How much does Medicare pay for CPT 14000?

Medicare allowed an average of $535.72 per service and paid $421.04 of that, the balance being the patient's coinsurance and deductible (2024 data). Providers submitted an average of $1929.72, which is what they billed rather than what they received — Medicare pays its fee schedule regardless of the charge.

What is CPT code 14000?

Repair of wound of trunk by transferring skin, 10.0 sq cm or less. It was billed 3,028 times to 2,606 Medicare beneficiaries by 89 providers in 2024.

Does 14000 pay differently in an office than a hospital?

Yes. The allowed amount averaged $571.61 in an office setting and $474.59 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 14000 most?

Dermatology, with 1,057 services from 28 clinicians. Next are Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, General Surgery, Ambulatory Surgical Center.

CPT 14000

Repair of wound of trunk by transferring skin, 10.0 sq cm or less

$535.72Medicare-allowed amount per service, averaged across 3,028 services

Providers submitted

$1929.72

Asking price, not received

Medicare allowed

$535.72

The fee schedule figure

Medicare paid

$421.04

Balance is patient coinsurance

Providers submitted an average of $1929.72 for this code and Medicare allowed $535.72 — 3.6× 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 $421.04 (79%); the rest is the patient’s coinsurance and deductible.

Office pays differently to hospital

Office / non-facility: $571.61
Hospital / facility: $474.59

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. 1,908 services were billed in an office setting and 1,120 in a facility.

Services: 3,028
Beneficiaries: 2,606
Providers billing it: 89
Total allowed: $1,622,160

What Medicare pays for CPT 14000

Across 3,028 services billed by 89 providers to 2,606 beneficiaries, Medicare allowed an average of $535.72 per service. That is 1.2 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 14000

Specialty	Services	Beneficiaries	Avg allowed	Providers
Dermatology	1,057	881	$515.36	28
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery	863	732	$600.36	22
General Surgery	388	369	$359.43	14
Ambulatory Surgical Center	341	263	$729.81	12
Micrographic Dermatologic Surgery	202	189	$504.66	5
Surgical Oncology	62	60	$304.22	3
Neurosurgery	60	58	$316.52	2
General Practice	22	22	$576.84	1
Interventional Pain Management	18	18	$550.92	1
Nurse Practitioner	15	14	$573.58	1

14000 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	685	$495.28	$345.45	13
New York	666	$648.22	$431.21	15
Florida	343	$596.16	$457.41	14
Pennsylvania	321	$580.86	$466.50	8
New Jersey	274	$435.12	$309.61	6
Maryland	157	$506.58	$405.75	7
Massachusetts	108	$423.15	$317.59	5
Delaware	100	$495.70	$398.36	2
Washington	70	$602.84	$436.96	2
Texas	56	$401.33	$307.97	2
Indiana	51	$386.96	$334.08	3
Guam	35	$605.61	$504.00	1
Iowa	24	$227.23	$197.80	1
North Carolina	23	$344.31	$292.64	1
Colorado	15	$462.61	$370.80	1
South Carolina	14	$600.37	$446.24	1
Mississippi	14	$450.83	$423.45	1
Connecticut	13	$306.90	$228.36	1
New Hampshire	13	$253.63	$197.59	1
Georgia	12	$279.19	$198.07	1
Illinois	12	$372.54	$230.32	1
Alabama	11	$420.95	$306.53	1
Tennessee	11	$531.50	$470.64	1

Related codes

14060Repair of wound of eyelids$715.65
14040Repair of wound of forehead$725.58
14041Repair of wound of forehead$874.01
14061Repair of wound of eyelids$911.44
14021Repair of wound of scalp$829.45
14020Repair of wound of scalp$695.44
14001Repair of wound of trunk by transferring skin$607.15

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.