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Nuclear Scan for Thyroid Cancer That Has Spread

New Jersey 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 October 2026.

How much does Nuclear Scan for Thyroid Cancer That Has Spread cost?

$309

Typical negotiated rate. In New Jersey, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $309 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $295 from a physician practice, and about $871 from a hospital or other facility.

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.

Prices by location type

Billed byTypicalRange
Physician practiceA doctor's office, clinic or independent provider$295$263 to $407
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$871$457 to $1,349

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $871 · 10th to 90th $295 to $2,291Professionalmedian $295 · 10th to 90th $245 to $617
$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $871professional $295

Distribution of negotiated rates across all payers (price axis is log-scale). Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$263.03
Median
$295.12
Typical High
$295.12
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
TC · Technical part
Typical Low
$263.03
Median
$263.03
Typical High
$575.44
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None (both parts)
Typical Low
$257.04
Median
$263.03
Typical High
$309.03
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
26 · Professional part
Typical Low
$30.90
Median
$33.11
Typical High
$34.67
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
TC · Technical part
Typical Low
$223.87
Median
$229.09
Typical High
$275.42
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$549.54
Median
$870.96
Typical High
$1,230.27
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None (both parts)
Typical Low
$194.98
Median
$354.81
Typical High
$616.60
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
26 · Professional part
Typical Low
$21.38
Median
$41.69
Typical High
$70.79
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
TC · Technical part
Typical Low
$154.88
Median
$309.03
Typical High
$549.54
Emblem Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None (both parts)
Typical Low
$363.08
Median
$363.08
Typical High
$363.08
Horizon BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$457.09
Median
$1,513.56
Typical High
$12,882.50
Horizon BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
TC · Technical part
Typical Low
$562.34
Median
$17,782.79
Typical High
$27,542.29
Horizon BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None (both parts)
Typical Low
$295.12
Median
$338.84
Typical High
$676.08
Horizon BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
26 · Professional part
Typical Low
$32.36
Median
$37.15
Typical High
$75.86
Horizon BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
TC · Technical part
Typical Low
$257.04
Median
$302.00
Typical High
$602.56
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$776.25
Median
$776.25
Typical High
$1,659.59
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None (both parts)
Typical Low
$229.09
Median
$323.59
Typical High
$616.60
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
26 · Professional part
Typical Low
$29.51
Median
$39.81
Typical High
$67.61
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
TC · Technical part
Typical Low
$218.78
Median
$295.12
Typical High
$549.54
3 more rates with less common billing modifiers

A modifier changes what was billed, for example a reduced or repeated service. Each of these modifiers carries under 10% of the published rates for this code. Modifier combinations, and modifiers with fewer than 30 rates for a carrier, are not listed.

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
52 · Reduced service
Typical Low
$128.82
Median
$131.83
Typical High
$154.88
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$51.29
Median
$52.48
Typical High
$61.66
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
FX · Film X-ray
Typical Low
$213.80
Median
$213.80
Typical High
$234.42

Where New Jersey sits

The same service costs 4.6 times more in Alaska than in Texas. 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.

New Jersey· 36th of 51

$309

AK $1,023TX $224

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.