How much does Medicare pay for CPT 73100?

Medicare allowed an average of $23.23 per service and paid $17.45 of that, the balance being the patient's coinsurance and deductible (2024 data). Providers submitted an average of $74.86, which is what they billed rather than what they received — Medicare pays its fee schedule regardless of the charge.

What is CPT code 73100?

X-ray of wrist, 2 views. It was billed 117,396 times to 76,077 Medicare beneficiaries by 2,371 providers in 2024.

Does 73100 pay differently in an office than a hospital?

Yes. The allowed amount averaged $26.36 in an office setting and $8.22 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 73100 most?

Portable X-Ray Supplier, with 28,828 services from 118 clinicians. Next are Orthopedic Surgery, Diagnostic Radiology, Hand Surgery.

CPT 73100

X-ray of wrist, 2 views

$23.23Medicare-allowed amount per service, averaged across 117,396 services

Providers submitted

$74.86

Asking price, not received

Medicare allowed

$23.23

The fee schedule figure

Medicare paid

$17.45

Balance is patient coinsurance

Providers submitted an average of $74.86 for this code and Medicare allowed $23.23 — 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 $17.45 (75%); the rest is the patient’s coinsurance and deductible.

Office pays differently to hospital

Office / non-facility: $26.36
Hospital / facility: $8.22

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. 97,149 services were billed in an office setting and 20,247 in a facility.

Services: 117,396
Beneficiaries: 76,077
Providers billing it: 2,371
Total allowed: $2,727,109

What Medicare pays for CPT 73100

Across 117,396 services billed by 2,371 providers to 76,077 beneficiaries, Medicare allowed an average of $23.23 per service. That is 1.5 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 73100

Specialty	Services	Beneficiaries	Avg allowed	Providers
Portable X-Ray Supplier	28,828	18,589	$17.98	118
Orthopedic Surgery	27,384	15,706	$30.90	641
Diagnostic Radiology	26,638	21,228	$12.80	948
Hand Surgery	16,745	10,088	$32.10	273
Physician Assistant	7,445	4,561	$24.64	195
Rheumatology	6,328	3,266	$31.41	49
Nurse Practitioner	1,772	993	$25.66	57
Interventional Radiology	534	444	$12.09	26
Independent Diagnostic Testing Facility (IDTF)	467	319	$31.20	21
Sports Medicine	276	146	$30.59	7
Family Practice	245	168	$29.37	11
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation	156	86	$30.38	2
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery	140	106	$29.89	4
Internal Medicine	98	86	$34.84	5
Nuclear Medicine	80	77	$7.85	2

73100 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
Maryland	13,734	$18.01	$13.82	66
California	9,110	$27.33	$17.50	229
Florida	8,019	$26.05	$19.77	188
Texas	6,883	$25.56	$21.63	158
Pennsylvania	5,351	$25.00	$20.42	122
New York	5,209	$21.41	$15.01	117
Ohio	4,610	$21.43	$17.03	84
Illinois	4,551	$20.36	$15.08	81
North Carolina	4,255	$22.37	$18.92	95
Virginia	3,843	$25.16	$19.25	80
Missouri	3,667	$18.56	$15.46	54
Louisiana	3,589	$26.11	$23.24	26
New Jersey	3,309	$27.49	$23.00	51
Tennessee	3,087	$24.81	$21.56	59
Michigan	3,025	$26.46	$21.08	68
Washington	2,697	$13.19	$9.60	30
Alabama	2,656	$26.30	$22.54	62
Kentucky	2,347	$26.63	$22.11	56
Georgia	2,292	$25.40	$21.00	73
Massachusetts	2,068	$26.53	$18.21	33
Colorado	1,994	$28.85	$21.54	50
South Carolina	1,969	$27.09	$22.28	37
Arkansas	1,782	$19.44	$17.63	32
Indiana	1,629	$27.57	$22.87	50
Arizona	1,492	$24.90	$18.95	47
Kansas	1,455	$20.11	$16.67	42
Mississippi	1,299	$24.56	$22.93	35
Minnesota	972	$18.25	$13.30	33
Connecticut	961	$27.77	$19.63	24
Iowa	949	$18.47	$15.05	20
Nebraska	826	$26.65	$21.21	20
Nevada	745	$21.59	$16.72	15
Wisconsin	744	$17.87	$14.13	26
Oklahoma	739	$21.23	$18.25	24
Oregon	599	$25.36	$18.52	25
West Virginia	542	$21.09	$17.18	19
Utah	521	$27.59	$21.51	17
Idaho	483	$19.57	$15.51	19
Vermont	435	$7.73	$5.77	10
Maine	381	$16.85	$11.98	10
New Hampshire	359	$21.49	$15.73	15
Montana	340	$22.73	$17.26	13
Hawaii	322	$14.20	$9.87	4
Delaware	300	$26.10	$21.04	7
New Mexico	258	$13.39	$10.70	8
Rhode Island	212	$17.58	$12.74	3
District of Columbia	194	$29.28	$27.50	8
South Dakota	181	$9.32	$7.10	8
North Dakota	179	$9.35	$6.77	7
Wyoming	142	$22.90	$17.60	6
Alaska	58	$17.11	$11.02	3
Puerto Rico	32	$18.88	$14.01	2

Related codes

73130X-ray of hand$23.03
73110X-ray of wrist$24.37
73140X-ray of finger$27.96
73120X-ray of hand$20.94

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.