How much does Medicare pay for CPT 76706?

Medicare allowed an average of $57.09 per service and paid $57.09 of that, the balance being the patient's coinsurance and deductible (2024 data). Providers submitted an average of $211.04, which is what they billed rather than what they received — Medicare pays its fee schedule regardless of the charge.

What is CPT code 76706?

Ultrasound scan of abdominal aorta. It was billed 88,145 times to 87,109 Medicare beneficiaries by 3,349 providers in 2024.

Does 76706 pay differently in an office than a hospital?

Yes. The allowed amount averaged $85.40 in an office setting and $25.04 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 76706 most?

Diagnostic Radiology, with 58,299 services from 2,319 clinicians. Next are Cardiology, Interventional Radiology, Vascular Surgery.

CPT 76706

Ultrasound scan of abdominal aorta

$57.09Medicare-allowed amount per service, averaged across 88,145 services

Providers submitted

$211.04

Asking price, not received

Medicare allowed

$57.09

The fee schedule figure

Medicare paid

$57.09

Balance is patient coinsurance

Providers submitted an average of $211.04 for this code and Medicare allowed $57.09 — 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 $57.09 (100%); the rest is the patient’s coinsurance and deductible.

Office pays differently to hospital

Office / non-facility: $85.40
Hospital / facility: $25.04

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. 46,806 services were billed in an office setting and 41,339 in a facility.

Services: 88,145
Beneficiaries: 87,109
Providers billing it: 3,349
Total allowed: $5,032,198

What Medicare pays for CPT 76706

Across 88,145 services billed by 3,349 providers to 87,109 beneficiaries, Medicare allowed an average of $57.09 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 76706

Specialty	Services	Beneficiaries	Avg allowed	Providers
Diagnostic Radiology	58,299	57,442	$48.58	2,319
Cardiology	7,657	7,635	$88.04	238
Interventional Radiology	5,156	5,149	$47.04	150
Vascular Surgery	4,766	4,765	$40.81	193
Independent Diagnostic Testing Facility (IDTF)	4,110	4,027	$96.23	152
Internal Medicine	2,487	2,467	$90.70	89
Interventional Cardiology	2,118	2,114	$76.40	80
Family Practice	1,658	1,626	$96.73	61
General Surgery	459	459	$53.34	20
Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology	283	283	$94.18	7
General Practice	270	270	$105.29	5
Endocrinology	176	166	$77.18	2
Nurse Practitioner	111	111	$81.79	7
Peripheral Vascular Disease	89	89	$24.81	3
Cardiac Surgery	82	82	$83.95	2

76706 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	10,334	$85.41	$74.23	326
Florida	6,875	$70.89	$72.26	235
Texas	6,196	$65.67	$67.93	229
Ohio	3,979	$29.16	$29.77	144
Illinois	3,909	$43.52	$42.78	170
Pennsylvania	3,830	$38.00	$37.56	146
Massachusetts	3,746	$42.05	$39.18	130
New York	3,661	$84.60	$75.35	149
Michigan	2,790	$37.68	$38.16	98
Wisconsin	2,719	$38.49	$40.25	95
North Carolina	2,677	$51.21	$53.99	112
Arizona	2,605	$82.73	$84.91	82
Virginia	2,139	$57.49	$56.54	76
Maryland	2,118	$93.51	$85.51	79
Indiana	2,092	$26.66	$27.80	73
Washington	2,018	$64.89	$61.91	91
Minnesota	1,785	$38.69	$38.25	73
South Carolina	1,783	$37.59	$39.42	55
Missouri	1,584	$29.82	$30.69	78
New Jersey	1,501	$84.19	$75.68	57
Iowa	1,475	$48.14	$51.61	54
Colorado	1,450	$68.02	$64.33	66
Kentucky	1,363	$40.70	$42.56	51
Georgia	1,263	$45.61	$47.14	60
Oklahoma	1,101	$30.20	$31.49	51
Oregon	1,055	$45.96	$45.11	49
Tennessee	923	$70.52	$76.78	42
Kansas	885	$51.64	$55.57	31
Arkansas	865	$29.18	$31.85	37
Louisiana	708	$68.76	$73.60	28
New Hampshire	701	$24.97	$25.05	34
Nebraska	683	$37.44	$39.72	31
Idaho	676	$27.73	$28.69	28
Delaware	673	$55.87	$55.58	22
Nevada	648	$76.35	$73.58	29
North Dakota	552	$34.62	$34.95	18
New Mexico	517	$60.67	$62.96	20
Connecticut	438	$72.49	$66.49	24
Maine	435	$43.85	$41.83	22
Mississippi	433	$60.92	$68.36	21
Rhode Island	418	$56.41	$53.94	20
Montana	358	$25.01	$25.03	17
Vermont	323	$24.55	$25.04	14
West Virginia	290	$55.66	$59.17	16
Alaska	277	$58.70	$51.57	9
South Dakota	266	$28.09	$27.71	11
Alabama	248	$53.39	$58.48	14
Hawaii	226	$86.75	$85.38	6
Utah	187	$33.46	$34.73	12
Guam	137	$101.14	$92.34	3
Wyoming	122	$75.88	$76.90	7
District of Columbia	94	$85.50	$76.81	3
AP	14	$25.13	$25.09	1

Related codes

76770Complete ultrasound scan behind abdominal cavity$58.76
76705Limited ultrasound scan of abdomen$35.98
76700Complete ultrasound scan of abdomen$78.56
76775Limited ultrasound scan behind abdominal cavity$44.86
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.