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Procedure price report · Radioisotope scan and function studies

Nuclear kidney scan with blood flow

CPT 78701the billing code this page is about

Nuclear medicine imaging of the kidneys after a radioactive tracer injection, including pictures of blood flow to the kidneys.

Hospitals typically charge $907 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,157 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $966. Most fall between $476 and $1,638 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,157
States
50
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 1,157 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
$378$547$907$1,496$2,621

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($378 vs $2,621).

How the prices are spread

$217 – $290: 29 hospitals$217$290 – $387: 33 hospitals$387 – $516: 153 hospitals$387$516 – $689: 135 hospitals$689 – $919: 185 hospitals$689$919 – $1,227: 148 hospitals$1,227 – $1,637: 182 hospitals$1,227$1,637 – $2,185: 75 hospitals$2,185 – $2,916: 59 hospitals$2,185$2,916 – $3,891: 44 hospitals$2,916median $907price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,043 of 1,157 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$217$29029
$290$38733
$387$516153
$516$689135
$689$919185
$919$1,227148
$1,227$1,637182
$1,637$2,18575
$2,185$2,91659
$2,916$3,89144

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$408
Median cash price$907
Cash as a multiple of Medicare2.2×

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 $907.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $608 across 11 hospitalsME$608Vermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $1,054 across 18 hospitalsWA$1,054Idaho: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $747 across 17 hospitalsMN$747Illinois: median $1,086 across 39 hospitalsIL$1,086Wisconsin: median $1,496 across 23 hospitalsWI$1,496Michigan: median $778 across 36 hospitalsMI$778New York: median $520 across 52 hospitalsNY$520Massachusetts: median $1,151 across 15 hospitalsMA$1,151Oregon: median $496 across 15 hospitalsOR$496Nevada: median $1,330 across 10 hospitalsNV$1,330Wyoming: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $777 across 37 hospitalsIA$777Indiana: median $803 across 18 hospitalsIN$803Ohio: median $1,312 across 64 hospitalsOH$1,312Pennsylvania: median $1,121 across 51 hospitalsPA$1,121New Jersey: median $473 across 30 hospitalsNJ$473Connecticut: 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 $1,680 across 106 hospitalsCA$1,680Utah: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $932 across 28 hospitalsCO$932Nebraska: median $486 across 16 hospitalsNE$486Missouri: median $785 across 23 hospitalsMO$785Kentucky: median $885 across 30 hospitalsKY$885West Virginia: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $776 across 28 hospitalsVA$776Maryland: median $1,143 across 18 hospitalsMD$1,143Delaware: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $782 across 20 hospitalsAZ$782New Mexico: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $723 across 19 hospitalsKS$723Arkansas: median $437 across 10 hospitalsAR$437Tennessee: median $419 across 34 hospitalsTN$419North Carolina: median $1,453 across 22 hospitalsNC$1,453South Carolina: median $1,005 across 20 hospitalsSC$1,005Oklahoma: median $600 across 14 hospitalsOK$600Louisiana: median $307 across 16 hospitalsLA$307Mississippi: median $361 across 17 hospitalsMS$361Alabama: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $755 across 19 hospitalsGA$755Hawaii: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $907 across 136 hospitalsTX$907Florida: median $1,344 across 68 hospitalsFL$1,344
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $907. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA106$1,680+85%$669 – $2,621
Wisconsin WI23$1,496+65%$1,170 – $1,496
North Carolina NC22$1,453+60%$608 – $1,665
Florida FL68$1,344+48%$900 – $4,334
Nevada NV10$1,330+47%$366 – $2,719
Ohio OH64$1,312+45%$633 – $1,802
Massachusetts MA15$1,151+27%$588 – $1,490
Maryland MD18$1,143+26%$826 – $1,386
Pennsylvania PA51$1,121+24%$455 – $3,957
Illinois IL39$1,086+20%$470 – $1,756
Washington WA18$1,054+16%$761 – $1,382
South Carolina SC20$1,005+11%$451 – $1,567
Colorado CO28$932+3%$694 – $2,602
Texas TX136$9070%$652 – $2,024
Kentucky KY30$885−2%$324 – $1,486
Indiana IN18$803−12%$202 – $1,545
Missouri MO23$785−13%$564 – $2,660
Arizona AZ20$782−14%$571 – $1,167
Michigan MI36$778−14%$550 – $1,379
Iowa IA37$777−14%$126 – $1,021
Virginia VA28$776−14%$419 – $2,226
Georgia GA19$755−17%$755 – $1,142
Minnesota MN17$747−18%$680 – $1,072
Kansas KS19$723−20%$449 – $957
Maine ME11$608−33%$394 – $1,446
Oklahoma OK14$600−34%$585 – $1,012
New York NY52$520−43%$475 – $1,242
Oregon OR15$496−45%$55 – $895
Nebraska NE16$486−46%$261 – $1,527
New Jersey NJ30$473−48%$439 – $1,961
Arkansas AR10$437−52%$295 – $786
Tennessee TN34$419−54%$224 – $567
Mississippi MS17$361−60%$222 – $529
Louisiana LA16$307−66%$221 – $444
Hawaii HI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not 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 $907.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care966$897$476 – $1,724
Children’s21$1,420$660 – $3,084
Critical access166$932$467 – $1,496
Ownership
For-profit178$1,333$588 – $3,891
Government138$678$419 – $1,199
Non-profit837$907$473 – $1,537
System affiliation
Part of a system1,024$907$476 – $1,665
Independent133$833$427 – $1,535

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,646
Median cash price$907
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

850 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $972 and the average of the middle 60% is $999; most fall between $535 and $1,618.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 850 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$599$972$1,496$2,562

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($393 vs $2,562).

Of the 950 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 850 gave a usable cash price; 54 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 46 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,157 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (29%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,310 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,157
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here102
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 — excluded51
Hospitals that filed this code1,310

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 With Flow.

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, “Nuclear kidney scan with blood flow (CPT 78701) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-78701-nuclear-kidney-scan-with-blood-flow