Scans and imaging CPT 78452 Inpatient — admitted to hospital

Nuclear stress test cost in DuBois, PA — inpatient

In DuBois, PA, 1 hospital lists a cash price for Nuclear stress test imaging (SPECT), rest and stress studies as an inpatient: from $15,805.00 to $15,805.00, with a median of $15,805.00. Across Pennsylvania, the median is $4,206.60 at 61 hospitals.

Cash prices at 1 facility for code 78452, as an inpatient (admitted to hospital) . Collected Sep 23, 2026; the hospital files themselves were last updated between Aug 1, 2025 and Aug 1, 2025.

Lowest$15,805.00Penn Highlands Dubois
Median$15,805.00half pay less
Highest$15,805.00in this market
Difference1.0×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 DuBois, PA.

median
Lowest $15,805.00Highest $15,805.00

Hospitals, cheapest first

HospitalCash price List priceInsurers payOff listFile date
Penn Highlands Dubois lowest Dubois, PA Injection 1 $15,805.00 $15,805.00 — — Aug 1, 2025
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Penn Highlands Dubois lowest Dubois, PA Injection 1 $15,805.00 $15,805.00 — — Aug 1, 2025
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Inpatient: lowest $15,805.00, median $15,805.00, highest $15,805.00.

As an outpatient, the same code is billed by 1 facility here, median $15,805.00 — that is the price to compare if you are not being admitted.

What it is

This is the imaging part of a nuclear stress test. A small amount of radioactive tracer is injected, and a special camera takes pictures of blood flow to the heart muscle at rest and after exercise or a stress medicine. It is used to look for blocked heart arteries.

What the price covers

The code covers the camera images and their processing. The radioactive tracer, the stress test itself (with ECG monitoring), any stress medicine and the physician's interpretation are often billed separately.

2 rows held back from this comparison

They are priced below $1 or below a tenth of the national median for code 78452 ($3,092.31). 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.

Penn Highlands Dubois Dubois, PANM Myocardial Spect Multi Rest/Stress - Report $212.00 file
Penn Highlands Dubois Dubois, PANM Myocardial Spect Multi Rest/Stress - Report $212.00 file