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Nuclear brain scan, three-dimensional (SPECT)

CPT 78607the billing code this page is about

Nuclear medicine imaging of the brain after a radioactive tracer injection, using a rotating camera to build cross-sectional, three-dimensional pictures.

Hospitals typically charge $1,404 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 180 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,413. Most fall between $567 and $2,490 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
180
States
37
Filings dated
Jul 2025 – 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 180 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
$248$671$1,404$2,210$3,626

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 15× what the cheapest tenth charges ($248 vs $3,626).

How the prices are spread

$81 – $122: 9 hospitals$81$122 – $184: 1 hospitals$184 – $277: 5 hospitals$184$277 – $417: 8 hospitals$417 – $628: 8 hospitals$417$628 – $946: 16 hospitals$946 – $1,425: 40 hospitals$946$1,425 – $2,145: 39 hospitals$2,145 – $3,230: 23 hospitals$2,145$3,230 – $4,863: 16 hospitals$3,230median $1,404price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (165 of 180 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$81$1229
$122$1841
$184$2775
$277$4178
$417$6288
$628$94616
$946$1,42540
$1,425$2,14539
$2,145$3,23023
$3,230$4,86316

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $1,404.

Alaska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 1 hospital 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: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNDMinnesota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $1,530 across 15 hospitalsIL$1,530Wisconsin: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNYMassachusetts: 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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceIAIndiana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: median $1,680 across 22 hospitalsPA$1,680New Jersey: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNJConnecticut: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $1,815 across 10 hospitalsCA$1,815Utah: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $2,490 across 10 hospitalsCO$2,490Nebraska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMOKentucky: 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: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAZNew Mexico: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNCSouth Carolina: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $81 across 12 hospitalsOK$81Louisiana: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 4 hospitals 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 $1,404 across 37 hospitalsTX$1,404Florida: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,404. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Colorado CO10$2,490+77%$652 – $2,490
California CA10$1,815+29%$1,452 – $3,770
Pennsylvania PA22$1,680+20%$75 – $4,863
Illinois IL15$1,530+9%$254 – $4,308
Texas TX37$1,4040%$1,255 – $2,210
Oklahoma OK12$81−94%$81 – $986
Maryland MD8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New York NY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Michigan MI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Jersey NJ3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY1not 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 $1,404.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care157$1,404$582 – $2,490
Children’s7fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access16fewer than 20 hospitals
Ownership
For-profit22$1,255$254 – $1,929
Government11fewer than 20 hospitals
Non-profit147$1,404$582 – $2,760
System affiliation
Part of a system154$1,404$460 – $2,490
Independent26$1,132$736 – $3,218

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,213
Median cash price$1,404
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

150 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,461 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,592; most fall between $648 and $2,760.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 150 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
$254$918$1,461$2,490$3,770

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 15× what the cheapest tenth charges ($254 vs $3,770).

Of the 171 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 150 gave a usable cash price; 17 carried a plausibility flag, 2 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 2 a list price only.

How complete is this

180 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (5%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 206 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted180
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here18
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded2
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded6
Hospitals that filed this code206

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 4, 2026 and September 24, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 23, 2026. The percentiles and averages use only the “counted” row.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as PR Brain Imaging Spect.

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.

Download this page’s figures: JSON · CSV. Aggregates only — the per-hospital prices are on the compare tool.

Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Nuclear brain scan, three-dimensional (SPECT) (CPT 78607) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-78607-nuclear-brain-scan-three-dimensional-spect