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Nuclear Scan for Thyroid Cancer That Has Spread

Montana 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?

$457

Typical negotiated rate. In Montana, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $457 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $447 from a physician practice, and about $479 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$447$295 to $603
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$479$437 to $513

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $479 · 10th to 90th $437 to $891Professionalmedian $447 · 10th to 90th $257 to $1,622
$200$500$1Kfacility $479professional $447

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
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$295.12
Median
$295.12
Typical High
$1,621.81
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$389.05
Median
$489.78
Typical High
$1,479.11
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$213.80
Median
$398.11
Typical High
$776.25
MountainHealth Co-op
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$436.52
Median
$467.74
Typical High
$891.25
MountainHealth Co-op
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$436.52
Median
$467.74
Typical High
$891.25
Providence
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$363.08
Median
$512.86
Typical High
$1,479.11
Providence
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$257.04
Median
$389.05
Typical High
$575.44
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$338.84
Median
$338.84
Typical High
$338.84
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$245.47
Median
$251.19
Typical High
$489.78

Where Montana 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.

Montana· 11th of 51

$457

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.