$57.08–$74.77
Use 76014 for the initial 15 minutes of staff assessment; 76015 represents each additional 15 minutes.
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CMS RVU26D · Effective 2026-10-01
76014 MRI safety assessment Medicare reimbursement rates in California
Reports the initial 15 minutes of qualified staff assessment to identify an implant or foreign body and evaluate MRI safety before scanning. Compare 76014 office and facility rates across CMS payment localities in California.
Amounts below use the non-QP conversion factor for participating physicians. These are base physician payments before claim-level adjustments, not patient costs or total hospital charges.
What does Medicare pay for 76014 in California?
California has 29 payment localities in this comparison. Use the service location to choose the applicable amount. These are the supported base rates for the 29 payment areas shown below, using the same CMS release.
Office / nonfacility
$11.89–$15.59
29 of 29 localities have a supported rate.
Lowest: Chico
Highest: San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara (San Benito Cnty)
A spread of $3.70 per service.
Facility setting
No supported rate
These are locality ranges, not averages or address-specific quotes. A facility-setting amount covers the physician service; it does not include a hospital’s separate bill. Choose a locality below to inspect its calculation, compare other payment areas, or price a percentage of Medicare.
Where 76014 pays more and less in California
29 payment localities
$11.89 to $15.59
MRI safety
About 76014: MRI implant or foreign-body safety assessment
Reports the initial 15 minutes of qualified staff assessment to identify an implant or foreign body and evaluate MRI safety before scanning.
Qualified personnel, commonly MRI technologists, perform this technical assessment when a patient has an implant, device, or possible retained metal that needs review before an MRI. The work may include identifying a device from an implant card or medical record, gathering relevant implant information, and assessing whether the implant or foreign body can be scanned safely. Examples include implanted orthopedic hardware, an implanted stimulator, or a possible retained metallic fragment.
Report this code for the initial 15 minutes of the staff assessment; use 76015 for each additional 15 minutes when the assessment continues. Documentation should identify the implant or suspected foreign body, describe the records or other information reviewed, support the safety assessment, and record the time spent. This is a technical-component-only service: a separate code covers interpretation, which is not included in this service.
CMS billing rules for 76014
- Professional and technical components
- Technical-component-only code: a separate code covers interpretation.
Where the value comes from
- Work RVU0.00 · 0%
- Practice expense (office) RVU0.32 · 97%
- Malpractice RVU0.01 · 3%
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.
76014 compared with similar codes
Office rates for California, from the same CMS release.
$76.21–$95.50
76014 captures staff assessment of an implant or foreign body. 76016 describes a physician or other qualified health care professional's MR safety determination.
$239.06–$308.27
76017 is for a medical physics examination that includes customized scanning-protocol development, rather than the staff assessment reported with 76014.
Compare 76014 by payment locality
Find the payment area for your service address, then open its rate page for calculation inputs, release history and the percentage-of-Medicare tool. A city may cross payment-area boundaries; the ZIP lookup above helps resolve the location.
29 of 29 payment localities
| Payment locality | Office | Facility |
|---|---|---|
| Bakersfield | Office $11.92 | Facility Unavailable |
| Chico | Office $11.89 | Facility Unavailable |
| El Centro | Office $11.90 | Facility Unavailable |
| Fresno | Office $11.89 | Facility Unavailable |
| Hanford-Corcoran | Office $11.89 | Facility Unavailable |
| Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim (Los Angeles/Orange Cnty) | Office $12.87 | Facility Unavailable |
| Madera | Office $11.89 | Facility Unavailable |
| Merced | Office $11.89 | Facility Unavailable |
| Modesto | Office $11.89 | Facility Unavailable |
| Napa | Office $14.26 | Facility Unavailable |
| Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura | Office $12.84 | Facility Unavailable |
| Redding | Office $11.89 | Facility Unavailable |
| Rest Of California | Office $11.89 | Facility Unavailable |
| Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario | Office $12.00 | Facility Unavailable |
| Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom | Office $12.61 | Facility Unavailable |
| Salinas | Office $12.57 | Facility Unavailable |
| San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad | Office $12.96 | Facility Unavailable |
| San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley (Marin Cnty) | Office $15.22 | Facility Unavailable |
| San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley (San Francisco/San Mateo/Alameda/Contra Costa Cnty) | Office $15.21 | Facility Unavailable |
| San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara (San Benito Cnty) | Office $15.59 | Facility Unavailable |
| San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara (Santa Clara Cnty) | Office $15.55 | Facility Unavailable |
| San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles | Office $12.35 | Facility Unavailable |
| Santa Cruz-Watsonville | Office $13.17 | Facility Unavailable |
| Santa Maria-Santa Barbara | Office $12.64 | Facility Unavailable |
| Santa Rosa-Petaluma | Office $13.30 | Facility Unavailable |
| Stockton | Office $11.89 | Facility Unavailable |
| Vallejo | Office $14.24 | Facility Unavailable |
| Visalia | Office $11.89 | Facility Unavailable |
| Yuba City | Office $11.89 | Facility Unavailable |
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76014 billing questions
How does 76014 differ from 76015?
76014 represents the initial 15 minutes of staff assessment. Report 76015 for each additional 15 minutes when the assessment takes longer.
Is interpretation included in 76014?
No. This is a technical-component-only code, and a separate code covers interpretation.
What documentation supports reporting 76014?
Record the implant or suspected foreign body, the information reviewed to identify it, the safety assessment performed, and the time spent.
When might 76016 be more appropriate?
76016 describes an MR safety determination by a physician or other qualified health care professional. Use it when that professional-level determination is the service performed rather than the staff assessment represented by 76014.
Where these rates come from
FeeBase calculates base physician payments from CMS work, practice-expense, and malpractice RVUs, adjusted by each locality’s geographic indices and the applicable conversion factor. Unavailable or separately priced services are labeled rather than assigned a made-up amount.
Source: RVU26D. Effective 2026-10-01 through the day before 2027-01-01.
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