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Nuclear heart pumping scan, multiple studies

CPT 78473the billing code this page is about

A gated nuclear blood pool scan of the heart performed as more than one study, such as at rest and again with exercise or stress, to compare wall motion and pumping strength.

Hospitals typically charge $1,266 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 940 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,381. Most fall between $542 and $2,466 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
940
States
48
Filings dated
Nov 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 940 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
$408$698$1,266$2,253$3,830

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($408 vs $3,830).

How the prices are spread

$263 – $355: 29 hospitals$263$355 – $480: 83 hospitals$480 – $647: 67 hospitals$480$647 – $874: 76 hospitals$874 – $1,179: 136 hospitals$874$1,179 – $1,592: 124 hospitals$1,592 – $2,149: 107 hospitals$1,592$2,149 – $2,901: 111 hospitals$2,901 – $3,915: 68 hospitals$2,901$3,915 – $5,285: 49 hospitals$3,915median $1,266price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (850 of 940 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$263$35529
$355$48083
$480$64767
$647$87476
$874$1,179136
$1,179$1,592124
$1,592$2,149107
$2,149$2,901111
$2,901$3,91568
$3,915$5,28549

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$408
Median cash price$1,266
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 $1,266.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $860 across 10 hospitalsME$860Vermont: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNHWashington: median $1,266 across 24 hospitalsWA$1,266Idaho: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceIDMontana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $969 across 10 hospitalsMN$969Illinois: median $1,166 across 40 hospitalsIL$1,166Wisconsin: median $2,077 across 24 hospitalsWI$2,077Michigan: median $550 across 11 hospitalsMI$550New York: median $659 across 44 hospitalsNY$659Massachusetts: median $1,372 across 29 hospitalsMA$1,372Oregon: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $1,007 across 28 hospitalsIA$1,007Indiana: median $1,246 across 22 hospitalsIN$1,246Ohio: median $1,395 across 49 hospitalsOH$1,395Pennsylvania: median $995 across 34 hospitalsPA$995New Jersey: median $473 across 32 hospitalsNJ$473Connecticut: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $2,234 across 108 hospitalsCA$2,234Utah: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $2,364 across 19 hospitalsCO$2,364Nebraska: median $1,228 across 16 hospitalsNE$1,228Missouri: median $1,100 across 20 hospitalsMO$1,100Kentucky: median $2,297 across 15 hospitalsKY$2,297West Virginia: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $847 across 13 hospitalsVA$847Maryland: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $955 across 15 hospitalsAZ$955New Mexico: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $481 across 21 hospitalsTN$481North Carolina: median $1,168 across 27 hospitalsNC$1,168South Carolina: median $853 across 15 hospitalsSC$853Oklahoma: median $116 across 15 hospitalsOK$116Louisiana: median $452 across 13 hospitalsLA$452Mississippi: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: median $1,868 across 11 hospitalsAL$1,868Georgia: median $1,158 across 44 hospitalsGA$1,158Hawaii: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $1,806 across 82 hospitalsTX$1,806Florida: median $3,551 across 74 hospitalsFL$3,551
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,266. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL74$3,551+181%$1,469 – $5,440
Colorado CO19$2,364+87%$1,178 – $5,285
Kentucky KY15$2,297+81%$1,088 – $3,185
California CA108$2,234+77%$754 – $3,356
Wisconsin WI24$2,077+64%$331 – $2,466
Alabama AL11$1,868+48%$375 – $1,868
Texas TX82$1,806+43%$791 – $5,284
Ohio OH49$1,395+10%$1,127 – $2,070
Massachusetts MA29$1,372+8%$886 – $2,281
Washington WA24$1,2660%$999 – $1,621
Indiana IN22$1,246−2%$802 – $2,276
Nebraska NE16$1,228−3%$287 – $1,670
North Carolina NC27$1,168−8%$770 – $1,471
Illinois IL40$1,166−8%$434 – $2,083
Georgia GA44$1,158−9%$1,025 – $4,233
Missouri MO20$1,100−13%$975 – $2,117
Iowa IA28$1,007−20%$174 – $1,955
Pennsylvania PA34$995−21%$471 – $1,971
Minnesota MN10$969−23%$896 – $969
Arizona AZ15$955−25%$491 – $1,432
Maine ME10$860−32%$155 – $2,033
South Carolina SC15$853−33%$446 – $1,190
Virginia VA13$847−33%$452 – $1,232
New York NY44$659−48%$476 – $1,828
Michigan MI11$550−57%$550 – $927
Tennessee TN21$481−62%$452 – $942
New Jersey NJ32$473−63%$445 – $638
Louisiana LA13$452−64%$269 – $672
Oklahoma OK15$116−91%$116 – $819
Hawaii HI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not 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 $1,266.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care811$1,246$530 – $2,704
Children’s14fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access110$1,395$693 – $2,083
Ownership
For-profit164$1,806$615 – $6,158
Government101$1,143$491 – $2,183
Non-profit670$1,246$542 – $2,297
System affiliation
Part of a system839$1,295$550 – $2,498
Independent101$1,153$517 – $2,313

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,495
Median cash price$1,266
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

680 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,382 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,495; most fall between $701 and $2,596.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 680 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
$443$852$1,382$2,298$3,551

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($443 vs $3,551).

Of the 758 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 680 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 31 a list price only.

How complete is this

940 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 1,067 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted940
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here92
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 — excluded35
Hospitals that filed this code1,067

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 Bl Pool Gated Mlt Stdy Wal Motn Eject Fract|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, multiple studies (CPT 78473) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-78473-nuclear-heart-pumping-scan-multiple-studies