Nuclear stress test cost in Manchester, NH — inpatient
In Manchester-Nashua, NH, 3 hospitals list a cash price for nuclear stress test imaging (SPECT), rest and stress studies as an inpatient: from $2,026.05 to $2,772.35, with a median of $2,075.70. The lowest listed price is at St Joseph Hospital of Nashua — $49.65 less than the median here. Across New Hampshire, the median is $2,103.80 at 6 hospitals.
Cash prices at 3 facilities across 3 cities for code 78452, as an inpatient (admitted to hospital) . Collected Sep 22, 2026; the hospital files themselves were last updated between Apr 1, 2026 and Apr 1, 2026.
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.
Hospitals, cheapest first
| Hospital | Cash price | List price | Insurers pay | Off list | File date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| St Joseph Hospital of Nashua lowest Nashua, NH HC NM SEST. REST STRESS MULT | $2,026.05 | $5,195.00 | — | 61% | — source file |
| Elliot Hospital Manchester, NH Hc Nm Myocardial Perfusion Multi Spect | $2,075.70 | $5,610.00 | — | 63% | Apr 1, 2026 source file |
| Monadnock Community Hospital Peterborough, NH NM MIBI. | $2,772.35 | $4,620.58 | — | 40% | Apr 1, 2026 source file |
Inpatient: lowest $2,026.05, median $2,075.70, highest $2,772.35 — a 1.4× difference within the same market.
As an outpatient, the same code is billed by 3 facilities here, median $2,075.70 — 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.
1 row held back from this comparison
It is 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.
| Monadnock Community Hospital Peterborough, NHMHP HT MUSCLE IMAGE SPECT MULT | $133.80 | file |