How much does Medicare pay for CPT 14001?

Medicare allowed an average of $607.15 per service and paid $480.77 of that, the balance being the patient's coinsurance and deductible (2024 data). Providers submitted an average of $2979.91, which is what they billed rather than what they received — Medicare pays its fee schedule regardless of the charge.

What is CPT code 14001?

Repair of wound of trunk by transferring skin, 10.1-30.0 sq cm. It was billed 4,408 times to 4,019 Medicare beneficiaries by 162 providers in 2024.

Does 14001 pay differently in an office than a hospital?

Yes. The allowed amount averaged $791.51 in an office setting and $504.75 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 14001 most?

General Surgery, with 1,149 services from 51 clinicians. Next are Dermatology, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Surgical Oncology.

CPT 14001

Repair of wound of trunk by transferring skin, 10.1-30.0 sq cm

$607.15Medicare-allowed amount per service, averaged across 4,408 services

Providers submitted

$2979.91

Asking price, not received

Medicare allowed

$607.15

The fee schedule figure

Medicare paid

$480.77

Balance is patient coinsurance

Providers submitted an average of $2979.91 for this code and Medicare allowed $607.15 — 4.9× 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 $480.77 (79%); the rest is the patient’s coinsurance and deductible.

Office pays differently to hospital

Office / non-facility: $791.51
Hospital / facility: $504.75

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. 1,574 services were billed in an office setting and 2,834 in a facility.

Services: 4,408
Beneficiaries: 4,019
Providers billing it: 162
Total allowed: $2,676,317

What Medicare pays for CPT 14001

Across 4,408 services billed by 162 providers to 4,019 beneficiaries, Medicare allowed an average of $607.15 per service. 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 14001

Specialty	Services	Beneficiaries	Avg allowed	Providers
General Surgery	1,149	1,109	$451.65	51
Dermatology	884	785	$778.55	29
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery	837	683	$711.73	25
Surgical Oncology	571	558	$399.06	23
Ambulatory Surgical Center	551	491	$669.98	19
Neurosurgery	126	118	$689.20	2
Micrographic Dermatologic Surgery	113	104	$863.62	5
General Practice	73	73	$442.30	3
Otolaryngology	48	47	$634.86	2
Thoracic Surgery	22	22	$349.50	1
Ophthalmology	21	16	$794.79	1
Orthopedic Surgery	13	13	$369.14	1

14001 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
New York	878	$675.36	$454.10	26
California	786	$745.46	$441.31	26
Florida	323	$666.28	$509.09	13
New Jersey	228	$665.74	$490.54	11
Pennsylvania	227	$723.66	$586.98	8
Arizona	214	$377.91	$301.60	6
Maryland	179	$499.02	$383.21	6
Ohio	172	$666.25	$515.79	6
Texas	172	$362.29	$288.09	10
Georgia	156	$453.80	$369.33	6
Illinois	131	$357.44	$262.15	4
Virginia	129	$496.74	$395.10	5
Connecticut	109	$853.97	$627.54	2
Mississippi	100	$474.89	$417.44	3
Delaware	97	$489.24	$405.57	4
District of Columbia	93	$361.28	$260.08	3
Colorado	64	$366.32	$295.08	4
Tennessee	58	$728.11	$627.18	1
Iowa	56	$507.88	$307.32	3
South Carolina	45	$529.45	$449.78	3
North Carolina	40	$334.60	$287.04	2
Arkansas	32	$676.56	$600.07	2
Louisiana	29	$523.75	$452.88	2
Rhode Island	19	$751.46	$594.24	1
Montana	16	$342.69	$272.05	1
Alaska	15	$385.45	$251.30	1
Massachusetts	14	$320.93	$256.24	1
Indiana	13	$786.69	$638.87	1
Idaho	13	$559.71	$274.99	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
14000Repair of wound of trunk by transferring skin$535.72

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.