72148 — MRI lumbar spine without contrast

Medicare payment

$191.72

2026 Physician Fee Schedule · non-facility

Source: CMS Physician Fee Schedule (PPRRVU 2026). CMS fee schedules ↗ · PFS status indicator A

National amount before geographic adjustment. Your MAC's locality rate will differ.

Code definition

Short description sourced from CMS publicly available fee schedule data. Full CPT descriptions are copyright AMA. Not a substitute for the official CPT codebook.

Policy activity for CPT 72148

CLV Intelligence is tracking 2 policy changes that cite CPT 72148 most recently on 2026-06-05, drawn from 2 LCD/NCD coverage updates. The changes span Radiology. 2 are flagged critical or high priority.

LCD/NCD coverage updates

2

Counts reflect the source documents CLV has matched to CPT 72148 to date; each links to the government publication that is authoritative. Monitored daily from CMS, the Federal Register, and Medicare Administrative Contractor publications.

Policy changes matched to 72148

Matched to this code by CLV analysis of each policy. The linked source document is authoritative.

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