How much does Medicare pay for CPT 74150?

Medicare allowed an average of $93.55 per service and paid $68.54 of that, the balance being the patient's coinsurance and deductible (2024 data). Providers submitted an average of $597.19, which is what they billed rather than what they received — Medicare pays its fee schedule regardless of the charge.

What is CPT code 74150?

Ct scan of abdomen without contrast. It was billed 9,309 times to 9,019 Medicare beneficiaries by 493 providers in 2024.

Does 74150 pay differently in an office than a hospital?

Yes. The allowed amount averaged $113.65 in an office setting and $55.17 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 74150 most?

Diagnostic Radiology, with 7,479 services from 393 clinicians. Next are Independent Diagnostic Testing Facility (IDTF), Interventional Radiology, Urology.

CPT 74150

Ct scan of abdomen without contrast

$93.55Medicare-allowed amount per service, averaged across 9,309 services

Providers submitted

$597.19

Asking price, not received

Medicare allowed

$93.55

The fee schedule figure

Medicare paid

$68.54

Balance is patient coinsurance

Providers submitted an average of $597.19 for this code and Medicare allowed $93.55 — 6.4× 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 $68.54 (73%); the rest is the patient’s coinsurance and deductible.

Office pays differently to hospital

Office / non-facility: $113.65
Hospital / facility: $55.17

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. 6,109 services were billed in an office setting and 3,200 in a facility.

Services: 9,309
Beneficiaries: 9,019
Providers billing it: 493
Total allowed: $870,857

What Medicare pays for CPT 74150

Across 9,309 services billed by 493 providers to 9,019 beneficiaries, Medicare allowed an average of $93.55 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 74150

Specialty	Services	Beneficiaries	Avg allowed	Providers
Diagnostic Radiology	7,479	7,259	$88.52	393
Independent Diagnostic Testing Facility (IDTF)	1,291	1,272	$120.32	71
Interventional Radiology	224	197	$96.04	11
Urology	114	110	$86.06	8
Internal Medicine	74	71	$148.55	2
Radiation Oncology	37	24	$55.69	2
Cardiology	36	35	$93.53	2
Nephrology	15	14	$132.50	1
Nuclear Medicine	15	13	$98.68	1
Pediatric Medicine	12	12	$127.08	1
Undefined Physician type	12	12	$59.87	1

74150 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	1,773	$120.31	$75.89	78
Florida	1,246	$98.32	$72.34	62
New York	801	$95.83	$62.85	34
Texas	689	$106.96	$78.42	42
Maryland	431	$106.69	$71.72	25
Arizona	387	$91.30	$67.11	21
Indiana	270	$67.22	$47.81	15
Tennessee	269	$75.12	$59.37	18
Georgia	267	$76.23	$57.32	11
Massachusetts	255	$65.47	$44.75	13
New Jersey	253	$105.58	$65.48	9
North Carolina	214	$92.77	$70.70	12
Virginia	209	$82.89	$60.46	14
Pennsylvania	161	$79.87	$58.77	9
Nevada	142	$118.71	$82.22	7
Nebraska	136	$51.55	$41.21	5
Ohio	134	$54.61	$39.38	6
South Carolina	123	$66.47	$52.72	9
West Virginia	121	$54.63	$37.73	7
Alabama	117	$66.26	$54.22	8
Illinois	115	$78.71	$57.11	8
Delaware	108	$84.38	$57.11	7
Washington	105	$65.89	$48.55	6
Colorado	104	$85.63	$60.79	7
Arkansas	91	$51.39	$40.01	5
Louisiana	91	$80.71	$62.68	6
Missouri	90	$70.74	$50.56	7
Michigan	87	$65.94	$45.15	6
Minnesota	87	$96.26	$65.46	7
Mississippi	86	$76.28	$63.06	6
Kentucky	72	$69.61	$53.39	4
Rhode Island	52	$81.49	$56.17	3
Wisconsin	41	$52.65	$40.09	3
Kansas	36	$57.31	$43.64	3
Iowa	35	$52.10	$40.81	3
New Mexico	32	$56.11	$38.91	1
Oklahoma	23	$53.25	$42.09	2
Idaho	16	$147.91	$95.34	1
Alaska	16	$80.86	$55.50	1
Connecticut	12	$139.99	$102.70	1
District of Columbia	12	$56.11	$35.11	1

Related codes

74177Ct scan of abdomen and pelvis$105.68
74176Ct scan of abdomen and pelvis without contrast$90.05
74183Mri scan of abdomen before and after contrast$175.35
74178Ct scan of abdomen and pelvis before and after contrast$176.76
74174Ct scan of blood vessels of abdomen and pelvis$117.69
74181Mri scan of abdomen without contrast$93.69
74170Ct scan of abdomen before and after contrast$127.64
74160Ct scan of abdomen$107.50
74175Ct scan of blood vessels of abdomen$104.72
74185Mri scan of blood vessels of abdomen$211.76

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.