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Nuclear Scan for Thyroid Cancer That Has Spread

Mississippi 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?

$316

Typical negotiated rate. In Mississippi, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $316 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $309 from a physician practice, and about $316 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$309$224 to $372
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$316$288 to $661

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $316 · 10th to 90th $214 to $741Professionalmedian $309 · 10th to 90th $214 to $468
$200$500$1Kfacility $316professional $309

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
$213.80
Median
$316.23
Typical High
$371.54
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$213.80
Median
$309.03
Typical High
$467.74
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$186.21
Median
$186.21
Typical High
$186.21
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$389.05
Median
$389.05
Typical High
$389.05
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$223.87
Median
$316.23
Typical High
$660.69
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$194.98
Median
$346.74
Typical High
$549.54
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$32.36
Median
$32.36
Typical High
$33.11
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$407.38
Median
$741.31
Typical High
$794.33
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$199.53
Median
$281.84
Typical High
$398.11

Where Mississippi 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.

Mississippi· 23rd of 51

$316

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.