Scans and imaging CPT 78452 Inpatient — admitted to hospital

Nuclear stress test cost in Texarkana, TX — inpatient

In Texarkana, TX-AR, 2 hospitals list a cash price for nuclear stress test imaging (SPECT), rest and stress studies as an inpatient: from $4,560.60 to $7,857.30, with a median of $6,208.95. The lowest listed price is at CHRISTUS Health - Pine Street — $1,648.35 less than the median here. Across Texas, the median is $4,337.71 at 255 hospitals.

Cash prices at 2 facilities for code 78452, as an inpatient (admitted to hospital) . Collected Sep 29, 2026; the hospital files themselves were last updated between Jan 14, 2026 and Aug 6, 2026.

Lowest$4,560.60CHRISTUS Health - Pine Street

Median$6,208.95half of hospitals charge less

Highest$7,857.30in this market

Difference1.7×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 Texarkana, TX-AR.

median

Lowest $4,560.60Highest $7,857.30

Hospitals, cheapest first

Hospital	Cash price	List price	Insurers pay	Off list
CHRISTUS Health - Pine Street lowest Texarkana, TX · (903) 798-8000 NM Myocardial Perfusion Stress Multi 1 File of Jan 14, 2026 · source file	$4,560.60	$8,292.00	$2,636.86–$7,462.80	45%
CHRISTUS Health - Pine Street Texarkana, TX · (903) 798-8000 NM Myocardial Perfusion Rest Multi 1 File of Jan 14, 2026 · source file	$4,697.55	$8,541.00	$2,716.04–$7,686.90	45%
Pam Specialty Hospital of Texarkana North Texarkana, TX NM Hrt Muscle Image Spect File of Aug 6, 2026 · source file	$7,857.30	$7,857.30	$5,500.11–$7,071.57	—

Hospital The hospital that published the price, its city and the line exactly as written in its price file.

Cash price The hospital's own price for a patient paying without insurance (“discounted cash” in its price file). Hospitals must publish it under federal law, 45 CFR 180.50. Call to confirm it before booking. More

List price The hospital's full chargemaster price (“gross charge”) before any discount. Almost nobody pays it; the gap to the cash price shows what the self-pay discount is worth. More

Insurers pay The lowest and highest rates this hospital has agreed with insurance plans for the same item, from its price file. If the cash price is below what your plan pays and you have not met your deductible, paying cash can cost you less. More

Off list How much lower the cash price is than the list price.

No cash discount This line's cash price equals the hospital's full list price. Many hospitals still reduce bills for uninsured patients: ask the billing office for its self-pay discount in writing. More

Inpatient: lowest $4,560.60, median $6,208.95, highest $7,857.30 — a 1.7× difference within the same market.

As an outpatient, the same code is billed by 1 facility here, median $4,146.00 — that is the price to compare if you are not being admitted.

Cash or insurance?

At 1 of 2 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.