How much does Medicare pay for CPT 11308?

Medicare allowed an average of $117.09 per service and paid $88.61 of that, the balance being the patient's coinsurance and deductible (2024 data). Providers submitted an average of $237.31, which is what they billed rather than what they received — Medicare pays its fee schedule regardless of the charge.

What is CPT code 11308?

Shaving of skin growth of scalp, neck, hands, feet, or genitals, more than 2.0 cm. It was billed 12,473 times to 5,098 Medicare beneficiaries by 113 providers in 2024.

Which specialty bills 11308 most?

Podiatry, with 9,525 services from 65 clinicians. Next are Dermatology, Micrographic Dermatologic Surgery, Physician Assistant.

CPT 11308

Shaving of skin growth of scalp, neck, hands, feet, or genitals, more than 2.0 cm

$117.09Medicare-allowed amount per service, averaged across 12,473 services

Providers submitted

$237.31

Asking price, not received

Medicare allowed

$117.09

The fee schedule figure

Medicare paid

$88.61

Balance is patient coinsurance

Providers submitted an average of $237.31 for this code and Medicare allowed $117.09 — 2.0× less. That gap is normal and means nothing on its own: Medicare pays its fee schedule regardless of what is billed, so the submitted figure describes a hospital chargemaster, not a price anyone paid. Of the allowed amount Medicare paid $88.61 (76%); the rest is the patient’s coinsurance and deductible.

Services: 12,473
Beneficiaries: 5,098
Providers billing it: 113
Total allowed: $1,460,464

What Medicare pays for CPT 11308

Across 12,473 services billed by 113 providers to 5,098 beneficiaries, Medicare allowed an average of $117.09 per service. That is 2.4 services per beneficiary, so this is a code patients typically receive more than once. The allowed amount is the figure that matters: it is what Medicare and the patient together owe, set by the fee schedule and adjusted for local practice costs. What a provider chose to submit has no bearing on it.

Who bills 11308

Specialty	Services	Beneficiaries	Avg allowed	Providers
Podiatry	9,525	2,921	$123.71	65
Dermatology	2,548	1,852	$93.87	37
Micrographic Dermatologic Surgery	145	123	$121.99	1
Physician Assistant	100	79	$108.58	5
Nurse Practitioner	89	72	$88.59	2
Orthopedic Surgery	28	18	$135.42	1
Family Practice	23	22	$69.26	1
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery	15	11	$69.84	1

11308 reimbursement by state

Two different numbers. Allowed is what Medicare actually allowed in that state, which includes the local practice-cost adjustment. Standardized strips that geographic adjustment out of the payment, so it is the column to use when comparing states — a difference there reflects how the code was billed, not what it costs to run a practice locally.

State	Services	Allowed	Standardized pmt	Providers
California	4,951	$121.81	$85.79	25
South Carolina	1,948	$110.00	$71.91	12
Kentucky	1,260	$72.38	$60.10	1
Illinois	1,025	$131.22	$91.13	12
Florida	608	$139.82	$102.62	11
New York	602	$129.77	$84.93	9
Arizona	337	$114.36	$83.92	3
Washington	259	$146.49	$104.12	1
Pennsylvania	258	$128.99	$87.47	4
Georgia	222	$106.38	$75.59	7
New Jersey	214	$120.64	$86.32	6
Oregon	146	$151.19	$96.18	1
Mississippi	107	$95.49	$81.97	1
Ohio	99	$125.12	$104.44	2
North Carolina	96	$125.41	$95.27	3
Nevada	93	$122.23	$92.87	3
Texas	92	$111.21	$89.49	3
Virginia	78	$105.70	$93.82	4
Alabama	23	$69.26	$59.55	1
Arkansas	18	$107.02	$83.26	1
Colorado	13	$138.89	$97.18	1
Maryland	12	$152.65	$114.15	1
Indiana	12	$111.70	$95.18	1

Related codes

11301Shaving of skin growth of body$93.24
11306Shaving of skin growth of scalp$96.85
11302Shaving of skin growth of body$109.25
11300Shaving of skin growth of body$65.68
11311Shaving of skin growth of face$109.39
11305Shaving of skin growth of scalp$83.95
11307Shaving of skin growth of scalp$109.50
11310Shaving of skin growth of face$87.93
11312Shaving of skin growth of face$129.94
11303Shaving of skin growth of body$124.56
11313Shaving of skin growth of face$169.53

Billing this code is not the same as earning it

An allowed amount is revenue to a practice, not income to a clinician. It funds staff, premises, equipment and supplies before anyone is paid. What clinicians actually earn is published separately by the Department of Labor, and what industry pays them is published separately again by CMS — this site carries both.

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Where this comes from. CMS Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, by Provider and Service, 2024. It covers fee-for-service Original Medicare Part B only — not Medicare Advantage, not Medicaid, and not commercial insurance, which typically pays more for the same code.

How it is averaged. CMS publishes one average per provider per code. Every figure here is re-weighted by the number of services, so a clinician who billed the code 4,000 times counts 4,000 times more than one who billed it twice. CMS also suppresses any provider-code pair with fewer than 11 beneficiaries, so low-volume practice is missing from these totals by design.