R0070 — Transportation of portable x-ray equipment and personnel to home or nursing home, per trip to facility or location, one patient seen
R0070 is a HCPCS Level II code for transportation of portable x-ray equipment and personnel to home or nursing home, per trip to facility or location, one patient seen. It belongs to the Diagnostic Radiology Services section. Whether Medicare pays it depends on the coverage rule below.
Medicare coverage: Special coverage instructions apply
There are published conditions attached to this code. Check the applicable coverage policy before billing it: the code being valid is not the same as the service being covered.
From the coverage field of the CMS Alpha-Numeric HCPCS File, release 2026Q3-Jul. This states Medicare’s position on the code, not on your particular claim.
Physician fee schedule statusC
Contractor-priced. Your MAC establishes the RVUs and the payment amount case by case, usually after reviewing documentation. There is no national amount to compute.
Global period: XXX
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Medically Unlikely Edits — units per day
The most units of R0070 Medicare will pay on one date of service. Bill more on a single line and it is denied. The limit is not the same in every setting, so the row that matters is the one matching the claim you are building.
- practitioner
- 2 units MAI 3 — Date of Service Edit: Clinical · Clinical: Data
- outpatient
- 2 units MAI 3 — Date of Service Edit: Clinical · Clinical: Data
The adjudication indicator decides whether exceeding the limit is worth appealing at all: MAI 1 is a line edit you can support with documentation, MAI 3 is a date-of-service edit that is also appealable, and MAI 2 is absolute — no documentation overrides it. CMS MUE 2026Q3.
The CMS record for R0070
- Long descriptor
- Transportation of portable x-ray equipment and personnel to home or nursing home, per trip to facility or location, one patient seen
- Short descriptor
- Transport portable x-ray
- Added
- January 1, 1982
- BETOS
- I1F
- Pricing indicator
- 13 — Physician fee schedule
The official wording. This is what the code means.
CMS's 28-character form, which is what shows up on a remittance advice.
When CMS introduced the code.
Berenson-Eggers Type of Service — CMS's own analytic grouping.
Price established by carriers — not otherwise classified, individual determination, or carrier discretion.
Codes adjacent to R0070
HCPCS has no hierarchy — related items simply sit next to each other in the numbering. If R0070 is not quite right, the correct code is very often within a few positions of it.
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- Q9993Injection, triamcinolone acetonide, preservative-free, extended-release, microsphere formulation, 1 mgterminated
- Q9994In-line cartridge containing digestive enzyme(s) for enteral feeding, eachterminated
- Q9995Injection, emicizumab-kxwh, 0.5 mgterminated
- Q9996Injection, ustekinumab-ttwe (pyzchiva), subcutaneous, 1 mg
- Q9997Injection, ustekinumab-ttwe (pyzchiva), intravenous, 1 mg
- Q9998Injection, ustekinumab-aekn (selarsdi), biosimilar, 1 mg
- Q9999Injection, ustekinumab-aauz (otulfi), biosimilar, 1 mg
- R0075Transportation of portable x-ray equipment and personnel to home or nursing home, per trip to facility or location, more than one patient seen
- R0076Transportation of portable ekg to facility or location, per patient
- S0012Butorphanol tartrate, nasal spray, 25 mg
- S0013Esketamine, nasal spray, 1 mgterminated
- S0014Tacrine hydrochloride, 10 mg
- S0017Injection, aminocaproic acid, 5 gramsterminated
- S0020Injection, bupivicaine hydrochloride, 30 mlterminated
- S0021Injection, cefoperazone sodium, 1 gram
Questions about R0070
What is HCPCS code R0070?
R0070 is a HCPCS Level II code for transportation of portable x-ray equipment and personnel to home or nursing home, per trip to facility or location, one patient seen. It sits in the Diagnostic Radiology Services section.
Does Medicare cover R0070?
The CMS HCPCS file marks R0070 as "Special coverage instructions apply". There are published conditions attached to this code. Check the applicable coverage policy before billing it: the code being valid is not the same as the service being covered.
How is R0070 paid under the physician fee schedule?
R0070 carries PFS status code C. Contractor-priced. Your MAC establishes the RVUs and the payment amount case by case, usually after reviewing documentation. There is no national amount to compute.