Medicare procedure market data by CPT code & state

Market snapshot

Nationwide CY2024

Medicare Part B FFS · CY2024 · as published by CMS

Q9968 Injection, non-radioactive, non-contrast, visualization adjunct (e.g., methylene blue, isosulfan blue), 1 mg HCPCS · Standard X-ray imaging

Classification Imaging › Standard X-ray › Contrast Agent (CMS RBCS)

First observed 2013 — start of our 12-year window; the code predates it

National scale 29,755 services ▲ 7.6% YoY · 2,297 beneficiaries (CY2024, Medicare FFS)

Medicare paid $180K · $6.05 avg / service, national

CMS descriptor · RBCS classification · Medicare Part B physician/supplier claims, 12-year window

Billing groups

Named-group FFS services

710

FFS of Medicare

49%

Services YoY

+7.6%

FFS enrollment -2.2%

Estimated all-Medicare volume FFS + estimated MA estimate

~1,589 services

710 observed fee-for-service (45%) · ~879 estimated Medicare Advantage. Scaled from the observed floor by each state’s fee-for-service share (FFS share as of 2024) — scaled estimate — assumes MA utilization mirrors FFS; not an observation. How we scale

Top states — Q9968 (CY2024)

TX 7,778 FL 4,187 UT 2,897 CA 2,334 WA 1,850

Disclosed Medicare fee-for-service services by billing state; open a bar for that state's ranked market.

Named-group submitted charges

$18K

Named-group allowed amount

$468

Named-group Medicare payments

$367

Avg charge / svc

$25

Avg allowed / svc

Avg payment / svc

Market analyticsPlatform

a taste of the twelve-year trend layer

Market position — where this market sits on volume and growth among all state markets, and its rank.
Worth a look — every state market for this search, ranked by a published score: size, growth, fragmentation, below-expected volume.
Lookalike opportunities — groups billing below what peers of the same specialty, size, and state predict, with the expected figure shown.
National benchmarks — where each group's volume sits nationally and within its specialty.
Market structure — how concentrated this market is, and who owns the volume.
Medicare-wide scaling — the payer split, and this market total scaled to all of Medicare, labeled as an estimate.

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Data year: CY2024 CY2023 CY2022 CY2021 CY2020

Physician groups ranked by Q9968 services, highest first, CY2024
#	Physician group activate to sort	City activate to sort	St activate to sort	Specialty activate to sort	Providers activate to sort	Q9968 svcs sorted descending — activate to reverse	Submitted charges activate to sort	Avg charge activate to sort	Medicare $ locked column	Share* activate to sort	Phone
1	DUKE HEALTH INTEGRATED PRACTICE INC	DURHAM	NC	PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT	3051	710	$17,750	$25	premium	74.7%	(919) 684-8111

*Share of the state's disclosed Medicare-FFS services for the primary code, counted once per clinician. "St" is the state the volume was billed from: a group appears in each state where its clinicians bill Medicare, with that state's volume and share ("City" is the group's registered location). Group figures sum clinicians affiliated with exactly one group; clinicians in several groups are listed in each group's drill-down but not volume-attributed to any single group, so shares reflect attributable volume. See Methods.

Comparing against an all-payer estimate?

These are exact counts from Medicare fee-for-service claims — roughly a third to half of most procedure markets, depending on payer mix. Modeled all-payer databases project the remainder statistically; we publish the audited floor and label it as such. Same market, different denominator. How the numbers reconcile →