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Procedure price report · Radioisotope scan and function studies

Nuclear heart pumping scan (blood pool), single study

CPT 78472the billing code this page is about

A gated nuclear scan that follows tagged blood through the heart chambers to show wall motion and pumping strength; this code covers one planar study at rest or with stress.

Hospitals typically charge $1,261 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,633 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,295. Most fall between $620 and $2,179 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,633
States
50
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 2,633 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
$445$756$1,261$1,904$3,267

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($445 vs $3,267).

How the prices are spread

$352 – $457: 149 hospitals$352$457 – $594: 214 hospitals$594 – $771: 180 hospitals$594$771 – $1,001: 298 hospitals$1,001 – $1,299: 397 hospitals$1,001$1,299 – $1,687: 426 hospitals$1,687 – $2,190: 319 hospitals$1,687$2,190 – $2,843: 190 hospitals$2,843 – $3,691: 111 hospitals$2,843$3,691 – $4,793: 88 hospitals$3,691median $1,261price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,372 of 2,633 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$352$457149
$457$594214
$594$771180
$771$1,001298
$1,001$1,299397
$1,299$1,687426
$1,687$2,190319
$2,190$2,843190
$2,843$3,691111
$3,691$4,79388

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$408
Median cash price$1,261
Cash as a multiple of Medicare3.1×

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 $1,261.

Alaska: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $681 across 19 hospitalsME$681Vermont: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $1,341 across 14 hospitalsNH$1,341Washington: median $1,205 across 51 hospitalsWA$1,205Idaho: median $1,425 across 15 hospitalsID$1,425Montana: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: median $946 across 18 hospitalsND$946Minnesota: median $893 across 61 hospitalsMN$893Illinois: median $1,518 across 112 hospitalsIL$1,518Wisconsin: median $1,330 across 95 hospitalsWI$1,330Michigan: median $818 across 77 hospitalsMI$818New York: median $1,053 across 90 hospitalsNY$1,053Massachusetts: median $1,483 across 30 hospitalsMA$1,483Oregon: median $1,144 across 35 hospitalsOR$1,144Nevada: median $1,625 across 13 hospitalsNV$1,625Wyoming: median $1,654 across 11 hospitalsWY$1,654South Dakota: median $1,830 across 14 hospitalsSD$1,830Iowa: median $1,130 across 59 hospitalsIA$1,130Indiana: median $1,684 across 75 hospitalsIN$1,684Ohio: median $1,722 across 133 hospitalsOH$1,722Pennsylvania: median $983 across 106 hospitalsPA$983New Jersey: median $529 across 55 hospitalsNJ$529Connecticut: median $831 across 15 hospitalsCT$831Rhode Island: median $1,261 across 10 hospitalsRI$1,261California: median $1,517 across 187 hospitalsCA$1,517Utah: median $1,582 across 34 hospitalsUT$1,582Colorado: median $1,966 across 52 hospitalsCO$1,966Nebraska: median $1,726 across 59 hospitalsNE$1,726Missouri: median $1,001 across 61 hospitalsMO$1,001Kentucky: median $1,317 across 55 hospitalsKY$1,317West Virginia: median $896 across 29 hospitalsWV$896Virginia: median $1,138 across 60 hospitalsVA$1,138Maryland: median $1,101 across 36 hospitalsMD$1,101Delaware: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $1,226 across 41 hospitalsAZ$1,226New Mexico: median $951 across 19 hospitalsNM$951Kansas: median $912 across 44 hospitalsKS$912Arkansas: median $424 across 23 hospitalsAR$424Tennessee: median $510 across 70 hospitalsTN$510North Carolina: median $1,277 across 78 hospitalsNC$1,277South Carolina: median $1,336 across 47 hospitalsSC$1,336Oklahoma: median $974 across 42 hospitalsOK$974Louisiana: median $567 across 47 hospitalsLA$567Mississippi: median $646 across 40 hospitalsMS$646Alabama: median $967 across 35 hospitalsAL$967Georgia: median $1,097 across 78 hospitalsGA$1,097Hawaii: median $754 across 11 hospitalsHI$754Texas: median $1,519 across 195 hospitalsTX$1,519Florida: median $2,253 across 157 hospitalsFL$2,253
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,261. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL157$2,253+79%$999 – $6,735
Colorado CO52$1,966+56%$1,111 – $4,007
South Dakota SD14$1,830+45%$1,646 – $2,056
Nebraska NE59$1,726+37%$1,163 – $2,224
Ohio OH133$1,722+37%$1,059 – $1,920
Indiana IN75$1,684+34%$925 – $2,234
Wyoming WY11$1,654+31%$782 – $2,260
Nevada NV13$1,625+29%$434 – $2,405
Utah UT34$1,582+26%$1,013 – $1,861
Texas TX195$1,519+20%$803 – $2,975
Illinois IL112$1,518+20%$915 – $2,892
California CA187$1,517+20%$935 – $2,879
Massachusetts MA30$1,483+18%$933 – $2,607
Idaho ID15$1,425+13%$987 – $1,582
New Hampshire NH14$1,341+6%$886 – $3,624
South Carolina SC47$1,336+6%$1,177 – $2,453
Wisconsin WI95$1,330+6%$556 – $1,720
Kentucky KY55$1,317+4%$736 – $1,998
North Carolina NC78$1,277+1%$662 – $1,529
Rhode Island RI10$1,2610%$507 – $1,478
Arizona AZ41$1,226−3%$643 – $4,579
Washington WA51$1,205−4%$761 – $1,765
Oregon OR35$1,144−9%$326 – $1,401
Virginia VA60$1,138−10%$694 – $1,607
Iowa IA59$1,130−10%$837 – $1,490
Maryland MD36$1,101−13%$740 – $1,542
Georgia GA78$1,097−13%$846 – $2,822
New York NY90$1,053−16%$476 – $2,176
Missouri MO61$1,001−21%$697 – $1,626
Pennsylvania PA106$983−22%$504 – $2,571
Oklahoma OK42$974−23%$697 – $1,660
Alabama AL35$967−23%$356 – $1,581
New Mexico NM19$951−25%$568 – $1,821
North Dakota ND18$946−25%$709 – $1,310
Kansas KS44$912−28%$455 – $1,791
West Virginia WV29$896−29%$695 – $1,324
Minnesota MN61$893−29%$573 – $1,553
Connecticut CT15$831−34%$621 – $1,548
Michigan MI77$818−35%$550 – $1,391
Hawaii HI11$754−40%$704 – $1,199
Maine ME19$681−46%$438 – $2,262
Mississippi MS40$646−49%$381 – $1,088
Louisiana LA47$567−55%$399 – $1,125
New Jersey NJ55$529−58%$445 – $1,135
Tennessee TN70$510−60%$407 – $1,105
Arkansas AR23$424−66%$290 – $774
Montana MT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE5not 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 $1,261.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,095$1,260$607 – $2,271
Children’s36$1,509$1,017 – $2,537
Critical access492$1,260$655 – $1,920
Ownership
For-profit386$1,744$790 – $5,519
Government395$1,094$561 – $1,892
Non-profit1,842$1,251$615 – $1,934
System affiliation
Part of a system2,234$1,266$619 – $2,220
Independent399$1,166$622 – $1,976

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,236
Median cash price$1,261
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

1,851 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,306 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,322; most fall between $706 and $2,100.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,851 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
$496$818$1,306$1,874$2,832

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($496 vs $2,832).

Of the 2,037 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,851 gave a usable cash price; 102 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 84 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,633 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (67%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,909 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,633
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here180
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 — excluded96
Hospitals that filed this code2,909

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 Radioisotope scan and function studies family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Card Blood Pool Gated Planar 1 Study Rest/Stress|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 pumping scan (blood pool), single study (CPT 78472) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-78472-nuclear-heart-pumping-scan-blood-pool-single-study