How much does Medicare pay for CPT 17110?

Medicare allowed an average of $103.02 per service and paid $73.64 of that, the balance being the patient's coinsurance and deductible (2024 data). Providers submitted an average of $242.88, which is what they billed rather than what they received — Medicare pays its fee schedule regardless of the charge.

What is CPT code 17110?

Destruction of skin growth, 1-14 growths. It was billed 3,076,352 times to 2,406,791 Medicare beneficiaries by 20,550 providers in 2024.

Does 17110 pay differently in an office than a hospital?

Yes. The allowed amount averaged $103.58 in an office setting and $62.44 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 17110 most?

Dermatology, with 1,813,653 services from 10,085 clinicians. Next are Physician Assistant, Nurse Practitioner, Podiatry.

CPT 17110

Destruction of skin growth, 1-14 growths

$103.02Medicare-allowed amount per service, averaged across 3,076,352 services

Providers submitted

$242.88

Asking price, not received

Medicare allowed

$103.02

The fee schedule figure

Medicare paid

$73.64

Balance is patient coinsurance

Providers submitted an average of $242.88 for this code and Medicare allowed $103.02 — 2.4× 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 $73.64 (71%); the rest is the patient’s coinsurance and deductible.

Office pays differently to hospital

Office / non-facility: $103.58
Hospital / facility: $62.44

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. 3,034,094 services were billed in an office setting and 42,258 in a facility.

Services: 3,076,352
Beneficiaries: 2,406,791
Providers billing it: 20,550
Total allowed: $316,925,783

What Medicare pays for CPT 17110

Across 3,076,352 services billed by 20,550 providers to 2,406,791 beneficiaries, Medicare allowed an average of $103.02 per service. That is 1.3 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 17110

Specialty	Services	Beneficiaries	Avg allowed	Providers
Dermatology	1,813,653	1,442,889	$109.03	10,085
Physician Assistant	724,495	589,349	$91.77	5,251
Nurse Practitioner	307,375	248,306	$89.92	2,283
Podiatry	166,929	75,063	$109.63	2,064
Micrographic Dermatologic Surgery	20,159	16,781	$105.30	193
Family Practice	17,108	14,045	$105.37	385
Internal Medicine	10,542	8,004	$110.15	132
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery	4,698	3,294	$101.30	47
Pathology	3,499	2,938	$107.40	23
General Practice	1,504	1,003	$105.93	19
Otolaryngology	1,475	1,139	$97.01	14
General Surgery	1,142	924	$100.05	16
Pediatric Medicine	935	753	$113.33	8
Ophthalmology	571	404	$93.77	4
Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine	444	361	$114.37	4

17110 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
California	381,442	$118.34	$74.76	1,927
Florida	364,328	$101.22	$73.31	2,016
Texas	215,232	$102.19	$74.45	1,333
New York	144,426	$113.97	$74.93	1,342
Pennsylvania	113,674	$100.42	$71.74	856
North Carolina	108,776	$95.92	$71.42	762
Virginia	102,623	$104.89	$73.03	585
Arizona	102,206	$101.23	$71.89	534
Illinois	101,383	$102.30	$71.95	761
Ohio	89,566	$94.51	$71.15	728
Maryland	84,515	$113.06	$74.63	459
Georgia	82,426	$98.26	$73.06	541
Michigan	77,433	$101.75	$74.18	691
New Jersey	77,279	$113.90	$74.41	662
Massachusetts	75,356	$112.49	$73.01	610
Tennessee	69,503	$92.87	$71.50	451
South Carolina	68,099	$96.34	$74.01	301
Washington	59,262	$104.55	$68.86	438
Indiana	57,227	$94.06	$70.02	349
Missouri	53,955	$95.48	$71.93	363
Colorado	45,886	$107.79	$72.32	382
Oklahoma	41,856	$93.64	$71.88	182
Alabama	38,932	$90.33	$72.30	291
Louisiana	36,758	$95.60	$75.05	235
Kentucky	35,350	$92.01	$71.39	267
Arkansas	32,340	$86.99	$69.55	164
Oregon	31,885	$102.24	$69.92	238
Wisconsin	31,390	$92.28	$66.24	321
Minnesota	29,978	$98.67	$67.48	353
Kansas	28,818	$91.54	$69.42	192
Iowa	28,784	$90.53	$68.34	213
Nevada	27,372	$100.42	$70.96	154
Mississippi	26,709	$90.86	$73.59	133
Connecticut	20,026	$113.43	$74.93	262
Nebraska	18,854	$92.43	$68.14	108
Utah	18,727	$95.75	$70.45	204
New Mexico	17,291	$95.82	$71.42	99
New Hampshire	16,456	$94.64	$64.14	109
Delaware	14,893	$101.40	$72.38	65
Idaho	13,986	$90.00	$67.56	124
West Virginia	13,853	$86.24	$67.19	103
Rhode Island	11,912	$104.12	$71.80	107
South Dakota	11,481	$76.91	$55.49	78
Montana	10,648	$98.66	$67.12	75
Hawaii	10,339	$111.34	$73.08	72
Maine	6,957	$97.13	$68.34	72
District of Columbia	6,385	$119.43	$77.77	53
North Dakota	5,893	$74.89	$52.00	58
Vermont	4,948	$91.35	$61.34	38
Wyoming	4,610	$99.02	$68.27	34
Alaska	2,997	$116.71	$73.56	30
Puerto Rico	785	$110.60	$78.78	22
Guam	413	$114.13	$84.77	1
U.S. Virgin Islands	79	$100.75	$63.65	1
AP	50	$105.71	$74.57	1

Related codes

17111Destruction of skin growth$124.75
17108Destruction of birthmark$622.98
17106Destruction of birthmark$346.13
17107Destruction of birthmark$450.14

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.