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Nuclear scan for a recent blood clot in the veins

CPT 78456the billing code this page is about

Imaging after injection of a radioactive peptide tracer that attaches to a newly formed clot, used to look for acute clotting in the veins.

Hospitals typically charge $1,178 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 348 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,236. Most fall between $440 and $3,126 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
348
States
38
Filings dated
Jun 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 348 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
$253$493$1,178$2,271$4,390

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 17× what the cheapest tenth charges ($253 vs $4,390).

How the prices are spread

$104 – $153: 14 hospitals$104$153 – $226: 5 hospitals$226 – $334: 17 hospitals$226$334 – $492: 31 hospitals$492 – $726: 43 hospitals$492$726 – $1,071: 36 hospitals$1,071 – $1,579: 76 hospitals$1,071$1,579 – $2,330: 30 hospitals$2,330 – $3,436: 19 hospitals$2,330$3,436 – $5,068: 46 hospitals$3,436median $1,178price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (317 of 348 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$104$15314
$153$2265
$226$33417
$334$49231
$492$72643
$726$1,07136
$1,071$1,57976
$1,579$2,33030
$2,330$3,43619
$3,436$5,06846

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$1,323
Median cash price$1,178
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.89×

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 $1,178.

Alaska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNHWashington: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceIDMontana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNDMinnesota: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $377 across 13 hospitalsIL$377Wisconsin: median $3,266 across 11 hospitalsWI$3,266Michigan: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: median $1,545 across 27 hospitalsNY$1,545Massachusetts: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $104 across 14 hospitalsIA$104Indiana: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $874 across 19 hospitalsOH$874Pennsylvania: median $1,123 across 21 hospitalsPA$1,123New Jersey: median $1,446 across 12 hospitalsNJ$1,446Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $4,390 across 42 hospitalsCA$4,390Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMOKentucky: median $5,068 across 11 hospitalsKY$5,068West Virginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWVVirginia: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNMKansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $804 across 10 hospitalsTN$804North Carolina: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $79 across 11 hospitalsOK$79Louisiana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $1,506 across 25 hospitalsTX$1,506Florida: median $493 across 26 hospitalsFL$493
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,178. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Kentucky KY11$5,068+330%$1,005 – $5,068
California CA42$4,390+273%$1,656 – $4,390
Wisconsin WI11$3,266+177%$2,750 – $3,380
New York NY27$1,545+31%$816 – $1,616
Texas TX25$1,506+28%$1,295 – $2,651
New Jersey NJ12$1,446+23%$1,445 – $1,675
Pennsylvania PA21$1,123−5%$469 – $1,868
Ohio OH19$874−26%$632 – $896
Tennessee TN10$804−32%$489 – $1,246
Florida FL26$493−58%$425 – $4,823
Illinois IL13$377−68%$307 – $1,721
Iowa IA14$104−91%$104 – $191
Oklahoma OK11$79−93%$79 – $1,651
Arizona AZ9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Michigan MI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not 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 $1,178.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care320$1,251$440 – $3,266
Children’s4fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access24$822$307 – $1,800
Ownership
For-profit55$1,049$425 – $3,680
Government37$1,130$493 – $1,713
Non-profit256$1,251$440 – $2,825
System affiliation
Part of a system308$1,178$425 – $3,266
Independent40$1,119$554 – $2,199

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,991
Median cash price$1,178
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

247 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $874 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,067; most fall between $425 and $2,750.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 247 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
$210$479$874$2,271$4,390

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 21× what the cheapest tenth charges ($210 vs $4,390).

Of the 284 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 247 gave a usable cash price; 29 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

348 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (9%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 403 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted348
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here43
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 — excluded12
Hospitals that filed this code403

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 Acute Venous Thrombosis Imaging Peptide|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, “Nuclear scan for a recent blood clot in the veins (CPT 78456) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-78456-nuclear-scan-for-a-recent-blood-clot-in-the-veins