Scans and imaging CPT 78306 Outpatient

Bone scan cost in Manchester, NH

In Manchester-Nashua, NH, 3 hospitals list a cash price for bone scan, whole body (nuclear medicine): from $1,033.11 to $1,195.83, with a median of $1,052.28. The lowest listed price is at St Joseph Hospital of Nashua — $19.17 less than the median here. Across New Hampshire, the median is $1,052.28 at 5 hospitals.

Cash prices at 3 facilities across 3 cities for code 78306, as an outpatient — the setting a self-pay patient normally buys. Collected Sep 22, 2026; the hospital files themselves were last updated between Apr 1, 2026 and Apr 1, 2026.

Lowest$1,033.11St Joseph Hospital of Nashua
Median$1,052.28half pay less
Highest$1,195.83in this market
Difference1.2×highest vs lowest

Where each hospital's price falls

Each dot is one hospital's cash price on a scale from the lowest to the highest in Manchester-Nashua, NH.

median
Lowest $1,033.11Highest $1,195.83

Hospitals, cheapest first

HospitalCash price List priceInsurers payOff listFile date
St Joseph Hospital of Nashua lowest Nashua, NH · (603) 882-3000 HC NM BONE SCAN WHOLE BODY $1,033.11 $2,649.00 — 61% —
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Elliot Hospital Manchester, NH · (603) 669-5300 Hc Nm Bone/Joint Imaging Whole Body $1,052.28 $2,844.00 — 63% Apr 1, 2026
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Monadnock Community Hospital Peterborough, NH · (603) 924-7191 Z-NM BONE WHOLE BODY $1,195.83 $1,993.05 — 40% Apr 1, 2026
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Outpatient: lowest $1,033.11, median $1,052.28, highest $1,195.83 — a 1.2× difference within the same market.

As an inpatient, the same code is billed by 3 facilities here, median $1,052.28. Inpatient and outpatient prices are not comparable and are kept on separate pages: the inpatient charge covers admission, not the same purchase.

What it is

A whole-body bone scan uses a small amount of radioactive tracer to find areas of increased bone activity, such as cancer spread, stress fractures and infections.

What the price covers

The price usually covers the tracer and the scan. The reading may be billed separately.