How much does Medicare pay for CPT 76700?

Medicare allowed an average of $78.56 per service and paid $57.01 of that, the balance being the patient's coinsurance and deductible (2024 data). Providers submitted an average of $287.95, which is what they billed rather than what they received — Medicare pays its fee schedule regardless of the charge.

What is CPT code 76700?

Complete ultrasound scan of abdomen. It was billed 626,785 times to 589,846 Medicare beneficiaries by 11,417 providers in 2024.

Does 76700 pay differently in an office than a hospital?

Yes. The allowed amount averaged $100.39 in an office setting and $37.67 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 76700 most?

Diagnostic Radiology, with 448,196 services from 8,975 clinicians. Next are Independent Diagnostic Testing Facility (IDTF), Internal Medicine, Interventional Radiology.

CPT 76700

Complete ultrasound scan of abdomen

$78.56Medicare-allowed amount per service, averaged across 626,785 services

Providers submitted

$287.95

Asking price, not received

Medicare allowed

$78.56

The fee schedule figure

Medicare paid

$57.01

Balance is patient coinsurance

Providers submitted an average of $287.95 for this code and Medicare allowed $78.56 — 3.7× 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 $57.01 (73%); the rest is the patient’s coinsurance and deductible.

Office pays differently to hospital

Office / non-facility: $100.39
Hospital / facility: $37.67

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. 408,647 services were billed in an office setting and 218,138 in a facility.

Services: 626,785
Beneficiaries: 589,846
Providers billing it: 11,417
Total allowed: $49,240,230

What Medicare pays for CPT 76700

Across 626,785 services billed by 11,417 providers to 589,846 beneficiaries, Medicare allowed an average of $78.56 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 76700

Specialty	Services	Beneficiaries	Avg allowed	Providers
Diagnostic Radiology	448,196	433,205	$70.18	8,975
Independent Diagnostic Testing Facility (IDTF)	75,811	63,108	$94.06	631
Internal Medicine	28,852	25,957	$114.53	506
Interventional Radiology	18,624	17,917	$69.52	363
Gastroenterology	12,255	10,915	$107.14	228
Family Practice	11,967	11,084	$106.14	305
General Practice	6,486	5,612	$126.18	41
Nurse Practitioner	3,912	3,665	$101.95	71
Cardiology	3,063	2,958	$121.00	53
Portable X-Ray Supplier	2,819	2,114	$84.82	22
Obstetrics & Gynecology	2,185	1,808	$123.59	17
Emergency Medicine	1,492	1,414	$118.98	17
Neurology	1,176	1,169	$128.67	4
Urology	957	662	$126.15	14
Endocrinology	928	811	$101.03	9

76700 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	143,396	$98.30	$62.63	1,773
New York	81,255	$92.50	$59.06	908
Florida	47,568	$80.10	$58.62	810
Texas	46,313	$71.58	$52.35	936
New Jersey	28,472	$91.23	$59.22	482
Maryland	20,937	$81.06	$54.46	236
Pennsylvania	20,588	$58.37	$39.95	456
Tennessee	18,421	$58.84	$45.43	369
Arizona	16,473	$82.96	$60.06	234
Massachusetts	13,824	$53.79	$35.36	306
Virginia	13,502	$66.35	$46.22	260
Illinois	12,767	$70.99	$49.99	312
Michigan	11,360	$54.43	$38.94	300
North Carolina	10,757	$59.91	$44.39	318
Alabama	9,722	$55.59	$44.08	258
Georgia	8,901	$59.93	$44.24	249
Nevada	8,494	$81.14	$58.95	169
Washington	7,631	$64.66	$43.43	200
Minnesota	7,326	$78.14	$53.31	182
Missouri	7,268	$52.37	$38.45	196
Connecticut	7,128	$74.49	$49.96	151
South Carolina	6,919	$56.27	$43.15	209
Louisiana	6,348	$54.16	$41.54	189
Arkansas	6,082	$45.03	$35.89	133
Colorado	5,427	$73.66	$49.13	162
Ohio	4,803	$55.87	$39.05	127
Oklahoma	4,100	$47.88	$35.55	105
Nebraska	4,069	$47.89	$36.10	106
Kansas	3,865	$62.36	$45.80	103
Delaware	3,863	$68.42	$47.08	45
Mississippi	3,346	$52.22	$41.18	107
Oregon	3,202	$58.53	$41.07	115
Rhode Island	3,055	$70.31	$46.79	54
New Mexico	3,049	$70.88	$49.93	59
Hawaii	2,724	$83.13	$55.79	39
Kentucky	2,493	$52.70	$40.05	82
Wisconsin	2,336	$44.08	$31.41	83
Iowa	2,149	$57.24	$42.73	60
Indiana	2,040	$53.51	$38.83	76
New Hampshire	1,976	$42.97	$30.10	69
District of Columbia	1,887	$75.69	$47.79	42
Utah	1,683	$52.90	$38.83	60
Puerto Rico	1,455	$87.74	$59.49	58
West Virginia	1,282	$67.15	$51.04	38
Alaska	1,240	$78.50	$45.68	22
Idaho	1,222	$53.36	$36.33	33
Montana	1,162	$44.92	$30.07	41
South Dakota	592	$48.79	$34.01	25
XX	474	$131.24	$89.28	1
Vermont	401	$69.87	$45.58	13
Wyoming	374	$71.73	$51.04	16
North Dakota	370	$45.39	$32.33	13
Maine	353	$39.93	$27.64	16
Guam	148	$93.65	$54.34	4
AP	104	$97.63	$63.52	3
ZZ	41	$35.83	$24.70	1

Related codes

76770Complete ultrasound scan behind abdominal cavity$58.76
76705Limited ultrasound scan of abdomen$35.98
76775Limited ultrasound scan behind abdominal cavity$44.86
76706Ultrasound scan of abdominal aorta$57.09
76776Ultrasound scan of transplanted kidney$41.96

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.