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Procedure price report · Radioisotope scan and function studies

Nuclear kidney scan with blood flow, function and medication

CPT 78708the billing code this page is about

A single nuclear medicine study of the kidneys showing structure, blood flow, and function, with a drug such as a diuretic or blood pressure medicine given during the scan.

Hospitals typically charge $1,316 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,751 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,346. Most fall between $678 and $2,234 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,751
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 2,751 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
$506$767$1,316$1,962$3,232

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($506 vs $3,232).

How the prices are spread

$382 – $493: 129 hospitals$382$493 – $637: 217 hospitals$637 – $822: 267 hospitals$637$822 – $1,062: 293 hospitals$1,062 – $1,372: 405 hospitals$1,062$1,372 – $1,772: 461 hospitals$1,772 – $2,289: 318 hospitals$1,772$2,289 – $2,956: 183 hospitals$2,956 – $3,818: 130 hospitals$2,956$3,818 – $4,932: 76 hospitals$3,818median $1,316price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,479 of 2,751 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$382$493129
$493$637217
$637$822267
$822$1,062293
$1,062$1,372405
$1,372$1,772461
$1,772$2,289318
$2,289$2,956183
$2,956$3,818130
$3,818$4,93276

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$555
Median cash price$1,316
Cash as a multiple of Medicare2.4×

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 $1,316.

Alaska: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $799 across 22 hospitalsME$799Vermont: median $1,824 across 10 hospitalsVT$1,824New Hampshire: median $1,426 across 16 hospitalsNH$1,426Washington: median $1,275 across 55 hospitalsWA$1,275Idaho: median $1,612 across 16 hospitalsID$1,612Montana: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: median $804 across 17 hospitalsND$804Minnesota: median $1,128 across 79 hospitalsMN$1,128Illinois: median $1,512 across 115 hospitalsIL$1,512Wisconsin: median $1,264 across 101 hospitalsWI$1,264Michigan: median $998 across 77 hospitalsMI$998New York: median $1,092 across 93 hospitalsNY$1,092Massachusetts: median $1,490 across 48 hospitalsMA$1,490Oregon: median $1,339 across 38 hospitalsOR$1,339Nevada: median $1,752 across 14 hospitalsNV$1,752Wyoming: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $2,236 across 19 hospitalsSD$2,236Iowa: median $1,361 across 65 hospitalsIA$1,361Indiana: median $1,082 across 82 hospitalsIN$1,082Ohio: median $1,607 across 132 hospitalsOH$1,607Pennsylvania: median $1,022 across 107 hospitalsPA$1,022New Jersey: median $703 across 57 hospitalsNJ$703Connecticut: median $1,095 across 15 hospitalsCT$1,095Rhode Island: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $2,046 across 187 hospitalsCA$2,046Utah: median $1,612 across 34 hospitalsUT$1,612Colorado: median $1,813 across 52 hospitalsCO$1,813Nebraska: median $1,540 across 66 hospitalsNE$1,540Missouri: median $1,062 across 66 hospitalsMO$1,062Kentucky: median $1,341 across 54 hospitalsKY$1,341West Virginia: median $1,130 across 30 hospitalsWV$1,130Virginia: median $1,032 across 65 hospitalsVA$1,032Maryland: median $708 across 34 hospitalsMD$708Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $1,004 across 44 hospitalsAZ$1,004New Mexico: median $1,284 across 19 hospitalsNM$1,284Kansas: median $945 across 52 hospitalsKS$945Arkansas: median $419 across 23 hospitalsAR$419Tennessee: median $636 across 70 hospitalsTN$636North Carolina: median $1,450 across 85 hospitalsNC$1,450South Carolina: median $1,349 across 48 hospitalsSC$1,349Oklahoma: median $1,097 across 40 hospitalsOK$1,097Louisiana: median $516 across 48 hospitalsLA$516Mississippi: median $644 across 38 hospitalsMS$644Alabama: median $797 across 36 hospitalsAL$797Georgia: median $1,115 across 88 hospitalsGA$1,115Hawaii: median $1,281 across 11 hospitalsHI$1,281Texas: median $1,543 across 188 hospitalsTX$1,543Florida: median $2,234 across 160 hospitalsFL$2,234
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,316. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
South Dakota SD19$2,236+70%$1,825 – $2,470
Florida FL160$2,234+70%$981 – $5,618
California CA187$2,046+55%$1,119 – $3,513
Vermont VT10$1,824+39%$554 – $2,870
Colorado CO52$1,813+38%$1,003 – $3,381
Nevada NV14$1,752+33%$590 – $2,856
Idaho ID16$1,612+22%$1,136 – $1,761
Utah UT34$1,612+22%$1,612 – $1,896
Ohio OH132$1,607+22%$902 – $2,297
Texas TX188$1,543+17%$1,062 – $3,026
Nebraska NE66$1,540+17%$1,063 – $2,027
Illinois IL115$1,512+15%$763 – $2,468
Massachusetts MA48$1,490+13%$976 – $2,458
North Carolina NC85$1,450+10%$837 – $1,964
New Hampshire NH16$1,426+8%$1,030 – $2,692
Iowa IA65$1,361+3%$1,017 – $1,724
South Carolina SC48$1,349+2%$1,085 – $2,311
Kentucky KY54$1,341+2%$645 – $2,161
Oregon OR38$1,339+2%$1,082 – $1,672
New Mexico NM19$1,284−2%$847 – $1,936
Hawaii HI11$1,281−3%$1,148 – $1,604
Washington WA55$1,275−3%$982 – $1,622
Wisconsin WI101$1,264−4%$619 – $1,730
West Virginia WV30$1,130−14%$820 – $2,037
Minnesota MN79$1,128−14%$486 – $1,553
Georgia GA88$1,115−15%$841 – $1,943
Oklahoma OK40$1,097−17%$707 – $1,889
Connecticut CT15$1,095−17%$750 – $1,512
New York NY93$1,092−17%$637 – $2,193
Indiana IN82$1,082−18%$694 – $1,700
Missouri MO66$1,062−19%$779 – $1,955
Virginia VA65$1,032−22%$668 – $1,939
Pennsylvania PA107$1,022−22%$631 – $2,676
Arizona AZ44$1,004−24%$442 – $3,736
Michigan MI77$998−24%$627 – $1,469
Kansas KS52$945−28%$571 – $1,798
North Dakota ND17$804−39%$686 – $1,501
Maine ME22$799−39%$430 – $1,760
Alabama AL36$797−39%$528 – $1,730
Maryland MD34$708−46%$367 – $1,045
New Jersey NJ57$703−47%$557 – $1,569
Mississippi MS38$644−51%$500 – $1,100
Tennessee TN70$636−52%$439 – $1,312
Louisiana LA48$516−61%$310 – $1,302
Arkansas AR23$419−68%$251 – $942
Wyoming WY8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE6not 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 $1,316.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,154$1,324$668 – $2,325
Children’s47$1,951$1,167 – $2,964
Critical access540$1,298$670 – $1,936
Ownership
For-profit396$1,699$751 – $5,473
Government417$1,126$603 – $1,841
Non-profit1,928$1,319$681 – $2,176
System affiliation
Part of a system2,317$1,350$690 – $2,286
Independent434$1,119$632 – $1,958

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,278
Median cash price$1,316
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

1,939 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,366 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,378; most fall between $719 and $2,195.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,939 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
$504$823$1,366$1,936$3,036

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($504 vs $3,036).

Of the 2,126 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,939 gave a usable cash price; 97 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 90 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,751 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (70%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,023 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,751
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here174
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 — excluded97
Hospitals that filed this code3,023

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/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, function and medication (CPT 78708) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-78708-nuclear-kidney-scan-with-blood-flow-function-and-medication