CT Abdomen & Pelvis Without Contrast Cost in South Carolina
Ct abd & pelvis w/o contrast
$427Hospital 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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South Carolina Medicare physician rate (2026)
-5.4% vs nationalSingle statewide locality.
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 $141 on the Medicare allowed amount for ct abdomen & pelvis without 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 South Carolina
Check your ZIP code for your region of South Carolina, whether Charleston and the Lowcountry, Columbia and the Midlands, Greenville-Spartanburg in the Upstate, or Myrtle Beach and the Grand Strand.
What ct abdomen & pelvis without contrast costs at hospitals near you
Everything above is a national average. The hospital you pick in South Carolina 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 South Carolina
Where South Carolina ranks for this CPT
CT Abdomen & Pelvis Without Contrast and how South Carolina is priced
South Carolina prices through one statewide locality with indices a bit below the national average, so Charleston, Columbia, Greenville, and the rural Pee Dee share the same Medicare-approved amounts. Rapid coastal growth has not led CMS to break out a separate locality, keeping the fee schedule uniform from the mountains to the sea islands. The single set of adjustments makes the statewide figures here directly usable anywhere in the state. Facility fees at hospital-owned locations remain the largest source of price variation for patients.
The state's medical firepower splits three ways: an academic medical center and strong hospital market in Charleston, the capital-region systems in Columbia, and a large Upstate network centered on Greenville. Retiree-heavy coastal areas like Hilton Head and Myrtle Beach have booming demand for Medicare-age care, while the rural I-95 corridor faces some of the state's worst access gaps. Some border residents use Charlotte or Augusta providers.
This procedure: A CT of the abdomen and pelvis without contrast scans everything from the diaphragm to the hips in one pass lasting seconds on the table. The non-contrast version is the standard test for suspected kidney stones, where dye is unnecessary because stones show up brightly on their own. You lie on the scanner table, hold your breath briefly, and the entire appointment takes about 15 minutes with no IV and no preparation.
What Is CT Abdomen & Pelvis Without Contrast?
A CT of the abdomen and pelvis without contrast scans everything from the diaphragm to the hips in one pass lasting seconds on the table. The non-contrast version is the standard test for suspected kidney stones, where dye is unnecessary because stones show up brightly on their own. You lie on the scanner table, hold your breath briefly, and the entire appointment takes about 15 minutes with no IV and no preparation.
What Affects the Cost
- –Emergency department pricing for this scan, where it is often ordered for belly pain, towers over scheduled outpatient rates.
- –Freestanding imaging centers offer the same combined study at a fraction of hospital charges.
- –If the clinical question needs contrast, the study becomes 74177 with dye and administration charges added.
- –Kidney stone patients often get repeat scans across episodes, and the costs accumulate with each recurrence.
- –The radiologist fee for reading two body regions is billed separately at many facilities.
Questions to Ask Before Booking
- 1.Is my situation urgent enough for the ER, or can this be scheduled outpatient at a much lower price?
- 2.Has prior authorization been obtained if this is scheduled?
- 3.Am I being billed the combined abdomen-pelvis code rather than two separate scans?
- 4.For recurring stones, could ultrasound or a low-dose protocol work for follow-ups?
- 5.What is the total including the radiologist reading at your facility versus an imaging center?
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CT Abdomen & Pelvis Without Contrast in South Carolina: questions
South Carolina is a single Medicare locality for this fee schedule. The 2026 physician rate for CPT 74176 is $173.17 in an office and $173.17 in a hospital, statewide. A ZIP lookup still confirms the locality mapping.
Not on the physician fee schedule. South Carolina uses one locality, so the Medicare physician rate is the same from one end of the state to the other. What still changes is site of service (office vs hospital) and any facility fee the hospital bills on its own claim.
After the Part B deductible, coinsurance is usually 20% of the allowed amount: about $35 for the office physician line or $35 for the hospital physician line in South Carolina. Medigap may cover that 20%. This is not the hospital facility fee.
No. $173.17 is only the physician's share. Adding Medicare's facility payment brings the total to about $427 in a hospital outpatient department, or about $286 at an ambulatory surgery centre. Anesthesia, pathology and other codes billed the same day are extra. South Carolina ranks #16 of 51 states on the physician line (5% below the national office rate of $183.04).