1,799 across 211 hospitalsTX$1,799Florida: median $2,536 across 170 hospitalsFL$2,536
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,470. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL170$2,536+73%$1,272 – $7,144
California CA204$2,283+55%$1,100 – $3,594
South Dakota SD23$2,249+53%$1,726 – $2,381
Nebraska NE76$2,084+42%$1,621 – $2,485
Vermont VT10$1,967+34%$1,415 – $2,813
Colorado CO56$1,844+25%$1,326 – $3,692
Utah UT37$1,839+25%$1,750 – $2,059
Maryland MD37$1,808+23%$1,215 – $2,194
Texas TX211$1,799+22%$1,007 – $2,919
Ohio OH142$1,784+21%$1,180 – $2,096
Wyoming WY12$1,761+20%$1,307 – $2,466
Illinois IL119$1,710+16%$1,045 – $2,603
South Carolina SC52$1,702+16%$1,261 – $2,297
Virginia VA70$1,692+15%$909 – $3,370
Arizona AZ43$1,655+13%$884 – $4,356
Massachusetts MA49$1,599+9%$868 – $1,934
Indiana IN86$1,583+8%$1,191 – $2,407
Washington WA56$1,489+1%$969 – $2,027
New Hampshire NH18$1,479+1%$1,284 – $3,374
Wisconsin WI104$1,443−2%$475 – $1,947
Idaho ID16$1,425−3%$915 – $1,750
Kentucky KY60$1,425−3%$1,027 – $2,202
North Dakota ND19$1,414−4%$906 – $1,616
Nevada NV15$1,400−5%$434 – $3,921
North Carolina NC88$1,394−5%$1,134 – $2,405
Oregon OR40$1,370−7%$675 – $1,852
Iowa IA76$1,366−7%$1,020 – $1,821
Georgia GA91$1,276−13%$691 – $2,295
Missouri MO72$1,261−14%$758 – $2,125
Minnesota MN91$1,232−16%$572 – $1,525
Pennsylvania PA112$1,229−16%$565 – $2,813
New Mexico NM23$1,125−23%$730 – $1,998
Michigan MI80$1,086−26%$701 – $1,903
Oklahoma OK44$1,047−29%$740 – $1,676
Hawaii HI12$1,001−32%$937 – $1,199
Alabama AL34$993−32%$536 – $2,804
New York NY91$979−33%$499 – $2,340
Connecticut CT18$967−34%$802 – $1,638
West Virginia WV34$937−36%$696 – $1,521
Kansas KS63$848−42%$547 – $1,544
Tennessee TN77$754−49%$452 – $1,524
Maine ME23$722−51%$513 – $1,968
Louisiana LA51$666−55%$389 – $1,245
Mississippi MS42$626−57%$460 – $1,007
Arkansas AR25$608−59%$552 – $1,260
Rhode Island RI10$602−59%$462 – $1,250
New Jersey NJ54$536−64%$463 – $1,374
Montana MT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE6not 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 $1,470.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,254$1,487$752 – $2,603
Children’s58$1,784$918 – $2,998
Critical access636$1,402$750 – $2,123
Ownership
For-profit439$1,921$850 – $5,950
Government476$1,248$644 – $2,027
Non-profit2,033$1,475$797 – $2,334
System affiliation
Part of a system2,472$1,515$802 – $2,521
Independent486$1,251$668 – $2,038

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,500
Median cash price$1,470
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

2,041 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,537 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,566; most fall between $873 and $2,436.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,041 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
$580$997$1,537$2,162$3,374

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($580 vs $3,374).

Of the 2,246 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,041 gave a usable cash price; 110 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 95 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,958 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (75%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,251 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,958
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here190
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded102
Hospitals that filed this code3,251

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 PR Bone &/Joint Imaging 3 Phase Study.

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, “Three-phase nuclear bone scan (CPT 78315) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-78315-three-phase-nuclear-bone-scan