How much does Medicare pay for HCPCS R0070?

Medicare allowed an average of $227.43 per service and paid $176.71 of that, the balance being the patient's coinsurance and deductible (2024 data). Providers submitted an average of $381.17, which is what they billed rather than what they received — Medicare pays its fee schedule regardless of the charge.

What is HCPCS code R0070?

Transportation of portable x-ray equipment and personnel to home or nursing home, per trip to facility or location, one patient seen. It was billed 723,699 times to 499,940 Medicare beneficiaries by 286 providers in 2024.

Does R0070 pay differently in an office than a hospital?

Yes. The allowed amount averaged $227.04 in an office setting and $243.63 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 R0070 most?

Portable X-Ray Supplier, with 723,488 services from 283 clinicians. Next are Independent Diagnostic Testing Facility (IDTF).

HCPCS R0070

Transportation of portable x-ray equipment and personnel to home or nursing home, per trip to facility or location, one patient seen

$227.43Medicare-allowed amount per service, averaged across 723,699 services

Providers submitted

$381.17

Asking price, not received

Medicare allowed

$227.43

The fee schedule figure

Medicare paid

$176.71

Balance is patient coinsurance

Providers submitted an average of $381.17 for this code and Medicare allowed $227.43 — 1.7× 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 $176.71 (78%); the rest is the patient’s coinsurance and deductible.

Office pays differently to hospital

Office / non-facility: $227.04
Hospital / facility: $243.63

The facility rate is higher for this code, which is unusual and generally means the service depends on equipment or staffing a hospital carries. 706,875 services were billed in an office setting and 16,824 in a facility.

Services: 723,699
Beneficiaries: 499,940
Providers billing it: 286
Total allowed: $164,590,864

What Medicare pays for HCPCS R0070

Across 723,699 services billed by 286 providers to 499,940 beneficiaries, Medicare allowed an average of $227.43 per service. That is 1.4 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 R0070

Specialty	Services	Beneficiaries	Avg allowed	Providers
Portable X-Ray Supplier	723,488	499,775	$227.42	283
Independent Diagnostic Testing Facility (IDTF)	211	165	$261.18	3

R0070 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
Maryland	161,990	$211.88	$163.79	10
Texas	71,048	$319.35	$248.21	38
California	66,079	$259.04	$200.99	44
Florida	62,645	$145.61	$114.94	17
New York	51,147	$258.05	$204.05	19
Ohio	36,211	$204.94	$159.88	9
Pennsylvania	25,256	$185.47	$144.49	8
Tennessee	25,121	$195.08	$153.45	5
Illinois	23,803	$218.42	$172.99	16
Missouri	19,607	$270.22	$206.08	4
Oklahoma	18,650	$289.37	$224.08	6
Louisiana	15,434	$205.86	$157.20	13
North Carolina	14,508	$200.91	$153.73	2
New Jersey	14,412	$215.30	$170.59	7
Arkansas	13,650	$227.28	$173.77	3
Arizona	12,454	$216.67	$168.46	10
Michigan	10,726	$222.26	$173.55	5
Nevada	8,670	$201.45	$154.55	7
Kansas	8,095	$275.35	$212.10	2
Alabama	7,742	$193.14	$144.68	3
Colorado	6,752	$295.21	$229.93	5
Mississippi	6,298	$175.16	$133.92	4
Washington	6,202	$205.07	$156.73	5
Massachusetts	5,614	$226.53	$175.76	2
Minnesota	4,916	$205.21	$159.84	2
Iowa	4,664	$234.85	$177.07	3
Utah	3,103	$212.33	$161.46	3
Wisconsin	2,936	$214.86	$163.43	3
Georgia	2,808	$206.99	$163.87	4
Virginia	2,152	$209.79	$161.98	2
Rhode Island	2,010	$249.06	$196.34	2
Idaho	1,736	$156.75	$120.71	4
Indiana	1,508	$224.06	$176.68	4
Connecticut	1,302	$275.46	$219.44	2
Oregon	1,198	$194.90	$152.86	2
Montana	1,020	$163.23	$121.58	2
Hawaii	664	$211.61	$164.96	1
New Mexico	394	$295.04	$218.75	2
North Dakota	353	$177.71	$139.11	1
West Virginia	306	$176.96	$137.29	2
South Dakota	249	$178.03	$137.29	1
Kentucky	237	$131.77	$96.47	1
Maine	29	$179.88	$129.79	1

Related codes

R0075Transportation of portable x-ray equipment and personnel to home or nu$88.05

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.