How much does Medicare pay for CPT 70150?

Medicare allowed an average of $33.79 per service and paid $25.28 of that, the balance being the patient's coinsurance and deductible (2024 data). Providers submitted an average of $67.08, which is what they billed rather than what they received — Medicare pays its fee schedule regardless of the charge.

What is CPT code 70150?

X-ray of face bones, minimum of 3 views. It was billed 3,760 times to 2,604 Medicare beneficiaries by 77 providers in 2024.

Does 70150 pay differently in an office than a hospital?

Yes. The allowed amount averaged $34.74 in an office setting and $17.28 in a facility. The office rate is generally higher because the practice supplies the room, staff and equipment out of that single payment; in a hospital those are billed separately by the facility.

Which specialty bills 70150 most?

Portable X-Ray Supplier, with 2,186 services from 39 clinicians. Next are Oral Surgery (Dentist only), Diagnostic Radiology, Maxillofacial Surgery.

CPT 70150

X-ray of face bones, minimum of 3 views

$33.79Medicare-allowed amount per service, averaged across 3,760 services

Providers submitted

$67.08

Asking price, not received

Medicare allowed

$33.79

The fee schedule figure

Medicare paid

$25.28

Balance is patient coinsurance

Providers submitted an average of $67.08 for this code and Medicare allowed $33.79 — 2.0× less. That gap is normal and means nothing on its own: Medicare pays its fee schedule regardless of what is billed, so the submitted figure describes a hospital chargemaster, not a price anyone paid. Of the allowed amount Medicare paid $25.28 (75%); the rest is the patient’s coinsurance and deductible.

Office pays differently to hospital

Office / non-facility: $34.74
Hospital / facility: $17.28

The office rate is higher because the practice supplies the room, staff and equipment out of that payment. In a hospital the facility bills those separately, so the clinician's share is smaller — the total cost to Medicare is usually higher, not lower. 3,556 services were billed in an office setting and 204 in a facility.

Services: 3,760
Beneficiaries: 2,604
Providers billing it: 77
Total allowed: $127,050

What Medicare pays for CPT 70150

Across 3,760 services billed by 77 providers to 2,604 beneficiaries, Medicare allowed an average of $33.79 per service. That is 1.4 services per beneficiary, so this is a code patients typically receive more than once. The allowed amount is the figure that matters: it is what Medicare and the patient together owe, set by the fee schedule and adjusted for local practice costs. What a provider chose to submit has no bearing on it.

Who bills 70150

Specialty	Services	Beneficiaries	Avg allowed	Providers
Portable X-Ray Supplier	2,186	1,408	$26.29	39
Oral Surgery (Dentist only)	1,014	684	$49.10	13
Diagnostic Radiology	248	242	$23.98	15
Maxillofacial Surgery	170	128	$44.49	4
Orofacial Pain	86	86	$45.19	1
Family Practice	33	33	$39.72	3
Cardiac Surgery	12	12	$46.25	1
Internal Medicine	11	11	$47.63	1

70150 reimbursement by state

Two different numbers. Allowed is what Medicare actually allowed in that state, which includes the local practice-cost adjustment. Standardized strips that geographic adjustment out of the payment, so it is the column to use when comparing states — a difference there reflects how the code was billed, not what it costs to run a practice locally.

State	Services	Allowed	Standardized pmt	Providers
California	948	$43.87	$29.42	13
New York	645	$33.05	$22.57	11
Maryland	527	$26.63	$19.92	7
Washington	190	$43.61	$27.73	3
Florida	183	$21.61	$17.32	5
Ohio	178	$24.30	$18.72	4
Texas	163	$35.03	$27.68	6
Pennsylvania	124	$31.88	$25.45	5
Illinois	111	$20.33	$15.60	6
Nevada	101	$38.65	$30.00	2
Michigan	99	$35.43	$29.20	3
Arizona	86	$45.19	$37.06	1
Tennessee	80	$19.92	$17.26	2
Missouri	72	$20.08	$17.35	1
New Jersey	63	$23.63	$16.32	1
Oklahoma	54	$29.87	$25.20	3
Arkansas	39	$18.31	$16.84	1
Georgia	34	$46.05	$29.86	1
Louisiana	33	$19.26	$17.33	1
North Carolina	30	$42.50	$37.01	1

Related codes

70100X-ray of part of lower jaw$22.35
70140X-ray of face bones$23.11
70110X-ray of lower jaw$40.06

Billing this code is not the same as earning it

An allowed amount is revenue to a practice, not income to a clinician. It funds staff, premises, equipment and supplies before anyone is paid. What clinicians actually earn is published separately by the Department of Labor, and what industry pays them is published separately again by CMS — this site carries both.

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Where this comes from. CMS Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, by Provider and Service, 2024. It covers fee-for-service Original Medicare Part B only — not Medicare Advantage, not Medicaid, and not commercial insurance, which typically pays more for the same code.

How it is averaged. CMS publishes one average per provider per code. Every figure here is re-weighted by the number of services, so a clinician who billed the code 4,000 times counts 4,000 times more than one who billed it twice. CMS also suppresses any provider-code pair with fewer than 11 beneficiaries, so low-volume practice is missing from these totals by design.