PET/CT scan cost in Kansas City, MO
In Kansas City, MO-KS, 6 hospitals list a cash price for PET/CT scan from the base of the skull to mid-thigh: from $1,347.00 to $7,232.13, with a median of $4,076.22. The lowest listed price is at Saint John Hospital — $2,729.22 less than the median here. Across Missouri, the median is $4,592.40 at 25 hospitals.
Cash prices at 6 facilities across 6 cities for code 78815, as an outpatient — the setting a self-pay patient normally buys. Collected Sep 27, 2026; the hospital files themselves were last updated between Mar 17, 2026 and Sep 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 Kansas City, MO-KS.
Hospitals, cheapest first
| Hospital | Cash price | List price | Insurers pay | Off list | File date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint John Hospital lowest Leavenworth, KS · (913) 680-6000 Hc Pet Imaging Ct Attenuation Skull Base Mid-Thigh | $1,347.00 | $9,372.93 | $654.86–$7,498.34 | 86% | Mar 17, 2026 source file |
| St Joseph Medical Center Kansas City, MO · (816) 942-4400 Hc Pet Imaging Ct Attenuation Skull Base Mid-Thigh | $1,425.00 | $9,465.75 | $835.53–$9,465.75 | 85% | Mar 17, 2026 source file |
| Bates County Memorial Hospital Butler, MO · (660) 200-7000 PET/CT SKULL TO MIDTHIGH | $3,382.85 | $4,832.64 | $1,432.26–$4,107.74 | 30% | Apr 20, 2026 source file |
| Overland Park Regional Medical Center Olathe, KS Positron emission tomography (PET) with concurrently acquired computed tomography (CT) for attenuation correction and anatomical localization imaging; skull base to mid-thigh | $4,769.59 | $4,769.59 | $1,846.65–$2,679.73 | — | Sep 1, 2026 source file |
| Overland Park Regional Medical Center Olathe, KS PET/CT TUMOR SK BS MIDTH | $4,769.59 | $4,769.59 | $620.05–$3,577.19 | — | Sep 1, 2026 source file |
| AdventHealth Shawnee Mission Shawnee Mission, KS · (913) 676-2152 HC PET IMAGING CT ATTENUATION SKULL BASE MID-THIGH | $7,232.13 | $7,232.13 | — | — | Apr 1, 2026 source file |
| AdventHealth South Overland Park Overland Park, KS · (913) 373-2000 HC PET IMAGING CT ATTENUATION SKULL BASE MID-THIGH | $7,232.13 | $7,232.13 | — | — | Apr 1, 2026 source file |
Outpatient: lowest $1,347.00, median $4,076.22, highest $7,232.13 — a 5.4× difference within the same market.
As an inpatient, the same code is billed by 3 facilities here, median $7,232.13. Inpatient and outpatient prices are not comparable and are kept on separate pages: the inpatient charge covers admission, not the same purchase.
Cash or insurance?
At 3 of 4 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
A PET/CT scan combines a PET scan, which shows how active cells are after a tracer is injected, with a CT scan that shows anatomy. This code covers the usual area from the base of the skull to mid-thigh. It is mostly used to find, stage and follow cancer.
What the price covers
The hospital price usually covers the combined scan. The radioactive tracer is often billed separately, as is the radiologist's or nuclear medicine doctor's reading.
1 row held back from this comparison
It is priced below $1 or below a tenth of the national median for code 78815 ($4,261.50). 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.
| Bates County Memorial Hospital Butler, MOPET-CT SKULL TO MIDTHIGH PF | $245.10 | file |