How much does Medicare pay for CPT 76776?

Medicare allowed an average of $41.96 per service and paid $32.46 of that, the balance being the patient's coinsurance and deductible (2024 data). Providers submitted an average of $212.67, which is what they billed rather than what they received — Medicare pays its fee schedule regardless of the charge.

What is CPT code 76776?

Ultrasound scan of transplanted kidney. It was billed 28,228 times to 24,912 Medicare beneficiaries by 1,053 providers in 2024.

Does 76776 pay differently in an office than a hospital?

Yes. The allowed amount averaged $130.49 in an office setting and $35.43 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 76776 most?

Diagnostic Radiology, with 26,363 services from 999 clinicians. Next are Interventional Radiology, Urology, Nuclear Medicine.

CPT 76776

Ultrasound scan of transplanted kidney

$41.96Medicare-allowed amount per service, averaged across 28,228 services

Providers submitted

$212.67

Asking price, not received

Medicare allowed

$41.96

The fee schedule figure

Medicare paid

$32.46

Balance is patient coinsurance

Providers submitted an average of $212.67 for this code and Medicare allowed $41.96 — 5.1× 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 $32.46 (77%); the rest is the patient’s coinsurance and deductible.

Office pays differently to hospital

Office / non-facility: $130.49
Hospital / facility: $35.43

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. 1,939 services were billed in an office setting and 26,289 in a facility.

Services: 28,228
Beneficiaries: 24,912
Providers billing it: 1,053
Total allowed: $1,184,447

What Medicare pays for CPT 76776

Across 28,228 services billed by 1,053 providers to 24,912 beneficiaries, Medicare allowed an average of $41.96 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 76776

Specialty	Services	Beneficiaries	Avg allowed	Providers
Diagnostic Radiology	26,363	23,449	$39.30	999
Interventional Radiology	877	815	$43.26	36
Urology	595	314	$135.21	3
Nuclear Medicine	193	152	$38.66	5
Independent Diagnostic Testing Facility (IDTF)	117	102	$140.19	5
Nephrology	33	30	$104.77	2
General Surgery	25	25	$33.27	1
Internal Medicine	14	14	$112.07	1
Vascular Surgery	11	11	$37.71	1

76776 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	3,132	$38.68	$27.58	122
New York	2,828	$42.34	$28.80	111
Texas	2,643	$64.95	$50.87	88
Florida	1,918	$41.59	$31.17	68
Arizona	1,888	$64.91	$50.18	22
Virginia	1,486	$37.90	$29.17	33
Pennsylvania	1,305	$34.63	$26.45	57
Illinois	1,211	$36.50	$25.96	49
Massachusetts	1,167	$36.49	$26.27	57
Maryland	896	$35.73	$26.22	28
North Carolina	838	$34.50	$26.99	39
New Jersey	797	$37.67	$26.67	29
Ohio	724	$34.04	$26.14	32
Washington	689	$37.05	$25.96	26
Missouri	556	$39.19	$30.86	22
Minnesota	538	$43.74	$33.22	23
Tennessee	534	$33.08	$26.03	22
South Carolina	430	$33.55	$26.12	10
Michigan	417	$34.84	$26.21	22
Oklahoma	359	$34.07	$26.39	14
Colorado	348	$34.83	$26.15	18
Louisiana	314	$33.77	$26.22	13
Georgia	311	$34.75	$25.66	18
Connecticut	300	$36.37	$26.42	14
Wisconsin	278	$33.05	$25.61	19
Nevada	266	$42.55	$31.73	8
Utah	256	$33.66	$25.94	15
Nebraska	248	$32.01	$25.77	9
District of Columbia	200	$37.60	$26.55	6
Mississippi	179	$32.74	$25.92	7
Kansas	172	$33.70	$26.56	4
Arkansas	152	$32.59	$26.03	6
Indiana	151	$33.25	$26.04	5
Alabama	134	$33.07	$24.81	8
Iowa	129	$32.97	$26.31	6
New Mexico	77	$36.58	$25.36	3
Delaware	66	$35.22	$26.84	3
Oregon	53	$34.64	$26.08	4
Kentucky	50	$33.62	$26.20	3
Rhode Island	49	$36.43	$25.26	3
Hawaii	36	$33.11	$26.86	2
ZZ	29	$33.37	$26.64	1
South Dakota	24	$34.02	$24.84	1
Alaska	19	$118.43	$73.96	1
Puerto Rico	19	$34.51	$25.50	1
West Virginia	12	$29.84	$26.92	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
76706Ultrasound scan of abdominal aorta$57.09

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.