How much does Medicare pay for CPT 73140?

Medicare allowed an average of $27.96 per service and paid $20.46 of that, the balance being the patient's coinsurance and deductible (2024 data). Providers submitted an average of $93.54, which is what they billed rather than what they received — Medicare pays its fee schedule regardless of the charge.

What is CPT code 73140?

X-ray of finger, minimum of 2 views. It was billed 233,740 times to 178,228 Medicare beneficiaries by 5,808 providers in 2024.

Does 73140 pay differently in an office than a hospital?

Yes. The allowed amount averaged $32.16 in an office setting and $6.64 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 73140 most?

Hand Surgery, with 67,125 services from 974 clinicians. Next are Diagnostic Radiology, Orthopedic Surgery, Physician Assistant.

CPT 73140

X-ray of finger, minimum of 2 views

$27.96Medicare-allowed amount per service, averaged across 233,740 services

Providers submitted

$93.54

Asking price, not received

Medicare allowed

$27.96

The fee schedule figure

Medicare paid

$20.46

Balance is patient coinsurance

Providers submitted an average of $93.54 for this code and Medicare allowed $27.96 — 3.3× 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 $20.46 (73%); the rest is the patient’s coinsurance and deductible.

Office pays differently to hospital

Office / non-facility: $32.16
Hospital / facility: $6.64

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. 195,323 services were billed in an office setting and 38,417 in a facility.

Services: 233,740
Beneficiaries: 178,228
Providers billing it: 5,808
Total allowed: $6,535,370

What Medicare pays for CPT 73140

Across 233,740 services billed by 5,808 providers to 178,228 beneficiaries, Medicare allowed an average of $27.96 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 73140

Specialty	Services	Beneficiaries	Avg allowed	Providers
Hand Surgery	67,125	48,783	$36.23	974
Diagnostic Radiology	65,262	59,032	$15.17	2,653
Orthopedic Surgery	60,424	40,092	$32.42	1,094
Physician Assistant	18,730	14,116	$27.08	538
Portable X-Ray Supplier	5,990	3,766	$21.10	73
Nurse Practitioner	3,262	2,464	$28.52	106
Independent Diagnostic Testing Facility (IDTF)	3,093	1,768	$41.84	35
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery	2,678	1,960	$34.13	57
Family Practice	2,045	1,858	$33.93	94
Interventional Radiology	1,478	1,345	$15.15	69
General Surgery	1,066	744	$35.16	18
Emergency Medicine	784	762	$34.48	35
Internal Medicine	635	550	$31.96	20
Sports Medicine	394	339	$36.14	18
Radiation Oncology	248	200	$12.57	6

73140 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	23,795	$33.48	$21.22	563
Massachusetts	15,404	$15.56	$10.39	240
New York	13,566	$30.58	$20.31	338
Florida	13,447	$32.62	$24.57	280
Illinois	13,225	$28.50	$20.47	294
Texas	11,301	$29.81	$23.87	278
Pennsylvania	9,206	$28.30	$21.79	249
North Carolina	8,301	$28.89	$23.66	204
Maryland	7,899	$28.93	$20.85	151
Virginia	7,790	$28.52	$21.00	204
Georgia	6,487	$32.54	$26.25	126
Washington	6,022	$27.45	$18.33	188
Ohio	5,605	$23.28	$18.28	149
Minnesota	5,334	$23.81	$16.99	190
New Jersey	5,095	$37.34	$25.78	110
Tennessee	5,064	$29.35	$24.33	102
Colorado	4,979	$31.02	$22.62	129
Indiana	4,760	$28.58	$22.62	146
Arizona	4,666	$32.64	$24.28	117
South Carolina	4,476	$28.58	$23.37	119
Michigan	3,982	$24.43	$19.21	120
Arkansas	3,713	$25.00	$22.14	69
Missouri	3,507	$22.78	$17.84	99
Wisconsin	3,441	$21.68	$15.83	148
Connecticut	3,304	$34.37	$23.49	88
Kansas	3,224	$25.58	$20.93	86
Iowa	3,114	$22.89	$17.72	88
Louisiana	2,970	$28.19	$24.73	54
Oklahoma	2,507	$22.48	$19.98	64
Oregon	2,315	$26.39	$18.99	79
Kentucky	2,222	$30.52	$25.97	52
Alabama	2,120	$28.99	$24.73	63
Nebraska	2,023	$24.13	$19.08	61
Utah	1,952	$30.05	$23.76	55
New Hampshire	1,809	$19.67	$14.13	54
Idaho	1,673	$21.93	$17.99	40
South Dakota	1,666	$21.36	$16.14	41
Montana	1,538	$25.35	$18.51	44
Nevada	1,411	$32.83	$24.26	42
Mississippi	1,206	$28.13	$25.24	39
Delaware	1,182	$28.39	$23.97	29
North Dakota	1,072	$14.00	$10.11	28
Rhode Island	794	$29.19	$20.25	30
New Mexico	769	$11.47	$8.24	21
Vermont	718	$8.83	$6.03	24
Maine	662	$13.47	$9.50	32
Hawaii	603	$26.07	$17.29	18
Alaska	580	$33.02	$21.79	20
Wyoming	492	$29.27	$21.41	18
West Virginia	468	$16.68	$13.22	16
District of Columbia	216	$28.18	$19.09	6
Guam	54	$33.05	$23.91	2
AP	11	$6.57	$3.79	1

Related codes

73130X-ray of hand$23.03
73110X-ray of wrist$24.37
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.