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.
Original text from hospital filings
78459 NUCLEAR MEDICINE STUDY OF HEART MUSCLE WITH METABOLIC EVALUATION
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Low
$43
Average
$2.9k
Median
$2.3k
High
$104.0k
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| 1 | State Of Mississippi-university Of Mississippi Medical Center JACKSON, MS | $2.3k | $2.1k | $725 | 35% | 19–82 | $1.0k – $3k |
| 2 | Methodist Medical Center of Illinois Peoria, IL | $1.6k | $2.1k | $928 | 44% | 3–30 | $1.2k – $4.2k |
| 3 | Avera McKennan Hospital Sioux Falls, SD | $1.9k | $2.3k | $1.4k | 60% | 2–20 | $818 – $4.2k |
| 4 | University of Colorado Hospital Authority Aurora, CO | $2.6k | $3.3k | $1.8k | 56% | 2–20 | $1.3k – $7.4k |
| 5 | Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, MA | $1.5k | $1.5k | $39 | 3% | 2–20 | $1.5k – $1.6k |
| 6 | St Vincent Infirmary Medical Center Little Rock, AR | $1.3k | $1.9k | $1.3k | 67% | 2–20 | $50 – $4.3k |
| 7 | NYU Langone New York, NY | $2.8k | $4.0k | $3.0k | 76% | 2–20 | $98 – $16.1k |
| 8 | OU Health - University of Oklahoma Medical Center Oklahoma City, OK | $1.3k | $2.0k | $1.1k | 56% | 1–10 | $1.1k – $5.4k |
| 9 | Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center - Boise Boise, ID | $4.6k | $4.5k | $1.8k | 40% | 1–10 | $684 – $9k |
| 10 | The Toledo Hospital Toledo, OH | $4.2k | $4.5k | $3.3k | 74% | 1–10 | $709 – $10.8k |
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