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Heart Pumping Scan, First Pass, Rest and Stress

Tennessee rates for HCPCS 78483

A nuclear scan that measures how well the heart pumps by tracking a tracer during its very first pass through the heart chambers. Images are recorded both with the heart at rest and while it is stressed by exercise or medicine, so the two can be compared. It gives the fraction of blood pushed out with each beat and shows how the chamber walls move.

Rates data updated October 2026.

How much does Heart Pumping Scan, First Pass, Rest and Stress cost?

$363

Typical negotiated rate. In Tennessee, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $363 for this service. Most negotiated rates run $224 to $589.

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.

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $447 · 10th to 90th $324 to $661Professionalmedian $363 · 10th to 90th $155 to $3,311
$200$500$1K$2Kfacility $447professional $363

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
$194.98
Median
$194.98
Typical High
$194.98
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None (both parts)
Typical Low
$194.98
Median
$194.98
Typical High
$229.09
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
26 · Professional part
Typical Low
$58.88
Median
$58.88
Typical High
$69.18
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
TC · Technical part
Typical Low
$138.04
Median
$141.25
Typical High
$223.87
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None (both parts)
Typical Low
$154.88
Median
$295.12
Typical High
$588.84
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
26 · Professional part
Typical Low
$83.18
Median
$120.23
Typical High
$194.98
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
TC · Technical part
Typical Low
$190.55
Median
$288.40
Typical High
$446.68
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$323.59
Median
$446.68
Typical High
$660.69
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None (both parts)
Typical Low
$181.97
Median
$354.81
Typical High
$660.69
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
26 · Professional part
Typical Low
$58.88
Median
$107.15
Typical High
$208.93
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
TC · Technical part
Typical Low
$123.03
Median
$251.19
Typical High
$467.74
Lucent Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None (both parts)
Typical Low
$2,691.53
Median
$3,311.31
Typical High
$3,311.31
Lucent Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
26 · Professional part
Typical Low
$1,148.15
Median
$1,148.15
Typical High
$1,148.15
Lucent Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
TC · Technical part
Typical Low
$1,862.09
Median
$2,290.87
Typical High
$2,290.87
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None (both parts)
Typical Low
$229.09
Median
$363.08
Typical High
$602.56
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
26 · Professional part
Typical Low
$67.61
Median
$91.20
Typical High
$190.55
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
TC · Technical part
Typical Low
$162.18
Median
$263.03
Typical High
$407.38
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
$97.72
Median
$102.33
Typical High
$114.82
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$38.90
Median
$40.74
Typical High
$45.71
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
FX · Film X-ray
Typical Low
$158.49
Median
$158.49
Typical High
$181.97

Where Tennessee sits

The same service costs 5.0 times more in Alaska than in Texas. 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· 23rd of 51

$363

AK $891TX $178

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.