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Nuclear Scan for Thyroid Cancer That Has Spread

Arkansas rates for HCPCS 78016

A nuclear medicine scan that searches for thyroid tissue or thyroid cancer sitting outside the thyroid gland itself. The person is given a small amount of radioactive iodine, which thyroid cells take up wherever they are in the body, and a scanner then shows where it has collected.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Nuclear Scan for Thyroid Cancer That Has Spread cost?

$339

Typical negotiated rate. In Arkansas, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $339 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $288 from a physician practice, and about $355 from a hospital or other facility. The two figures are alternatives, not parts of one bill.

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 4 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

Where it's billed changes the price

Billed byTypicalRange
Physician practiceA doctor's office, clinic or independent provider$288$191 to $339
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$355$355 to $427

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $355 · 10th to 90th $275 to $479Professionalmedian $288 · 10th to 90th $191 to $372
$200$500$1Kfacility $355professional $288

Distribution of negotiated rates across all payers (price axis is log-scale). Each curve is scaled to its own total: facility and professional rates are different services, shown together to compare where they cluster. Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$275.42
Median
$338.84
Typical High
$380.19
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$190.55
Median
$275.42
Typical High
$338.84
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$354.81
Median
$354.81
Typical High
$478.63
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$275.42
Median
$309.03
Typical High
$398.11
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$302.00
Median
$457.09
Typical High
$724.44
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$208.93
Median
$323.59
Typical High
$478.63
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$407.38
Median
$812.83
Typical High
$1,148.15
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$190.55
Median
$281.84
Typical High
$478.63

Where Arkansas sits

The same service costs 4.3 times more in Wyoming than in Florida. 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.

Arkansas· 16th of 51

$339

WY $891FL $209

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.