How much does Medicare pay for HCPCS G6017?

Medicare allowed an average of $83.68 per service and paid $66.67 of that, the balance being the patient's coinsurance and deductible (2024 data). Providers submitted an average of $451.08, which is what they billed rather than what they received — Medicare pays its fee schedule regardless of the charge.

Does G6017 pay differently in an office than a hospital?

Yes. The allowed amount averaged $89.74 in an office setting and $69.18 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 G6017 most?

Radiation Oncology, with 103,337 services from 393 clinicians. Next are Radiation Therapy Center, Hematology-Oncology.

HCPCS G6017

Intra-fraction localization and tracking of target or patient motion during delivery of radiation therapy (eg,3d positional tracking, gating, 3d surface tracking), each fraction of treatment

$83.68Medicare-allowed amount per service, averaged across 106,219 services

Providers submitted

$451.08

Asking price, not received

Medicare allowed

$83.68

The fee schedule figure

Medicare paid

$66.67

Balance is patient coinsurance

Providers submitted an average of $451.08 for this code and Medicare allowed $83.68 — 5.4× 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 $66.67 (80%); the rest is the patient’s coinsurance and deductible.

Office pays differently to hospital

Office / non-facility: $89.74
Hospital / facility: $69.18

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. 74,925 services were billed in an office setting and 31,294 in a facility.

Services: 106,219
Beneficiaries: 13,014
Providers billing it: 401
Total allowed: $8,888,406

What Medicare pays for HCPCS G6017

Across 106,219 services billed by 401 providers to 13,014 beneficiaries, Medicare allowed an average of $83.68 per service. That is 8.2 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 G6017

Specialty	Services	Beneficiaries	Avg allowed	Providers
Radiation Oncology	103,337	12,826	$84.50	393
Radiation Therapy Center	1,860	126	$47.29	6
Hematology-Oncology	1,022	62	$67.50	2

G6017 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	13,858	$82.26	$65.60	25
North Carolina	12,662	$95.99	$75.29	47
California	10,973	$133.22	$104.80	29
Arizona	9,221	$116.12	$92.62	23
Illinois	6,610	$21.95	$17.40	10
New York	6,502	$24.71	$19.25	26
Maryland	4,113	$78.88	$63.74	27
South Carolina	3,095	$96.71	$74.43	14
Texas	3,065	$75.19	$59.84	19
Michigan	3,037	$74.59	$59.25	8
Pennsylvania	2,809	$79.35	$61.18	13
Georgia	2,337	$93.30	$72.38	14
Massachusetts	2,175	$25.85	$21.00	14
New Hampshire	2,087	$20.55	$16.57	13
Alaska	1,993	$136.29	$108.30	3
Nevada	1,926	$118.42	$93.63	4
Alabama	1,729	$96.54	$74.56	8
Oklahoma	1,543	$69.97	$56.44	8
Kansas	1,361	$70.13	$56.00	4
Indiana	1,315	$66.31	$55.82	6
Vermont	1,310	$136.35	$108.64	1
Tennessee	1,196	$76.22	$60.77	7
Arkansas	1,183	$68.80	$55.11	3
New Jersey	1,117	$84.92	$66.84	7
Virginia	1,093	$94.03	$76.73	10
Minnesota	966	$20.63	$16.25	10
Utah	951	$111.99	$89.23	2
Rhode Island	831	$59.59	$44.81	2
Connecticut	698	$22.06	$17.50	8
Washington	580	$117.25	$93.42	2
New Mexico	501	$72.77	$57.43	4
Missouri	468	$77.30	$61.48	4
Hawaii	467	$130.47	$103.73	7
Colorado	466	$78.45	$61.13	2
North Dakota	405	$109.38	$81.63	3
Iowa	331	$76.55	$61.00	3
Wisconsin	321	$21.20	$16.52	3
Louisiana	320	$73.68	$56.22	2
Nebraska	269	$70.04	$55.96	3
Maine	140	$20.28	$16.16	1
District of Columbia	128	$81.13	$64.64	1
Kentucky	67	$94.67	$75.43	1

Related codes

G6015Intensity modulated treatment delivery$350.25
G6002Stereoscopic x-ray guidance for localization of target volume for the$35.24
G6001Ultrasonic guidance for placement of radiation therapy fields$174.98
G6012Radiation treatment delivery$227.55
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.