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Who bills 71260?

71260 is the CPT code for: Ct scan of chest with contrast. In 2024, 20,603 providers billed 71260 1,782,658 times, with an estimated $83.6M paid by Medicare.

$166.67
2026 PFS national rate (office)
20,603
Providers billing it (2024)
1,782,658
Services billed
$83.6M
Est. Medicare paid
The fee

What does Medicare pay for 71260?

Medicare's 2026 Physician Fee Schedule national rate for 71260 is $166.67 in the office setting. National amounts before geographic adjustment — your locality's rate differs slightly.

Office (non-facility) rate$166.67
Facility rateNo separate facility rate
Fee schedule2026 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule

What Medicare actually paid per service in 2024, on average: $46.91 (observed payment across all settings and modifiers — not a fee-schedule rate).

The list

Who bills 71260 the most.

The top 5 billers nationally, ranked by 2024 Medicare service volume.

#ProviderSpecialtyLocationServicesEst. Medicare paid
1Sanjay Saini, MDDiagnostic RadiologyBoston, MA3,589$250K
2Ronald Goodwich, MDDiagnostic RadiologyFort Myers, FL2,166$190K
3Carolinas Imaging Services LLCIndependent Diagnostic Testing Facility (IDTF)Denver, NC1,671$149K
4Amol Katkar, M.D.Diagnostic RadiologyFort Worth, TX1,562$64K
5Rahul Sawlani, MDDiagnostic RadiologyMilwaukee, WI1,560$60K

20,598 more providers billed 71260 in 2024. The full ranked list — filtered to your exact territory, with phone numbers and year-over-year history — is one search in Prospect 811.

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The breakdown

Where 71260 gets billed.

Top states by volume

California144,283 services
Texas143,764 services
New York110,384 services
Florida99,435 services
Pennsylvania82,214 services
Illinois80,514 services
Massachusetts71,722 services
Minnesota64,881 services

About this code

CMS descriptionCt scan of chest with contrast
Code typeCPT (Level I HCPCS)
Providers billing it (2024)20,603
Services billed (2024)1,782,658
Avg. Medicare payment per service (2024)$46.91
Where these numbers come from. Rates are CMS's own public fee-schedule files — the Physician Fee Schedule, Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule, ASP drug pricing, DMEPOS, and the OPPS/ASC addenda — each labeled with its file year on this page; national amounts are shown before geographic adjustment. Codes with no separate rate render the fee schedule's own status in words, never a fake $0. Utilization comes from CMS's public Medicare Provider Utilization & Payment data for 2024, the most recent year released. It covers traditional Medicare fee-for-service only (no commercial insurance, no Medicare Advantage), and CMS suppresses any provider-and-code line with fewer than 11 beneficiaries before publishing, so low-volume billers don't appear at all. "Est. Medicare paid" is each billing line's average Medicare payment times its service count, summed — actual per-claim payment varies by setting and modifiers. For drug and supply codes, a "service" is a billed unit (a milligram, a milliliter, a square centimeter), not a patient visit. Code descriptions are CMS's own, from the utilization files. Prospect 811 organizes public data; it doesn't add to or alter it. Not affiliated with or endorsed by CMS. Full detail on the data page.

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