How much does Medicare pay for CPT 11441?

Medicare allowed an average of $118.75 per service and paid $90.58 of that, the balance being the patient's coinsurance and deductible (2024 data). Providers submitted an average of $375.39, which is what they billed rather than what they received — Medicare pays its fee schedule regardless of the charge.

What is CPT code 11441?

Removal of noncancer skin growth of face, ears, eyelids, nose, lips, or mouth, 0.6-1.0 cm. It was billed 4,797 times to 3,486 Medicare beneficiaries by 123 providers in 2024.

Does 11441 pay differently in an office than a hospital?

Yes. The allowed amount averaged $123.22 in an office setting and $71.34 in a facility. The office rate is generally higher because the practice supplies the room, staff and equipment out of that single payment; in a hospital those are billed separately by the facility.

Which specialty bills 11441 most?

Dermatology, with 2,368 services from 47 clinicians. Next are General Practice, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Ophthalmology.

CPT 11441

Removal of noncancer skin growth of face, ears, eyelids, nose, lips, or mouth, 0.6-1.0 cm

$118.75Medicare-allowed amount per service, averaged across 4,797 services

Providers submitted

$375.39

Asking price, not received

Medicare allowed

$118.75

The fee schedule figure

Medicare paid

$90.58

Balance is patient coinsurance

Providers submitted an average of $375.39 for this code and Medicare allowed $118.75 — 3.2× 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 $90.58 (76%); the rest is the patient’s coinsurance and deductible.

Office pays differently to hospital

Office / non-facility: $123.22
Hospital / facility: $71.34

The office rate is higher because the practice supplies the room, staff and equipment out of that payment. In a hospital the facility bills those separately, so the clinician's share is smaller — the total cost to Medicare is usually higher, not lower. 4,383 services were billed in an office setting and 414 in a facility.

Services: 4,797
Beneficiaries: 3,486
Providers billing it: 123
Total allowed: $569,644

What Medicare pays for CPT 11441

Across 4,797 services billed by 123 providers to 3,486 beneficiaries, Medicare allowed an average of $118.75 per service. That is 1.4 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 11441

Specialty	Services	Beneficiaries	Avg allowed	Providers
Dermatology	2,368	1,796	$130.01	47
General Practice	756	244	$104.05	1
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery	691	565	$100.98	27
Ophthalmology	358	318	$148.00	19
Ambulatory Surgical Center	187	162	$66.59	9
Physician Assistant	107	95	$105.71	6
Micrographic Dermatologic Surgery	94	86	$125.79	4
Otolaryngology	69	68	$95.45	4
General Surgery	67	62	$68.24	1
Nurse Practitioner	44	41	$128.91	2
Internal Medicine	22	16	$133.49	1
Family Practice	21	20	$157.02	1
Cardiology	13	13	$129.65	1

11441 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	1,523	$123.33	$82.59	15
Massachusetts	826	$107.15	$72.94	5
New York	381	$127.65	$94.18	13
New Jersey	202	$136.12	$96.38	7
Nevada	144	$144.77	$105.99	3
Pennsylvania	135	$110.74	$87.28	8
Indiana	132	$77.85	$66.40	4
Texas	129	$132.85	$101.39	6
Maryland	124	$125.25	$88.19	5
Georgia	122	$76.93	$62.76	5
Virginia	113	$118.89	$83.72	4
Illinois	105	$130.45	$87.96	6
Florida	76	$163.84	$110.83	4
Mississippi	70	$101.38	$81.39	4
Wisconsin	65	$132.11	$93.82	3
Colorado	64	$112.73	$79.50	3
South Carolina	63	$125.04	$93.16	2
Louisiana	58	$113.52	$94.43	2
Ohio	56	$118.91	$93.53	3
Alabama	54	$132.81	$89.46	2
District of Columbia	52	$102.86	$71.15	1
Connecticut	52	$95.70	$64.49	2
Nebraska	52	$112.58	$96.08	2
Michigan	33	$76.41	$60.14	2
Kansas	31	$140.41	$108.68	2
Missouri	31	$87.95	$70.45	2
West Virginia	30	$75.16	$60.38	2
Hawaii	16	$151.08	$111.11	1
Montana	12	$85.84	$68.45	1
North Carolina	12	$135.93	$124.43	1
Delaware	12	$157.36	$94.38	1
Kentucky	11	$158.93	$119.88	1
Oregon	11	$136.90	$90.25	1

Related codes

11402Removal of noncancer skin growth of body$95.28
11401Removal of noncancer skin growth of body$104.57
11403Removal of noncancer skin growth of body$113.00
11422Removal of noncancer skin growth of scalp$133.43
11442Removal of noncancer skin growth of face$128.75
11421Removal of noncancer skin growth of scalp$127.16
11440Removal of noncancer skin growth of face$102.78
11420Removal of noncancer skin growth of scalp$109.75
11400Removal of noncancer skin growth of body$100.81
11404Removal of noncancer skin growth of body$151.01
11423Removal of noncancer skin growth of scalp$166.91
11406Removal of noncancer skin growth of body$212.80

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.