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Other Nuclear Heart Or Blood Vessel Study

Idaho rates for HCPCS 78499

Covers a nuclear medicine study of the heart or blood vessels when the test performed has no standard named entry of its own. A small amount of radioactive tracer is given and a special camera records where it travels, showing blood flow, pumping function, or areas of damaged muscle. The report describes exactly what was done.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Other Nuclear Heart Or Blood Vessel Study cost?

$891

Typical negotiated rate. In Idaho, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $891 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $43.65 from a physician practice, and about $977 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 5 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$43.65$41.69 to $43.65
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$977$794 to $1,202

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $977 · 10th to 90th $562 to $1,413Professionalmedian $44 · 10th to 90th $37 to $45
$50$100$200$500$1K$2K$5Kfacility $977professional $44

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
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$537.03
Median
$933.25
Typical High
$1,412.54
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$37.15
Median
$43.65
Typical High
$44.67
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$512.86
Median
$1,071.52
Typical High
$1,258.93
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$30.20
Median
$30.20
Typical High
$30.20
Regence BlueShield
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$724.44
Median
$1,071.52
Typical High
$1,412.54
Select Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$660.69
Median
$794.33
Typical High
$1,071.52
Select Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$8,511.38
Median
$8,511.38
Typical High
$8,511.38

Where Idaho sits

The same service costs 676.1 times more in Florida than in Alaska. 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.

Idaho· 18th of 46

$891

FL $40,738AK $60.26

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.