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Three-Phase Bone Scan

Tennessee 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?

$513

Typical negotiated rate. In Tennessee, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $513 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $447 from a physician practice, and about $617 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$447$275 to $813
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$617$575 to $871

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $617 · 10th to 90th $363 to $1,000Professionalmedian $447 · 10th to 90th $275 to $2,138
$200$500$1K$2Kfacility $617professional $447

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
$275.42
Median
$275.42
Typical High
$302.00
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None (both parts)
Typical Low
$275.42
Median
$288.40
Typical High
$524.81
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
26 · Professional part
Typical Low
$40.74
Median
$42.66
Typical High
$85.11
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
TC · Technical part
Typical Low
$234.42
Median
$251.19
Typical High
$436.52
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
26 · Professional part
Typical Low
$35.48
Median
$54.95
Typical High
$95.50
BCBS Tennessee
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None (both parts)
Typical Low
$275.42
Median
$380.19
Typical High
$831.76
BCBS Tennessee
Setting
Professional
Modifier
26 · Professional part
Typical Low
$57.54
Median
$83.18
Typical High
$134.90
BCBS Tennessee
Setting
Professional
Modifier
TC · Technical part
Typical Low
$316.23
Median
$467.74
Typical High
$776.25
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$575.44
Median
$741.31
Typical High
$1,000.00
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None (both parts)
Typical Low
$257.04
Median
$446.68
Typical High
$933.25
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
26 · Professional part
Typical Low
$40.74
Median
$74.13
Typical High
$144.54
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
TC · Technical part
Typical Low
$204.17
Median
$380.19
Typical High
$794.33
Lucent Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None (both parts)
Typical Low
$2,137.96
Median
$2,137.96
Typical High
$2,630.27
Lucent Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
26 · Professional part
Typical Low
$363.08
Median
$363.08
Typical High
$380.19
Lucent Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
TC · Technical part
Typical Low
$1,819.70
Median
$1,819.70
Typical High
$2,238.72
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$173.78
Median
$173.78
Typical High
$173.78
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None (both parts)
Typical Low
$251.19
Median
$389.05
Typical High
$812.83
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
26 · Professional part
Typical Low
$47.86
Median
$63.10
Typical High
$131.83
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
TC · Technical part
Typical Low
$218.78
Median
$346.74
Typical High
$676.08
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
$138.04
Median
$141.25
Typical High
$194.98
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$54.95
Median
$57.54
Typical High
$77.62
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
FX · Film X-ray
Typical Low
$223.87
Median
$223.87
Typical High
$316.23

Where Tennessee 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.

Tennessee· 13th of 51

$513

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.