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Nuclear Scan for Thyroid Cancer That Has Spread

Florida 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?

$209

Typical negotiated rate. In Florida, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $209 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $200 from a physician practice, and about $490 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 7 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$200$178 to $257
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$490$251 to $57,544

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $490 · 10th to 90th $178 to $125,893Professionalmedian $200 · 10th to 90th $174 to $309
$100$1K$10K$100Kfacility $490professional $200

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
$177.83
Median
$177.83
Typical High
$323.59
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$177.83
Median
$190.55
Typical High
$281.84
AvMed
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$186.21
Median
$416.87
Typical High
$478.63
AvMed
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$186.21
Median
$245.47
Typical High
$281.84
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$223.87
Median
$691.83
Typical High
$977.24
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$173.78
Median
$295.12
Typical High
$501.19
Florida Blue
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$302.00
Median
$57,543.99
Typical High
$169,824.37
Florida Blue
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$169.82
Median
$181.97
Typical High
$380.19
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$25.12
Median
$138.04
Typical High
$239.88
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$302.00
Median
$338.84
Typical High
$831.76
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$194.98
Median
$239.88
Typical High
$489.78
Wellpoint
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$190.55
Median
$190.55
Typical High
$263.03

Where Florida 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.

Florida· 51st of 51

$209

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.