CT Abdomen & Pelvis With Contrast Cost in Illinois
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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Illinois Medicare physician rate (2026)
-1.3% vs nationalAverage of 4 localities. Office range $282.12–$310.43.
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 Illinois
Enter a ZIP code to see which Illinois locality applies to you, whether Chicago proper, the suburban collar counties, the Metro East near St. Louis, or downstate cities like Springfield, Peoria, and Champaign.
What ct abdomen & pelvis with contrast costs at hospitals near you
Everything above is a national average. The hospital you pick in Illinois 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 Illinois
Where Illinois ranks for this CPT
CPT 74177 by Illinois locality
| Locality | Office |
|---|---|
| suburban chicago | $310.43 |
| chicago | $307.50 |
| east st. louis | $285.73 |
| rest of illinois | $282.12 |
PE GPCI ranges from 0.913 to 1.027 in Illinois. That index is why the same CPT is not one price statewide.
CT Abdomen & Pelvis With Contrast and how Illinois is priced
Illinois uses one of the more detailed locality maps in the Midwest: Chicago has its own locality, the suburban collar counties are priced separately, the East St. Louis area carries its own locality tied to the St. Louis market, and the rest of the state shares a fourth. Approved amounts step down noticeably from the city and suburbs to downstate, so the same procedure prices differently in Chicago, Naperville, Belleville, and Springfield. This four-way split makes Illinois one of the states where a ZIP-level check genuinely changes the answer. Downstate rates align more closely with neighboring rural states than with Chicagoland.
Chicago is one of the country's great medical hubs, with multiple academic medical centers and deep specialist supply, and its suburbs support large competing systems of their own. Downstate Illinois is a different market: smaller cities like Peoria, Springfield, and Champaign serve wide rural areas, and the Metro East suburbs orient toward St. Louis providers. Where you sit on that map shapes both price and choice.
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 Illinois: questions
The 2026 Medicare physician office rate for CPT 74177 averages $296.45 across 4 Illinois localities, from $282.12 in REST OF ILLINOIS to $310.43 in SUBURBAN CHICAGO. The hospital physician rate averages $296.45. Enter a ZIP for the exact locality.
Yes. CMS splits Illinois into 4 payment localities. For this CPT the office physician fee spans $28.31 from the lowest to highest locality. Enter a ZIP code to see which Illinois locality applies to you, whether Chicago proper, the suburban collar counties, the Metro East near St. Louis, or downstate cities like Springfield, Peoria, and Champaign.
After the Part B deductible, coinsurance is usually 20% of the allowed amount: about $59 for the office physician line or $59 for the hospital physician line in Illinois. Medigap may cover that 20%. This is not the hospital facility fee.
No. $296.45 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. Illinois ranks #28 of 51 states on the physician line (within 2% of the national office rate of $300.27).