HIDA scan cost in Tyler, TX
In Tyler, TX, 2 hospitals list a cash price for HIDA scan: nuclear imaging of the liver, bile ducts and gallbladder: from $330.00 to $330.00, with a median of $330.00. The lowest listed price is at UT Health East Texas Tyler Regional Hospital and 1 other hospital. Across Texas, the median is $1,602.75 at 249 hospitals.
Cash prices at 2 facilities for code 78226, as an outpatient — the setting a self-pay patient normally buys. Collected Sep 29, 2026; the hospital files themselves were last updated between — and —.
Where each hospital's price falls
Each dot is one hospital's cash price on a scale from the lowest to the highest in Tyler, TX.
Hospitals, cheapest first
| Hospital | Cash price | List price | Insurers pay | Off list | File date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UT Health East Texas Tyler Regional Hospital lowest Tyler, TX · (903) 597-0351 Nuclear medicine study of liver and bile duct system | $330.00 | $3,300.00 | $303.06–$2,178.00 | 90% | — source file |
| UT Health Rehabilitation Hospital lowest Tyler, TX Nuclear medicine study of liver and bile duct system | $330.00 | $3,300.00 | $383.60–$2,211.00 | 90% | — source file |
Outpatient: lowest $330.00, median $330.00, highest $330.00.
As an inpatient, the same code is billed by 2 facilities here, median $330.00. Inpatient and outpatient prices are not comparable and are kept on separate pages: the inpatient charge covers admission, not the same purchase.
Cash or insurance?
At 2 of 2 hospitals that publish insurer rates for this code here, the cash price is below the highest rate a health plan has negotiated, and at 1 it is below every plan's rate. If you have insurance but have not met your deductible, you usually pay your plan's negotiated rate, which falls somewhere in the "Insurers pay" column. Paying cash can cost less, but a cash payment usually does not count toward your deductible. Ask the hospital for both numbers before you book.
What it is
A HIDA scan follows a radioactive tracer as the liver takes it up and releases it into the bile ducts, gallbladder and bowel. It is used to look for gallbladder inflammation, a blocked bile duct or a bile leak.
What the price covers
The hospital price usually covers the imaging. The tracer and the reading by a radiologist or nuclear medicine doctor are often billed separately. A scan that also measures how well the gallbladder empties after a medicine is given is billed under a different code (78227).
1 row held back from this comparison
It is priced below $1 or below a tenth of the national median for code 78226 ($1,449.84). Such a line is almost always a physician's fee billed separately, an assistant's share or a placeholder — a real charge, but not the price of the procedure itself.
| University of Texas Health Center at Tyler Tyler, TXNuclear medicine study of liver and bile duct system | $109.20 | file |