HCPCS code Q9967: Iodinated contrast, 300–399 mg iodine/mL2026 Medicare rate & RVUs in California

CMS doesn’t publish an office rate for Q9967 in California.

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

What Q9967 covers

Q9967 represents low-osmolar iodinated contrast material in the 300–399 mg iodine-per-milliliter range. Radiology departments, hospitals, and outpatient imaging centers use this contrast for diagnostic studies such as CT and angiographic imaging. The imaging professional selects contrast concentration and volume based on the study and the agent used.

CMS assigns this code physician fee schedule status E, meaning it is excluded from the physician fee schedule. When Medicare covers the item, payment is under another method; CMS classifies it as a Part B drug that is generally paid using the quarterly Average Sales Price drug pricing files. Special Medicare coverage instructions apply. Each unit represents 1 mL of contrast, so report the number of units corresponding to the volume represented on the claim.

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.

Where Q9967 pays more and less in California

The same RVUs, adjusted for each area’s costs. Open a locality for its calculation, history and nearby areas.

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How the Q9967 rate is calculated

Each of Q9967’s three RVUs is multiplied by a geographic index (GPCI) for the payment locality, added up, and multiplied by the conversion factor. Drag the indexes or enter a ZIP to see what moves the rate.

Payment rules and modifiers for Q9967

Q9967 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.

Q9967 compared with similar codes

How to choose

Q9966Low-osmolar contrast200-299 mg iodine/ml

Both represent low-osmolar iodinated contrast, but Q9966 applies to 200–299 mg iodine/mL; Q9967 applies to 300–399 mg iodine/mL.

Q9951Iodinated contrastLow osmolar, 400+ mg/mL

Both are low-osmolar iodinated contrast codes. Q9951 is for concentrations of 400 mg iodine/mL or greater, rather than Q9967’s 300–399 mg iodine/mL range.

Q9963Iodinated contrast350–399 mg iodine/mL

Q9963 represents high-osmolar contrast at 350–399 mg iodine/mL. Q9967 is for low-osmolar contrast in the 300–399 mg iodine/mL range.

Codes related to Q9967

Related codes aren’t interchangeable: bill the code that matches the service performed.

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.

CMS RVU26D · effective Oct 1, 2026 through the day before Jan 1, 2027

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