How much does Medicare pay for HCPCS Q9982?

Medicare allowed an average of $3525.03 per service and paid $2807.91 of that, the balance being the patient's coinsurance and deductible (2024 data). Providers submitted an average of $10,779, which is what they billed rather than what they received — Medicare pays its fee schedule regardless of the charge.

What is HCPCS code Q9982?

Flutemetamol f18, diagnostic, per study dose, up to 5 millicuries. It was billed 2,469 times to 2,467 Medicare beneficiaries by 46 providers in 2024.

Which specialty bills Q9982 most?

Diagnostic Radiology, with 2,270 services from 39 clinicians. Next are Radiation Oncology, Independent Diagnostic Testing Facility (IDTF), Nuclear Medicine.

HCPCS Q9982

Flutemetamol f18, diagnostic, per study dose, up to 5 millicuries

$3525.03Medicare-allowed amount per service, averaged across 2,469 services

Providers submitted

$10,779

Asking price, not received

Medicare allowed

$3525.03

The fee schedule figure

Medicare paid

$2807.91

Balance is patient coinsurance

Providers submitted an average of $10,779 for this code and Medicare allowed $3525.03 — 3.1× 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 $2807.91 (80%); the rest is the patient’s coinsurance and deductible.

Services: 2,469
Beneficiaries: 2,467
Providers billing it: 46
Total allowed: $8,703,299

What Medicare pays for HCPCS Q9982

Across 2,469 services billed by 46 providers to 2,467 beneficiaries, Medicare allowed an average of $3525.03 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 Q9982

Specialty	Services	Beneficiaries	Avg allowed	Providers
Diagnostic Radiology	2,270	2,268	$3561.64	39
Radiation Oncology	106	106	$3074.83	1
Independent Diagnostic Testing Facility (IDTF)	51	51	$3088.68	3
Nuclear Medicine	31	31	$3080.55	2
Interventional Radiology	11	11	$3584.91	1

Q9982 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	754	$3555.65	$2836.59	14
California	449	$3624.37	$2887.71	10
Arizona	444	$3685.34	$2951.90	5
Minnesota	161	$3580.98	$2853.17	2
Wisconsin	150	$3687.89	$2937.56	1
Ohio	149	$3584.91	$2856.27	1
Texas	118	$3042.33	$2423.97	2
Washington	54	$3635.11	$2896.27	1
North Carolina	48	$2755.20	$2195.20	1
Illinois	42	$2630.53	$2106.53	3
Maryland	42	$3017.36	$2404.08	3
Georgia	25	$3148.80	$2508.80	1
Colorado	19	$2778.51	$2213.77	1
Connecticut	14	$2755.20	$2195.20	1

Related codes

Q9967Low osmolar contrast material$0.13
Q9966Low osmolar contrast material$0.36
Q9965Low osmolar contrast material$1.37
Q9957Injection, perflutren lipid microspheres, per ml$41.40
Q9958High osmolar contrast material$0.08
Q9968Injection, non-radioactive, non-contrast, visualization adjunct (e.g.,$7.59
Q9956Injection, octafluoropropane microspheres, per ml$41.27
Q9969Tc-99m from non-highly enriched uranium source$14.28
Q9950Injection, sulfur hexafluoride lipid microspheres, per ml$18.49
Q9961High osmolar contrast material$0.28
Q9983Florbetaben f18$3080.60
Q9963High osmolar contrast material$0.21

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.