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Procedure price report · Other radioisotope scan

Heart PET scan with two tracers plus CT correction

CPT 78433the billing code this page is about

PET imaging of the heart muscle with two different radioactive tracers to show blood flow and metabolism, with a CT scan done at the same time for image correction.

Hospitals typically charge $5,084 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 642 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $5,180. Most fall between $2,505 and $8,711 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
642
States
47
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 642 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
$2,159$2,754$5,084$8,137$10,387

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 4.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($2,159 vs $10,387).

How the prices are spread

$1,422 – $1,752: 12 hospitals$1,422$1,752 – $2,159: 22 hospitals$2,159 – $2,660: 86 hospitals$2,159$2,660 – $3,278: 47 hospitals$3,278 – $4,039: 57 hospitals$3,278$4,039 – $4,976: 55 hospitals$4,976 – $6,131: 93 hospitals$4,976$6,131 – $7,555: 68 hospitals$7,555 – $9,308: 66 hospitals$7,555$9,308 – $11,469: 76 hospitals$9,308median $5,084price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (582 of 642 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$1,422$1,75212
$1,752$2,15922
$2,159$2,66086
$2,660$3,27847
$3,278$4,03957
$4,039$4,97655
$4,976$6,13193
$6,131$7,55568
$7,555$9,30866
$9,308$11,46976

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$2,251
Median cash price$5,084
Cash as a multiple of Medicare2.3×

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 $5,084.

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 $5,950 across 18 hospitalsWA$5,950Idaho: 8 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: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $7,398 across 26 hospitalsIL$7,398Wisconsin: median $5,370 across 31 hospitalsWI$5,370Michigan: median $10,957 across 29 hospitalsMI$10,957New York: median $2,308 across 26 hospitalsNY$2,308Massachusetts: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $5,136 across 10 hospitalsOR$5,136Nevada: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIAIndiana: median $5,075 across 20 hospitalsIN$5,075Ohio: median $4,956 across 41 hospitalsOH$4,956Pennsylvania: median $6,340 across 19 hospitalsPA$6,340New Jersey: median $2,161 across 24 hospitalsNJ$2,161Connecticut: 6 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 $5,570 across 54 hospitalsCA$5,570Utah: median $5,468 across 23 hospitalsUT$5,468Colorado: median $5,153 across 22 hospitalsCO$5,153Nebraska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $6,690 across 12 hospitalsMO$6,690Kentucky: median $10,350 across 10 hospitalsKY$10,350West Virginia: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $2,263 across 20 hospitalsVA$2,263Maryland: 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 11 hospitalsAZ$7,413New Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $2,165 across 15 hospitalsTN$2,165North Carolina: median $5,084 across 21 hospitalsNC$5,084South Carolina: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOKLouisiana: median $2,300 across 10 hospitalsLA$2,300Mississippi: 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 $2,755 across 42 hospitalsGA$2,755Hawaii: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $3,301 across 50 hospitalsTX$3,301Florida: median $5,365 across 21 hospitalsFL$5,365
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $5,084. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Michigan MI29$10,957+116%$4,606 – $11,469
Kentucky KY10$10,350+104%$2,313 – $10,350
Arizona AZ11$7,413+46%$2,703 – $7,413
Illinois IL26$7,398+46%$6,153 – $10,595
Missouri MO12$6,690+32%$4,915 – $8,252
Pennsylvania PA19$6,340+25%$2,731 – $10,748
Washington WA18$5,950+17%$4,642 – $7,052
California CA54$5,570+10%$3,209 – $9,862
Utah UT23$5,468+8%$5,468 – $6,433
Wisconsin WI31$5,370+6%$3,425 – $8,711
Florida FL21$5,365+6%$3,296 – $8,977
Colorado CO22$5,153+1%$4,647 – $10,387
Oregon OR10$5,136+1%$4,928 – $9,158
North Carolina NC21$5,0840%$2,342 – $5,084
Indiana IN20$5,0750%$1,578 – $6,732
Ohio OH41$4,956−3%$3,626 – $8,216
Texas TX50$3,301−35%$3,004 – $4,309
Georgia GA42$2,755−46%$2,543 – $8,137
New York NY26$2,308−55%$2,308 – $8,175
Louisiana LA10$2,300−55%$1,898 – $3,521
Virginia VA20$2,263−55%$2,165 – $3,532
Tennessee TN15$2,165−57%$1,291 – $2,165
New Jersey NJ24$2,161−57%$989 – $2,603
Maryland MD9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Iowa IA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oklahoma OK6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not 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
Maine ME1not 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 $5,084.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care583$5,075$2,370 – $8,425
Children’s6fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access49$6,732$3,104 – $10,504
Ownership
For-profit55$5,153$2,717 – $10,125
Government63$3,532$2,308 – $5,974
Non-profit520$5,242$2,543 – $8,711
System affiliation
Part of a system602$5,089$2,505 – $8,711
Independent40$3,893$2,325 – $8,175

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$9,103
Median cash price$5,084
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

519 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $5,242 and the average of the middle 60% is $5,366; most fall between $2,604 and $8,711.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 519 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
$2,165$3,005$5,242$8,250$10,387

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 4.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($2,165 vs $10,387).

Of the 567 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 519 gave a usable cash price; 40 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 8 a list price only.

How complete is this

642 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 711 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted642
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here55
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 — excluded14
Hospitals that filed this code711

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 2RTRACER CT.

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.

Download this page’s figures: JSON · CSV. Aggregates only — the per-hospital prices are on the compare tool.

Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Heart PET scan with two tracers plus CT correction (CPT 78433) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-78433-heart-pet-scan-with-two-tracers-plus-ct-correction