Scans and imagingCPT 78226Inpatient — admitted to hospital
HIDA scan cost in Point Pleasant, WV — inpatient
In Point Pleasant, WV, 1 hospital
lists a cash price for HIDA scan: nuclear imaging of the liver, bile ducts and gallbladder as an inpatient:
from $441.54 to
$441.54, with a median of
$441.54.
Across West Virginia, the median is $815.00 at
29 hospitals.
Cash prices at 1
facility
for code 78226,
as an inpatient (admitted to hospital)
.
Collected Sep 22, 2026; the hospital files
themselves were last updated between — and
—.
Hospital The hospital that published the price, its city and the line exactly as written in its price file.
Cash price The hospital's own price for a patient paying without insurance (“discounted cash” in its price file). Hospitals must publish it under federal law, 45 CFR 180.50. Call to confirm it before booking. More
List price The hospital's full chargemaster price (“gross charge”) before any discount. Almost nobody pays it; the gap to the cash price shows what the self-pay discount is worth. More
Insurers pay The lowest and highest rates this hospital has agreed with insurance plans for the same item, from its price file. If the cash price is below what your plan pays and you have not met your deductible, paying cash can cost you less. More
Off list How much lower the cash price is than the list price.
At or below Medicare This cash price is at or below what Medicare pays a hospital for the same service, which is unusually low. It is what the hospital's file says; confirm it and what it includes before booking. More
Inpatient:
lowest $441.54, median $441.54,
highest $441.54.
As an outpatient, the same code is billed by
1 facility here,
median $441.54 — that is the price to compare if you are not
being admitted.
Cash or insurance?
At the one hospital here that publishes insurer rates for this code, the cash price is below the highest rate a health plan has negotiated. 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).