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Nuclear Scan for Thyroid Cancer That Has Spread

Rhode Island 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?

$302

Typical negotiated rate. In Rhode Island, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $302 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $302 from a physician practice, and about $794 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$302$302 to $302
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$794$617 to $891

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $794 · 10th to 90th $550 to $1,202Professionalmedian $302 · 10th to 90th $224 to $447
$200$500$1Kfacility $794professional $302

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. Small sample; interpret with caution. Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$549.54
Median
$549.54
Typical High
$549.54
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$302.00
Median
$302.00
Typical High
$302.00
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$616.60
Median
$776.25
Typical High
$954.99
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$257.04
Median
$302.00
Typical High
$549.54
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$954.99
Median
$1,230.27
Typical High
$1,698.24
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$309.03
Median
$524.81
Typical High
$602.56
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$467.74
Median
$891.25
Typical High
$891.25
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$154.88
Median
$281.84
Typical High
$446.68

Where Rhode Island 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.

Rhode Island· 29th of 51

$302

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.