How much does Medicare pay for CPT 70360?

Medicare allowed an average of $16.40 per service and paid $12.86 of that, the balance being the patient's coinsurance and deductible (2024 data). Providers submitted an average of $92.11, which is what they billed rather than what they received — Medicare pays its fee schedule regardless of the charge.

What is CPT code 70360?

X-ray of soft tissue of neck. It was billed 8,860 times to 7,557 Medicare beneficiaries by 144 providers in 2024.

Does 70360 pay differently in an office than a hospital?

Yes. The allowed amount averaged $18.13 in an office setting and $8.69 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 70360 most?

Internal Medicine, with 2,026 services from 6 clinicians. Next are General Practice, Diagnostic Radiology, Family Practice.

CPT 70360

X-ray of soft tissue of neck

$16.40Medicare-allowed amount per service, averaged across 8,860 services

Providers submitted

$92.11

Asking price, not received

Medicare allowed

$16.40

The fee schedule figure

Medicare paid

$12.86

Balance is patient coinsurance

Providers submitted an average of $92.11 for this code and Medicare allowed $16.40 — 5.6× 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 $12.86 (78%); the rest is the patient’s coinsurance and deductible.

Office pays differently to hospital

Office / non-facility: $18.13
Hospital / facility: $8.69

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. 7,235 services were billed in an office setting and 1,625 in a facility.

Services: 8,860
Beneficiaries: 7,557
Providers billing it: 144
Total allowed: $145,304

What Medicare pays for CPT 70360

Across 8,860 services billed by 144 providers to 7,557 beneficiaries, Medicare allowed an average of $16.40 per service. That is 1.2 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 70360

Specialty	Services	Beneficiaries	Avg allowed	Providers
Internal Medicine	2,026	1,642	$17.06	6
General Practice	1,648	1,232	$14.86	2
Diagnostic Radiology	1,397	1,380	$8.86	93
Family Practice	1,183	1,136	$19.90	7
Portable X-Ray Supplier	759	518	$14.34	12
Obstetrics & Gynecology	385	368	$19.99	2
Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine	383	359	$18.81	1
Maxillofacial Surgery	320	320	$28.07	3
Geriatric Medicine	215	99	$15.87	1
Nurse Practitioner	138	103	$26.81	3
Rheumatology	71	66	$17.89	1
Hematology-Oncology	67	67	$19.48	1
Pain Management	65	65	$26.49	1
Orthopedic Surgery	44	44	$29.09	2
Speech Language Pathologist	35	35	$31.67	1

70360 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
Illinois	2,619	$13.04	$10.15	10
Texas	1,727	$19.07	$14.85	12
Louisiana	1,343	$19.47	$16.85	8
Maryland	487	$13.57	$10.70	4
Massachusetts	452	$17.80	$13.13	12
Arizona	424	$25.21	$21.94	6
Oklahoma	300	$22.42	$19.32	8
California	155	$10.79	$7.69	11
Arkansas	143	$16.16	$13.85	4
Colorado	141	$23.90	$16.34	4
Washington	137	$14.44	$10.96	6
Ohio	136	$12.26	$9.51	7
New York	111	$9.09	$6.23	9
Tennessee	80	$11.00	$9.29	4
Florida	78	$8.61	$6.25	6
Pennsylvania	77	$11.61	$8.86	4
New Jersey	69	$14.06	$9.89	2
Virginia	65	$10.47	$8.19	4
Missouri	54	$8.52	$6.40	4
Minnesota	53	$8.33	$6.67	4
North Carolina	53	$22.27	$16.00	4
Indiana	46	$8.50	$6.78	3
Alabama	31	$18.01	$15.92	2
Mississippi	24	$8.07	$6.75	2
Georgia	23	$17.39	$15.53	2
Kentucky	19	$8.73	$6.77	1
Iowa	13	$8.11	$6.76	1

Related codes

70355X-ray of lower jaws$14.94
70350Imaging of jaws and skull$16.48
70371Imaging of voice box$98.59
70330X-ray of jaw joints on both sides of mouth$48.64

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.