How much does Medicare pay for CPT 74175?

Medicare allowed an average of $104.72 per service and paid $80.65 of that, the balance being the patient's coinsurance and deductible (2024 data). Providers submitted an average of $517.61, which is what they billed rather than what they received — Medicare pays its fee schedule regardless of the charge.

What is CPT code 74175?

Ct scan of blood vessels of abdomen with contrast. It was billed 6,596 times to 6,497 Medicare beneficiaries by 268 providers in 2024.

Does 74175 pay differently in an office than a hospital?

Yes. The allowed amount averaged $213.47 in an office setting and $82.72 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 74175 most?

Diagnostic Radiology, with 5,733 services from 224 clinicians. Next are Interventional Radiology, Cardiology, Independent Diagnostic Testing Facility (IDTF).

CPT 74175

Ct scan of blood vessels of abdomen with contrast

$104.72Medicare-allowed amount per service, averaged across 6,596 services

Providers submitted

$517.61

Asking price, not received

Medicare allowed

$104.72

The fee schedule figure

Medicare paid

$80.65

Balance is patient coinsurance

Providers submitted an average of $517.61 for this code and Medicare allowed $104.72 — 4.9× 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 $80.65 (77%); the rest is the patient’s coinsurance and deductible.

Office pays differently to hospital

Office / non-facility: $213.47
Hospital / facility: $82.72

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. 1,110 services were billed in an office setting and 5,486 in a facility.

Services: 6,596
Beneficiaries: 6,497
Providers billing it: 268
Total allowed: $690,733

What Medicare pays for CPT 74175

Across 6,596 services billed by 268 providers to 6,497 beneficiaries, Medicare allowed an average of $104.72 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 74175

Specialty	Services	Beneficiaries	Avg allowed	Providers
Diagnostic Radiology	5,733	5,650	$93.49	224
Interventional Radiology	289	283	$121.46	18
Cardiology	263	259	$200.17	11
Independent Diagnostic Testing Facility (IDTF)	173	169	$215.05	9
Interventional Cardiology	98	96	$258.98	3
Internal Medicine	15	15	$84.01	1
Physician Assistant	14	14	$161.30	1
Vascular Surgery	11	11	$82.04	1

74175 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
Massachusetts	1,975	$87.62	$62.49	53
Florida	459	$169.89	$133.66	23
New York	425	$106.53	$71.69	18
Pennsylvania	399	$84.03	$58.89	7
Nevada	311	$98.79	$73.75	13
Virginia	258	$212.41	$158.08	11
Maryland	256	$86.71	$61.33	15
South Carolina	253	$77.17	$59.15	14
Arizona	241	$108.86	$79.08	9
Michigan	195	$79.52	$59.56	9
Illinois	184	$125.36	$87.80	10
Washington	159	$84.86	$59.56	4
Missouri	139	$78.64	$62.62	6
California	134	$83.86	$58.99	8
Utah	129	$157.52	$119.32	5
Texas	124	$108.00	$80.27	8
Indiana	116	$81.82	$59.53	2
Tennessee	106	$153.50	$117.73	5
Ohio	103	$124.47	$97.36	8
Oklahoma	90	$78.49	$58.97	5
North Carolina	71	$142.45	$116.00	5
Arkansas	69	$77.59	$58.75	5
New Jersey	53	$134.29	$91.05	2
Nebraska	51	$75.32	$60.02	3
Hawaii	50	$81.24	$56.18	3
Connecticut	50	$82.38	$58.67	3
Wisconsin	31	$81.30	$54.63	2
New Mexico	28	$83.34	$50.24	2
Georgia	23	$79.11	$56.86	2
Minnesota	23	$77.56	$61.52	2
Mississippi	21	$149.05	$124.49	1
Iowa	19	$73.51	$62.10	1
Kentucky	15	$219.01	$183.91	1
Colorado	14	$82.41	$60.73	1
Louisiana	11	$80.60	$58.51	1
Rhode Island	11	$83.95	$51.16	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
74150Ct scan of abdomen without contrast$93.55
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.