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Nuclear Scan for Thyroid Cancer That Has Spread

Arizona 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 October 2026.

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

$355

Typical negotiated rate. In Arizona, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $355 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $295 from a physician practice, and about $955 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$295$251 to $550
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$955$457 to $1,230

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $955 · 10th to 90th $234 to $1,445Professionalmedian $295 · 10th to 90th $229 to $1,738
$200$500$1Kfacility $955professional $295

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
$257.04
Median
$257.04
Typical High
$257.04
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
26 · Professional part
Typical Low
$33.88
Median
$33.88
Typical High
$33.88
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
TC · Technical part
Typical Low
$223.87
Median
$223.87
Typical High
$223.87
BCBS Arizona
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$223.87
Median
$954.99
Typical High
$1,445.44
BCBS Arizona
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None (both parts)
Typical Low
$295.12
Median
$295.12
Typical High
$707.95
BCBS Arizona
Setting
Professional
Modifier
26 · Professional part
Typical Low
$33.11
Median
$33.11
Typical High
$79.43
BCBS Arizona
Setting
Professional
Modifier
TC · Technical part
Typical Low
$263.03
Median
$263.03
Typical High
$630.96
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$794.33
Median
$1,000.00
Typical High
$1,288.25
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None (both parts)
Typical Low
$213.80
Median
$288.40
Typical High
$524.81
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
26 · Professional part
Typical Low
$27.54
Median
$38.90
Typical High
$63.10
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
TC · Technical part
Typical Low
$186.21
Median
$245.47
Typical High
$457.09
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$234.42
Median
$281.84
Typical High
$524.81
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None (both parts)
Typical Low
$229.09
Median
$630.96
Typical High
$1,737.80
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
26 · Professional part
Typical Low
$29.51
Median
$77.62
Typical High
$354.81
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
TC · Technical part
Typical Low
$213.80
Median
$575.44
Typical High
$1,513.56
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None (both parts)
Typical Low
$223.87
Median
$257.04
Typical High
$512.86
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
26 · Professional part
Typical Low
$29.51
Median
$33.11
Typical High
$66.07
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
TC · Technical part
Typical Low
$194.98
Median
$229.09
Typical High
$446.68
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
$263.03
Median
$1,096.48
Typical High
$1,778.28
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
52 · Reduced service
Typical Low
$128.82
Median
$128.82
Typical High
$128.82
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$51.29
Median
$51.29
Typical High
$51.29
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
FX · Film X-ray
Typical Low
$204.17
Median
$204.17
Typical High
$204.17

Where Arizona sits

The same service costs 4.6 times more in Alaska than in Texas. 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· 28th of 51

$355

AK $1,023TX $224

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.