Scans and imaging CPT 78306 Inpatient — admitted to hospital

Bone scan cost in New York, NY — inpatient

In New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ, 25 hospitals list a cash price for bone scan, whole body (nuclear medicine) as an inpatient: from $198.00 to $2,520.00, with a median of $536.19. The lowest listed price is at Englewood Health — $338.19 less than the median here. Across New York, the median is $785.03 at 58 hospitals.

Cash prices at 25 facilities across 19 cities for code 78306, as an inpatient (admitted to hospital) . Collected Sep 23, 2026; the hospital files themselves were last updated between Oct 28, 2025 and Aug 13, 2026.

Lowest$198.00Englewood Health
Median$536.19half pay less
Highest$2,520.00in this market
Difference12.7×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 New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ.

median
Lowest $198.00Highest $2,520.00

Hospitals, cheapest first

HospitalCash price List priceInsurers payOff listFile date
Englewood Health lowest Englewood, NJ · (201) 894-3000 Bone &/Joint Imaging Whole Body $198.00 $1,980.00 $144.74–$1,584.00 90% Feb 2, 2026
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Memorial Hospital for Cancer and Allied Diseases New York, NY Bone &/Joint Imaging Whole Body|PROFESSIONAL COMPONENT $245.00 $245.00 $42.71–$220.50 — Dec 1, 2025
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Memorial Hospital for Cancer and Allied Diseases Basking Ridge, NJ Bone &/Joint Imaging Whole Body $245.00 $245.00 $42.71–$1,528.24 — Dec 1, 2025
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Memorial Hospital for Cancer and Allied Diseases Basking Ridge, NJ Bone &/Joint Imaging Whole Body|PROFESSIONAL COMPONENT $245.00 $245.00 $42.71–$220.50 — Dec 1, 2025
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Memorial Hospital for Cancer and Allied Diseases West Harrison, NY Bone &/Joint Imaging Whole Body $245.00 $245.00 $42.71–$1,528.24 — Dec 1, 2025
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Memorial Hospital for Cancer and Allied Diseases West Harrison, NY Bone &/Joint Imaging Whole Body|PROFESSIONAL COMPONENT $245.00 $245.00 $42.71–$220.50 — Dec 1, 2025
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Memorial Hospital for Cancer and Allied Diseases New York, NY Bone &/Joint Imaging Whole Body $245.00 $245.00 $42.71–$1,528.24 — Dec 1, 2025
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Memorial Hospital for Cancer and Allied Diseases Middletown, NJ Bone &/Joint Imaging Whole Body $245.00 $245.00 $42.71–$1,528.24 — Dec 1, 2025
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Memorial Hospital for Cancer and Allied Diseases Middletown, NJ Bone &/Joint Imaging Whole Body|PROFESSIONAL COMPONENT $245.00 $245.00 $42.71–$220.50 — Dec 1, 2025
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St. Barnabas Hospital Bronx, NY · (212) 960-9000 CHG BONE &/JOINT IMAGING WHOLE BODY $315.55 $1,180.41 $213.86–$687.40 73% Feb 27, 2026
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Newton Medical Center Newton, NJ · (973) 383-2121 NM Bone/Joint Whole Body $439.08 $4,997.00 — 91% —
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Hmh Hospitals Neptune City, NJ BONE &/JOINT IMAGING WHOLE BODY $444.77 $2,530.00 $419.98–$2,530.00 82% Dec 31, 2025
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CentraState Medical Center Freehold Township, NJ · (732) 294-7012 NM Bone/Joint Whole Body $511.48 $2,429.00 — 79% —
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University Hospital Newark, NJ · (973) 972-4300 BONE &/JOINT IMAGING WHOLE BODY $535.79 $3,333.44 $125.24–$3,166.77 84% Aug 13, 2026
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Chilton Medical Center Pompton Plains, NJ · (973) 831-5000 NM Bone/Joint Whole Body $536.19 $3,003.00 — 82% —
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Morristown Medical Center Morristown, NJ · (973) 971-5450 NM Bone/Joint Whole Body $536.19 $2,925.00 — 82% —
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Overlook Medical Center Summit, NJ · (908) 522-2000 NM Bone/Joint Whole Body $536.19 $2,870.00 — 81% —
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NYU Langone New York, NY · (212) 263-7300 HC BONE IMAGING, WHOLE BODY $680.89 $3,583.62 $207.38–$3,939.71 81% Jan 1, 2026
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NYU Langone Brooklyn, NY HC BONE IMAGING, WHOLE BODY $680.89 $3,583.62 $207.38–$3,939.71 81% Jan 1, 2026
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NYU Langone New York, NY · (212) 263-7300 HC BONE IMAGING, WHOLE BODY $680.89 $3,583.62 $207.38–$3,939.71 81% Jan 1, 2026
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Nassau University Medical Center East Meadow, NY · (516) 572-0123 BONE IMAGING WHOLE BODY $735.70 $1,051.00 $188.19–$336.06 30% Oct 28, 2025
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NYU Langone Mineola, NY HC BONE IMAGING, WHOLE BODY $748.54 $3,939.71 $207.38–$3,939.71 81% Jan 1, 2026
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NYU Langone Hospital - Suffolk Patchogue, NY · (631) 654-7100 HC BONE IMAGING, WHOLE BODY $748.54 $3,939.71 $207.38–$3,939.71 81% Jan 1, 2026
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Nassau University Medical Center East Meadow, NY · (516) 572-0123 Nucm Bone/Jnt Imag Whole Body $1,067.50 $1,525.00 — 30% Oct 28, 2025
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The Valley Hospital Paramus, NJ · (201) 447-8000 BONE SCAN TOTAL WHOLE BODY $1,084.80 $1,808.00 $236.99–$1,356.00 40% —
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Maimonides Medical Center Brooklyn, NY · (718) 283-6000 BONE/JOINT WHOLE BODY $1,760.00 $1,760.00 — — Apr 1, 2026
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Mount Sinai Queens Long Island, NY HC Bone and or Joint Imaging Whole Body $2,520.00 $2,800.00 — 10% Apr 1, 2026
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Mount Sinai Morningside New York, NY HC Bone and or Joint Imaging Whole Body $2,520.00 $2,800.00 — 10% Apr 1, 2026
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The Mount Sinai Hospital New York, NY · (212) 241-7981 HC Bone and or Joint Imaging Whole Body $2,520.00 $2,800.00 — 10% Apr 1, 2026
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Mount Sinai Brooklyn Brooklyn, NY HC Bone and or Joint Imaging Whole Body $2,520.00 $2,800.00 — 10% Apr 1, 2026
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Mount Sinai Behavioral Health Center New York, NY HC Bone and or Joint Imaging Whole Body $2,520.00 $2,800.00 — 10% Apr 1, 2026
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Inpatient: lowest $198.00, median $536.19, highest $2,520.00 — a 12.7× difference within the same market.

As an outpatient, the same code is billed by 49 facilities here, median $511.48 — that is the price to compare if you are not being admitted.

Cash or insurance?

At 12 of 14 hospitals that publish insurer rates for this code here, the cash price is below the highest rate a health plan has negotiated, and at none is it 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 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.

1 row held back from this comparison

It is priced below $1 or below a tenth of the national median for code 78306 ($1,392.50). 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.

Maimonides Medical Center Brooklyn, NYNUCLEAR SCAN OF SKELETON $110.00 file