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Procedure price report · Other radioisotope scan

Heart metabolism PET scan with CT for correction, one study

CPT 78429the billing code this page is about

A single PET scan of the heart muscle's metabolism using a radioactive tracer, together with a CT scan done at the same time to correct the images.

Hospitals typically charge $3,125 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 650 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $3,155. Most fall between $1,616 and $5,639 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
650
States
49
Filings dated
Jun 2025 – 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 650 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
$1,092$1,732$3,125$4,739$7,476

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,092 vs $7,476).

How the prices are spread

$582 – $766: 15 hospitals$582$766 – $1,007: 10 hospitals$1,007 – $1,324: 46 hospitals$1,007$1,324 – $1,741: 73 hospitals$1,741 – $2,289: 72 hospitals$1,741$2,289 – $3,010: 67 hospitals$3,010 – $3,958: 96 hospitals$3,010$3,958 – $5,205: 97 hospitals$5,205 – $6,845: 57 hospitals$5,205$6,845 – $9,000: 54 hospitals$6,845median $3,125price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (587 of 650 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$582$76615
$766$1,00710
$1,007$1,32446
$1,324$1,74173
$1,741$2,28972
$2,289$3,01067
$3,010$3,95896
$3,958$5,20597
$5,205$6,84557
$6,845$9,00054

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$1,461
Median cash price$3,125
Cash as a multiple of Medicare2.1×

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 $3,125.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $2,981 across 11 hospitalsWA$2,981Idaho: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMTNorth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $1,904 across 15 hospitalsMN$1,904Illinois: median $4,043 across 28 hospitalsIL$4,043Wisconsin: median $4,060 across 35 hospitalsWI$4,060Michigan: median $1,966 across 17 hospitalsMI$1,966New York: median $1,726 across 30 hospitalsNY$1,726Massachusetts: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIAIndiana: median $2,662 across 24 hospitalsIN$2,662Ohio: median $2,841 across 36 hospitalsOH$2,841Pennsylvania: median $3,502 across 36 hospitalsPA$3,502New Jersey: median $1,692 across 27 hospitalsNJ$1,692Connecticut: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $6,919 across 58 hospitalsCA$6,919Utah: median $5,751 across 23 hospitalsUT$5,751Colorado: median $4,436 across 22 hospitalsCO$4,436Nebraska: median $1,229 across 10 hospitalsNE$1,229Missouri: median $3,451 across 15 hospitalsMO$3,451Kentucky: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $2,780 across 10 hospitalsVA$2,780Maryland: median $4,999 across 13 hospitalsMD$4,999Delaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $582 across 12 hospitalsTN$582North Carolina: median $4,622 across 17 hospitalsNC$4,622South Carolina: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOKLouisiana: median $1,847 across 14 hospitalsLA$1,847Mississippi: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $2,505 across 39 hospitalsGA$2,505Hawaii: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $1,732 across 40 hospitalsTX$1,732Florida: median $2,815 across 26 hospitalsFL$2,815
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $3,125. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA58$6,919+121%$3,125 – $7,476
Utah UT23$5,751+84%$5,751 – $5,751
Maryland MD13$4,999+60%$463 – $15,264
North Carolina NC17$4,622+48%$1,500 – $4,622
Colorado CO22$4,436+42%$3,130 – $9,916
Wisconsin WI35$4,060+30%$192 – $4,383
Illinois IL28$4,043+29%$2,255 – $5,586
Pennsylvania PA36$3,502+12%$1,689 – $5,639
Missouri MO15$3,451+10%$3,062 – $4,760
Washington WA11$2,981−5%$2,484 – $5,102
Ohio OH36$2,841−9%$1,242 – $3,942
Florida FL26$2,815−10%$2,815 – $3,530
Virginia VA10$2,780−11%$582 – $3,341
Indiana IN24$2,662−15%$1,578 – $4,323
Georgia GA39$2,505−20%$2,136 – $4,268
Michigan MI17$1,966−37%$1,168 – $4,383
Minnesota MN15$1,904−39%$1,904 – $4,399
Louisiana LA14$1,847−41%$1,169 – $3,830
Texas TX40$1,732−45%$1,732 – $3,314
New York NY30$1,726−45%$1,461 – $2,894
New Jersey NJ27$1,692−46%$1,361 – $1,946
Nebraska NE10$1,229−61%$1,167 – $1,859
Tennessee TN12$582−81%$582 – $1,018
Connecticut CT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Iowa IA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oklahoma OK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY1not 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 $3,125.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care588$3,078$1,614 – $5,639
Children’s9fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access49$4,195$1,732 – $5,751
Ownership
For-profit50$2,662$1,732 – $7,197
Government64$2,979$1,726 – $4,622
Non-profit532$3,135$1,594 – $5,751
System affiliation
Part of a system611$3,130$1,626 – $5,639
Independent39$3,062$1,459 – $6,626

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$5,600
Median cash price$3,125
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

516 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $3,408 and the average of the middle 60% is $3,531; most fall between $1,689 and $5,751.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 516 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
$1,151$1,837$3,408$4,780$7,476

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,151 vs $7,476).

Of the 584 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 516 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 18 a list price only.

How complete is this

650 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (16%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 733 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted650
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here60
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 — excluded23
Hospitals that filed this code733

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 Other radioisotope scan family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Myocrd Img Pet Metab Eval Single Study Cncrnt CT|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, “Heart metabolism PET scan with CT for correction, one study (CPT 78429) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-78429-heart-metabolism-pet-scan-with-ct-for-correction-one-study