HCPCS code A9550: Tc-99m gluceptate, per study dose2026 Medicare rate & RVUs in Oxnard, CA

CMS doesn’t publish a rate for A9550 in Oxnard, CA.

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Medicare allowed amount for participating (non-QP) physicians, before deductible, coinsurance and claim adjustments. Not a patient’s bill or a hospital charge.

What A9550 covers

Technetium-99m sodium gluceptate is a radioactive diagnostic agent used in nuclear medicine imaging, including renal scintigraphy. Nuclear medicine departments and imaging facilities typically prepare and administer the radiopharmaceutical, generally by intravenous injection, as part of a diagnostic imaging study. A9550 identifies the tracer dose rather than the image acquisition or interpretation.

The dose is reported per study dose, up to 25 millicuries; units are not based on individual millicuries. For Medicare, the physician fee schedule status is C: CMS publishes no national physician fee schedule amount, and the Medicare Administrative Contractor sets payment for each claim. The HCPCS pricing method is payment set by statute. The HCPCS coverage code leaves coverage to the Medicare contractor's judgment.

This summary was written with AI assistance from CMS physician fee schedule data and checked against the CMS billing rules shown here. Rates on this page come directly from CMS files.

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How the A9550 rate is calculated

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Payment rules and modifiers for A9550

A9550 has no global surgery period, no multiple-procedure, bilateral or assistant-at-surgery adjustment, and no professional/technical split. What changes the payment is where the service happens: the place of service on the claim decides whether Medicare pays the office or the facility rate.

Codes related to A9550

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Where the Oxnard, CA rate applies

Oxnard, CA is a Medicare payment area, not a city. Our Census mapping connects it to 26 cities and communities in California. Some span more than one payment area; confirm with the service ZIP.

• Oxnard
• Thousand Oaks
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• Camarillo
• Casa Conejo
• Channel Islands Beach
• El Rio
• Fillmore

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Where these rates come from

FeeBase calculates base physician payments from CMS work, practice-expense and malpractice RVUs, adjusted by each locality’s geographic indexes and the conversion factor. Services without a published rate are labeled, never given a made-up amount. Amounts are Medicare allowed amounts before claim adjustments: not a patient’s bill or a commercial rate.

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