How much does Medicare pay for CPT 14060?

Medicare allowed an average of $715.65 per service and paid $563.47 of that, the balance being the patient's coinsurance and deductible (2024 data). Providers submitted an average of $2125.86, which is what they billed rather than what they received — Medicare pays its fee schedule regardless of the charge.

What is CPT code 14060?

Repair of wound of eyelids, nose, ears, or lips by transferring skin, 10.0 sq cm or less. It was billed 67,665 times to 64,360 Medicare beneficiaries by 2,141 providers in 2024.

Does 14060 pay differently in an office than a hospital?

Yes. The allowed amount averaged $748.50 in an office setting and $633.65 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 14060 most?

Dermatology, with 33,833 services from 1,124 clinicians. Next are Ambulatory Surgical Center, Micrographic Dermatologic Surgery, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery.

CPT 14060

Repair of wound of eyelids, nose, ears, or lips by transferring skin, 10.0 sq cm or less

$715.65Medicare-allowed amount per service, averaged across 67,665 services

Providers submitted

$2125.86

Asking price, not received

Medicare allowed

$715.65

The fee schedule figure

Medicare paid

$563.47

Balance is patient coinsurance

Providers submitted an average of $2125.86 for this code and Medicare allowed $715.65 — 3.0× 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 $563.47 (79%); the rest is the patient’s coinsurance and deductible.

Office pays differently to hospital

Office / non-facility: $748.50
Hospital / facility: $633.65

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. 48,311 services were billed in an office setting and 19,354 in a facility.

Services: 67,665
Beneficiaries: 64,360
Providers billing it: 2,141
Total allowed: $48,424,457

What Medicare pays for CPT 14060

Across 67,665 services billed by 2,141 providers to 64,360 beneficiaries, Medicare allowed an average of $715.65 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 14060

Specialty	Services	Beneficiaries	Avg allowed	Providers
Dermatology	33,833	32,957	$734.64	1,124
Ambulatory Surgical Center	7,942	7,232	$782.47	214
Micrographic Dermatologic Surgery	7,879	7,714	$728.87	225
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery	7,383	6,986	$706.98	235
Ophthalmology	5,793	4,944	$561.86	202
Otolaryngology	3,670	3,391	$649.72	105
Physician Assistant	476	468	$615.68	14
Undefined Physician type	193	184	$649.78	4
General Surgery	162	159	$688.64	5
Family Practice	107	105	$683.95	3
Nurse Practitioner	70	69	$626.20	4
Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine	50	48	$730.03	1
Neurosurgery	43	41	$773.35	1
Internal Medicine	37	35	$730.91	2
Neurology	15	15	$387.68	1

14060 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	9,027	$700.92	$538.11	252
California	7,572	$776.48	$540.38	236
New York	4,543	$758.96	$534.20	115
Texas	4,290	$703.21	$545.92	131
Pennsylvania	3,412	$717.24	$561.91	92
Arizona	2,527	$727.22	$556.53	78
North Carolina	2,297	$696.72	$567.96	75
New Jersey	2,119	$788.18	$562.96	63
Illinois	1,960	$735.74	$556.52	65
Georgia	1,861	$683.24	$545.21	61
Washington	1,740	$696.63	$518.28	56
Massachusetts	1,634	$758.10	$549.34	51
Virginia	1,564	$735.58	$560.31	58
Ohio	1,542	$692.69	$558.92	59
Missouri	1,452	$705.31	$567.15	44
Tennessee	1,411	$663.50	$553.48	51
Indiana	1,342	$663.86	$544.63	43
Maryland	1,323	$722.53	$550.15	48
Arkansas	1,123	$648.88	$523.83	23
Colorado	1,100	$752.37	$575.99	42
South Carolina	1,033	$657.22	$527.87	36
Wisconsin	953	$658.85	$541.13	36
Oklahoma	928	$639.00	$540.47	26
Michigan	892	$717.79	$564.87	33
Kentucky	883	$684.80	$564.38	36
Kansas	769	$669.20	$548.18	30
Delaware	763	$670.51	$522.31	17
Utah	579	$679.69	$542.89	23
Nevada	552	$732.97	$579.43	18
South Dakota	540	$642.15	$519.01	11
Connecticut	527	$792.66	$577.90	22
Alabama	527	$655.49	$556.72	18
Iowa	523	$663.15	$559.56	23
Minnesota	490	$712.81	$567.51	22
Louisiana	466	$632.21	$531.26	18
Mississippi	423	$669.09	$568.99	17
New Hampshire	368	$691.24	$533.75	11
Oregon	350	$733.49	$559.45	20
Nebraska	324	$672.77	$559.43	14
Montana	305	$716.76	$565.36	9
New Mexico	272	$718.01	$570.27	9
Idaho	243	$692.19	$569.64	10
Wyoming	200	$691.95	$560.93	5
Rhode Island	193	$714.80	$527.51	10
West Virginia	169	$695.12	$579.11	3
North Dakota	151	$646.51	$513.01	4
Maine	122	$728.83	$575.93	6
Vermont	100	$667.09	$534.57	4
Alaska	67	$834.41	$585.60	4
District of Columbia	62	$718.67	$500.64	1
Puerto Rico	32	$751.94	$602.57	1
Hawaii	20	$785.82	$569.36	1

Related codes

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
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.