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Procedure price report · Radioisotope scan and function studies

Unlisted nuclear medicine scan, urinary or genital

CPT 78799the billing code this page is about

Used for a nuclear medicine study of the urinary or genital organs that has no specific billing code of its own.

Hospitals typically charge $517 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 135 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $579. Most fall between $190 and $975 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
135
States
31
Filings dated
Dec 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 135 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
$182$375$517$921$1,390

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($182 vs $1,390).

How the prices are spread

$182 – $240: 24 hospitals$182$240 – $316: 3 hospitals$316 – $416: 7 hospitals$316$416 – $547: 31 hospitals$547 – $721: 18 hospitals$547$721 – $949: 17 hospitals$949 – $1,250: 12 hospitals$949$1,250 – $1,645: 9 hospitals$1,645 – $2,167: 1 hospitals$1,645$2,167 – $2,853: 3 hospitals$2,167median $517price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (125 of 135 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$182$24024
$240$3163
$316$4167
$416$54731
$547$72118
$721$94917
$949$1,25012
$1,250$1,6459
$1,645$2,1671
$2,167$2,8533

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$408
Median cash price$517
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.27×

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 $517.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVTNew Hampshire: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNHWashington: 5 hospitals 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: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureILWisconsin: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: median $476 across 18 hospitalsNY$476Massachusetts: 4 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: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIAIndiana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figurePANew Jersey: median $445 across 14 hospitalsNJ$445Connecticut: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $182 across 26 hospitalsCA$182Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 1 hospital 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: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNMKansas: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceKSArkansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNCSouth Carolina: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOKLouisiana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMSAlabama: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceHITexas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTXFlorida: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $517. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New York NY18$476−8%$475 – $476
New Jersey NJ14$445−14%$190 – $473
California CA26$182−65%$182 – $858
Colorado CO9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Michigan MI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Illinois IL7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Iowa IA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Pennsylvania PA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oklahoma OK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Texas TX2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI1not 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 $517.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care122$495$190 – $949
Children’s3fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access10fewer than 20 hospitals
Ownership
For-profit21$858$318 – $1,296
Government20$476$403 – $850
Non-profit94$500$182 – $940
System affiliation
Part of a system116$499$190 – $940
Independent19fewer than 20 hospitals

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,275
Median cash price$517
Cash as a share of list, median hospital56%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 44%. 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.

How complete is this

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

What the 155 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted135
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here10
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 — excluded10
Hospitals that filed this code155

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 23, 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 Unlisted Genitourinary Px Dx Nuclear Medicine.

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, “Unlisted nuclear medicine scan, urinary or genital (CPT 78799) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-78799-unlisted-nuclear-medicine-scan-urinary-or-genital