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Whole Gut Transit Study, Multiple Days

Arizona rates for HCPCS 78266

A nuclear medicine study that follows a meal containing a tiny amount of radioactive tracer as it moves through the digestive tract. Images are taken over several days to time how long food takes to leave the stomach and then to pass through the small intestine and the colon. It is used when symptoms such as bloating, nausea or severe constipation may come from slow movement somewhere along the gut.

Rates data updated October 2026.

How much does Whole Gut Transit Study, Multiple Days cost?

$479

Typical negotiated rate. In Arizona, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $479 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $479 from a physician practice, and about $1,479 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$479$407 to $813
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$1,479$724 to $1,995

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,479 · 10th to 90th $380 to $2,291Professionalmedian $479 · 10th to 90th $363 to $2,692
$500$1K$2Kfacility $1,479professional $479

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
TC · Technical part
Typical Low
$524.81
Median
$2,238.72
Typical High
$3,630.78
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None (both parts)
Typical Low
$389.05
Median
$407.38
Typical High
$478.63
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
26 · Professional part
Typical Low
$45.71
Median
$50.12
Typical High
$51.29
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
TC · Technical part
Typical Low
$346.74
Median
$363.08
Typical High
$436.52
BCBS Arizona
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$354.81
Median
$1,513.56
Typical High
$2,290.87
BCBS Arizona
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None (both parts)
Typical Low
$478.63
Median
$478.63
Typical High
$912.01
BCBS Arizona
Setting
Professional
Modifier
26 · Professional part
Typical Low
$58.88
Median
$58.88
Typical High
$112.20
BCBS Arizona
Setting
Professional
Modifier
TC · Technical part
Typical Low
$416.87
Median
$416.87
Typical High
$812.83
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,096.48
Median
$1,479.11
Typical High
$2,089.30
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None (both parts)
Typical Low
$346.74
Median
$478.63
Typical High
$851.14
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
26 · Professional part
Typical Low
$40.74
Median
$53.70
Typical High
$95.50
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
TC · Technical part
Typical Low
$302.00
Median
$416.87
Typical High
$758.58
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$407.38
Median
$446.68
Typical High
$851.14
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None (both parts)
Typical Low
$380.19
Median
$2,691.53
Typical High
$2,691.53
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
26 · Professional part
Typical Low
$42.66
Median
$302.00
Typical High
$302.00
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
TC · Technical part
Typical Low
$331.13
Median
$2,398.83
Typical High
$2,398.83
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None (both parts)
Typical Low
$380.19
Median
$426.58
Typical High
$776.25
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
26 · Professional part
Typical Low
$42.66
Median
$47.86
Typical High
$89.13
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
TC · Technical part
Typical Low
$331.13
Median
$380.19
Typical High
$707.95
1 more rate 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
FX · Film X-ray
Typical Low
$331.13
Median
$331.13
Typical High
$331.13

Where Arizona sits

The same service costs 3.7 times more in Alaska than in Utah. 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.

Arizona· 35th of 51

$479

AK $1,175UT $316

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.