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Who bills 72148?

72148 is the CPT code for: Mri scan of lower spinal canal without contrast. In 2024, 14,898 providers billed 72148 1,379,161 times, with an estimated $121.9M paid by Medicare.

$191.72
2026 PFS national rate (office)
14,898
Providers billing it (2024)
1,379,161
Services billed
$121.9M
Est. Medicare paid
The fee

What does Medicare pay for 72148?

Medicare's 2026 Physician Fee Schedule national rate for 72148 is $191.72 in the office setting. National amounts before geographic adjustment — your locality's rate differs slightly.

Office (non-facility) rate$191.72
Facility rateNo separate facility rate
Fee schedule2026 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule

What Medicare actually paid per service in 2024, on average: $88.39 (observed payment across all settings and modifiers — not a fee-schedule rate).

The list

Who bills 72148 the most.

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

#ProviderSpecialtyLocationServicesEst. Medicare paid
1Jason Sinner, M.D.Diagnostic RadiologyBurbank, CA4,632$488K
2Betsy Holland, M.D.Diagnostic RadiologyGreenbrae, CA2,201$175K
3Mark Armstrong, MDDiagnostic RadiologyHudson, OH2,179$166K
4John Melnick, M.D.Diagnostic RadiologyNew York, NY2,145$235K
5Barry Sadegi, M.D.Diagnostic RadiologyScottsdale, AZ2,096$187K

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The breakdown

Where 72148 gets billed.

Top states by volume

California142,508 services
Florida111,198 services
Texas99,754 services
New York90,212 services
Illinois55,325 services
Ohio47,524 services
Pennsylvania47,296 services
North Carolina46,380 services

About this code

CMS descriptionMri scan of lower spinal canal without contrast
Code typeCPT (Level I HCPCS)
Providers billing it (2024)14,898
Services billed (2024)1,379,161
Avg. Medicare payment per service (2024)$88.39
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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