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Three-Phase Bone Scan

Louisiana rates for HCPCS 78315

This nuclear medicine scan uses a small amount of a radioactive tracer injected into a vein to evaluate a bone or joint in three stages: right after injection to see blood flow, a few minutes later to see blood pooling in the tissue, and again after a delay to see how the bone itself absorbs the tracer. It helps distinguish conditions like infection, a healing fracture, or inflammation in a bone from other causes of pain or swelling.

Rates data updated October 2026.

How much does Three-Phase Bone Scan cost?

$417

Typical negotiated rate. In Louisiana, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $417 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $372 from a physician practice, and about $437 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 6 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

Prices by location type

Billed byTypicalRange
Physician practiceA doctor's office, clinic or independent provider$372$263 to $398
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$437$437 to $631

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $437 · 10th to 90th $380 to $813Professionalmedian $372 · 10th to 90th $178 to $490
$200$500$1Kfacility $437professional $372

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
$371.54
Median
$398.11
Typical High
$724.44
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
TC · Technical part
Typical Low
$316.23
Median
$446.68
Typical High
$1,288.25
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None (both parts)
Typical Low
$331.13
Median
$389.05
Typical High
$575.44
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
26 · Professional part
Typical Low
$50.12
Median
$60.26
Typical High
$81.28
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
TC · Technical part
Typical Low
$281.84
Median
$331.13
Typical High
$407.38
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
26 · Professional part
Typical Low
$52.48
Median
$52.48
Typical High
$52.48
BCBS Louisiana
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$331.13
Median
$562.34
Typical High
$912.01
BCBS Louisiana
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None (both parts)
Typical Low
$380.19
Median
$380.19
Typical High
$549.54
BCBS Louisiana
Setting
Professional
Modifier
26 · Professional part
Typical Low
$61.66
Median
$61.66
Typical High
$85.11
BCBS Louisiana
Setting
Professional
Modifier
TC · Technical part
Typical Low
$323.59
Median
$323.59
Typical High
$467.74
Christus
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$436.52
Median
$436.52
Typical High
$436.52
Christus
Setting
Professional
Modifier
26 · Professional part
Typical Low
$23.99
Median
$23.99
Typical High
$23.99
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$549.54
Median
$741.31
Typical High
$1,380.38
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None (both parts)
Typical Low
$173.78
Median
$194.98
Typical High
$446.68
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
26 · Professional part
Typical Low
$28.84
Median
$30.90
Typical High
$72.44
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
TC · Technical part
Typical Low
$147.91
Median
$165.96
Typical High
$371.54
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$457.09
Median
$602.56
Typical High
$1,122.02
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None (both parts)
Typical Low
$199.53
Median
$316.23
Typical High
$426.58
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
26 · Professional part
Typical Low
$39.81
Median
$47.86
Typical High
$69.18
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
TC · Technical part
Typical Low
$154.88
Median
$275.42
Typical High
$389.05
6 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
Facility
Modifier
52 · Reduced service
Typical Low
$158.49
Median
$223.87
Typical High
$645.65
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$63.10
Median
$89.13
Typical High
$257.04
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
FX · Film X-ray
Typical Low
$257.04
Median
$354.81
Typical High
$1,023.29
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
52 · Reduced service
Typical Low
$186.21
Median
$194.98
Typical High
$204.17
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$74.13
Median
$79.43
Typical High
$83.18
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
FX · Film X-ray
Typical Low
$295.12
Median
$316.23
Typical High
$331.13

Where Louisiana sits

The same service costs 4.7 times more in Alaska than in Kentucky. 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.

Louisiana· 25th of 51

$417

AK $1,288KY $275

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.