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Procedure price report · Other radioisotope scan

PET heart blood flow scan with CT, single study

CPT 78430the billing code this page is about

Positron emission tomography imaging of blood flow to the heart muscle combined with a CT scan, covering one study taken either at rest or with stress.

Hospitals typically charge $2,959 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 609 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $3,131. Most fall between $1,726 and $5,748 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
609
States
48
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 609 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
$1,335$1,732$2,959$5,095$8,088

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,335 vs $8,088).

How the prices are spread

$730 – $947: 6 hospitals$730$947 – $1,229: 21 hospitals$1,229 – $1,594: 25 hospitals$1,229$1,594 – $2,068: 134 hospitals$2,068 – $2,683: 52 hospitals$2,068$2,683 – $3,481: 108 hospitals$3,481 – $4,516: 64 hospitals$3,481$4,516 – $5,859: 53 hospitals$5,859 – $7,601: 53 hospitals$5,859$7,601 – $9,862: 40 hospitals$7,601median $2,959price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (556 of 609 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$730$9476
$947$1,22921
$1,229$1,59425
$1,594$2,068134
$2,068$2,68352
$2,683$3,481108
$3,481$4,51664
$4,516$5,85953
$5,859$7,60153
$7,601$9,86240

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$1,461
Median cash price$2,959
Cash as a multiple of Medicare2.0×

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 $2,959.

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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $3,284 across 17 hospitalsWA$3,284Idaho: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMTNorth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $2,448 across 14 hospitalsMN$2,448Illinois: median $3,882 across 27 hospitalsIL$3,882Wisconsin: median $4,475 across 19 hospitalsWI$4,475Michigan: median $5,672 across 26 hospitalsMI$5,672New York: median $1,726 across 27 hospitalsNY$1,726Massachusetts: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWYSouth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIAIndiana: median $2,662 across 20 hospitalsIN$2,662Ohio: median $2,020 across 35 hospitalsOH$2,020Pennsylvania: median $4,775 across 34 hospitalsPA$4,775New Jersey: median $1,718 across 19 hospitalsNJ$1,718Connecticut: 7 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 $6,223 across 55 hospitalsCA$6,223Utah: median $5,947 across 23 hospitalsUT$5,947Colorado: median $4,136 across 16 hospitalsCO$4,136Nebraska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $3,804 across 14 hospitalsMO$3,804Kentucky: median $8,088 across 10 hospitalsKY$8,088West Virginia: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: median $508 across 10 hospitalsMD$508Delaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 2 hospitals 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 $1,018 across 12 hospitalsTN$1,018North Carolina: median $2,976 across 25 hospitalsNC$2,976South Carolina: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOKLouisiana: median $1,207 across 11 hospitalsLA$1,207Mississippi: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $2,415 across 35 hospitalsGA$2,415Hawaii: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $1,732 across 48 hospitalsTX$1,732Florida: median $2,815 across 24 hospitalsFL$2,815
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,959. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Kentucky KY10$8,088+173%$2,132 – $8,088
California CA55$6,223+110%$1,684 – $9,862
Utah UT23$5,947+101%$5,947 – $5,947
Michigan MI26$5,672+92%$2,137 – $5,748
Pennsylvania PA34$4,775+61%$1,689 – $17,142
Wisconsin WI19$4,475+51%$396 – $4,520
Colorado CO16$4,136+40%$3,599 – $4,436
Illinois IL27$3,882+31%$3,542 – $5,586
Missouri MO14$3,804+29%$2,354 – $5,652
Washington WA17$3,284+11%$2,981 – $4,780
North Carolina NC25$2,976+1%$1,897 – $3,312
Florida FL24$2,815−5%$2,815 – $4,323
Indiana IN20$2,662−10%$1,335 – $3,531
Minnesota MN14$2,448−17%$2,087 – $2,831
Georgia GA35$2,415−18%$1,986 – $4,268
Ohio OH35$2,020−32%$1,652 – $2,841
Texas TX48$1,732−41%$1,732 – $3,167
New York NY27$1,726−42%$1,697 – $2,214
New Jersey NJ19$1,718−42%$1,614 – $1,946
Louisiana LA11$1,207−59%$996 – $1,847
Tennessee TN12$1,018−66%$665 – $2,460
Maryland MD10$508−83%$330 – $2,594
South Carolina SC9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Iowa IA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oklahoma OK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not 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
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not 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 $2,959.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care552$2,959$1,726 – $5,672
Children’s8fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access46$3,402$1,652 – $5,947
Ownership
For-profit46$2,662$1,732 – $7,197
Government65$2,564$1,726 – $3,795
Non-profit495$3,008$1,718 – $5,748
System affiliation
Part of a system569$2,976$1,726 – $5,748
Independent40$2,354$1,464 – $4,641

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$5,620
Median cash price$2,959
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

465 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $3,304 and the average of the middle 60% is $3,363; most fall between $1,732 and $5,890.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 465 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
$1,371$1,784$3,304$5,586$7,819

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,371 vs $7,819).

Of the 511 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 465 gave a usable cash price; 43 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 3 a list price only.

How complete is this

609 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 677 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted609
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here58
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 — excluded10
Hospitals that filed this code677

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 Prfuj 1std Rest/Stress 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, “PET heart blood flow scan with CT, single study (CPT 78430) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-78430-pet-heart-blood-flow-scan-with-ct-single-study