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Nuclear Scan Of Blood Flow Outside The Heart

Alabama rates for HCPCS 78445

A small amount of radioactive tracer is injected into a vein and a special camera follows it as it travels, producing pictures of blood moving through arteries or veins somewhere other than the heart. The images show where flow is fast, slow, diverted or blocked.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Nuclear Scan Of Blood Flow Outside The Heart cost?

$214

Typical negotiated rate. In Alabama, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $214 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $214 from a physician practice, and about $589 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$214$178 to $214
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$589$339 to $676

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $589 · 10th to 90th $182 to $794Professionalmedian $214 · 10th to 90th $151 to $257
$100$200$500$1Kfacility $589professional $214

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
$181.97
Median
$181.97
Typical High
$213.80
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$177.83
Median
$213.80
Typical High
$257.04
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$524.81
Median
$630.96
Typical High
$851.14
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$131.83
Median
$190.55
Typical High
$223.87
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$275.42
Median
$281.84
Typical High
$1,047.13
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$173.78
Median
$213.80
Typical High
$562.34
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$281.84
Median
$602.56
Typical High
$758.58
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$93.33
Median
$173.78
Typical High
$239.88

Where Alabama sits

The same service costs 3.9 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.

Alabama· 24th of 51

$214

WY $575FL $148

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.