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Nuclear Scan for Thyroid Cancer That Has Spread

Minnesota 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?

$537

Typical negotiated rate. In Minnesota, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $537 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $525 from a physician practice, and about $955 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 6 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$525$380 to $692
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$955$724 to $1,585

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $955 · 10th to 90th $380 to $2,138Professionalmedian $525 · 10th to 90th $302 to $891
$200$500$1K$2Kfacility $955professional $525

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
$275.42
Typical High
$275.42
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$199.53
Median
$263.03
Typical High
$537.03
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$537.03
Median
$1,122.02
Typical High
$2,951.21
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$407.38
Median
$602.56
Typical High
$891.25
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$676.08
Median
$933.25
Typical High
$2,511.89
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$389.05
Median
$489.78
Typical High
$776.25
Health Partners
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$707.95
Median
$1,023.29
Typical High
$1,995.26
Health Partners
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$380.19
Median
$380.19
Typical High
$602.56
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$251.19
Median
$457.09
Typical High
$794.33
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$288.40
Median
$524.81
Typical High
$1,047.13
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$812.83
Median
$1,023.29
Typical High
$1,445.44
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$302.00
Median
$549.54
Typical High
$870.96

Where Minnesota 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.

Minnesota· 3rd of 51

$537

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.