How much does Medicare pay for CPT 14041?

Medicare allowed an average of $874.01 per service and paid $690.80 of that, the balance being the patient's coinsurance and deductible (2024 data). Providers submitted an average of $2209.21, which is what they billed rather than what they received — Medicare pays its fee schedule regardless of the charge.

What is CPT code 14041?

Repair of wound of forehead, cheeks, chin, mouth, neck, underarms, genitals, hands, or feet by transferring skin, 10.1-30.0 sq cm. It was billed 34,048 times to 31,998 Medicare beneficiaries by 1,039 providers in 2024.

Does 14041 pay differently in an office than a hospital?

Yes. The allowed amount averaged $902.80 in an office setting and $759.18 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 14041 most?

Dermatology, with 20,292 services from 631 clinicians. Next are Micrographic Dermatologic Surgery, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Ambulatory Surgical Center.

CPT 14041

Repair of wound of forehead, cheeks, chin, mouth, neck, underarms, genitals, hands, or feet by transferring skin, 10.1-30.0 sq cm

$874.01Medicare-allowed amount per service, averaged across 34,048 services

Providers submitted

$2209.21

Asking price, not received

Medicare allowed

$874.01

The fee schedule figure

Medicare paid

$690.80

Balance is patient coinsurance

Providers submitted an average of $2209.21 for this code and Medicare allowed $874.01 — 2.5× 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 $690.80 (79%); the rest is the patient’s coinsurance and deductible.

Office pays differently to hospital

Office / non-facility: $902.80
Hospital / facility: $759.18

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. 27,223 services were billed in an office setting and 6,825 in a facility.

Services: 34,048
Beneficiaries: 31,998
Providers billing it: 1,039
Total allowed: $29,758,292

What Medicare pays for CPT 14041

Across 34,048 services billed by 1,039 providers to 31,998 beneficiaries, Medicare allowed an average of $874.01 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 14041

Specialty	Services	Beneficiaries	Avg allowed	Providers
Dermatology	20,292	19,056	$894.12	631
Micrographic Dermatologic Surgery	3,932	3,796	$889.31	128
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery	3,679	3,409	$843.22	101
Ambulatory Surgical Center	3,023	2,823	$851.75	77
Otolaryngology	1,379	1,293	$772.26	45
Physician Assistant	534	520	$737.12	21
Ophthalmology	285	248	$796.18	8
Neurosurgery	142	119	$914.12	1
Maxillofacial Surgery	124	112	$723.67	3
Family Practice	119	113	$856.51	2
Undefined Physician type	104	97	$937.72	3
General Surgery	77	74	$794.23	3
General Practice	74	65	$930.20	2
Nurse Practitioner	58	56	$753.81	2
Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine	49	46	$881.29	1

14041 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
Florida	4,086	$883.17	$684.80	123
California	3,843	$957.03	$688.34	120
Texas	2,198	$823.14	$648.39	68
Arizona	1,840	$859.07	$677.20	49
New York	1,601	$968.00	$676.12	54
New Jersey	1,492	$989.76	$698.65	33
Pennsylvania	1,451	$898.91	$703.11	43
Georgia	1,443	$822.10	$675.74	33
Indiana	1,073	$832.28	$686.67	24
Illinois	1,023	$902.96	$686.25	37
Washington	960	$855.84	$652.77	34
North Carolina	939	$848.72	$696.82	32
Ohio	914	$838.97	$681.54	28
South Carolina	782	$819.96	$690.89	16
Tennessee	770	$837.56	$708.44	20
Delaware	750	$814.54	$635.57	10
Virginia	740	$876.78	$690.95	25
Missouri	686	$820.94	$679.62	21
Massachusetts	650	$951.31	$698.49	20
Alabama	551	$783.59	$669.30	19
Colorado	529	$916.70	$695.70	22
Michigan	505	$865.75	$688.25	17
Maryland	489	$874.12	$669.60	19
Wisconsin	474	$795.59	$659.83	18
Kentucky	441	$817.86	$689.07	14
Oklahoma	413	$758.95	$646.07	12
Mississippi	400	$773.94	$680.97	13
Kansas	392	$825.96	$693.61	15
Utah	361	$752.63	$608.41	14
Nevada	273	$884.48	$703.76	10
Connecticut	254	$974.21	$718.76	8
Arkansas	219	$734.67	$637.06	9
South Dakota	206	$764.86	$623.48	6
New Hampshire	205	$858.68	$668.43	5
West Virginia	182	$845.90	$698.63	3
Minnesota	129	$861.59	$703.85	7
Rhode Island	124	$864.40	$654.15	7
New Mexico	117	$865.85	$717.39	1
Louisiana	105	$700.40	$599.07	6
Montana	92	$872.64	$692.77	5
Idaho	77	$870.02	$706.68	4
Iowa	54	$750.65	$676.53	2
Oregon	50	$885.53	$680.98	4
Nebraska	43	$775.75	$644.43	2
Alaska	30	$1112.22	$726.03	1
North Dakota	30	$728.66	$589.75	2
District of Columbia	20	$448.41	$297.55	1
Maine	14	$867.97	$698.41	1
Hawaii	14	$966.69	$725.18	1
Wyoming	14	$849.86	$715.10	1

Related codes

14060Repair of wound of eyelids$715.65
14040Repair of wound of forehead$725.58
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
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.