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Procedure price report · Radioisotope scan and function studies

Nuclear kidney scan for structure

CPT 78700the billing code this page is about

Nuclear medicine imaging of the kidneys after a radioactive tracer injection, showing kidney size, shape, and position.

Hospitals typically charge $842 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,208 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $913. Most fall between $482 and $1,560 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,208
States
50
Filings dated
Jan 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 1,208 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
$393$540$842$1,382$2,370

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($393 vs $2,370).

How the prices are spread

$293 – $373: 39 hospitals$293$373 – $474: 127 hospitals$474 – $603: 137 hospitals$474$603 – $766: 147 hospitals$766 – $974: 184 hospitals$766$974 – $1,238: 144 hospitals$1,238 – $1,575: 130 hospitals$1,238$1,575 – $2,002: 86 hospitals$2,002 – $2,545: 47 hospitals$2,002$2,545 – $3,236: 48 hospitals$2,545median $842price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,089 of 1,208 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$293$37339
$373$474127
$474$603137
$603$766147
$766$974184
$974$1,238144
$1,238$1,575130
$1,575$2,00286
$2,002$2,54547
$2,545$3,23648

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$408
Median cash price$842
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 $842.

Alaska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $732 across 34 hospitalsWA$732Idaho: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: median $765 across 10 hospitalsND$765Minnesota: median $476 across 20 hospitalsMN$476Illinois: median $1,430 across 50 hospitalsIL$1,430Wisconsin: median $552 across 38 hospitalsWI$552Michigan: median $785 across 35 hospitalsMI$785New York: median $668 across 45 hospitalsNY$668Massachusetts: median $1,348 across 29 hospitalsMA$1,348Oregon: median $752 across 14 hospitalsOR$752Nevada: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $646 across 27 hospitalsIA$646Indiana: median $1,146 across 30 hospitalsIN$1,146Ohio: median $818 across 60 hospitalsOH$818Pennsylvania: median $937 across 72 hospitalsPA$937New Jersey: median $463 across 30 hospitalsNJ$463Connecticut: median $896 across 10 hospitalsCT$896Rhode Island: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $1,350 across 113 hospitalsCA$1,350Utah: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $1,042 across 17 hospitalsCO$1,042Nebraska: median $602 across 20 hospitalsNE$602Missouri: median $554 across 23 hospitalsMO$554Kentucky: median $1,117 across 21 hospitalsKY$1,117West Virginia: median $873 across 10 hospitalsWV$873Virginia: median $776 across 31 hospitalsVA$776Maryland: median $914 across 22 hospitalsMD$914Delaware: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $491 across 11 hospitalsAZ$491New Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $940 across 17 hospitalsKS$940Arkansas: median $345 across 10 hospitalsAR$345Tennessee: median $452 across 14 hospitalsTN$452North Carolina: median $734 across 23 hospitalsNC$734South Carolina: median $969 across 23 hospitalsSC$969Oklahoma: median $585 across 18 hospitalsOK$585Louisiana: median $427 across 20 hospitalsLA$427Mississippi: median $426 across 10 hospitalsMS$426Alabama: median $631 across 14 hospitalsAL$631Georgia: median $792 across 36 hospitalsGA$792Hawaii: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $897 across 121 hospitalsTX$897Florida: median $1,078 across 59 hospitalsFL$1,078
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $842. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Illinois IL50$1,430+70%$963 – $1,743
California CA113$1,350+60%$725 – $2,580
Massachusetts MA29$1,348+60%$706 – $1,624
Indiana IN30$1,146+36%$728 – $1,542
Kentucky KY21$1,117+33%$526 – $1,651
Florida FL59$1,078+28%$702 – $4,551
Colorado CO17$1,042+24%$804 – $2,245
South Carolina SC23$969+15%$679 – $969
Kansas KS17$940+12%$630 – $1,493
Pennsylvania PA72$937+11%$472 – $2,472
Maryland MD22$914+9%$467 – $1,109
Texas TX121$897+7%$540 – $2,644
Connecticut CT10$896+6%$547 – $1,308
West Virginia WV10$873+4%$396 – $2,073
Ohio OH60$818−3%$698 – $1,312
Georgia GA36$792−6%$554 – $839
Michigan MI35$785−7%$418 – $1,110
Virginia VA31$776−8%$660 – $913
North Dakota ND10$765−9%$566 – $930
Oregon OR14$752−11%$491 – $875
North Carolina NC23$734−13%$612 – $1,436
Washington WA34$732−13%$654 – $1,014
New York NY45$668−21%$475 – $1,535
Iowa IA27$646−23%$48 – $1,000
Alabama AL14$631−25%$443 – $1,064
Nebraska NE20$602−29%$340 – $1,082
Oklahoma OK18$585−31%$415 – $770
Missouri MO23$554−34%$534 – $949
Wisconsin WI38$552−34%$351 – $1,646
Arizona AZ11$491−42%$413 – $966
Minnesota MN20$476−43%$449 – $1,294
New Jersey NJ30$463−45%$314 – $1,038
Tennessee TN14$452−46%$293 – $462
Louisiana LA20$427−49%$248 – $656
Mississippi MS10$426−49%$244 – $689
Arkansas AR10$345−59%$209 – $853
Hawaii HI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not 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 $842.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,010$818$476 – $1,512
Children’s41$1,595$749 – $2,275
Critical access154$877$486 – $1,425
Ownership
For-profit166$1,251$540 – $3,423
Government147$799$476 – $1,258
Non-profit892$834$475 – $1,430
System affiliation
Part of a system1,041$822$476 – $1,499
Independent167$926$505 – $1,603

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,525
Median cash price$842
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

877 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $885 and the average of the middle 60% is $936; most fall between $540 and $1,456.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 877 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
$418$585$885$1,331$2,138

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($418 vs $2,138).

Of the 984 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 877 gave a usable cash price; 60 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 47 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,208 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (31%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,372 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,208
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here109
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded54
Hospitals that filed this code1,372

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 PR Renal Imaging, Static.

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 kidney scan for structure (CPT 78700) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-78700-nuclear-kidney-scan-for-structure