How much does Medicare pay for CPT 73110?

Medicare allowed an average of $24.37 per service and paid $18.01 of that, the balance being the patient's coinsurance and deductible (2024 data). Providers submitted an average of $92.82, which is what they billed rather than what they received — Medicare pays its fee schedule regardless of the charge.

What is CPT code 73110?

X-ray of wrist, minimum of 3 views. It was billed 816,983 times to 621,024 Medicare beneficiaries by 18,651 providers in 2024.

Does 73110 pay differently in an office than a hospital?

Yes. The allowed amount averaged $34.57 in an office setting and $8.34 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 73110 most?

Diagnostic Radiology, with 414,750 services from 11,418 clinicians. Next are Orthopedic Surgery, Hand Surgery, Physician Assistant.

CPT 73110

X-ray of wrist, minimum of 3 views

$24.37Medicare-allowed amount per service, averaged across 816,983 services

Providers submitted

$92.82

Asking price, not received

Medicare allowed

$24.37

The fee schedule figure

Medicare paid

$18.01

Balance is patient coinsurance

Providers submitted an average of $92.82 for this code and Medicare allowed $24.37 — 3.8× 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 $18.01 (74%); the rest is the patient’s coinsurance and deductible.

Office pays differently to hospital

Office / non-facility: $34.57
Hospital / facility: $8.34

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. 499,059 services were billed in an office setting and 317,924 in a facility.

Services: 816,983
Beneficiaries: 621,024
Providers billing it: 18,651
Total allowed: $19,909,876

What Medicare pays for CPT 73110

Across 816,983 services billed by 18,651 providers to 621,024 beneficiaries, Medicare allowed an average of $24.37 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 73110

Specialty	Services	Beneficiaries	Avg allowed	Providers
Diagnostic Radiology	414,750	364,999	$13.56	11,418
Orthopedic Surgery	143,950	86,136	$38.58	2,707
Hand Surgery	107,368	66,939	$39.49	1,118
Physician Assistant	54,727	35,444	$29.54	1,425
Portable X-Ray Supplier	25,016	16,443	$23.29	161
Nurse Practitioner	12,115	7,870	$30.95	348
Interventional Radiology	11,676	10,550	$13.38	375
Family Practice	8,827	7,188	$35.17	330
Independent Diagnostic Testing Facility (IDTF)	8,248	5,595	$38.98	174
Rheumatology	7,214	3,978	$42.93	83
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery	6,949	3,955	$38.30	83
Sports Medicine	4,376	2,692	$36.73	126
Emergency Medicine	3,121	2,816	$34.95	124
General Surgery	2,934	1,792	$39.94	29
Internal Medicine	2,574	2,013	$34.86	69

73110 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	82,074	$28.69	$19.55	1,679
Florida	63,255	$29.49	$22.46	1,238
New York	54,482	$27.69	$18.40	946
Texas	51,357	$23.80	$19.37	1,282
Illinois	40,896	$23.61	$17.22	833
Pennsylvania	30,897	$22.07	$17.38	741
Massachusetts	28,303	$21.48	$14.63	509
Maryland	25,910	$27.79	$20.78	474
Ohio	24,102	$17.10	$13.26	614
North Carolina	24,023	$23.82	$19.71	670
Virginia	23,861	$25.00	$18.58	551
New Jersey	23,144	$32.79	$23.43	545
Tennessee	20,095	$24.22	$20.33	473
Georgia	19,612	$27.54	$22.40	483
Michigan	19,224	$21.11	$16.00	505
Minnesota	18,765	$17.34	$12.55	520
Arizona	18,210	$29.33	$22.03	353
Washington	17,988	$23.54	$16.15	412
Missouri	17,487	$16.97	$13.37	441
South Carolina	15,876	$24.79	$20.38	391
Indiana	14,544	$21.04	$16.64	405
Wisconsin	12,809	$18.46	$13.92	338
Colorado	12,702	$22.19	$16.22	331
Louisiana	12,518	$25.42	$22.05	281
Oklahoma	12,168	$20.46	$18.63	276
Connecticut	9,503	$28.67	$20.11	246
Arkansas	9,486	$21.37	$18.48	201
Kansas	8,941	$20.35	$16.37	203
Iowa	8,866	$19.04	$15.03	209
Oregon	8,863	$23.88	$17.56	227
Kentucky	8,743	$21.10	$17.23	231
Alabama	8,685	$21.37	$18.21	277
Mississippi	7,955	$22.80	$19.93	202
Nevada	6,309	$28.50	$21.41	167
New Hampshire	5,626	$18.37	$13.27	122
Nebraska	5,596	$18.30	$14.33	134
Utah	4,084	$22.55	$17.47	138
New Mexico	4,024	$16.93	$13.41	104
Rhode Island	4,005	$24.87	$17.76	103
Delaware	3,904	$25.49	$19.85	70
South Dakota	3,557	$17.75	$13.36	66
Montana	3,377	$22.69	$16.36	91
West Virginia	3,119	$10.55	$8.21	97
Idaho	3,037	$14.95	$11.60	84
North Dakota	2,649	$13.02	$9.37	47
Maine	2,566	$13.03	$9.38	88
Hawaii	2,249	$20.81	$13.88	64
Alaska	2,021	$29.18	$18.66	61
Wyoming	1,870	$23.25	$16.83	51
District of Columbia	1,867	$24.43	$17.95	33
Vermont	1,259	$10.63	$7.46	31
Guam	226	$41.90	$28.04	3
AA	97	$11.69	$9.59	2
AP	69	$8.49	$5.94	2
Puerto Rico	64	$16.19	$12.88	3
AE	26	$42.37	$37.35	1

Related codes

73130X-ray of hand$23.03
73140X-ray of finger$27.96
73120X-ray of hand$20.94
73100X-ray of wrist$23.23

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.