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Procedure price report · Radioisotope scan and function studies

Whole-body nuclear tracer scan for tumor, single day

CPT 78802the billing code this page is about

Flat (planar) imaging of the entire body after a radioactive tracer is given, with all imaging completed in one day.

Hospitals typically charge $1,798 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,203 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,947. Most fall between $996 and $3,512 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,203
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 2,203 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
$679$1,179$1,798$2,976$5,270

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($679 vs $5,270).

How the prices are spread

$527 – $682: 112 hospitals$527$682 – $881: 137 hospitals$881 – $1,140: 171 hospitals$881$1,140 – $1,474: 263 hospitals$1,474 – $1,907: 355 hospitals$1,474$1,907 – $2,466: 329 hospitals$2,466 – $3,189: 225 hospitals$2,466$3,189 – $4,124: 155 hospitals$4,124 – $5,333: 142 hospitals$4,124$5,333 – $6,896: 94 hospitals$5,333median $1,798price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,983 of 2,203 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$527$682112
$682$881137
$881$1,140171
$1,140$1,474263
$1,474$1,907355
$1,907$2,466329
$2,466$3,189225
$3,189$4,124155
$4,124$5,333142
$5,333$6,89694

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$555
Median cash price$1,798
Cash as a multiple of Medicare3.2×

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 $1,798.

Alaska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $1,520 across 15 hospitalsME$1,520Vermont: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $1,760 across 12 hospitalsNH$1,760Washington: median $1,881 across 46 hospitalsWA$1,881Idaho: median $3,114 across 11 hospitalsID$3,114Montana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $1,544 across 24 hospitalsMN$1,544Illinois: median $2,068 across 94 hospitalsIL$2,068Wisconsin: median $1,538 across 78 hospitalsWI$1,538Michigan: median $1,416 across 63 hospitalsMI$1,416New York: median $2,001 across 77 hospitalsNY$2,001Massachusetts: median $2,231 across 39 hospitalsMA$2,231Oregon: median $1,760 across 24 hospitalsOR$1,760Nevada: median $2,520 across 13 hospitalsNV$2,520Wyoming: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $1,517 across 30 hospitalsIA$1,517Indiana: median $1,694 across 63 hospitalsIN$1,694Ohio: median $2,107 across 121 hospitalsOH$2,107Pennsylvania: median $2,023 across 103 hospitalsPA$2,023New Jersey: median $1,445 across 56 hospitalsNJ$1,445Connecticut: median $2,045 across 14 hospitalsCT$2,045Rhode Island: median $1,579 across 10 hospitalsRI$1,579California: median $2,928 across 176 hospitalsCA$2,928Utah: median $1,215 across 34 hospitalsUT$1,215Colorado: median $2,295 across 47 hospitalsCO$2,295Nebraska: median $1,216 across 17 hospitalsNE$1,216Missouri: median $1,410 across 52 hospitalsMO$1,410Kentucky: median $2,018 across 37 hospitalsKY$2,018West Virginia: median $2,073 across 16 hospitalsWV$2,073Virginia: median $1,745 across 52 hospitalsVA$1,745Maryland: median $1,707 across 37 hospitalsMD$1,707Delaware: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $1,644 across 41 hospitalsAZ$1,644New Mexico: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $1,613 across 24 hospitalsKS$1,613Arkansas: median $1,196 across 16 hospitalsAR$1,196Tennessee: median $692 across 53 hospitalsTN$692North Carolina: median $1,504 across 61 hospitalsNC$1,504South Carolina: median $1,743 across 46 hospitalsSC$1,743Oklahoma: median $1,172 across 31 hospitalsOK$1,172Louisiana: median $1,096 across 41 hospitalsLA$1,096Mississippi: median $865 across 26 hospitalsMS$865Alabama: median $1,572 across 30 hospitalsAL$1,572Georgia: median $1,096 across 73 hospitalsGA$1,096Hawaii: median $1,982 across 11 hospitalsHI$1,982Texas: median $2,052 across 189 hospitalsTX$2,052Florida: median $3,139 across 156 hospitalsFL$3,139
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,798. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL156$3,139+75%$1,423 – $7,319
Idaho ID11$3,114+73%$1,033 – $4,271
California CA176$2,928+63%$1,353 – $5,270
Nevada NV13$2,520+40%$590 – $10,089
Colorado CO47$2,295+28%$1,350 – $4,809
Massachusetts MA39$2,231+24%$1,547 – $4,228
Ohio OH121$2,107+17%$1,402 – $2,841
West Virginia WV16$2,073+15%$1,591 – $4,941
Illinois IL94$2,068+15%$1,129 – $3,164
Texas TX189$2,052+14%$1,289 – $4,251
Connecticut CT14$2,045+14%$1,499 – $3,330
Pennsylvania PA103$2,023+13%$1,114 – $4,243
Kentucky KY37$2,018+12%$1,070 – $5,238
New York NY77$2,001+11%$1,121 – $3,597
Hawaii HI11$1,982+10%$1,572 – $2,721
Washington WA46$1,881+5%$1,192 – $2,890
Oregon OR24$1,760−2%$1,326 – $3,166
New Hampshire NH12$1,760−2%$1,293 – $4,132
Virginia VA52$1,745−3%$1,048 – $3,398
South Carolina SC46$1,743−3%$978 – $3,045
Maryland MD37$1,707−5%$1,145 – $2,385
Indiana IN63$1,694−6%$1,204 – $2,294
Arizona AZ41$1,644−9%$459 – $4,105
Kansas KS24$1,613−10%$922 – $3,112
Rhode Island RI10$1,579−12%$1,500 – $3,449
Alabama AL30$1,572−13%$746 – $2,720
Minnesota MN24$1,544−14%$1,013 – $2,041
Wisconsin WI78$1,538−14%$1,288 – $3,114
Maine ME15$1,520−15%$835 – $2,220
Iowa IA30$1,517−16%$685 – $2,174
North Carolina NC61$1,504−16%$1,331 – $2,154
New Jersey NJ56$1,445−20%$598 – $2,420
Michigan MI63$1,416−21%$747 – $2,168
Missouri MO52$1,410−22%$1,104 – $2,701
Nebraska NE17$1,216−32%$691 – $2,285
Utah UT34$1,215−32%$1,033 – $1,950
Arkansas AR16$1,196−33%$693 – $1,637
Oklahoma OK31$1,172−35%$757 – $2,025
Georgia GA73$1,096−39%$866 – $2,149
Louisiana LA41$1,096−39%$594 – $1,690
Mississippi MS26$865−52%$590 – $1,200
Tennessee TN53$692−61%$466 – $1,762
New Mexico NM8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT3not 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 $1,798.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,912$1,788$1,001 – $3,597
Children’s46$2,636$1,550 – $5,026
Critical access237$1,709$873 – $2,800
Ownership
For-profit361$2,588$1,241 – $6,830
Government268$1,545$866 – $2,514
Non-profit1,566$1,750$990 – $3,169
System affiliation
Part of a system1,888$1,783$996 – $3,749
Independent315$1,817$993 – $2,955

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,358
Median cash price$1,798
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

1,636 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,825 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,935; most fall between $1,033 and $3,335.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,636 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
$727$1,215$1,825$2,928$4,764

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($727 vs $4,764).

Of the 1,776 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,636 gave a usable cash price; 77 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 63 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,203 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (56%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,418 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,203
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here140
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 — excluded75
Hospitals that filed this code2,418

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 Rp Loclzj Tum Plnr Whole Body Single Day Imaging|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, “Whole-body nuclear tracer scan for tumor, single day (CPT 78802) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-78802-whole-body-nuclear-tracer-scan-for-tumor-single-day