Scans and imaging CPT 78306 Outpatient

Bone scan cost in Oklahoma City, OK

In Oklahoma City, OK, 5 hospitals list a cash price for bone scan, whole body (nuclear medicine): from $349.70 to $3,699.38, with a median of $412.70. The lowest listed price is at OU Health - University of Oklahoma Medical Center|Oklahoma Childrens Hospital| OU Health Edmond Medical Center — $63.00 less than the median here. Across Oklahoma, the median is $919.60 at 18 hospitals.

Cash prices at 5 facilities across 2 cities for code 78306, as an outpatient — the setting a self-pay patient normally buys. Collected Sep 23, 2026; the hospital files themselves were last updated between Mar 27, 2026 and Mar 27, 2026.

Lowest$349.70OU Health - University of Oklahoma Medical Center|Oklahoma Childrens Hospital| OU Health Edmond Medical Center
Median$412.70half pay less
Highest$3,699.38in this market
Difference10.6×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 Oklahoma City, OK.

median
Lowest $349.70Highest $3,699.38

Hospitals, cheapest first

HospitalCash price List priceInsurers payOff listFile date
OU Health - University of Oklahoma Medical Center|Oklahoma Childrens Hospital| OU Health Edmond Medical Center lowest Oklahoma City, OK NUCLEAR MEDICINE STUDY OF BONE AND/OR JOINT WHOLE BODY $349.70 $3,497.00 $382.61–$1,945.00 90% —
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Oklahoma Heart Hospital Oklahoma City, OK HC Bone Imaging, Whole Body - NM Bone Whole Body $412.70 $1,179.15 $181.51–$1,061.24 65% Mar 27, 2026
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Oklahoma Heart Hospital South Oklahoma City, OK HC Bone Imaging, Whole Body - NM Bone Whole Body $412.70 $1,179.15 $181.51–$1,061.24 65% Mar 27, 2026
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Mercy Hospital Logan County Guthrie, OK · (405) 282-6700 NM Bone and or Jnt Imag Whol Body $1,573.00 $2,420.00 $191.52–$1,073.00 35% —
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Mercy Hospital Oklahoma City Oklahoma City, OK · (405) 755-1515 NM Bone and or Jnt Imag Whol Body $3,699.38 $5,691.36 $350.80–$831.71 35% —
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Outpatient: lowest $349.70, median $412.70, highest $3,699.38 — a 10.6× difference within the same market.

As an inpatient, the same code is billed by 4 facilities here, median $1,579.91. 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 3 of 5 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 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.

OU Health - University of Oklahoma Medical Center|Oklahoma Childrens Hospital| OU Health Edmond Medical Center Oklahoma City, OKBONE IMAGING WHOLE BODY $49.12 file