Scans and imaging CPT 78452 Outpatient

Nuclear stress test cost in Spokane, WA

In Spokane-Spokane Valley, WA, 2 hospitals list a cash price for Nuclear stress test imaging (SPECT), rest and stress studies: from $1,528.10 to $3,540.60, with a median of $2,534.35. The lowest listed price is at Providence Health And Services - Washington — $1,006.25 less than the median here. Across Washington, the median is $2,985.83 at 28 hospitals.

Cash prices at 2 facilities across 2 cities for code 78452, as an outpatient — the setting a self-pay patient normally buys. Collected Sep 23, 2026; the hospital files themselves were last updated between Apr 1, 2026 and Apr 1, 2026.

Lowest$1,528.10Providence Health And Services - Washington
Median$2,534.35half pay less
Highest$3,540.60in this market
Difference2.3×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 Spokane-Spokane Valley, WA.

median
Lowest $1,528.10Highest $8,717.80

Hospitals, cheapest first

HospitalCash price List priceInsurers payOff listFile date
Providence Health And Services - Washington lowest Spokane, WA HC NM MYCARD PERFUS SPECT MULTIPLE $1,528.10 $2,183.00 — 30% Apr 1, 2026
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Providence Health And Services - Washington Colville, WA HC NM MYCARD PERFUS SPECT MULTIPLE $3,540.60 $5,058.00 — 30% Apr 1, 2026
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Providence Health And Services - Washington Spokane, WA HC NM MYCARD PERFUS SPECT MULTIPLE $3,586.10 $5,123.00 — 30% Apr 1, 2026
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Providence Health And Services - Washington Spokane, WA HC NM MYCARD PERFUS SPECT MULTIPLE $7,074.20 $10,106.00 — 30% Apr 1, 2026
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Providence Health And Services - Washington Spokane, WA HC NM MYCARD PERFUS SPECT MULTIPLE $8,717.80 $12,454.00 — 30% Apr 1, 2026
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Outpatient: lowest $1,528.10, median $2,534.35, highest $3,540.60 — a 2.3× difference within the same market.

As an inpatient, the same code is billed by 2 facilities here, median $5,307.40. Inpatient and outpatient prices are not comparable and are kept on separate pages: the inpatient charge covers admission, not the same purchase.

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.

Providence Health And Services - Washington Colville, WAHC PR 78452 MYOCARDIAL MUSCLE IMAGE SPECT MULT $154.00 file