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Procedure price report · Radioisotope scan and function studies

Heart blood pool scan with first-pass right heart measure

CPT 78496the billing code this page is about

Add-on to a resting gated nuclear blood pool study that measures how much blood the right ventricle pumps out using first-pass technique.

Hospitals typically charge $466 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 400 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $532. Most fall between $128 and $1,201 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
400
States
40
Filings dated
Nov 2024 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 23, 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 400 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
$54$170$466$1,108$1,572

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 29× what the cheapest tenth charges ($54 vs $1,572).

How the prices are spread

$32 – $48: 25 hospitals$32$48 – $73: 11 hospitals$73 – $110: 23 hospitals$73$110 – $168: 25 hospitals$168 – $255: 38 hospitals$168$255 – $387: 40 hospitals$387 – $588: 56 hospitals$387$588 – $893: 45 hospitals$893 – $1,356: 71 hospitals$893$1,356 – $2,060: 33 hospitals$1,356median $466price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (367 of 400 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$32$4825
$48$7311
$73$11023
$110$16825
$168$25538
$255$38740
$387$58856
$588$89345
$893$1,35671
$1,356$2,06033

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $466.

Alaska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAKMaine: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceIDMontana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMTNorth Dakota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $265 across 14 hospitalsIL$265Wisconsin: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWIMichigan: median $37 across 10 hospitalsMI$37New York: median $509 across 23 hospitalsNY$509Massachusetts: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 3 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 $46 across 14 hospitalsIA$46Indiana: median $207 across 15 hospitalsIN$207Ohio: median $502 across 41 hospitalsOH$502Pennsylvania: median $99 across 15 hospitalsPA$99New Jersey: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNJConnecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $1,232 across 35 hospitalsCA$1,232Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: median $1,077 across 15 hospitalsCO$1,077Nebraska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWVVirginia: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: median $500 across 18 hospitalsAZ$500New Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceKSArkansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: median $613 across 11 hospitalsNC$613South Carolina: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $32 across 11 hospitalsOK$32Louisiana: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $176 across 12 hospitalsGA$176Hawaii: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $591 across 41 hospitalsTX$591Florida: median $2,134 across 22 hospitalsFL$2,134
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $466. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL22$2,134+357%$298 – $3,631
California CA35$1,232+164%$795 – $1,232
Colorado CO15$1,077+131%$442 – $1,660
North Carolina NC11$613+31%$584 – $700
Texas TX41$591+27%$446 – $1,108
New York NY23$509+9%$61 – $869
Ohio OH41$502+8%$289 – $1,157
Arizona AZ18$500+7%$353 – $1,656
Illinois IL14$265−43%$76 – $1,295
Indiana IN15$207−56%$166 – $297
Georgia GA12$176−62%$176 – $326
Pennsylvania PA15$99−79%$81 – $114
Iowa IA14$46−90%$46 – $507
Michigan MI10$37−92%$26 – $389
Oklahoma OK11$32−93%$32 – $202
New Jersey NJ9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not 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 $466.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care350$472$128 – $1,213
Children’s7fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access41$446$176 – $1,002
Ownership
For-profit53$849$153 – $1,660
Government49$339$136 – $1,002
Non-profit296$446$114 – $1,157
System affiliation
Part of a system337$446$133 – $1,213
Independent63$507$114 – $1,077

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$831
Median cash price$466
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

311 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $472 and the average of the middle 60% is $620; most fall between $114 and $1,232.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 311 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
$46$176$472$1,157$1,572

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 34× what the cheapest tenth charges ($46 vs $1,572).

Of the 385 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 311 gave a usable cash price; 39 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 34 a list price only.

How complete is this

400 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (10%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 528 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted400
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here62
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded65
Hospitals that filed this code528

Sections not shown for this setting

  • Against Medicare: Medicare has no separately payable national outpatient (OPPS) rate for this code, so there is nothing honest to compare against.
  • 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 5, 2026 and September 23, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 23, 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 1 Stdy Rest Rt Vent Ejct Frct|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 blood pool scan with first-pass right heart measure (CPT 78496) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-78496-heart-blood-pool-scan-with-first-pass-right-heart-measure