# Nuclear stress test, heart blood flow in GA

Billing code `78452`. Prices for this code at 98 hospitals in GA, taken from the machine-readable standard charge files each hospital is required to publish under the CMS Hospital Price Transparency Rule (45 CFR 180.50).

Source page: https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/nuclear-stress-test-heart-blood-flow

HC HT MUSCLE IMAGE SPECT MULT - NM HEART PERFUSION SPECT STRESS & REST

## Before quoting any figure below

- **Hospital charges only.** The surgeon, anaesthetist, radiologist and pathologist bill separately and appear in no hospital price file, by construction. Every figure below is part of a total, never the total.
- **A negotiated rate is not a bill.** It is what a hospital and an insurer agreed. What a patient owes depends on their deductible, coinsurance and out-of-pocket maximum.
- **Each hospital's figure is a median across its own plans.** The spread inside one hospital is often wider than the gap between two of them.
- **"not mentioned" is not $0.** It means this hospital's file does not label a row that way. Silence is not a statement that the charge does not exist.
- **A hospital absent from the table says nothing about its prices.** It may publish this code under a revenue or drug code this site cannot map to a procedure.

A procedure code is billed twice -- once by the hospital for its own costs, once by the doctor for their work -- and hospitals publish different sides of that split under the same code. Of the hospitals here, 1 publish a physician fee; 38 publish a facility charge; 10 publish both, mixed together; 49 do not label which half the figure is.

## Typical price

|  | Amount |
|---|---|
| Cheapest tenth | $570 |
| Typical | $1,512 |
| Dearest tenth | $3,519 |

The cheapest and dearest tenth are the hospitals a tenth of the way in from each end, not the single cheapest and dearest. Every hospital, including both extremes, is in the table below.

That is a 6-fold difference for the same billing code -- a gap between hospitals, not between treatments.

## Every hospital publishing this code

| Hospital | Where | CMS rating | Typical | Facility charge | Physician fee | Self-pay | Lowest | Highest | Plans on file |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| St Mary's Hospital | ATHENS | 1/5 | see split | $3,849 | $256 | $2,882 | $48 | $3,991 | 3,078 |
| Ty Cobb Regional Medical Center | LAVONIA | 3/5 | see split | $6,236 | $256 | $2,748 | $48 | $6,236 | 3,074 |
| St Marys Good Samaritan Hospital | GREENSBORO | 4/5 | see split | $2,219 | $256 | $2,037 | $48 | $2,821 | 3,078 |
| Grady Memorial Hospital | ATLANTA | 2/5 | see split | $3,003 | $159 | $9,411 | $53 | $7,529 | 122 |
| Atrium Health Navicent Peach | BYRON | 1/5 | $349 | not mentioned | $349 | not published | $81 | $1,422 | 42 |
| Liberty Regional Medical Center | HINESVILLE | not rated | $398 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $1,847 | $225 | $1,847 | 12 |
| Coffee Regional Medical Center | DOUGLAS | 3/5 | see split | $1,215 | $233 | $3,277 | $38 | $4,578 | 148 |
| Memorial Health University Medical Center | SAVANNAH | 1/5 | $407 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $17,763 | $41 | $15,987 | 119 |
| Hamilton Medical Center | DALTON | 3/5 | $480 | $480 | not mentioned | $10,922 | $447 | $512 | 2 |
| Blue Ridge Medical Center | BLUE RIDGE | not rated | $538 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $1,614 | $217 | $2,691 | 792 |
| Taylor Regional Hospital | HAWKINSVILLE | not rated | see split | $584 | $481 | $3,135 | $323 | $1,252 | 14 |
| Atrium Health Navicent the Medical Center | MACON | 2/5 | see split | $3,259 | $304 | $3,196 | $70 | $5,944 | 78 |
| Navicent Health Baldwin | MILLEDGEVILLE | 2/5 | see split | $2,730 | $304 | $1,796 | $70 | $3,053 | 76 |
| Memorial Satilla Health | WAYCROSS | 3/5 | $777 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $15,674 | $115 | $14,106 | 105 |
| Emory Decatur Hospital | DECATUR | 2/5 | $777 | $777 | not mentioned | $5,897 | $527 | $3,180 | 19 |
| Emory University Hospital | ATLANTA | 4/5 | $777 | $777 | not mentioned | $5,897 | $527 | $3,180 | 19 |
| Emory Johns Creek Hospital | JOHNS CREEK | 4/5 | $777 | $777 | not mentioned | $5,897 | $527 | $3,180 | 19 |
| Saint Joseph's Hospital of Atlanta | ATLANTA | 3/5 | $777 | $777 | not mentioned | $5,897 | $527 | $3,180 | 19 |
| Emory University Hospital Midtown | ATLANTA | 2/5 | $777 | $777 | not mentioned | $5,897 | $527 | $3,180 | 19 |
| Atrium Health Floyd Polk Medical Center | CEDARTOWN | not rated | $1,109 | $1,109 | not mentioned | not published | $1,109 | $1,109 | 1 |
| Evans Memorial Hospital | CLAXTON | not rated | $1,129 | not mentioned | not mentioned | not published | $125 | $4,140 | 33 |
| Northeast Georgia Medical Center Habersham | DEMOREST | 3/5 | $1,146 | $1,146 | not mentioned | $4,183 | $771 | $2,197 | 10 |
| St Francis Hospital- Emory Healthcare | COLUMBUS | 3/5 | $1,157 | $1,157 | not mentioned | not published | $97 | $2,836 | 11 |
| Emory Houston Hospital Warner Robins | WARNER ROBINS | 2/5 | $1,171 | $1,171 | not mentioned | $5,387 | $527 | $3,180 | 13 |
| Piedmont Columbus Regional Northside | COLUMBUS | 5/5 | $1,179 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $1,882 | $562 | $5,332 | 19 |
| Phoebe Sumter Medical Center | AMERICUS | 3/5 | $1,191 | $1,191 | not mentioned | not published | $1,135 | $1,985 | 7 |
| Southwell Medical, a Campus of TRMC | ADEL | not rated | see split | $1,256 | $552 | $2,328 | $43 | $4,655 | 276 |
| Tift Regional Medical Center | TIFTON | 3/5 | see split | $1,214 | $543 | $2,328 | $51 | $4,655 | 184 |
| Chatuge Regional Hospital | HIAWASSEE | not rated | $1,223 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $1,155 | $508 | $1,964 | 54 |
| Chi Memorial Hospital- Georgia | RINGGOLD | 3/5 | $1,226 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $1,670 | $642 | $4,569 | 27 |
| AdventHealth Murray | CHATSWORTH | 5/5 | $1,236 | $1,236 | not mentioned | $9,213 | $812 | $2,389 | 6 |
| Union General Hospital | BLAIRSVILLE | 3/5 | $1,236 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $1,386 | $387 | $2,356 | 36 |
| SGMC Health | VALDOSTA | 2/5 | $1,242 | $1,242 | not mentioned | $4,774 | $898 | $1,468 | 8 |
| Southern Regional Medical Center | RIVERDALE | 1/5 | $1,292 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $1,292 | $636 | $3,493 | 41 |
| Emory Hillandale Hospital | LITHONIA | 1/5 | $1,299 | $1,299 | not mentioned | $5,897 | $527 | $3,180 | 17 |
| Northeast Georgia Medical Center | GAINESVILLE | 3/5 | $1,299 | $1,299 | not mentioned | $4,183 | $771 | $2,197 | 9 |
| Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital | ALBANY | 2/5 | $1,309 | $1,309 | not mentioned | not published | $1,247 | $2,182 | 7 |
| NGMC Barrow | WINDER | 4/5 | $1,325 | $1,325 | not mentioned | $4,183 | $771 | $2,197 | 9 |
| Tanner Medical Center - Carrollton | CARROLLTON | 2/5 | $1,331 | $1,331 | not mentioned | $2,334 | $1,292 | $1,421 | 20 |
| AdventHealth Gordon | CALHOUN | 3/5 | $1,341 | $1,341 | not mentioned | $9,213 | $812 | $2,606 | 7 |
| SGMC Berrien Campus | NASHVILLE | not rated | $1,355 | $1,355 | not mentioned | $4,774 | $1,129 | $1,693 | 6 |
| Northeast Georgia Medical Center Lumpkin | DAHLONEGA | 5/5 | $1,370 | $1,370 | not mentioned | $4,183 | $771 | $2,197 | 9 |
| AdventHealth Redmond | ROME | 4/5 | $1,399 | $1,399 | not mentioned | $14,103 | $697 | $3,741 | 8 |
| Bacon County Hospital | ALMA | not rated | $1,428 | $1,428 | not mentioned | $3,810 | $261 | $1,738 | 4 |
| Candler County Hospital | METTER | not rated | $1,472 | not mentioned | not mentioned | not published | $203 | $3,880 | 13 |
| Washington County Regional Medical Center | SANDERSVILLE | not rated | $1,475 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $2,840 | $800 | $9,090 | 25 |
| WellStar MCG Health, Affiliated with Med Col | AUGUSTA | 1/5 | $1,475 | $1,475 | not mentioned | $3,563 | $943 | $4,128 | 19 |
| WellStar Cobb Medical Center | AUSTELL | 3/5 | $1,512 | $1,512 | not mentioned | $3,563 | $943 | $5,128 | 13 |
| WellStar North Fulton Medical Center | ROSWELL | 2/5 | $1,512 | $1,512 | not mentioned | $3,563 | $943 | $5,011 | 13 |
| WellStar Douglas Medical Center | DOUGLASVILLE | 3/5 | $1,512 | $1,512 | not mentioned | $3,563 | $943 | $4,949 | 13 |
| WellStar Paulding Medical Center | HIRAM | 4/5 | $1,512 | $1,512 | not mentioned | $3,563 | $943 | $4,936 | 13 |
| WellStar Kennestone Regional Medical Center | MARIETTA | 4/5 | $1,512 | $1,512 | not mentioned | $3,563 | $943 | $4,936 | 13 |
| Memorial Health Meadows Hospital | VIDALIA | 5/5 | $1,540 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $8,641 | $478 | $7,776 | 57 |
| Fairview Park Hospital | DUBLIN | 4/5 | $1,540 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $11,999 | $101 | $10,799 | 149 |
| Piedmont Macon North Hospital | MACON | 4/5 | $1,570 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $2,441 | $560 | $7,322 | 17 |
| Coliseum Medical Centers | MACON | 3/5 | $1,570 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $2,441 | $556 | $7,322 | 17 |
| Piedmont Athens Regional Medical Center | ATHENS | 4/5 | $1,570 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $2,441 | $562 | $6,671 | 19 |
| Piedmont Newnan Hospital | NEWNAN | 4/5 | $1,570 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $2,441 | $562 | $7,566 | 18 |
| Candler Hospital | SAVANNAH | 2/5 | $1,586 | $1,586 | not mentioned | $2,846 | $1,135 | $3,084 | 9 |
| St Joseph's Hospital - Savannah | SAVANNAH | 2/5 | $1,586 | $1,586 | not mentioned | $2,846 | $1,135 | $3,084 | 9 |
| Piedmont Augusta Hospital | AUGUSTA | 2/5 | $1,670 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $1,882 | $284 | $5,645 | 24 |
| WellStar West Georgia Medical Center | LAGRANGE | 5/5 | $1,731 | $1,731 | not mentioned | $3,563 | $943 | $4,958 | 14 |
| WellStar Spalding Medical Center | GRIFFIN | 2/5 | $1,731 | $1,731 | not mentioned | $3,563 | $943 | $4,949 | 14 |
| WellStar Sylvan Grove Medical Center | JACKSON | not rated | $1,731 | $1,731 | not mentioned | $3,563 | $943 | $5,078 | 6 |
| Doctors Hospital | AUGUSTA | 3/5 | $1,749 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $20,544 | $109 | $18,489 | 165 |
| Piedmont Cartersville Medical Center | CARTERSVILLE | 3/5 | $1,750 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $4,457 | $562 | $13,372 | 19 |
| Piedmont Hospital | ATLANTA | 4/5 | $1,761 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $2,441 | $562 | $6,915 | 18 |
| Piedmont Henry Hospital | STOCKBRIDGE | 2/5 | $1,761 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $2,441 | $562 | $6,915 | 18 |
| Piedmont Newton Hospital | COVINGTON | 3/5 | $1,761 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $2,441 | $562 | $6,915 | 17 |
| Piedmont Fayette Hospital | FAYETTEVILLE | 3/5 | $1,761 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $2,441 | $562 | $6,915 | 18 |
| Stephens County Hospital | TOCCOA | 2/5 | $1,768 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $3,299 | $867 | $4,948 | 20 |
| Putnam General Hospital | EATONTON | not rated | $1,857 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $1,895 | $381 | $3,221 | 13 |
| Piedmont Eastside Medical Center | SNELLVILLE | 2/5 | $1,887 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $2,441 | $562 | $7,322 | 18 |
| Piedmont Rockdale Hospital | CONYERS | 3/5 | $1,890 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $2,441 | $562 | $6,102 | 18 |
| Crisp Regional Hospital | CORDELE | 2/5 | $1,898 | $1,898 | not mentioned | $4,877 | $1,572 | $2,056 | 3 |
| Southeast Georgia Health System -- Camden Campus | SAINT MARYS | 4/5 | $1,925 | not mentioned | not mentioned | not published | $53 | $2,792 | 32 |
| Southeast Georgia Health System- Brunswick Campus | BRUNSWICK | 2/5 | $1,929 | not mentioned | not mentioned | not published | $53 | $2,792 | 32 |
| Appling Healthcare | BAXLEY | not rated | $2,071 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $2,485 | $1,209 | $2,886 | 10 |
| Wayne Memorial Hospital | JESUP | 3/5 | $2,076 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $1,362 | $1,676 | $2,452 | 18 |
| Atrium Health Floyd Medical Center | ROME | 2/5 | $2,115 | $2,115 | not mentioned | $3,318 | $1,122 | $5,641 | 38 |
| East Georgia Regional Medical Center | STATESBORO | 3/5 | $2,346 | $2,346 | not mentioned | $3,224 | $536 | $7,830 | 49 |
| Dodge County Hospital | EASTMAN | not rated | $2,612 | not mentioned | not mentioned | not published | $1,129 | $7,013 | 11 |
| University Mcduffie County Regional Medical Center | THOMSON | not rated | $2,629 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $1,882 | $1,012 | $5,645 | 18 |
| Mountain Lakes Medical Center | CLAYTON | not rated | $2,887 | $2,887 | not mentioned | $1,650 | $258 | $3,299 | 5 |
| Piedmont Columbus Regional Midtown | COLUMBUS | 2/5 | $2,961 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $1,882 | $819 | $5,332 | 20 |
| Effingham Health System | SPRINGFIELD | not rated | $3,041 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $7,058 | $950 | $10,316 | 14 |
| Emanuel Medical Center | SWAINSBORO | 4/5 | $3,080 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $4,433 | $36 | $5,911 | 36 |
| Tanner Medical Center Villa Rica | VILLA RICA | 3/5 | $3,502 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $3,502 | $1,269 | $5,427 | 17 |
| Morgan Medical Center | MADISON | not rated | $3,558 | not mentioned | not mentioned | not published | $1,500 | $3,558 | 9 |
| Piedmont Walton Hospital | MONROE | 4/5 | $3,786 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $2,441 | $730 | $7,322 | 15 |
| Piedmont Mountainside Hospital | JASPER | 4/5 | $3,786 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $2,441 | $884 | $6,915 | 15 |
| Dorminy Medical Center | FITZGERALD | not rated | $4,105 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $2,332 | $1,803 | $4,432 | 27 |
| Northside Hospital Cherokee | CANTON | 4/5 | $5,143 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $8,386 | $336 | $11,181 | 268 |
| Northside Hospital | ATLANTA | 3/5 | $5,255 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $8,386 | $336 | $11,181 | 266 |
| Northside Hospital Forsyth | CUMMING | 4/5 | $5,423 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $8,386 | $336 | $11,181 | 264 |
| Northside Hospital Gwinnett | LAWRENCEVILLE | 3/5 | $6,150 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $8,386 | $336 | $11,181 | 278 |
| Northside Hospital Duluth | DULUTH | 4/5 | $6,150 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $8,386 | $336 | $11,181 | 278 |
| Colquitt Regional Medical Center | MOULTRIE | 4/5 | $7,580 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $8,042 | $56 | $8,042 | 72 |

## Self-pay

Self-pay is what the hospital charges someone paying themselves rather than through insurance. Paying self-pay usually does not count toward a deductible, so it can cost less for one service and more across a year. Every other figure here is what an insurer pays, not what a patient would.

At 9 of the 87 hospitals here that publish a self-pay price it is LOWER than what that same hospital typically accepts from an insurer; at the other 78 it is higher.

## The doctor's side, roughly

Nationally, Medicare allows about $73 for the clinician who performs or reads this service, across 9,167 billing providers in 2024. That is a separate bill from everything above and is NOT added to any figure on this page -- it is here to show the rough size of what a hospital price leaves out.

3 of these 98 hospitals have not published an updated price file in over a year, or do not say when they last did. Hospitals are required to update at least annually, so those figures may not reflect what they charge now: Southeast Georgia Health System -- Camden Campus, Southeast Georgia Health System- Brunswick Campus, Tanner Medical Center Villa Rica.

## Others in imaging & radiology

- [CT scan, head, without contrast](https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/ct-scan-head-without-contrast) -- 116 hospitals, typically $392
- [X-ray, chest, 2 views](https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/x-ray-chest-2-views) -- 115 hospitals, typically $93
- [CT scan, head, with and without contrast](https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/ct-scan-head-with-and-without-contrast) -- 115 hospitals, typically $521
- [X-ray, chest, 1 view](https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/x-ray-chest-1-view) -- 115 hospitals, typically $87
- [X-ray, neck spine, 2-3 views](https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/x-ray-neck-spine-2-3-views) -- 115 hospitals, typically $106
- [X-ray, lower back spine, 4 or more views](https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/x-ray-lower-back-spine-4-or-more-views) -- 115 hospitals, typically $143
- [X-ray, pelvis](https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/x-ray-pelvis) -- 115 hospitals, typically $107
- [X-ray, tailbone](https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/x-ray-tailbone) -- 115 hospitals, typically $98

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Every procedure with a published price in GA: https://clearcharge.org/price/ga
Prices that look wrong: info@clearcharge.org

Compiled by Clearcharge (clearcharge.org) from each hospital's machine-readable standard-charge file. When quoting a figure, cite the source page above. The hospital files behind these figures state data through dates from 2024-07-01 to 2026-07-28; per-hospital staleness is flagged above.