How much does Medicare pay for CPT 14061?

Medicare allowed an average of $911.44 per service and paid $719.76 of that, the balance being the patient's coinsurance and deductible (2024 data). Providers submitted an average of $2522.96, which is what they billed rather than what they received — Medicare pays its fee schedule regardless of the charge.

What is CPT code 14061?

Repair of wound of eyelids, nose, ears, or lips by transferring skin, 10.1-30.0 sq cm. It was billed 23,021 times to 22,122 Medicare beneficiaries by 834 providers in 2024.

Does 14061 pay differently in an office than a hospital?

Yes. The allowed amount averaged $960.26 in an office setting and $772.58 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 14061 most?

Dermatology, with 12,063 services from 474 clinicians. Next are Micrographic Dermatologic Surgery, Ambulatory Surgical Center, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery.

CPT 14061

Repair of wound of eyelids, nose, ears, or lips by transferring skin, 10.1-30.0 sq cm

$911.44Medicare-allowed amount per service, averaged across 23,021 services

Providers submitted

$2522.96

Asking price, not received

Medicare allowed

$911.44

The fee schedule figure

Medicare paid

$719.76

Balance is patient coinsurance

Providers submitted an average of $2522.96 for this code and Medicare allowed $911.44 — 2.8× 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 $719.76 (79%); the rest is the patient’s coinsurance and deductible.

Office pays differently to hospital

Office / non-facility: $960.26
Hospital / facility: $772.58

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. 17,033 services were billed in an office setting and 5,988 in a facility.

Services: 23,021
Beneficiaries: 22,122
Providers billing it: 834
Total allowed: $20,982,260

What Medicare pays for CPT 14061

Across 23,021 services billed by 834 providers to 22,122 beneficiaries, Medicare allowed an average of $911.44 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 14061

Specialty	Services	Beneficiaries	Avg allowed	Providers
Dermatology	12,063	11,743	$942.63	474
Micrographic Dermatologic Surgery	3,578	3,519	$936.86	125
Ambulatory Surgical Center	2,572	2,394	$823.15	64
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery	2,166	2,062	$912.23	80
Otolaryngology	1,327	1,260	$824.97	50
Ophthalmology	727	572	$785.42	17
Physician Assistant	237	233	$783.13	12
Undefined Physician type	127	121	$998.45	4
Pathology	61	61	$730.40	1
Nurse Practitioner	56	54	$831.95	2
Family Practice	47	47	$922.44	1
General Surgery	32	29	$858.30	2
Internal Medicine	17	16	$981.90	1
Maxillofacial Surgery	11	11	$859.83	1

14061 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	2,452	$930.41	$722.49	86
Texas	1,839	$862.45	$688.36	61
California	1,805	$969.67	$696.11	70
Arizona	1,176	$880.75	$700.49	30
New York	1,067	$1006.92	$725.17	39
Pennsylvania	1,044	$975.12	$752.79	38
Virginia	897	$911.97	$723.14	34
Tennessee	750	$888.77	$755.68	20
North Carolina	746	$919.39	$754.80	28
Mississippi	746	$768.53	$688.39	10
Indiana	735	$855.76	$703.83	18
New Jersey	716	$1049.09	$737.80	26
Georgia	704	$870.79	$707.95	26
Massachusetts	565	$1010.38	$741.87	22
Ohio	552	$891.92	$732.52	28
Missouri	490	$880.31	$719.64	22
Wisconsin	488	$862.93	$708.02	18
Alabama	478	$833.29	$714.03	17
South Carolina	472	$883.34	$744.58	15
Maryland	458	$901.55	$692.58	11
Colorado	415	$985.86	$741.79	21
Washington	392	$923.55	$714.98	19
Illinois	377	$977.08	$735.01	18
Kentucky	357	$852.76	$718.54	15
Kansas	314	$826.66	$698.40	11
Delaware	276	$835.38	$653.10	7
Arkansas	272	$807.83	$698.77	11
Michigan	267	$941.36	$742.57	13
Oklahoma	256	$855.80	$719.25	9
South Dakota	178	$887.02	$729.97	5
Nevada	175	$962.33	$754.37	8
New Hampshire	169	$901.94	$700.41	4
Minnesota	156	$930.29	$752.90	11
Utah	156	$857.86	$693.50	8
West Virginia	144	$851.56	$716.64	7
Iowa	119	$803.44	$685.38	7
Rhode Island	102	$1027.18	$762.82	4
Connecticut	87	$1024.57	$765.71	5
New Mexico	85	$928.02	$747.59	2
Oregon	85	$978.01	$741.63	5
Montana	78	$856.11	$672.94	4
North Dakota	70	$775.78	$611.56	2
Louisiana	67	$925.33	$759.72	3
Maine	63	$892.68	$726.64	3
Idaho	56	$938.59	$759.45	4
Nebraska	44	$740.77	$636.57	3
Wyoming	33	$831.50	$683.65	2
Hawaii	26	$1016.04	$752.58	2
Alaska	11	$1197.79	$783.71	1
Vermont	11	$737.68	$599.08	1

Related codes

14060Repair of wound of eyelids$715.65
14040Repair of wound of forehead$725.58
14041Repair of wound of forehead$874.01
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.