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Procedure price report · Radioisotope scan and function studies

First-pass nuclear heart pumping scan, multiple studies

CPT 78483the billing code this page is about

Tracer imaging of its first pass through the heart chambers performed as more than one study, typically at rest and with stress, to compare pumping strength.

Hospitals typically charge $1,180 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 328 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,254. Most fall between $455 and $3,161 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
328
States
42
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 328 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
$197$572$1,180$2,104$4,282

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 22× what the cheapest tenth charges ($197 vs $4,282).

How the prices are spread

$121 – $180: 14 hospitals$121$180 – $268: 6 hospitals$268 – $399: 19 hospitals$268$399 – $593: 31 hospitals$593 – $883: 47 hospitals$593$883 – $1,313: 45 hospitals$1,313 – $1,954: 60 hospitals$1,313$1,954 – $2,907: 17 hospitals$2,907 – $4,326: 43 hospitals$2,907$4,326 – $6,437: 14 hospitals$4,326median $1,180price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (296 of 328 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$121$18014
$180$2686
$268$39919
$399$59331
$593$88347
$883$1,31345
$1,313$1,95460
$1,954$2,90717
$2,907$4,32643
$4,326$6,43714

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$555
Median cash price$1,180
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 $1,180.

Alaska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAKMaine: 5 hospitals 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: 2 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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $2,095 across 13 hospitalsIL$2,095Wisconsin: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: median $637 across 24 hospitalsNY$637Massachusetts: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceORNevada: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $174 across 12 hospitalsIA$174Indiana: median $1,001 across 16 hospitalsIN$1,001Ohio: median $615 across 13 hospitalsOH$615Pennsylvania: median $783 across 11 hospitalsPA$783New Jersey: median $596 across 12 hospitalsNJ$596Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $3,093 across 52 hospitalsCA$3,093Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVAMaryland: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceKSArkansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $106 across 10 hospitalsOK$106Louisiana: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $1,663 across 49 hospitalsTX$1,663Florida: median $3,542 across 26 hospitalsFL$3,542
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,180. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL26$3,542+200%$1,453 – $5,548
California CA52$3,093+162%$1,180 – $4,015
Illinois IL13$2,095+77%$197 – $2,274
Texas TX49$1,663+41%$1,352 – $5,857
Indiana IN16$1,001−15%$748 – $1,353
Pennsylvania PA11$783−34%$408 – $1,472
New York NY24$637−46%$352 – $678
Ohio OH13$615−48%$382 – $5,663
New Jersey NJ12$596−50%$588 – $634
Iowa IA12$174−85%$174 – $174
Oklahoma OK10$106−91%$106 – $106
Minnesota MN8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Michigan MI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV1not 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 $1,180.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care284$1,180$535 – $3,542
Children’s9fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access35$887$201 – $1,578
Ownership
For-profit56$1,663$668 – $6,942
Government21$637$628 – $1,258
Non-profit251$1,129$439 – $2,448
System affiliation
Part of a system294$1,180$448 – $3,542
Independent34$691$516 – $1,619

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,110
Median cash price$1,180
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

226 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,419 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,596; most fall between $455 and $3,542.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 226 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
$174$592$1,419$3,093$4,282

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 25× what the cheapest tenth charges ($174 vs $4,282).

Of the 279 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 226 gave a usable cash price; 30 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 23 a list price only.

How complete is this

328 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (8%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 408 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted328
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here53
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 — excluded27
Hospitals that filed this code408

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 Plnr 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, “First-pass nuclear heart pumping scan, multiple studies (CPT 78483) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-78483-first-pass-nuclear-heart-pumping-scan-multiple-studies