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Nuclear Scan for Thyroid Cancer That Has Spread

Oklahoma 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?

$234

Typical negotiated rate. In Oklahoma, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $234 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $234 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 4 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$234$200 to $269
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$295$204 to $468

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $295 · 10th to 90th $204 to $933Professionalmedian $234 · 10th to 90th $178 to $316
$100$200$500$1Kfacility $295professional $234

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
$204.17
Median
$204.17
Typical High
$346.74
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$177.83
Median
$208.93
Typical High
$269.15
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$281.84
Median
$912.01
Typical High
$933.25
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$177.83
Median
$251.19
Typical High
$331.13
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$204.17
Median
$323.59
Typical High
$1,380.38
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$229.09
Median
$288.40
Typical High
$630.96
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$60.26
Median
$309.03
Typical High
$831.76
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$229.09
Median
$269.15
Typical High
$537.03

Where Oklahoma 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.

Oklahoma· 49th of 51

$234

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.