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Procedure price report · Radioisotope scan and function studies

Kidney function test with radioactive tracer, no imaging

CPT 78725the billing code this page is about

Measures how well the kidneys clear a radioactive tracer from the blood, using counts from blood or urine samples rather than pictures.

Hospitals typically charge $733 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 647 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $765. Most fall between $390 and $1,261 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
647
States
49
Filings dated
Dec 2023 – 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 647 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
$266$434$733$1,232$1,719

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($266 vs $1,719).

How the prices are spread

$99 – $138: 7 hospitals$99$138 – $192: 13 hospitals$192 – $268: 16 hospitals$192$268 – $374: 51 hospitals$374 – $521: 118 hospitals$374$521 – $727: 88 hospitals$727 – $1,014: 96 hospitals$727$1,014 – $1,415: 114 hospitals$1,415 – $1,973: 71 hospitals$1,415$1,973 – $2,753: 12 hospitals$1,973median $733price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (586 of 647 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$99$1387
$138$19213
$192$26816
$268$37451
$374$521118
$521$72788
$727$1,01496
$1,014$1,415114
$1,415$1,97371
$1,973$2,75312

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$408
Median cash price$733
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.79×

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 $733.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $1,085 across 10 hospitalsWA$1,085Idaho: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $1,022 across 12 hospitalsMN$1,022Illinois: median $431 across 20 hospitalsIL$431Wisconsin: median $1,595 across 15 hospitalsWI$1,595Michigan: median $550 across 22 hospitalsMI$550New York: median $476 across 31 hospitalsNY$476Massachusetts: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $43 across 15 hospitalsIA$43Indiana: median $734 across 18 hospitalsIN$734Ohio: median $1,133 across 23 hospitalsOH$1,133Pennsylvania: median $472 across 26 hospitalsPA$472New Jersey: median $445 across 19 hospitalsNJ$445Connecticut: 4 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 $1,249 across 75 hospitalsCA$1,249Utah: median $527 across 24 hospitalsUT$527Colorado: median $1,326 across 17 hospitalsCO$1,326Nebraska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $462 across 14 hospitalsMO$462Kentucky: median $1,528 across 11 hospitalsKY$1,528West Virginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWVVirginia: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: median $415 across 10 hospitalsMD$415Delaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $423 across 10 hospitalsAZ$423New Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: median $546 across 15 hospitalsNC$546South Carolina: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOKLouisiana: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $376 across 20 hospitalsGA$376Hawaii: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $784 across 82 hospitalsTX$784Florida: median $1,064 across 54 hospitalsFL$1,064
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $733. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Wisconsin WI15$1,595+118%$1,487 – $1,595
Kentucky KY11$1,528+108%$356 – $1,528
Colorado CO17$1,326+81%$818 – $1,828
California CA75$1,249+70%$631 – $1,719
Ohio OH23$1,133+55%$550 – $1,133
Washington WA10$1,085+48%$440 – $1,245
Florida FL54$1,064+45%$748 – $1,559
Minnesota MN12$1,022+39%$1,022 – $1,945
Texas TX82$784+7%$460 – $1,420
Indiana IN18$7340%$549 – $1,141
Michigan MI22$550−25%$431 – $1,252
North Carolina NC15$546−26%$514 – $546
Utah UT24$527−28%$527 – $620
New York NY31$476−35%$408 – $1,068
Pennsylvania PA26$472−36%$408 – $1,229
Missouri MO14$462−37%$349 – $879
New Jersey NJ19$445−39%$439 – $518
Illinois IL20$431−41%$80 – $974
Arizona AZ10$423−42%$370 – $733
Maryland MD10$415−43%$202 – $568
Georgia GA20$376−49%$376 – $391
Iowa IA15$43−94%$43 – $311
Louisiana LA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oklahoma OK4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT1not 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 $733.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care549$684$390 – $1,252
Children’s35$1,026$629 – $2,292
Critical access61$543$314 – $1,131
Ownership
For-profit96$747$356 – $2,497
Government74$546$403 – $905
Non-profit475$747$391 – $1,252
System affiliation
Part of a system575$734$391 – $1,260
Independent72$577$344 – $1,321

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,324
Median cash price$733
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

447 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $768 and the average of the middle 60% is $793; most fall between $391 and $1,252.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 447 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
$290$440$768$1,249$1,719

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($290 vs $1,719).

Of the 512 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 447 gave a usable cash price; 42 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 23 a list price only.

How complete is this

647 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (16%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 743 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted647
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here72
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 — excluded24
Hospitals that filed this code743

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 5, 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 Function Study.

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, “Kidney function test with radioactive tracer, no imaging (CPT 78725) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-78725-kidney-function-test-with-radioactive-tracer-no-imaging