How much does Medicare pay for CPT 77417?

Medicare allowed an average of $15.06 per service and paid $11.99 of that, the balance being the patient's coinsurance and deductible (2024 data). Providers submitted an average of $90.02, which is what they billed rather than what they received — Medicare pays its fee schedule regardless of the charge.

What is CPT code 77417?

X-ray during radiation therapy. It was billed 15,014 times to 6,804 Medicare beneficiaries by 291 providers in 2024.

Which specialty bills 77417 most?

Radiation Oncology, with 14,375 services from 279 clinicians. Next are Radiation Therapy Center, Hematology-Oncology, Internal Medicine.

CPT 77417

X-ray during radiation therapy

$15.06Medicare-allowed amount per service, averaged across 15,014 services

Providers submitted

$90.02

Asking price, not received

Medicare allowed

$15.06

The fee schedule figure

Medicare paid

$11.99

Balance is patient coinsurance

Providers submitted an average of $90.02 for this code and Medicare allowed $15.06 — 6.0× 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 $11.99 (80%); the rest is the patient’s coinsurance and deductible.

Services: 15,014
Beneficiaries: 6,804
Providers billing it: 291
Total allowed: $226,111

What Medicare pays for CPT 77417

Across 15,014 services billed by 291 providers to 6,804 beneficiaries, Medicare allowed an average of $15.06 per service. That is 2.2 services per beneficiary, so this is a code patients typically receive more than once. 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 77417

Specialty	Services	Beneficiaries	Avg allowed	Providers
Radiation Oncology	14,375	6,504	$15.09	279
Radiation Therapy Center	565	262	$14.33	9
Hematology-Oncology	60	26	$13.96	2
Internal Medicine	14	12	$13.42	1

77417 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	2,623	$17.26	$11.71	45
Texas	2,327	$14.06	$11.67	45
New York	1,294	$17.20	$11.70	17
South Carolina	797	$14.02	$11.73	7
Florida	732	$14.65	$11.64	18
Illinois	699	$14.64	$11.67	8
Washington	689	$15.10	$11.68	9
Pennsylvania	497	$13.82	$11.71	9
Arizona	454	$14.27	$11.64	8
Virginia	439	$14.62	$11.67	10
Maryland	431	$15.74	$11.66	13
Ohio	392	$13.83	$11.66	11
Arkansas	329	$12.55	$11.66	6
Louisiana	294	$13.05	$11.74	7
New Jersey	280	$17.06	$11.73	8
Nevada	277	$15.17	$11.67	8
Alabama	216	$13.49	$11.67	6
Massachusetts	209	$15.49	$11.64	4
Tennessee	207	$13.34	$11.65	6
Utah	184	$13.72	$11.72	2
Nebraska	181	$13.23	$11.65	3
Mississippi	179	$12.63	$11.76	3
Oregon	155	$14.68	$11.73	5
Michigan	151	$14.04	$11.78	4
Georgia	137	$13.05	$11.71	4
Connecticut	133	$16.07	$11.61	3
Kansas	116	$13.62	$11.69	2
Indiana	90	$12.46	$11.72	1
Minnesota	82	$14.81	$11.71	3
North Carolina	71	$14.40	$11.70	3
Kentucky	59	$12.92	$11.72	2
Colorado	52	$15.36	$11.67	2
Rhode Island	48	$15.23	$11.65	2
Idaho	37	$13.18	$11.69	2
Alaska	37	$15.61	$11.62	1
New Hampshire	33	$15.17	$11.72	1
Missouri	32	$13.97	$11.73	1
Oklahoma	26	$13.07	$11.71	1
West Virginia	25	$13.65	$11.73	1

Related codes

77427Radiation treatment management$188.33
77401Superficial and/or low voltage radiation treatment delivery$40.31
77470Special radiation treatment$112.71
77435Management of cranial lesion surgery$640.39
77432Management of complete single session course of cranial lesion surgery$426.09

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.