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Procedure price report · Radioisotope scan and function studies

Nuclear kidney scan with blood flow and function

CPT 78707the billing code this page is about

A single nuclear medicine study of the kidneys showing structure, blood flow, and how well the kidneys clear the tracer, without any medication given during the scan.

Hospitals typically charge $1,250 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,601 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,267. Most fall between $693 and $2,042 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,601
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 2,601 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
$519$773$1,250$1,836$3,052

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($519 vs $3,052).

How the prices are spread

$389 – $497: 109 hospitals$389$497 – $635: 199 hospitals$635 – $812: 272 hospitals$635$812 – $1,037: 326 hospitals$1,037 – $1,325: 377 hospitals$1,037$1,325 – $1,693: 435 hospitals$1,693 – $2,163: 302 hospitals$1,693$2,163 – $2,764: 151 hospitals$2,764 – $3,531: 93 hospitals$2,764$3,531 – $4,512: 78 hospitals$3,531median $1,250price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,342 of 2,601 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$389$497109
$497$635199
$635$812272
$812$1,037326
$1,037$1,325377
$1,325$1,693435
$1,693$2,163302
$2,163$2,764151
$2,764$3,53193
$3,531$4,51278

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$555
Median cash price$1,250
Cash as a multiple of Medicare2.3×

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 $1,250.

Alaska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $887 across 19 hospitalsME$887Vermont: median $1,824 across 10 hospitalsVT$1,824New Hampshire: median $1,135 across 17 hospitalsNH$1,135Washington: median $1,210 across 50 hospitalsWA$1,210Idaho: median $1,761 across 12 hospitalsID$1,761Montana: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: median $910 across 17 hospitalsND$910Minnesota: median $1,063 across 49 hospitalsMN$1,063Illinois: median $1,495 across 108 hospitalsIL$1,495Wisconsin: median $1,108 across 96 hospitalsWI$1,108Michigan: median $826 across 69 hospitalsMI$826New York: median $1,105 across 88 hospitalsNY$1,105Massachusetts: median $1,490 across 46 hospitalsMA$1,490Oregon: median $1,240 across 35 hospitalsOR$1,240Nevada: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: median $940 across 10 hospitalsWY$940South Dakota: median $1,592 across 16 hospitalsSD$1,592Iowa: median $1,151 across 52 hospitalsIA$1,151Indiana: median $1,383 across 80 hospitalsIN$1,383Ohio: median $1,323 across 135 hospitalsOH$1,323Pennsylvania: median $1,136 across 104 hospitalsPA$1,136New Jersey: median $634 across 56 hospitalsNJ$634Connecticut: median $1,178 across 20 hospitalsCT$1,178Rhode Island: median $1,251 across 10 hospitalsRI$1,251California: median $1,814 across 189 hospitalsCA$1,814Utah: median $1,313 across 33 hospitalsUT$1,313Colorado: median $1,880 across 50 hospitalsCO$1,880Nebraska: median $1,327 across 57 hospitalsNE$1,327Missouri: median $985 across 62 hospitalsMO$985Kentucky: median $1,283 across 53 hospitalsKY$1,283West Virginia: median $1,235 across 24 hospitalsWV$1,235Virginia: median $1,032 across 59 hospitalsVA$1,032Maryland: median $1,124 across 37 hospitalsMD$1,124Delaware: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $1,153 across 42 hospitalsAZ$1,153New Mexico: median $983 across 15 hospitalsNM$983Kansas: median $944 across 48 hospitalsKS$944Arkansas: median $437 across 16 hospitalsAR$437Tennessee: median $568 across 71 hospitalsTN$568North Carolina: median $1,115 across 80 hospitalsNC$1,115South Carolina: median $1,286 across 48 hospitalsSC$1,286Oklahoma: median $1,007 across 35 hospitalsOK$1,007Louisiana: median $495 across 44 hospitalsLA$495Mississippi: median $608 across 36 hospitalsMS$608Alabama: median $767 across 32 hospitalsAL$767Georgia: median $1,100 across 84 hospitalsGA$1,100Hawaii: median $1,281 across 11 hospitalsHI$1,281Texas: median $1,399 across 194 hospitalsTX$1,399Florida: median $1,849 across 157 hospitalsFL$1,849
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,250. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Colorado CO50$1,880+50%$883 – $3,301
Florida FL157$1,849+48%$961 – $5,290
Vermont VT10$1,824+46%$528 – $2,420
California CA189$1,814+45%$973 – $3,302
Idaho ID12$1,761+41%$1,091 – $1,920
South Dakota SD16$1,592+27%$1,592 – $1,843
Illinois IL108$1,495+20%$825 – $2,437
Massachusetts MA46$1,490+19%$1,127 – $1,945
Texas TX194$1,399+12%$920 – $3,089
Indiana IN80$1,383+11%$752 – $1,646
Nebraska NE57$1,327+6%$982 – $1,888
Ohio OH135$1,323+6%$945 – $1,842
Utah UT33$1,313+5%$1,057 – $1,545
South Carolina SC48$1,286+3%$1,085 – $1,514
Kentucky KY53$1,283+3%$682 – $2,161
Hawaii HI11$1,281+2%$979 – $1,478
Rhode Island RI10$1,2510%$595 – $1,366
Oregon OR35$1,240−1%$736 – $1,448
West Virginia WV24$1,235−1%$820 – $2,228
Washington WA50$1,210−3%$982 – $1,622
Connecticut CT20$1,178−6%$849 – $1,705
Arizona AZ42$1,153−8%$645 – $3,487
Iowa IA52$1,151−8%$861 – $1,644
Pennsylvania PA104$1,136−9%$637 – $2,811
New Hampshire NH17$1,135−9%$862 – $2,093
Maryland MD37$1,124−10%$754 – $1,571
North Carolina NC80$1,115−11%$668 – $1,795
Wisconsin WI96$1,108−11%$365 – $1,682
New York NY88$1,105−12%$637 – $2,194
Georgia GA84$1,100−12%$801 – $2,137
Minnesota MN49$1,063−15%$624 – $1,553
Virginia VA59$1,032−17%$882 – $1,967
Oklahoma OK35$1,007−19%$519 – $1,518
Missouri MO62$985−21%$701 – $1,768
New Mexico NM15$983−21%$756 – $1,796
Kansas KS48$944−24%$583 – $1,505
Wyoming WY10$940−25%$665 – $1,888
North Dakota ND17$910−27%$742 – $1,356
Maine ME19$887−29%$430 – $1,703
Michigan MI69$826−34%$572 – $1,491
Alabama AL32$767−39%$539 – $1,507
New Jersey NJ56$634−49%$434 – $1,569
Mississippi MS36$608−51%$431 – $950
Tennessee TN71$568−55%$424 – $1,367
Louisiana LA44$495−60%$312 – $1,233
Arkansas AR16$437−65%$256 – $789
Nevada NV9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE5not 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 $1,250.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,084$1,257$688 – $2,131
Children’s44$1,817$983 – $2,909
Critical access463$1,202$688 – $1,841
Ownership
For-profit384$1,664$769 – $4,969
Government391$1,039$606 – $1,709
Non-profit1,816$1,244$704 – $1,929
System affiliation
Part of a system2,192$1,288$708 – $2,097
Independent409$1,060$616 – $1,856

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,149
Median cash price$1,250
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

1,857 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,313 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,294; most fall between $741 and $1,987.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,857 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
$519$815$1,313$1,819$2,600

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($519 vs $2,600).

Of the 2,038 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,857 gave a usable cash price; 94 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 87 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,601 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (66%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,865 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,601
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here166
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded2
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded95
Hospitals that filed this code2,865

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 Kidney Img Morphology Vascular Flow 1 W/O Rx|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, “Nuclear kidney scan with blood flow and function (CPT 78707) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-78707-nuclear-kidney-scan-with-blood-flow-and-function