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Brain Fluid Flow Scan Of The Ventricles

Louisiana rates for HCPCS 78635

A nuclear medicine study of how fluid moves through and out of the fluid-filled chambers deep inside the brain. Once a tracer has been placed into those chambers, images are taken over a period of hours to see whether the fluid drains along its normal path or is held up. The placement of the tracer is billed separately from the imaging itself.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Brain Fluid Flow Scan Of The Ventricles cost?

$380

Typical negotiated rate. In Louisiana, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $380 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $363 from a physician practice, and about $479 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$363$363 to $389
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$479$363 to $776

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $479 · 10th to 90th $331 to $1,096Professionalmedian $363 · 10th to 90th $282 to $398
$100$200$500$1Kfacility $479professional $363

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
$331.13
Median
$363.08
Typical High
$478.63
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$363.08
Median
$363.08
Typical High
$398.11
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$309.03
Median
$575.44
Typical High
$1,122.02
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$346.74
Median
$380.19
Typical High
$416.87
Christus
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$39.81
Median
$281.84
Typical High
$281.84
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$549.54
Median
$758.58
Typical High
$1,479.11
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$169.82
Median
$323.59
Typical High
$724.44
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$407.38
Median
$812.83
Typical High
$1,348.96
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$120.23
Median
$309.03
Typical High
$478.63

Where Louisiana sits

The same service costs 4.9 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.

Louisiana· 21st of 51

$380

WY $1,202FL $245

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.