Heart blood flow PET scan at rest and stress

Hospitals report these codes with terse, inconsistent chargemaster text. This plain-English title was written by an AI model from that text and has not been reviewed by a person, so it can be wrong. The prices on this page come straight from hospital filings and do not depend on it.

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Original text from hospital filings

HC Absolute Quantitation of Myocardial Blood Flow (Aqmbf), Positron Emission Tomography (Pet), Rest and Pharmacologic Stress

Payers reporting CPT 78434

Payer pricing summary

Low

$12

Average

$993

Median

$643

High

$4.2k

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1	Ambetter other · outpatient · +14 other terms	25	$3.2k	$3.3k	$736	22%	72	$168 – $4.0k
2	Blue Cross Blue Shield fee schedule · outpatient · +24 other terms	185	$92	$302	$843	279%	51	$0 – $7.8k
3	Aetna fee schedule · outpatient · +26 other terms	188	$2.8k	$4.2k	$3.5k	84%	—	$1 – $17.9k
4	UnitedHealthcare fee schedule · outpatient · +29 other terms	119	$2.1k	$1.3k	$1.8k	142%	—	$0 – $8.6k
5	Anthem fee schedule · outpatient · +19 other terms	76	$130	$277	$709	256%	—	$28 – $6.2k
6	Humana fee schedule · outpatient · +20 other terms	60	$1.4k	$842	$1.1k	130%	—	$0 – $5.1k
7	Cigna facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +26 other terms	43	$4.6k	$3.4k	$2.2k	64%	—	$50 – $5.7k
8	Molina professional · fee schedule · outpatient · +19 other terms	33	$29	$29	$10	36%	—	$19 – $150
9	Bcbs Tx fee schedule · outpatient · +1 other terms	31	$123	$124	$37	30%	—	$51 – $231
10	Baylor Scott White Health Plan facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +1 other terms	26	$4.9k	$4.8k	$410	8%	—	$4.3k – $5.3k
11	Highmark facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +12 other terms	25	$162	$94	$65	69%	—	$12 – $200
12	Superior Healthplan facility · percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges · +1 other terms	25	$34	$36	$12	32%	—	$18 – $69
13	Amerihealth Caritas facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +11 other terms	24	$162	$428	$787	184%	—	$123 – $3.0k
14	WellCare professional · fee schedule · outpatient · +14 other terms	24	$45	$51	$34	67%	—	$27 – $114
15	Regence professional · fee schedule · outpatient · +4 other terms	21	$29	$81	$127	158%	—	$29 – $510
16	Beechstreet percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges · +3 other terms	16	$1.7k	$2.1k	$795	37%	—	$1.6k – $3.8k
17	Optum professional · fee schedule · outpatient · +11 other terms	15	$136	$93	$58	63%	—	$20 – $237
18	Medcost percent of total billed charges · bothfrom % of charges · +6 other terms	14	$3.0k	$2.9k	$242	8%	—	$2.4k – $3.8k
19	Aetna Better Health facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +13 other terms	13	$190	$158	$78	49%	—	$22 – $256
20	Wellmark fee schedule · both · +5 other terms	13	$83	$134	$321	240%	—	$27 – $2.1k
21	Bcbs Mn fee schedule · outpatient · +5 other terms	12	$2.8k	$2.0k	$1.3k	66%	—	$183 – $3.5k
22	Bcbs Nj fee schedule · outpatient · +3 other terms	12	$132	$139	$21	15%	—	$132 – $210
23	Cigna Healthspring fee schedule · both · +2 other terms	12	$26	$26	$1	5%	—	$24 – $28
24	Medica fee schedule · outpatient · +12 other terms	12	$611	$605	$338	56%	—	$28 – $1.9k
25	Caresource other · outpatient · +11 other terms	11	$3.6k	$2.1k	$1.7k	82%	—	$167 – $4.0k

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