How much does Medicare pay for CPT 14302?

Medicare allowed an average of $199.92 per service and paid $159.74 of that, the balance being the patient's coinsurance and deductible (2024 data). Providers submitted an average of $1301.39, which is what they billed rather than what they received — Medicare pays its fee schedule regardless of the charge.

What is CPT code 14302?

Repair of wound by transferring skin, each additional 30.0 sq cm. It was billed 28,745 times to 7,282 Medicare beneficiaries by 327 providers in 2024.

Does 14302 pay differently in an office than a hospital?

Yes. The allowed amount averaged $211.90 in an office setting and $197.98 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 14302 most?

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, with 13,900 services from 116 clinicians. Next are General Surgery, Otolaryngology, Physician Assistant.

CPT 14302

Repair of wound by transferring skin, each additional 30.0 sq cm

$199.92Medicare-allowed amount per service, averaged across 28,745 services

Providers submitted

$1301.39

Asking price, not received

Medicare allowed

$199.92

The fee schedule figure

Medicare paid

$159.74

Balance is patient coinsurance

Providers submitted an average of $1301.39 for this code and Medicare allowed $199.92 — 6.5× 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 $159.74 (80%); the rest is the patient’s coinsurance and deductible.

Office pays differently to hospital

Office / non-facility: $211.90
Hospital / facility: $197.98

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. 4,018 services were billed in an office setting and 24,727 in a facility.

Services: 28,745
Beneficiaries: 7,282
Providers billing it: 327
Total allowed: $5,746,700

What Medicare pays for CPT 14302

Across 28,745 services billed by 327 providers to 7,282 beneficiaries, Medicare allowed an average of $199.92 per service. That is 3.9 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 14302

Specialty	Services	Beneficiaries	Avg allowed	Providers
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery	13,900	2,769	$221.32	116
General Surgery	3,555	929	$219.18	49
Otolaryngology	2,641	711	$201.90	41
Physician Assistant	2,245	556	$30.14	24
Dermatology	2,220	1,050	$212.63	53
Surgical Oncology	1,783	511	$216.74	13
Micrographic Dermatologic Surgery	760	357	$212.31	18
Hand Surgery	442	36	$192.24	2
Nurse Practitioner	290	70	$28.17	3
Critical Care (Intensivists)	258	35	$219.06	1
Orthopedic Surgery	238	90	$203.84	1
Maxillofacial Surgery	175	36	$198.89	2
Pathology	138	74	$194.28	1
Certified Clinical Nurse Specialist	56	28	$28.30	1
Undefined Physician type	32	19	$205.89	1

14302 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	4,056	$218.93	$147.42	36
Florida	3,236	$221.41	$160.09	36
Texas	2,990	$185.99	$149.29	34
California	2,654	$205.99	$156.92	34
Georgia	1,893	$180.82	$144.84	11
Arizona	1,591	$205.87	$163.27	13
Michigan	1,218	$180.86	$134.47	6
Pennsylvania	1,141	$180.70	$139.03	15
New Jersey	968	$188.07	$141.45	13
Illinois	868	$192.57	$143.95	12
Ohio	715	$211.98	$166.22	12
Missouri	690	$194.46	$158.09	10
Virginia	689	$190.73	$152.48	12
District of Columbia	592	$243.57	$166.45	4
Colorado	556	$139.64	$110.53	5
Oklahoma	556	$195.72	$166.13	4
Maryland	499	$216.25	$168.02	5
Massachusetts	405	$215.66	$166.69	9
Nebraska	348	$149.23	$132.02	3
Indiana	327	$206.25	$159.12	4
Tennessee	323	$194.44	$166.58	7
Kentucky	320	$159.71	$134.18	5
South Carolina	283	$199.34	$166.78	4
Washington	267	$211.54	$167.05	5
North Carolina	266	$166.47	$140.26	3
South Dakota	191	$195.36	$166.87	4
Delaware	165	$207.29	$166.81	2
Minnesota	158	$187.50	$167.82	2
Kansas	154	$194.75	$166.69	2
Rhode Island	109	$212.31	$167.21	2
Arkansas	101	$189.53	$166.81	2
Wisconsin	74	$208.72	$166.10	2
New Hampshire	71	$209.04	$166.60	1
Oregon	67	$206.14	$166.25	2
Louisiana	62	$213.34	$166.94	1
Connecticut	53	$222.04	$166.41	1
New Mexico	39	$199.76	$169.02	2
Mississippi	27	$194.54	$166.42	1
West Virginia	23	$215.68	$166.43	1

Related codes

14301Repair of wound by transferring skin$941.08

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.