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CMS RVU26D · Effective 2026-10-01

76000 Fluoroscopy Medicare reimbursement rates in Oklahoma

Reports physician or qualified health care professional fluoroscopy lasting less than one hour when live x-ray imaging is performed and interpreted. Compare 76000 office and facility rates across CMS payment localities in Oklahoma.

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 76000 in Oklahoma?

Oklahoma has 1 payment locality in this comparison. Use the service location to choose the applicable amount. These are the supported base rates for the payment area shown below, using the same CMS release.

Office / nonfacility

$40.29

1 of 1 localities have a supported rate.

Payment area: Oklahoma

One mapped payment locality.

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.

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Radiology

About 76000: Physician fluoroscopy under one hour

Reports physician or qualified health care professional fluoroscopy lasting less than one hour when live x-ray imaging is performed and interpreted.

Code 76000 describes physician- or qualified health care professional-supervised fluoroscopy lasting less than one hour. Fluoroscopy uses continuous or intermittent x-ray imaging to show motion, contrast flow, or the position of devices in real time. It may be performed in an operating room, procedure suite, or office when the clinician needs live imaging during a service. The clinician’s report should identify the reason for imaging, the fluoroscopic findings, and the interpretation.

Choose this code based on the fluoroscopic service performed and its duration, not simply because an x-ray unit was present. When imaging is guidance for a specific procedure, compare the service with codes that describe that particular guidance before reporting 76000 separately. CMS recognizes professional and technical components: modifier 26 reports the interpretation, modifier TC reports the equipment and staff, and billing without either modifier represents the global service. Documentation should support the component billed and the physician or qualified health care professional’s fluoroscopy time.

CMS billing rules for 76000

Professional and technical components
Diagnostic test with a professional component (modifier 26, interpretation) and a technical component (modifier TC, equipment and staff); billing without a modifier is the global service.

Where the value comes from

  • Work RVU0.30 · 23%
  • Practice expense (office) RVU0.98 · 74%
  • Malpractice RVU0.04 · 3%

120.6K

Medicare services in 2024 · #512 by national volume

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.

76000 compared with similar codes

Office rates for Oklahoma, from the same CMS release.

77002

Fluoroscopy guidance

Needle placement

$110.01

76000 describes a general fluoroscopic service; 77002 identifies fluoroscopy used for needle placement guidance.

77003

Fluoroscopic guidance

Spinal or paraspinal injection

$95.27

Use 77003 when fluoroscopy guides a spinal injection. Code 76000 is not the procedure-specific spinal injection guidance code.

76010

Foreign body X-ray

Nose to rectum

$26.22

76010 describes an x-ray survey from the nose through the rectum, such as in a foreign-body evaluation; 76000 is live fluoroscopic imaging.

Compare 76000 by payment locality

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1 of 1 payment localities

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How this local rate is calculated

Each RVU component is multiplied by its own geographic practice cost index (GPCI). The three adjusted components are added, then multiplied by the conversion factor. These are the inputs used for 76000 in Oklahoma.

PPRRVU2026_Oct_nonQPP.csv

8,639

Code
76000
Physician work
0.30
Practice expense
0.98
Malpractice
0.04

GPCI2026.csv

86

Locality
Oklahoma
Physician work
1.000
Practice expense
0.893
Malpractice
0.777
Office / nonfacility calculation for 76000 in Oklahoma
ComponentRVULocality factorAdjusted
Physician work0.30× 1.0000.3000
Practice expense0.98× 0.8930.8751
Malpractice0.04× 0.7770.0311
Total RVUs1.2062
Conversion factor× 33.4009

Office / nonfacility rate, Oklahoma$40.29

Explore RVUs, geographic factors and the full formula

Office / nonfacility

Office / nonfacility calculation inputs
ComponentRVULocal GPCI
Work0.31
Practice expense0.980.893
Malpractice0.040.777

(0.3 × 1 + 0.98 × 0.893 + 0.04 × 0.777) × $33.4009 = $40.29

The office and facility calculations use their respective practice-expense RVUs. The facility amount here is the physician fee, not a separate hospital or facility bill.

76000 billing questions

When should 76000 be used instead of a procedure-specific fluoroscopy guidance code?

Use 76000 for the general fluoroscopic service when it is separately reportable. If the imaging is guidance for a specific service, compare it with the code for that guidance, such as needle placement or spinal injection guidance.

What do modifiers 26 and TC represent for 76000?

Modifier 26 reports the professional interpretation, while modifier TC reports the technical service, including equipment and staff. Reporting without either modifier represents the global service.

What documentation supports reporting 76000?

Document the clinical reason for fluoroscopy, the physician or qualified health care professional’s findings and interpretation, and the time supporting the under-one-hour service.

Can 76000 be reported when fluoroscopy is used during another procedure?

The presence of fluoroscopy during another procedure alone does not establish a separate reportable service. Determine whether the imaging is integral to that procedure or is separately reportable under the applicable coding rules.

Does 76000 include both the interpretation and the equipment service?

Without a component modifier, the claim represents the global service. Modifier 26 identifies the professional component, and modifier TC identifies the technical component.

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.

RVUs for 76000PPRRVU2026_Oct_nonQPP.csv, line 8,639 (RVU26D)
Geographic factors for OklahomaGPCI2026.csv, line 86 (RVU26D)