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Procedure price report · Other radioisotope scan

Heart PET scan using two tracers, blood flow and metabolism

CPT 78432the billing code this page is about

PET imaging of the heart muscle with two different radioactive tracers to show both blood flow and metabolism, without a CT scan for image correction.

Hospitals typically charge $4,467 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 397 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $4,450. Most fall between $2,190 and $8,299 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
397
States
40
Filings dated
Sep 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 397 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
$1,885$2,313$4,467$7,413$10,350

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,885 vs $10,350).

How the prices are spread

$1,350 – $1,689: 9 hospitals$1,350$1,689 – $2,114: 42 hospitals$2,114 – $2,645: 45 hospitals$2,114$2,645 – $3,310: 50 hospitals$3,310 – $4,143: 24 hospitals$3,310$4,143 – $5,185: 38 hospitals$5,185 – $6,488: 56 hospitals$5,185$6,488 – $8,120: 28 hospitals$8,120 – $10,162: 39 hospitals$8,120$10,162 – $12,717: 29 hospitals$10,162median $4,467price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (360 of 397 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$1,350$1,6899
$1,689$2,11442
$2,114$2,64545
$2,645$3,31050
$3,310$4,14324
$4,143$5,18538
$5,185$6,48856
$6,488$8,12028
$8,120$10,16239
$10,162$12,71729

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$1,551
Median cash price$4,467
Cash as a multiple of Medicare2.9×

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 $4,467.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNHWashington: median $5,682 across 10 hospitalsWA$5,682Idaho: 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: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $7,705 across 14 hospitalsIL$7,705Wisconsin: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: median $2,190 across 26 hospitalsNY$2,190Massachusetts: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIAIndiana: median $5,075 across 17 hospitalsIN$5,075Ohio: median $2,252 across 25 hospitalsOH$2,252Pennsylvania: median $10,748 across 15 hospitalsPA$10,748New Jersey: median $2,048 across 11 hospitalsNJ$2,048Connecticut: 5 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 $6,343 across 50 hospitalsCA$6,343Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: median $3,279 across 16 hospitalsCO$3,279Nebraska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNEMissouri: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWVVirginia: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $7,413 across 10 hospitalsAZ$7,413New Mexico: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceKSArkansas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNCSouth Carolina: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOKLouisiana: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceALGeorgia: median $2,505 across 30 hospitalsGA$2,505Hawaii: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $2,701 across 39 hospitalsTX$2,701Florida: median $5,365 across 20 hospitalsFL$5,365
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $4,467. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Pennsylvania PA15$10,748+141%$2,189 – $10,748
Illinois IL14$7,705+72%$4,192 – $10,634
Arizona AZ10$7,413+66%$1,862 – $7,413
California CA50$6,343+42%$5,242 – $9,862
Washington WA10$5,682+27%$2,841 – $5,752
Florida FL20$5,365+20%$3,135 – $5,365
Indiana IN17$5,075+14%$2,545 – $6,859
Colorado CO16$3,279−27%$3,279 – $5,333
Texas TX39$2,701−40%$2,701 – $3,940
Georgia GA30$2,505−44%$2,505 – $8,137
Ohio OH25$2,252−50%$2,252 – $4,956
New York NY26$2,190−51%$1,894 – $7,962
New Jersey NJ11$2,048−54%$2,022 – $2,179
Louisiana LA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Michigan MI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oklahoma OK6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Iowa IA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT1not 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 $4,467.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care370$4,194$2,190 – $8,137
Children’s5fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access21$6,732$2,701 – $10,634
Ownership
For-profit43$3,942$2,505 – $10,203
Government37$2,841$2,190 – $6,251
Non-profit316$4,880$2,190 – $9,098
System affiliation
Part of a system368$4,827$2,190 – $8,977
Independent29$4,241$2,189 – $8,175

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$8,942
Median cash price$4,467
Cash as a share of list, median hospital56%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 44%. 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

314 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $4,956 and the average of the middle 60% is $4,829; most fall between $2,505 and $8,961.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 314 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
$1,929$2,701$4,956$7,705$9,975

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,929 vs $9,975).

Of the 353 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 314 gave a usable cash price; 36 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

397 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (10%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 450 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted397
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here50
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 — excluded3
Hospitals that filed this code450

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 5, 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 2RTRACER.

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 PET scan using two tracers, blood flow and metabolism (CPT 78432) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-78432-heart-pet-scan-using-two-tracers-blood-flow-and-metabolism