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Procedure price report · Radioisotope scan and function studies

Nuclear scan for urine backflow into the ureters

CPT 78740the billing code this page is about

Imaging with a radioactive tracer to see whether urine flows backward from the bladder toward the kidneys, during bladder filling or urination.

Hospitals typically charge $887 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,292 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $918. Most fall between $468 and $1,539 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,292
States
50
Filings dated
Feb 2024 – 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 1,292 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
$348$519$887$1,354$2,253

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($348 vs $2,253).

How the prices are spread

$200 – $261: 15 hospitals$200$261 – $341: 40 hospitals$341 – $446: 125 hospitals$341$446 – $583: 138 hospitals$583 – $762: 120 hospitals$583$762 – $995: 241 hospitals$995 – $1,300: 209 hospitals$995$1,300 – $1,699: 120 hospitals$1,699 – $2,220: 88 hospitals$1,699$2,220 – $2,901: 68 hospitals$2,220median $887price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,164 of 1,292 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$200$26115
$261$34140
$341$446125
$446$583138
$583$762120
$762$995241
$995$1,300209
$1,300$1,699120
$1,699$2,22088
$2,220$2,90168

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$408
Median cash price$887
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 $887.

Alaska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $479 across 13 hospitalsME$479Vermont: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $761 across 32 hospitalsWA$761Idaho: 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: median $692 across 12 hospitalsND$692Minnesota: median $778 across 24 hospitalsMN$778Illinois: median $1,099 across 55 hospitalsIL$1,099Wisconsin: median $976 across 45 hospitalsWI$976Michigan: median $873 across 35 hospitalsMI$873New York: median $499 across 44 hospitalsNY$499Massachusetts: median $1,312 across 18 hospitalsMA$1,312Oregon: median $834 across 18 hospitalsOR$834Nevada: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $874 across 30 hospitalsIA$874Indiana: median $776 across 36 hospitalsIN$776Ohio: median $1,236 across 70 hospitalsOH$1,236Pennsylvania: median $843 across 50 hospitalsPA$843New Jersey: median $445 across 34 hospitalsNJ$445Connecticut: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $1,217 across 110 hospitalsCA$1,217Utah: median $887 across 26 hospitalsUT$887Colorado: median $993 across 34 hospitalsCO$993Nebraska: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $744 across 17 hospitalsMO$744Kentucky: median $1,013 across 26 hospitalsKY$1,013West Virginia: median $922 across 10 hospitalsWV$922Virginia: median $854 across 41 hospitalsVA$854Maryland: median $1,216 across 20 hospitalsMD$1,216Delaware: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $655 across 25 hospitalsAZ$655New Mexico: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: median $693 across 11 hospitalsAR$693Tennessee: median $262 across 25 hospitalsTN$262North Carolina: median $837 across 37 hospitalsNC$837South Carolina: median $848 across 20 hospitalsSC$848Oklahoma: median $468 across 23 hospitalsOK$468Louisiana: median $491 across 16 hospitalsLA$491Mississippi: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: median $520 across 15 hospitalsAL$520Georgia: median $716 across 30 hospitalsGA$716Hawaii: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $1,075 across 113 hospitalsTX$1,075Florida: median $1,041 across 85 hospitalsFL$1,041
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $887. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Massachusetts MA18$1,312+48%$588 – $1,396
Ohio OH70$1,236+39%$609 – $1,962
California CA110$1,217+37%$587 – $2,727
Maryland MD20$1,216+37%$605 – $1,412
Illinois IL55$1,099+24%$469 – $1,680
Texas TX113$1,075+21%$433 – $1,730
Florida FL85$1,041+17%$624 – $2,253
Kentucky KY26$1,013+14%$401 – $1,880
Colorado CO34$993+12%$556 – $2,220
Wisconsin WI45$976+10%$439 – $1,936
West Virginia WV10$922+4%$339 – $1,521
Utah UT26$8870%$887 – $1,044
Iowa IA30$874−1%$442 – $1,079
Michigan MI35$873−2%$550 – $1,264
Virginia VA41$854−4%$342 – $957
South Carolina SC20$848−4%$611 – $1,504
Pennsylvania PA50$843−5%$471 – $2,028
North Carolina NC37$837−6%$517 – $1,230
Oregon OR18$834−6%$62 – $1,639
Minnesota MN24$778−12%$481 – $1,334
Indiana IN36$776−12%$588 – $961
Washington WA32$761−14%$604 – $999
Missouri MO17$744−16%$594 – $1,061
Georgia GA30$716−19%$694 – $1,577
Arkansas AR11$693−22%$346 – $1,259
North Dakota ND12$692−22%$618 – $930
Arizona AZ25$655−26%$348 – $1,275
Alabama AL15$520−41%$305 – $1,346
New York NY44$499−44%$408 – $1,377
Louisiana LA16$491−45%$302 – $816
Maine ME13$479−46%$368 – $1,258
Oklahoma OK23$468−47%$45 – $941
New Jersey NJ34$445−50%$418 – $2,562
Tennessee TN25$262−70%$183 – $632
New Mexico NM9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI3not 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 $887.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,061$854$457 – $1,559
Children’s40$1,259$948 – $2,063
Critical access185$952$479 – $1,374
Ownership
For-profit163$1,080$493 – $2,573
Government158$774$397 – $1,237
Non-profit965$901$468 – $1,425
System affiliation
Part of a system1,127$901$468 – $1,579
Independent165$851$463 – $1,386

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,502
Median cash price$887
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

946 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $976 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,002; most fall between $523 and $1,614.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 946 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
$381$605$976$1,386$2,220

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($381 vs $2,220).

Of the 1,052 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 946 gave a usable cash price; 60 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

1,292 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (33%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,456 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,292
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here105
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 — excluded59
Hospitals that filed this code1,456

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.

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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 scan for urine backflow into the ureters (CPT 78740) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-78740-nuclear-scan-for-urine-backflow-into-the-ureters