How much does Medicare pay for CPT 78014?

Medicare allowed an average of $69.32 per service and paid $52.44 of that, the balance being the patient's coinsurance and deductible (2024 data). Providers submitted an average of $254.59, which is what they billed rather than what they received — Medicare pays its fee schedule regardless of the charge.

What is CPT code 78014?

Nuclear medicine study of thyroid and thyroid function. It was billed 1,532 times to 1,516 Medicare beneficiaries by 98 providers in 2024.

Does 78014 pay differently in an office than a hospital?

Yes. The allowed amount averaged $200.70 in an office setting and $22.58 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 78014 most?

Diagnostic Radiology, with 1,004 services from 71 clinicians. Next are Nuclear Medicine, Family Practice, Interventional Radiology.

CPT 78014

Nuclear medicine study of thyroid and thyroid function

$69.32Medicare-allowed amount per service, averaged across 1,532 services

Providers submitted

$254.59

Asking price, not received

Medicare allowed

$69.32

The fee schedule figure

Medicare paid

$52.44

Balance is patient coinsurance

Providers submitted an average of $254.59 for this code and Medicare allowed $69.32 — 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 $52.44 (76%); the rest is the patient’s coinsurance and deductible.

Office pays differently to hospital

Office / non-facility: $200.70
Hospital / facility: $22.58

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. 402 services were billed in an office setting and 1,130 in a facility.

Services: 1,532
Beneficiaries: 1,516
Providers billing it: 98
Total allowed: $106,198

What Medicare pays for CPT 78014

Across 1,532 services billed by 98 providers to 1,516 beneficiaries, Medicare allowed an average of $69.32 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 78014

Specialty	Services	Beneficiaries	Avg allowed	Providers
Diagnostic Radiology	1,004	992	$48.07	71
Nuclear Medicine	499	496	$105.02	25
Family Practice	17	17	$173.75	1
Interventional Radiology	12	11	$214.51	1

78014 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	235	$98.31	$67.26	11
Florida	135	$97.20	$77.04	10
Maryland	129	$181.71	$126.79	6
New York	90	$156.16	$99.01	5
Texas	90	$38.00	$29.65	5
Pennsylvania	57	$22.35	$16.11	4
Michigan	57	$22.05	$16.78	4
Arkansas	55	$21.07	$16.05	3
North Carolina	55	$21.99	$16.36	4
Massachusetts	47	$22.81	$17.18	4
Georgia	44	$22.58	$17.03	3
Ohio	43	$22.58	$16.40	3
Indiana	40	$21.68	$16.54	3
Delaware	37	$22.39	$18.23	3
Arizona	31	$116.50	$94.39	2
South Carolina	28	$113.99	$89.79	2
Iowa	28	$21.67	$14.60	2
Rhode Island	27	$21.81	$16.24	2
Oklahoma	26	$21.72	$15.58	2
Minnesota	25	$23.86	$17.51	2
Washington	24	$22.60	$16.29	2
Nevada	24	$213.20	$163.62	2
Colorado	24	$22.43	$16.67	2
Mississippi	20	$21.38	$18.19	1
Illinois	19	$23.63	$17.26	1
Wisconsin	18	$21.66	$15.42	1
Connecticut	18	$24.98	$16.27	1
Virginia	17	$21.30	$18.49	1
New Jersey	16	$24.20	$14.81	1
Missouri	14	$21.50	$18.25	1
New Hampshire	14	$22.38	$17.00	1
Kansas	12	$22.77	$18.17	1
Vermont	11	$21.88	$18.24	1
Tennessee	11	$21.43	$18.27	1
Alabama	11	$21.41	$15.24	1

Related codes

78072Nuclear medicine study of parathyroid$112.33
78070Nuclear medicine study of parathyroid$63.75
78071Nuclear medicine study of parathyroid$154.64

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.