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Nuclear heart scan for damaged muscle, flat images

CPT 78466the billing code this page is about

A nuclear medicine scan with a tracer that collects in injured heart muscle, producing standard flat (planar) images to look for a heart attack area.

Hospitals typically charge $841 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 955 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $939. Most fall between $443 and $1,860 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
955
States
48
Filings dated
Aug 2022 – 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 955 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
$341$476$841$1,579$2,929

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($341 vs $2,929).

How the prices are spread

$250 – $333: 37 hospitals$250$333 – $444: 107 hospitals$444 – $591: 139 hospitals$444$591 – $788: 115 hospitals$788 – $1,049: 112 hospitals$788$1,049 – $1,398: 121 hospitals$1,398 – $1,863: 89 hospitals$1,398$1,863 – $2,483: 54 hospitals$2,483 – $3,308: 56 hospitals$2,483$3,308 – $4,408: 31 hospitals$3,308median $841price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (861 of 955 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$250$33337
$333$444107
$444$591139
$591$788115
$788$1,049112
$1,049$1,398121
$1,398$1,86389
$1,863$2,48354
$2,483$3,30856
$3,308$4,40831

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$408
Median cash price$841
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 $841.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $394 across 12 hospitalsME$394Vermont: 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 $813 across 15 hospitalsWA$813Idaho: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceIDMontana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMTNorth Dakota: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $1,099 across 11 hospitalsMN$1,099Illinois: median $942 across 44 hospitalsIL$942Wisconsin: median $1,307 across 26 hospitalsWI$1,307Michigan: median $550 across 16 hospitalsMI$550New York: median $499 across 40 hospitalsNY$499Massachusetts: median $1,560 across 20 hospitalsMA$1,560Oregon: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $695 across 26 hospitalsIA$695Indiana: median $656 across 33 hospitalsIN$656Ohio: median $1,080 across 46 hospitalsOH$1,080Pennsylvania: median $629 across 52 hospitalsPA$629New Jersey: median $445 across 32 hospitalsNJ$445Connecticut: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $1,752 across 98 hospitalsCA$1,752Utah: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $1,186 across 24 hospitalsCO$1,186Nebraska: median $1,055 across 13 hospitalsNE$1,055Missouri: median $600 across 28 hospitalsMO$600Kentucky: median $887 across 21 hospitalsKY$887West Virginia: median $1,003 across 10 hospitalsWV$1,003Virginia: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: median $1,021 across 13 hospitalsMD$1,021Delaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $492 across 16 hospitalsAZ$492New Mexico: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $419 across 14 hospitalsTN$419North Carolina: median $616 across 20 hospitalsNC$616South Carolina: median $387 across 12 hospitalsSC$387Oklahoma: median $385 across 15 hospitalsOK$385Louisiana: median $427 across 14 hospitalsLA$427Mississippi: median $366 across 10 hospitalsMS$366Alabama: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $341 across 26 hospitalsGA$341Hawaii: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $980 across 97 hospitalsTX$980Florida: median $2,607 across 73 hospitalsFL$2,607
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $841. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL73$2,607+210%$686 – $6,622
California CA98$1,752+108%$592 – $2,642
Massachusetts MA20$1,560+86%$692 – $1,877
Wisconsin WI26$1,307+55%$159 – $1,307
Colorado CO24$1,186+41%$587 – $2,652
Minnesota MN11$1,099+31%$597 – $1,099
Ohio OH46$1,080+28%$552 – $1,464
Nebraska NE13$1,055+25%$448 – $2,015
Maryland MD13$1,021+21%$421 – $1,185
West Virginia WV10$1,003+19%$755 – $1,582
Texas TX97$980+17%$738 – $3,366
Illinois IL44$942+12%$461 – $1,445
Kentucky KY21$887+5%$479 – $2,801
Washington WA15$813−3%$761 – $941
Iowa IA26$695−17%$84 – $1,126
Indiana IN33$656−22%$428 – $1,076
Pennsylvania PA52$629−25%$451 – $2,569
North Carolina NC20$616−27%$499 – $685
Missouri MO28$600−29%$415 – $906
Michigan MI16$550−35%$430 – $1,307
New York NY40$499−41%$475 – $1,345
Arizona AZ16$492−41%$416 – $1,017
New Jersey NJ32$445−47%$273 – $598
Louisiana LA14$427−49%$226 – $819
Tennessee TN14$419−50%$248 – $630
Maine ME12$394−53%$245 – $1,473
South Carolina SC12$387−54%$376 – $2,723
Oklahoma OK15$385−54%$354 – $658
Mississippi MS10$366−56%$327 – $439
Georgia GA26$341−59%$341 – $1,572
South Dakota SD9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not 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 $841.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care825$841$441 – $2,067
Children’s9fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access118$887$464 – $1,345
Ownership
For-profit170$1,548$588 – $4,408
Government117$627$395 – $1,339
Non-profit665$812$439 – $1,612
System affiliation
Part of a system823$841$447 – $2,058
Independent132$774$417 – $1,402

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,571
Median cash price$841
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

643 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $911 and the average of the middle 60% is $961; most fall between $473 and $1,680.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 643 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
$352$540$911$1,464$2,200

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($352 vs $2,200).

Of the 731 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 643 gave a usable cash price; 47 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 41 a list price only.

How complete is this

955 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (24%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,097 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted955
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here97
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 — excluded45
Hospitals that filed this code1,097

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 Myocardial Imaging Infarct Avid Planar Qual/Quan|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 heart scan for damaged muscle, flat images (CPT 78466) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-78466-nuclear-heart-scan-for-damaged-muscle-flat-images