Nuclear stress test cost in Little Rock, AR
In Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR, 3 hospitals list a cash price for Nuclear stress test imaging (SPECT), rest and stress studies: from $1,476.80 to $3,680.74, with a median of $1,969.20. The lowest listed price is at Arkansas Heart Hospital LLC — $492.40 less than the median here. Across Arkansas, the median is $1,844.90 at 13 hospitals.
Cash prices at 3 facilities for code 78452, as an outpatient — the setting a self-pay patient normally buys. Collected Sep 22, 2026; the hospital files themselves were last updated between Nov 21, 2025 and Nov 21, 2025.
Where each hospital's price falls
Each dot is one hospital's cash price on a scale from the lowest to the highest in Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR.
Hospitals, cheapest first
| Hospital | Cash price | List price | Insurers pay | Off list | File date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arkansas Heart Hospital LLC lowest Little Rock, AR NM MPI Rest and Stress- Pharmocological - Report | $1,476.80 | $1,846.00 | $923.00–$1,384.50 | 20% | Nov 21, 2025 source file |
| Arkansas Heart Hospital LLC lowest Little Rock, AR NM MPI Rest and Stress- Pharmocological | $1,476.80 | $1,846.00 | $923.00–$1,384.50 | 20% | Nov 21, 2025 source file |
| Arkansas Heart Hospital LLC lowest Little Rock, AR NM MPI Rest and Stress- Exercise - Report | $1,476.80 | $1,846.00 | $923.00–$1,384.50 | 20% | Nov 21, 2025 source file |
| Arkansas Heart Hospital LLC lowest Little Rock, AR NM MPI Rest and Stress- Exercise | $1,476.80 | $1,846.00 | $923.00–$1,384.50 | 20% | Nov 21, 2025 source file |
| University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Little Rock, AR NUCLEAR MEDICINE STUDIES OF HEART MUSCLE AT REST AND WITH STRESS AND SPECT | $1,969.20 | $3,282.00 | $266.71–$2,467.86 | 40% | — source file |
| University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Little Rock, AR HT MUSCLE IMAGE SPECT MULT | $2,062.20 | $3,437.00 | $266.71–$2,467.86 | 40% | — source file |
| Arkansas Childrens Hospital Little Rock, AR HT MUSCLE IMAGE SPECT MULT | $3,680.74 | $4,089.71 | $1,210.47–$1,576.26 | 10% | — source file |
Outpatient: lowest $1,476.80, median $1,969.20, highest $3,680.74 — a 2.5× difference within the same market.
Cash or insurance?
At 1 of 3 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
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.