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Nuclear Scan for Thyroid Cancer That Has Spread

Idaho 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?

$468

Typical negotiated rate. In Idaho, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $468 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $417 from a physician practice, and about $933 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 8 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$417$295 to $537
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$933$646 to $1,122

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $933 · 10th to 90th $490 to $1,413Professionalmedian $417 · 10th to 90th $282 to $537
$200$500$1Kfacility $933professional $417

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
$645.65
Median
$645.65
Typical High
$645.65
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$288.40
Median
$346.74
Typical High
$537.03
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$512.86
Median
$977.24
Typical High
$1,412.54
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$380.19
Median
$446.68
Typical High
$660.69
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$512.86
Median
$1,071.52
Typical High
$1,258.93
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$295.12
Median
$407.38
Typical High
$537.03
Moda Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$346.74
Median
$524.81
Typical High
$616.60
Moda Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$416.87
Median
$436.52
Typical High
$501.19
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$32.36
Median
$32.36
Typical High
$33.11
Regence BlueShield
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$724.44
Median
$1,071.52
Typical High
$1,412.54
Regence BlueShield
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$489.78
Median
$524.81
Typical High
$562.34
Select Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$234.42
Median
$660.69
Typical High
$1,096.48
Select Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$234.42
Median
$234.42
Typical High
$549.54
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$245.47
Median
$281.84
Typical High
$549.54

Where Idaho 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.

Idaho· 8th of 51

$468

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.