How much does Medicare pay for HCPCS G6002?

Medicare allowed an average of $35.24 per service and paid $27.95 of that, the balance being the patient's coinsurance and deductible (2024 data). Providers submitted an average of $223.89, which is what they billed rather than what they received — Medicare pays its fee schedule regardless of the charge.

What is HCPCS code G6002?

Stereoscopic x-ray guidance for localization of target volume for the delivery of radiation therapy. It was billed 621,372 times to 95,293 Medicare beneficiaries by 2,125 providers in 2024.

Does G6002 pay differently in an office than a hospital?

Yes. The allowed amount averaged $50.81 in an office setting and $20.16 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 G6002 most?

Radiation Oncology, with 606,568 services from 2,090 clinicians. Next are Radiation Therapy Center, Diagnostic Radiology, Hematology-Oncology.

HCPCS G6002

Stereoscopic x-ray guidance for localization of target volume for the delivery of radiation therapy

$35.24Medicare-allowed amount per service, averaged across 621,372 services

Providers submitted

$223.89

Asking price, not received

Medicare allowed

$35.24

The fee schedule figure

Medicare paid

$27.95

Balance is patient coinsurance

Providers submitted an average of $223.89 for this code and Medicare allowed $35.24 — 6.4× 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 $27.95 (79%); the rest is the patient’s coinsurance and deductible.

Office pays differently to hospital

Office / non-facility: $50.81
Hospital / facility: $20.16

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. 305,795 services were billed in an office setting and 315,577 in a facility.

Services: 621,372
Beneficiaries: 95,293
Providers billing it: 2,125
Total allowed: $21,897,149

What Medicare pays for HCPCS G6002

Across 621,372 services billed by 2,125 providers to 95,293 beneficiaries, Medicare allowed an average of $35.24 per service. That is 6.5 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 G6002

Specialty	Services	Beneficiaries	Avg allowed	Providers
Radiation Oncology	606,568	93,586	$34.86	2,090
Radiation Therapy Center	8,720	599	$59.63	8
Diagnostic Radiology	3,439	401	$41.62	11
Hematology-Oncology	1,842	341	$29.48	11
Medical Oncology	305	111	$51.08	2
Gynecological Oncology	258	96	$45.35	1
Pediatric Medicine	204	132	$22.79	1
Internal Medicine	36	27	$51.52	1

G6002 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
Florida	61,536	$55.89	$44.31	205
Texas	51,338	$40.44	$32.50	161
California	48,718	$42.09	$29.48	185
New York	44,343	$27.37	$18.88	117
Illinois	33,452	$31.34	$24.18	94
Tennessee	25,656	$35.05	$30.45	58
Pennsylvania	23,416	$23.11	$17.56	115
Minnesota	21,566	$22.89	$17.57	61
North Carolina	20,511	$22.63	$18.54	66
Massachusetts	19,672	$28.30	$21.10	60
Virginia	18,602	$47.61	$38.22	60
Maryland	17,594	$43.81	$32.75	48
New Jersey	15,650	$40.32	$27.53	39
Arizona	14,978	$23.48	$18.91	35
Washington	14,344	$33.88	$26.39	61
Indiana	14,155	$36.76	$31.25	55
Kansas	12,805	$39.98	$33.17	29
Georgia	12,509	$32.50	$25.84	62
Missouri	10,802	$23.70	$19.54	44
Mississippi	10,687	$25.55	$22.35	20
Oklahoma	9,460	$41.73	$36.68	21
Alabama	9,456	$41.35	$35.85	34
Louisiana	9,375	$29.88	$24.58	25
Kentucky	8,431	$24.10	$19.97	31
Arkansas	7,888	$37.24	$33.21	24
Ohio	7,708	$26.75	$21.85	47
South Carolina	7,097	$21.72	$17.92	26
Michigan	6,689	$33.54	$27.02	39
Wisconsin	6,383	$27.59	$21.80	38
Delaware	4,164	$19.52	$15.57	6
Iowa	4,125	$19.56	$16.01	13
Hawaii	4,122	$40.54	$29.85	10
Colorado	4,087	$30.33	$23.15	39
Nebraska	3,915	$25.84	$21.87	6
Connecticut	3,689	$26.66	$20.35	36
Rhode Island	3,469	$27.88	$21.05	13
Oregon	3,273	$31.04	$23.88	20
District of Columbia	3,272	$40.49	$32.81	7
Idaho	2,891	$27.21	$22.58	13
Nevada	2,722	$71.26	$55.88	12
New Hampshire	2,427	$19.71	$15.68	16
Utah	2,149	$19.52	$15.71	21
Maine	2,138	$19.28	$15.75	12
Montana	1,914	$20.05	$15.75	10
North Dakota	1,791	$20.29	$15.80	7
Wyoming	1,693	$28.80	$22.17	3
West Virginia	1,255	$27.00	$22.42	9
Guam	1,022	$82.03	$58.88	1
South Dakota	792	$19.56	$15.46	4
Vermont	660	$19.57	$15.69	2
Alaska	634	$35.57	$25.88	2
New Mexico	174	$46.20	$39.07	2
Puerto Rico	173	$74.21	$58.77	1

Related codes

G6015Intensity modulated treatment delivery$350.25
G6001Ultrasonic guidance for placement of radiation therapy fields$174.98
G6012Radiation treatment delivery$227.55
G6017Intra-fraction localization and tracking of target or patient motion d$83.68
G6013Radiation treatment delivery$222.63
G6014Radiation treatment delivery$226.32

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.