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Nuclear kidney scan, three-dimensional (SPECT)

CPT 78710the billing code this page is about

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

Hospitals typically charge $585 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 140 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $714. Most fall between $291 and $1,327 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
140
States
30
Filings dated
Jan 2025 – Aug 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 140 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
$141$333$585$1,296$1,824

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($141 vs $1,824).

How the prices are spread

$42 – $63: 8 hospitals$42$63 – $94: 0 hospitals$94 – $140: 3 hospitals$94$140 – $210: 12 hospitals$210 – $314: 10 hospitals$210$314 – $470: 18 hospitals$470 – $702: 23 hospitals$470$702 – $1,050: 17 hospitals$1,050 – $1,570: 28 hospitals$1,050$1,570 – $2,349: 13 hospitals$1,570median $585price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (132 of 140 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$42$638
$63$940
$94$1403
$140$21012
$210$31410
$314$47018
$470$70223
$702$1,05017
$1,050$1,57028
$1,570$2,34913

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $585.

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: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureILWisconsin: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWIMichigan: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: 3 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: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNVWyoming: 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: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: median $180 across 18 hospitalsPA$180New Jersey: 5 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: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCAUtah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWVVirginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVAMaryland: 6 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: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNMKansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceARTennessee: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceTNNorth Carolina: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNCSouth Carolina: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSCOklahoma: median $42 across 12 hospitalsOK$42Louisiana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $1,264 across 29 hospitalsTX$1,264Florida: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $585. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Texas TX29$1,264+116%$473 – $1,327
Pennsylvania PA18$180−69%$141 – $1,831
Oklahoma OK12$42−93%$42 – $291
Colorado CO9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Illinois IL7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
California CA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Jersey NJ5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New York NY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Michigan MI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA1not 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 $585.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care118$473$291 – $1,327
Children’s5fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access17fewer than 20 hospitals
Ownership
For-profit20$473$166 – $1,264
Government18fewer than 20 hospitals
Non-profit102$585$291 – $1,366
System affiliation
Part of a system115$488$291 – $1,327
Independent25$810$406 – $2,349

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,116
Median cash price$585
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

113 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $690 and the average of the middle 60% is $806; most fall between $178 and $1,366.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 113 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
$135$292$690$1,327$1,755

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($135 vs $1,755).

Of the 129 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 113 gave a usable cash price; 12 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 4 a list price only.

How complete is this

140 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (4%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 160 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted140
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here14
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 — excluded6
Hospitals that filed this code160

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 5, 2026 and September 24, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 14, 2026. The percentiles and averages use only the “counted” row.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as PR Renal 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.

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Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Nuclear kidney scan, three-dimensional (SPECT) (CPT 78710) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-78710-nuclear-kidney-scan-three-dimensional-spect