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3-D nuclear tracer scan for infection or inflammation

CPT 78807the billing code this page is about

Cross-sectional (SPECT) imaging after a radioactive tracer is given, to locate a site of infection or inflammation.

Hospitals typically charge $1,172 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 176 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,087. Most fall between $480 and $1,874 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
176
States
33
Filings dated
Aug 2022 – 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 176 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
$241$556$1,172$1,541$2,588

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($241 vs $2,588).

How the prices are spread

$71 – $104: 9 hospitals$71$104 – $152: 4 hospitals$152 – $221: 3 hospitals$152$221 – $323: 6 hospitals$323 – $470: 12 hospitals$323$470 – $686: 15 hospitals$686 – $1,000: 23 hospitals$686$1,000 – $1,458: 52 hospitals$1,458 – $2,126: 27 hospitals$1,458$2,126 – $3,099: 17 hospitals$2,126median $1,172price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (168 of 176 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$71$1049
$104$1524
$152$2213
$221$3236
$323$47012
$470$68615
$686$1,00023
$1,000$1,45852
$1,458$2,12627
$2,126$3,09917

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $1,172.

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: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMNIllinois: median $1,094 across 14 hospitalsIL$1,094Wisconsin: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWIMichigan: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNYMassachusetts: 3 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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIAIndiana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: median $2,570 across 16 hospitalsPA$2,570New Jersey: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNJConnecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode 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: median $1,200 across 10 hospitalsCO$1,200Nebraska: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 1 hospital 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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 3 hospitals 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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $71 across 12 hospitalsOK$71Louisiana: 6 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: 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 $1,200 across 37 hospitalsTX$1,200Florida: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,172. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Pennsylvania PA16$2,570+119%$1,610 – $3,099
Texas TX37$1,200+2%$1,172 – $1,815
Colorado CO10$1,200+2%$700 – $1,200
Illinois IL14$1,094−7%$248 – $2,620
Oklahoma OK12$71−94%$71 – $556
New Jersey NJ8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
California CA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New York NY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Iowa IA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Michigan MI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA1not 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 $1,172.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care153$1,172$493 – $1,907
Children’s3fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access19fewer than 20 hospitals
Ownership
For-profit22$785$248 – $1,200
Government14fewer than 20 hospitals
Non-profit139$1,200$556 – $1,967
System affiliation
Part of a system151$1,172$556 – $1,907
Independent25$641$203 – $1,360

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,953
Median cash price$1,172
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

144 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,189 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,218; most fall between $556 and $1,967.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 144 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
$248$634$1,189$1,610$2,620

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($248 vs $2,620).

Of the 162 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 144 gave a usable cash price; 16 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 2 a list price only.

How complete is this

176 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 200 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted176
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here19
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 — excluded5
Hospitals that filed this code200

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 All Outpatient.

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.

Download this page’s figures: JSON · CSV. Aggregates only — the per-hospital prices are on the compare tool.

Cite: HospitalRates.com, “3-D nuclear tracer scan for infection or inflammation (CPT 78807) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-78807-3-d-nuclear-tracer-scan-for-infection-or-inflammation