CT Abdomen & Pelvis With Contrast Cost in Georgia
Ct abd & pelvis w/contrast
$657Hospital outpatient total2026 Medicare, physician + facility- ✓Your ZIP's wage-adjusted hospital and surgery centre rates
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- ✓The add-on codes that typically land on the bill
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Georgia Medicare physician rate (2026)
-3.3% vs nationalAverage of 2 localities. Office range $275.53–$305.11.
What the whole procedure costs
The rate above is the physician’s fee on its own. The facility bills separately, and for most procedures the facility is the larger half of the bill. These are 2026 national Medicare amounts.
Choosing a surgery centre over a hospital saves about $164 on the Medicare allowed amount for ct abdomen & pelvis with contrast. Ask whether your procedure can be done at an ambulatory surgery centre.
Medicare may pay the facility separately for this code or package it into another service on the same day, so treat the facility share as an upper bound. Medicare allowed amounts are not what an uninsured patient is charged, and not a quote. Private plans typically allow more.
Your ZIP in Georgia
Look up your ZIP to see whether Atlanta-area or rest-of-state pricing applies, from the metro counties to Savannah, Augusta, Columbus, Macon, and rural south Georgia.
What ct abdomen & pelvis with contrast costs at hospitals near you
Everything above is a national average. The hospital you pick in Georgia moves the bill more than anything else you control.
Rates for your ZIP, 5 named hospitals with CMS ratings, the add-on codes, and the scheduler script.
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What these numbers are
Every figure on this page is a 2026 Medicare allowed amount: the physician line comes from the Physician Fee Schedule adjusted by geographic practice-cost indices, and the facility totals come from the CMS hospital outpatient (OPPS) and ambulatory surgery centre rates. None of them is a hospital chargemaster price, your insurer's contracted rate, or a quote. Anesthesia, pathology, imaging reads and follow-up care are billed under their own codes when they apply, and an inpatient stay is paid a different way again.
National vs Georgia
Where Georgia ranks for this CPT
CPT 74177 by Georgia locality
| Locality | Office |
|---|---|
| atlanta | $305.11 |
| rest of georgia | $275.53 |
PE GPCI ranges from 0.892 to 1.016 in Georgia. That index is why the same CPT is not one price statewide.
CT Abdomen & Pelvis With Contrast and how Georgia is priced
Georgia divides into an Atlanta metro locality and a rest-of-state locality, so the fee schedule itself recognizes the cost gap between the capital region and the rest of the state. Atlanta's higher wages and rents translate into higher Medicare-approved amounts inside its locality, while Savannah, Augusta, Columbus, Macon, and rural Georgia share the lower rest-of-state pricing. The split is one of the cleaner examples of a two-tier state in the fee schedule. Patients near the locality boundary can see different approved amounts a short drive apart.
Metro Atlanta concentrates the state's academic medicine and most of its subspecialists, drawing referrals from across the Southeast. Outside the metro, south Georgia has seen repeated rural hospital closures, leaving longer trips for even routine procedures in some counties. Augusta and Savannah serve as important secondary hubs, and border residents sometimes cross into Chattanooga, Tallahassee, or Jacksonville for care.
This procedure: This CT scans the abdomen and pelvis with IV iodine contrast, the workhorse test for unexplained abdominal pain, suspected appendicitis or diverticulitis, infections, and cancer staging. The dye highlights organs, bowel, and blood vessels that blend together without it. An IV is placed, the dye produces a brief hot flush, and scanning takes seconds; plan on 30 to 45 minutes total, sometimes longer if oral contrast drink is required beforehand.
What Is CT Abdomen & Pelvis With Contrast?
This CT scans the abdomen and pelvis with IV iodine contrast, the workhorse test for unexplained abdominal pain, suspected appendicitis or diverticulitis, infections, and cancer staging. The dye highlights organs, bowel, and blood vessels that blend together without it. An IV is placed, the dye produces a brief hot flush, and scanning takes seconds; plan on 30 to 45 minutes total, sometimes longer if oral contrast drink is required beforehand.
What Affects the Cost
- –IV contrast adds a supply charge, and facilities that also use oral contrast add preparation time though the drink itself is inexpensive.
- –A kidney function lab test may be required before dye in at-risk patients.
- –This is a staple ER scan, and emergency facility pricing multiplies the cost relative to a scheduled study.
- –Cancer staging and surveillance mean repeated scans on a schedule, so per-scan price differences compound over the years.
- –The professional reading fee covering two body regions bills separately at hospitals.
Questions to Ask Before Booking
- 1.Does my authorization specify the with-contrast combined abdomen-pelvis study?
- 2.Will I need oral contrast too, and does it add time or charges?
- 3.Do I need kidney function labs first, and who bills those?
- 4.If this is part of ongoing cancer surveillance, what does each scan cost at my current facility versus an independent center?
- 5.Is the radiologist fee inside or outside the quoted price?
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CT Abdomen & Pelvis With Contrast in Georgia: questions
The 2026 Medicare physician office rate for CPT 74177 averages $290.32 across 2 Georgia localities, from $275.53 in REST OF GEORGIA to $305.11 in ATLANTA. The hospital physician rate averages $290.32. Enter a ZIP for the exact locality.
Yes. CMS splits Georgia into 2 payment localities. For this CPT the office physician fee spans $29.58 from the lowest to highest locality. Look up your ZIP to see whether Atlanta-area or rest-of-state pricing applies, from the metro counties to Savannah, Augusta, Columbus, Macon, and rural south Georgia.
After the Part B deductible, coinsurance is usually 20% of the allowed amount: about $58 for the office physician line or $58 for the hospital physician line in Georgia. Medigap may cover that 20%. This is not the hospital facility fee.
No. $290.32 is only the physician's share. Adding Medicare's facility payment brings the total to about $657 in a hospital outpatient department, or about $493 at an ambulatory surgery centre. Anesthesia, pathology and other codes billed the same day are extra. Georgia ranks #23 of 51 states on the physician line (3% below the national office rate of $300.27).