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Procedure price report · Radioisotope scan and function studies

Heart PET blood flow scan, rest and stress studies

CPT 78492the billing code this page is about

A positron emission tomography scan of blood flow to the heart muscle performed as multiple studies, at rest and again with stress, for comparison.

Hospitals typically charge $3,664 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 602 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $3,621. Most fall between $1,614 and $5,857 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
602
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 602 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
$753$1,741$3,664$5,477$8,340

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($753 vs $8,340).

How the prices are spread

$475 – $650: 13 hospitals$475$650 – $891: 26 hospitals$891 – $1,221: 11 hospitals$891$1,221 – $1,673: 48 hospitals$1,673 – $2,292: 75 hospitals$1,673$2,292 – $3,140: 59 hospitals$3,140 – $4,302: 117 hospitals$3,140$4,302 – $5,894: 109 hospitals$5,894 – $8,075: 50 hospitals$5,894$8,075 – $11,064: 35 hospitals$8,075median $3,664price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (543 of 602 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$475$65013
$650$89126
$891$1,22111
$1,221$1,67348
$1,673$2,29275
$2,292$3,14059
$3,140$4,302117
$4,302$5,894109
$5,894$8,07550
$8,075$11,06435

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$1,461
Median cash price$3,664
Cash as a multiple of Medicare2.5×

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 $3,664.

Alaska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAKMaine: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $3,156 across 15 hospitalsWA$3,156Idaho: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMTNorth Dakota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $3,499 across 14 hospitalsIL$3,499Wisconsin: median $4,060 across 44 hospitalsWI$4,060Michigan: median $1,966 across 13 hospitalsMI$1,966New York: median $1,726 across 29 hospitalsNY$1,726Massachusetts: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 4 hospitals 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 $207 across 15 hospitalsIA$207Indiana: median $2,674 across 24 hospitalsIN$2,674Ohio: median $3,840 across 41 hospitalsOH$3,840Pennsylvania: median $5,639 across 15 hospitalsPA$5,639New Jersey: median $1,616 across 19 hospitalsNJ$1,616Connecticut: 6 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 $5,477 across 34 hospitalsCA$5,477Utah: median $4,240 across 22 hospitalsUT$4,240Colorado: median $5,443 across 25 hospitalsCO$5,443Nebraska: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: median $5,857 across 15 hospitalsKY$5,857West Virginia: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: median $6,755 across 10 hospitalsMD$6,755Delaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $1,282 across 18 hospitalsTN$1,282North Carolina: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOKLouisiana: median $1,911 across 15 hospitalsLA$1,911Mississippi: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $2,101 across 44 hospitalsGA$2,101Hawaii: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $4,225 across 47 hospitalsTX$4,225Florida: median $5,020 across 25 hospitalsFL$5,020
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $3,664. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Maryland MD10$6,755+84%$3,498 – $9,838
Kentucky KY15$5,857+60%$3,577 – $6,130
Pennsylvania PA15$5,639+54%$2,466 – $5,639
California CA34$5,477+49%$2,961 – $5,477
Colorado CO25$5,443+49%$4,274 – $9,554
Florida FL25$5,020+37%$753 – $8,177
Utah UT22$4,240+16%$4,240 – $4,711
Texas TX47$4,225+15%$2,674 – $6,049
Wisconsin WI44$4,060+11%$722 – $9,821
Ohio OH41$3,840+5%$3,385 – $5,301
Illinois IL14$3,499−5%$1,065 – $7,973
Washington WA15$3,156−14%$2,981 – $4,074
Indiana IN24$2,674−27%$2,236 – $4,064
Georgia GA44$2,101−43%$546 – $6,658
Michigan MI13$1,966−46%$722 – $4,914
Louisiana LA15$1,911−48%$1,034 – $2,796
New York NY29$1,726−53%$1,697 – $4,887
New Jersey NJ19$1,616−56%$475 – $5,558
Tennessee TN18$1,282−65%$1,282 – $2,116
Iowa IA15$207−94%$207 – $2,677
Arizona AZ9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oklahoma OK9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH1not 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 $3,664.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care538$3,711$1,680 – $5,857
Children’s9fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access53$3,639$722 – $4,991
Ownership
For-profit73$4,225$1,888 – $10,495
Government71$2,101$1,399 – $4,736
Non-profit456$3,759$1,616 – $5,639
System affiliation
Part of a system548$3,674$1,612 – $5,857
Independent54$3,616$1,755 – $5,319

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$6,473
Median cash price$3,664
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

462 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $4,060 and the average of the middle 60% is $3,965; most fall between $1,811 and $5,639.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 462 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
$867$2,101$4,060$5,477$7,206

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($867 vs $7,206).

Of the 516 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 462 gave a usable cash price; 43 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 11 a list price only.

How complete is this

602 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (15%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 685 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted602
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here71
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 code685

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 Myocrd Img Pet Prfuj Multiple 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, “Heart PET blood flow scan, rest and stress studies (CPT 78492) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-78492-heart-pet-blood-flow-scan-rest-and-stress-studies