How much does Medicare pay for CPT 71110?

Medicare allowed an average of $26.96 per service and paid $20.08 of that, the balance being the patient's coinsurance and deductible (2024 data). Providers submitted an average of $75.51, which is what they billed rather than what they received — Medicare pays its fee schedule regardless of the charge.

What is CPT code 71110?

X-ray of ribs on both sides of body, 3 views. It was billed 4,556 times to 3,558 Medicare beneficiaries by 127 providers in 2024.

Does 71110 pay differently in an office than a hospital?

Yes. The allowed amount averaged $28.63 in an office setting and $13.92 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 71110 most?

Portable X-Ray Supplier, with 2,816 services from 48 clinicians. Next are Diagnostic Radiology, Internal Medicine, Nurse Practitioner.

CPT 71110

X-ray of ribs on both sides of body, 3 views

$26.96Medicare-allowed amount per service, averaged across 4,556 services

Providers submitted

$75.51

Asking price, not received

Medicare allowed

$26.96

The fee schedule figure

Medicare paid

$20.08

Balance is patient coinsurance

Providers submitted an average of $75.51 for this code and Medicare allowed $26.96 — 2.8× 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 $20.08 (74%); the rest is the patient’s coinsurance and deductible.

Office pays differently to hospital

Office / non-facility: $28.63
Hospital / facility: $13.92

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. 4,040 services were billed in an office setting and 516 in a facility.

Services: 4,556
Beneficiaries: 3,558
Providers billing it: 127
Total allowed: $122,830

What Medicare pays for CPT 71110

Across 4,556 services billed by 127 providers to 3,558 beneficiaries, Medicare allowed an average of $26.96 per service. That is 1.3 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 71110

Specialty	Services	Beneficiaries	Avg allowed	Providers
Portable X-Ray Supplier	2,816	1,953	$23.96	48
Diagnostic Radiology	1,389	1,270	$29.90	65
Internal Medicine	141	131	$38.82	3
Nurse Practitioner	80	75	$35.97	2
Family Practice	65	65	$36.12	5
Independent Diagnostic Testing Facility (IDTF)	42	41	$49.75	2
Physician Assistant	23	23	$45.85	2

71110 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
New York	912	$29.00	$19.01	22
Maryland	860	$21.27	$16.25	4
Texas	441	$30.46	$23.59	18
Florida	345	$28.01	$21.17	17
California	259	$42.79	$26.46	16
Arizona	223	$37.47	$28.41	5
Ohio	208	$19.00	$15.09	5
New Jersey	207	$33.89	$22.02	4
Illinois	193	$25.32	$18.07	7
Tennessee	172	$19.70	$16.56	2
Missouri	111	$17.83	$16.45	1
Arkansas	108	$15.94	$15.38	1
Washington	95	$13.50	$10.57	4
Pennsylvania	94	$28.00	$22.64	4
North Carolina	55	$25.62	$19.85	3
Kansas	53	$17.66	$16.55	2
Massachusetts	32	$24.04	$17.71	2
Alabama	30	$33.47	$26.70	1
Oklahoma	28	$39.37	$33.23	1
Delaware	27	$43.28	$31.86	1
Georgia	22	$27.71	$22.51	2
Iowa	22	$17.84	$15.98	1
Michigan	22	$25.17	$17.23	1
Minnesota	13	$13.67	$9.11	1
Louisiana	13	$12.92	$10.63	1
Mississippi	11	$38.13	$31.72	1

Related codes

71101X-ray of ribs on side of body$19.00
71100X-ray of ribs on side of body$20.66
71111X-ray of ribs on both sides of body$31.13

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.