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Procedure price report · Radioisotope scan and function studies

Nuclear SPECT scan to find a tumor or infection, one area

CPT 78830the billing code this page is about

Three-dimensional nuclear medicine imaging after injection of a radioactive tracer to locate a tumor, infection, or inflammation, covering one body area imaged on a single day.

Hospitals typically charge $2,333 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,586 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,401. Most fall between $1,347 and $3,937 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,586
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 1,586 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
$875$1,529$2,333$3,499$5,112

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($875 vs $5,112).

How the prices are spread

$549 – $701: 25 hospitals$549$701 – $894: 69 hospitals$894 – $1,140: 75 hospitals$894$1,140 – $1,454: 114 hospitals$1,454 – $1,855: 253 hospitals$1,454$1,855 – $2,367: 190 hospitals$2,367 – $3,020: 262 hospitals$2,367$3,020 – $3,852: 184 hospitals$3,852 – $4,914: 168 hospitals$3,852$4,914 – $6,269: 92 hospitals$4,914median $2,333price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,432 of 1,586 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$549$70125
$701$89469
$894$1,14075
$1,140$1,454114
$1,454$1,855253
$1,855$2,367190
$2,367$3,020262
$3,020$3,852184
$3,852$4,914168
$4,914$6,26992

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$1,323
Median cash price$2,333
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.76×

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 $2,333.

Alaska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $1,363 across 14 hospitalsME$1,363Vermont: 7 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 $2,878 across 33 hospitalsWA$2,878Idaho: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 2 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 $1,451 across 39 hospitalsMN$1,451Illinois: median $2,415 across 58 hospitalsIL$2,415Wisconsin: median $1,702 across 85 hospitalsWI$1,702Michigan: median $2,183 across 51 hospitalsMI$2,183New York: median $1,616 across 73 hospitalsNY$1,616Massachusetts: median $3,619 across 30 hospitalsMA$3,619Oregon: median $2,443 across 32 hospitalsOR$2,443Nevada: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $2,596 across 20 hospitalsIA$2,596Indiana: median $2,075 across 44 hospitalsIN$2,075Ohio: median $2,531 across 90 hospitalsOH$2,531Pennsylvania: median $3,206 across 69 hospitalsPA$3,206New Jersey: median $1,446 across 32 hospitalsNJ$1,446Connecticut: median $2,727 across 14 hospitalsCT$2,727Rhode Island: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $3,509 across 122 hospitalsCA$3,509Utah: median $1,969 across 30 hospitalsUT$1,969Colorado: median $3,245 across 43 hospitalsCO$3,245Nebraska: median $3,213 across 10 hospitalsNE$3,213Missouri: median $2,048 across 37 hospitalsMO$2,048Kentucky: median $1,773 across 17 hospitalsKY$1,773West Virginia: median $2,410 across 14 hospitalsWV$2,410Virginia: median $2,386 across 44 hospitalsVA$2,386Maryland: median $2,417 across 31 hospitalsMD$2,417Delaware: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $801 across 25 hospitalsAZ$801New Mexico: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $2,315 across 12 hospitalsKS$2,315Arkansas: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $1,430 across 29 hospitalsTN$1,430North Carolina: median $1,559 across 47 hospitalsNC$1,559South Carolina: median $1,750 across 32 hospitalsSC$1,750Oklahoma: median $1,826 across 17 hospitalsOK$1,826Louisiana: median $1,064 across 12 hospitalsLA$1,064Mississippi: median $1,107 across 19 hospitalsMS$1,107Alabama: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $1,366 across 57 hospitalsGA$1,366Hawaii: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $3,006 across 133 hospitalsTX$3,006Florida: median $3,151 across 89 hospitalsFL$3,151
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,333. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Massachusetts MA30$3,619+55%$2,298 – $4,823
California CA122$3,509+50%$1,968 – $4,969
Colorado CO43$3,245+39%$1,905 – $7,007
Nebraska NE10$3,213+38%$115 – $3,569
Pennsylvania PA69$3,206+37%$2,020 – $4,720
Florida FL89$3,151+35%$1,390 – $4,445
Texas TX133$3,006+29%$1,810 – $4,614
Washington WA33$2,878+23%$1,771 – $3,778
Connecticut CT14$2,727+17%$2,343 – $3,869
Iowa IA20$2,596+11%$1,612 – $2,777
Ohio OH90$2,531+9%$2,333 – $3,076
Oregon OR32$2,443+5%$1,492 – $3,842
Maryland MD31$2,417+4%$1,639 – $3,024
Illinois IL58$2,415+4%$1,347 – $3,648
West Virginia WV14$2,410+3%$1,184 – $2,936
Virginia VA44$2,386+2%$1,367 – $3,398
Kansas KS12$2,315−1%$1,205 – $5,653
Michigan MI51$2,183−6%$1,305 – $2,659
Indiana IN44$2,075−11%$1,004 – $3,043
Missouri MO37$2,048−12%$1,734 – $3,514
Utah UT30$1,969−16%$1,969 – $2,317
Oklahoma OK17$1,826−22%$829 – $2,233
Kentucky KY17$1,773−24%$1,070 – $7,183
South Carolina SC32$1,750−25%$1,100 – $2,841
Wisconsin WI85$1,702−27%$706 – $2,939
New York NY73$1,616−31%$1,529 – $4,860
North Carolina NC47$1,559−33%$1,354 – $1,920
Minnesota MN39$1,451−38%$549 – $1,625
New Jersey NJ32$1,446−38%$889 – $2,642
Tennessee TN29$1,430−39%$513 – $2,557
Georgia GA57$1,366−41%$875 – $3,499
Maine ME14$1,363−42%$1,070 – $2,511
Mississippi MS19$1,107−53%$932 – $1,505
Louisiana LA12$1,064−54%$1,027 – $3,088
Arizona AZ25$801−66%$541 – $3,966
Arkansas AR8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL1not 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 $2,333.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,374$2,386$1,403 – $4,053
Children’s38$2,930$1,716 – $4,335
Critical access166$1,988$875 – $3,076
Ownership
For-profit153$3,026$1,556 – $5,558
Government167$1,802$1,196 – $3,499
Non-profit1,258$2,333$1,366 – $3,869
System affiliation
Part of a system1,439$2,333$1,368 – $3,966
Independent147$2,358$1,286 – $3,603

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$4,087
Median cash price$2,333
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

1,193 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,438 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,484; most fall between $1,430 and $3,966.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,193 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
$928$1,623$2,438$3,569$4,823

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($928 vs $4,823).

Of the 1,290 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,193 gave a usable cash price; 62 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 35 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,586 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (40%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,729 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,586
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here96
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 — excluded47
Hospitals that filed this code1,729

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 Spect W/CT 1 Area/Acquisj 1day Img|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, “Nuclear SPECT scan to find a tumor or infection, one area (CPT 78830) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-78830-nuclear-spect-scan-to-find-a-tumor-or-infection-one-area