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Nuclear Scan for Thyroid Cancer That Has Spread

Kansas 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?

$282

Typical negotiated rate. In Kansas, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $282 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $282 from a physician practice, and about $295 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 5 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$282$245 to $363
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$295$282 to $490

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $295 · 10th to 90th $234 to $537Professionalmedian $282 · 10th to 90th $204 to $363
$100$200$500$1Kfacility $295professional $282

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
$281.84
Median
$281.84
Typical High
$537.03
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$204.17
Median
$245.47
Typical High
$295.12
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$363.08
Median
$363.08
Typical High
$363.08
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$457.09
Median
$524.81
Typical High
$1,348.96
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$208.93
Median
$275.42
Typical High
$512.86
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$281.84
Median
$371.54
Typical High
$524.81
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$213.80
Median
$323.59
Typical High
$1,737.80
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$60.26
Median
$295.12
Typical High
$794.33
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$186.21
Median
$275.42
Typical High
$478.63

Where Kansas 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.

Kansas· 34th of 51

$282

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.