42 CFR § 419.71 - Payment reduction for certain X-ray imaging services.

---
identifier: "/us/cfr/t42/s419.71"
source: "ecfr"
legal_status: "authoritative_unofficial"
title: "42 CFR § 419.71 - Payment reduction for certain X-ray imaging services."
title_number: 42
title_name: "Public Health"
section_number: "419.71"
section_name: "Payment reduction for certain X-ray imaging services."
chapter_name: "CENTERS FOR MEDICARE & MEDICAID SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES"
subchapter_number: "B"
subchapter_name: "MEDICARE PROGRAM"
part_number: "419"
part_name: "PROSPECTIVE PAYMENT SYSTEMS FOR HOSPITAL OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT SERVICES"
positive_law: false
currency: "2026-04-05"
last_updated: "2026-04-05"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
authority: "42 U.S.C. 1302, 1395l(t), and 1395hh."
regulatory_source: "65 FR 18542, Apr. 7, 2000, unless otherwise noted."
cfr_part: "419"
---


# 419.71 Payment reduction for certain X-ray imaging services.

(a) *Definition.* For purposes of this section, the term “computed radiography technology” means cassette-based imaging which utilizes an imaging plate to create the image involved.

(b) *Payment reduction for film X-ray imaging services.* For an imaging service that is an X-ray taken using film and that is furnished during 2017 or a subsequent year, the payment amount for such service (including the X-ray component of a packaged service) is reduced by 20 percent.

(c) *Payment reduction for computed radiography imaging services.* The payment amount for an imaging service that is an X-ray taken using computed radiography technology (including the X-ray component of a packaged service) is reduced by—

(1) 7 percent, for such services furnished in CY 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, or 2022.

(2) 10 percent, for such services furnished in CY 2023 or a subsequent calendar year.

(d) *Application without regard to budget neutrality.* The reductions taken under this section are not considered adjustments under section 1833(t)(2)(E) of the Act and are not implemented in a budget neutral manner.

[82 FR 52637, Nov. 13, 2017; 82 FR 59497, Dec. 14, 2017]