How much does Medicare pay for CPT 70330?

Medicare allowed an average of $48.64 per service and paid $37.66 of that, the balance being the patient's coinsurance and deductible (2024 data). Providers submitted an average of $128.45, which is what they billed rather than what they received — Medicare pays its fee schedule regardless of the charge.

What is CPT code 70330?

X-ray of jaw joints on both sides of mouth. It was billed 1,038 times to 1,027 Medicare beneficiaries by 20 providers in 2024.

Which specialty bills 70330 most?

Oral Surgery (Dentist only), with 519 services from 11 clinicians. Next are Maxillofacial Surgery, Dentist, Pain Management.

CPT 70330

X-ray of jaw joints on both sides of mouth

$48.64Medicare-allowed amount per service, averaged across 1,038 services

Providers submitted

$128.45

Asking price, not received

Medicare allowed

$48.64

The fee schedule figure

Medicare paid

$37.66

Balance is patient coinsurance

Providers submitted an average of $128.45 for this code and Medicare allowed $48.64 — 2.6× 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 $37.66 (77%); the rest is the patient’s coinsurance and deductible.

Services: 1,038
Beneficiaries: 1,027
Providers billing it: 20
Total allowed: $50,488

What Medicare pays for CPT 70330

Across 1,038 services billed by 20 providers to 1,027 beneficiaries, Medicare allowed an average of $48.64 per service. 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 70330

Specialty	Services	Beneficiaries	Avg allowed	Providers
Oral Surgery (Dentist only)	519	517	$49.26	11
Maxillofacial Surgery	367	358	$47.28	5
Dentist	77	77	$54.41	2
Pain Management	64	64	$44.80	1
Diagnostic Radiology	11	11	$46.76	1

70330 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
Arizona	720	$48.32	$40.77	8
Florida	67	$42.05	$31.68	3
Ohio	65	$50.78	$41.40	1
Alabama	54	$45.94	$40.69	2
Texas	41	$50.49	$40.18	1
Washington	36	$58.86	$41.94	1
Massachusetts	17	$60.82	$40.42	1
Michigan	15	$51.76	$40.28	1
Pennsylvania	12	$48.79	$38.24	1
California	11	$46.76	$33.38	1

Related codes

70355X-ray of lower jaws$14.94
70360X-ray of soft tissue of neck$16.40
70350Imaging of jaws and skull$16.48
70371Imaging of voice box$98.59

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.