How much does Medicare pay for CPT 29580?

Medicare allowed an average of $59.18 per service and paid $45.89 of that, the balance being the patient's coinsurance and deductible (2024 data). Providers submitted an average of $190.80, which is what they billed rather than what they received — Medicare pays its fee schedule regardless of the charge.

What is CPT code 29580?

Strapping, unna boot. It was billed 67,135 times to 23,581 Medicare beneficiaries by 914 providers in 2024.

Does 29580 pay differently in an office than a hospital?

Yes. The allowed amount averaged $63.74 in an office setting and $28.20 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 29580 most?

Podiatry, with 34,388 services from 510 clinicians. Next are Vascular Surgery, Nurse Practitioner, Dermatology.

CPT 29580

Strapping, unna boot

$59.18Medicare-allowed amount per service, averaged across 67,135 services

Providers submitted

$190.80

Asking price, not received

Medicare allowed

$59.18

The fee schedule figure

Medicare paid

$45.89

Balance is patient coinsurance

Providers submitted an average of $190.80 for this code and Medicare allowed $59.18 — 3.2× 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 $45.89 (78%); the rest is the patient’s coinsurance and deductible.

Office pays differently to hospital

Office / non-facility: $63.74
Hospital / facility: $28.20

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. 58,517 services were billed in an office setting and 8,618 in a facility.

Services: 67,135
Beneficiaries: 23,581
Providers billing it: 914
Total allowed: $3,973,049

What Medicare pays for CPT 29580

Across 67,135 services billed by 914 providers to 23,581 beneficiaries, Medicare allowed an average of $59.18 per service. That is 2.8 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 29580

Specialty	Services	Beneficiaries	Avg allowed	Providers
Podiatry	34,388	14,060	$60.15	510
Vascular Surgery	7,768	2,025	$76.92	92
Nurse Practitioner	7,143	1,397	$46.41	70
Dermatology	6,068	2,728	$53.66	103
General Surgery	2,796	749	$54.91	30
Physician Assistant	2,650	894	$48.38	45
Internal Medicine	1,274	277	$54.78	8
Infectious Disease	1,085	193	$68.28	9
Micrographic Dermatologic Surgery	836	452	$48.10	17
Geriatric Medicine	665	194	$75.00	1
Family Practice	498	116	$56.47	6
Occupational Therapist in Private Practice	343	48	$55.92	2
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation	311	45	$40.72	2
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery	261	91	$35.60	3
General Practice	238	67	$71.92	3

29580 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	12,255	$69.93	$46.13	144
California	10,843	$63.96	$44.74	103
Florida	7,128	$59.94	$45.83	110
New Jersey	4,377	$47.97	$32.86	25
Michigan	3,124	$56.98	$43.70	61
Ohio	2,579	$61.68	$51.12	37
Massachusetts	2,058	$64.33	$46.17	20
Indiana	2,005	$40.64	$33.29	24
Virginia	1,770	$59.16	$46.51	37
Illinois	1,692	$52.75	$40.05	36
Texas	1,562	$59.49	$47.08	37
Maryland	1,505	$60.48	$43.49	29
Kentucky	1,376	$54.50	$46.46	26
North Carolina	1,337	$57.04	$46.22	15
Pennsylvania	1,259	$59.54	$45.72	26
Arizona	1,249	$35.55	$27.58	15
Georgia	1,143	$61.88	$49.76	18
Washington	1,054	$67.96	$52.04	16
Tennessee	820	$56.50	$49.16	14
Rhode Island	607	$53.03	$39.82	8
Mississippi	604	$62.48	$52.45	5
Nevada	574	$39.93	$32.44	3
Oregon	530	$45.92	$36.69	6
Colorado	496	$48.09	$35.94	7
Alabama	466	$55.68	$49.18	6
South Carolina	444	$57.39	$48.55	6
Nebraska	407	$29.17	$25.75	8
Missouri	380	$61.70	$52.23	6
Arkansas	370	$39.56	$33.28	6
Utah	369	$56.28	$49.71	5
Connecticut	287	$73.47	$51.79	7
Idaho	271	$28.22	$23.70	6
Oklahoma	259	$32.71	$27.59	5
New Hampshire	255	$32.66	$25.16	5
Kansas	248	$57.69	$49.70	3
Louisiana	245	$49.83	$41.20	8
Delaware	174	$58.96	$44.36	3
Hawaii	127	$58.69	$37.81	2
South Dakota	115	$29.25	$24.10	2
Puerto Rico	114	$77.05	$60.66	1
District of Columbia	103	$63.80	$50.17	1
U.S. Virgin Islands	88	$64.10	$48.96	1
Iowa	87	$42.25	$34.56	2
New Mexico	75	$41.21	$34.77	1
Wyoming	70	$65.45	$52.65	2
West Virginia	69	$46.21	$36.25	2
Wisconsin	57	$25.57	$21.22	1
Maine	49	$18.69	$15.32	1
North Dakota	32	$57.16	$48.36	1
Minnesota	27	$46.04	$33.27	1

Related codes

29581Application of vein wound compression bandages on lower leg$84.27
29540Placement of strapping to ankle or foot$26.57
29550Placement of strapping to toes$15.55
29520Placement of strapping to hip$34.88
29530Placement of strapping to knee$29.09
29515Application of short leg splint from calf to foot$62.72
29584Application of vein wound compression bandages on upper arm$71.17

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.