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Thyroid Cancer Spread Imaging (Limited Area)

Arizona rates for HCPCS 78015

This nuclear medicine scan uses a small amount of radioactive material to check a specific part of the body for spread of thyroid cancer. It focuses on a limited area rather than scanning the entire body.

Rates data updated October 2026.

How much does Thyroid Cancer Spread Imaging (Limited Area) cost?

$275

Typical negotiated rate. In Arizona, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $275 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $234 from a physician practice, and about $741 from a hospital or other facility.

These are rates insurers have negotiated with providers, not the amount a patient is billed. What you owe depends on your plan's deductible and coinsurance. Based on rates published by 5 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

Prices by location type

Billed byTypicalRange
Physician practiceA doctor's office, clinic or independent provider$234$200 to $447
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$741$355 to $1,000

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $741 · 10th to 90th $186 to $1,122Professionalmedian $234 · 10th to 90th $174 to $1,413
$200$500$1Kfacility $741professional $234

Distribution of negotiated rates across all payers (price axis is log-scale). Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None (both parts)
Typical Low
$213.80
Median
$213.80
Typical High
$213.80
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
26 · Professional part
Typical Low
$33.11
Median
$33.11
Typical High
$33.11
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
TC · Technical part
Typical Low
$181.97
Median
$181.97
Typical High
$181.97
BCBS Arizona
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$173.78
Median
$758.58
Typical High
$1,122.02
BCBS Arizona
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None (both parts)
Typical Low
$239.88
Median
$239.88
Typical High
$575.44
BCBS Arizona
Setting
Professional
Modifier
26 · Professional part
Typical Low
$31.62
Median
$31.62
Typical High
$75.86
BCBS Arizona
Setting
Professional
Modifier
TC · Technical part
Typical Low
$208.93
Median
$208.93
Typical High
$489.78
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$512.86
Median
$851.14
Typical High
$1,071.52
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None (both parts)
Typical Low
$181.97
Median
$213.80
Typical High
$407.38
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
26 · Professional part
Typical Low
$26.92
Median
$34.67
Typical High
$58.88
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
TC · Technical part
Typical Low
$151.36
Median
$177.83
Typical High
$354.81
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$199.53
Median
$239.88
Typical High
$446.68
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None (both parts)
Typical Low
$169.82
Median
$501.19
Typical High
$1,412.54
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
26 · Professional part
Typical Low
$27.54
Median
$75.86
Typical High
$331.13
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
TC · Technical part
Typical Low
$147.91
Median
$446.68
Typical High
$1,202.26
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None (both parts)
Typical Low
$154.88
Median
$199.53
Typical High
$436.52
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
26 · Professional part
Typical Low
$26.92
Median
$28.84
Typical High
$64.57
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
TC · Technical part
Typical Low
$141.25
Median
$169.82
Typical High
$371.54
4 more rates with less common billing modifiers

A modifier changes what was billed, for example a reduced or repeated service. Each of these modifiers carries under 10% of the published rates for this code. Modifier combinations, and modifiers with fewer than 30 rates for a carrier, are not listed.

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
FX · Film X-ray
Typical Low
$213.80
Median
$912.01
Typical High
$1,445.44
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
52 · Reduced service
Typical Low
$107.15
Median
$107.15
Typical High
$107.15
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$43.65
Median
$43.65
Typical High
$43.65
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
FX · Film X-ray
Typical Low
$173.78
Median
$173.78
Typical High
$173.78

Where Arizona sits

The same service costs 4.9 times more in Alaska than in Kentucky. Every bar is a state, most expensive first. Touch or drag across it to read any state, then open that state for its carriers and full range.

Arizona· 23rd of 51

$275

AK $851KY $174

Median negotiated rate in each state, from every insurer that publishes one. States where no insurer publishes a rate for this service are not shown.