How much does Medicare pay for CPT 73501?

Medicare allowed an average of $20.45 per service and paid $15.07 of that, the balance being the patient's coinsurance and deductible (2024 data). Providers submitted an average of $79.93, which is what they billed rather than what they received — Medicare pays its fee schedule regardless of the charge.

What is CPT code 73501?

X-ray of hip, 1 view. It was billed 136,099 times to 117,150 Medicare beneficiaries by 3,284 providers in 2024.

Does 73501 pay differently in an office than a hospital?

Yes. The allowed amount averaged $28.01 in an office setting and $9.00 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 73501 most?

Diagnostic Radiology, with 58,055 services from 2,037 clinicians. Next are Orthopedic Surgery, Portable X-Ray Supplier, Physician Assistant.

CPT 73501

X-ray of hip, 1 view

$20.45Medicare-allowed amount per service, averaged across 136,099 services

Providers submitted

$79.93

Asking price, not received

Medicare allowed

$20.45

The fee schedule figure

Medicare paid

$15.07

Balance is patient coinsurance

Providers submitted an average of $79.93 for this code and Medicare allowed $20.45 — 3.9× 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 $15.07 (74%); the rest is the patient’s coinsurance and deductible.

Office pays differently to hospital

Office / non-facility: $28.01
Hospital / facility: $9.00

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. 81,982 services were billed in an office setting and 54,117 in a facility.

Services: 136,099
Beneficiaries: 117,150
Providers billing it: 3,284
Total allowed: $2,783,225

What Medicare pays for CPT 73501

Across 136,099 services billed by 3,284 providers to 117,150 beneficiaries, Medicare allowed an average of $20.45 per service. That is 1.2 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 73501

Specialty	Services	Beneficiaries	Avg allowed	Providers
Diagnostic Radiology	58,055	55,111	$11.33	2,037
Orthopedic Surgery	46,361	36,542	$30.83	698
Portable X-Ray Supplier	13,073	8,735	$16.88	69
Physician Assistant	8,383	7,417	$24.32	189
Sports Medicine	2,765	2,601	$32.41	65
Nurse Practitioner	2,050	1,751	$25.59	43
Interventional Radiology	1,549	1,488	$10.17	68
Family Practice	1,267	1,188	$29.17	46
Independent Diagnostic Testing Facility (IDTF)	562	536	$28.10	11
Internal Medicine	416	401	$32.42	7
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation	411	396	$32.05	16
Pain Management	223	112	$30.99	4
Hand Surgery	164	129	$26.86	5
Undefined Physician type	145	135	$44.02	1
Rheumatology	139	112	$34.01	6

73501 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	16,156	$26.42	$16.48	366
Pennsylvania	12,473	$23.99	$17.06	233
Maryland	8,735	$16.78	$12.54	74
Florida	8,453	$22.37	$16.97	212
Texas	5,690	$19.97	$15.15	143
Illinois	5,634	$17.61	$13.13	137
Virginia	5,486	$24.93	$17.42	110
New Jersey	5,210	$24.93	$17.10	120
New York	4,658	$17.16	$11.39	147
Ohio	4,358	$16.71	$12.98	123
North Carolina	3,713	$21.13	$16.47	88
Washington	3,521	$15.96	$11.24	61
Missouri	3,400	$14.41	$11.40	81
Minnesota	3,342	$12.58	$8.50	97
Massachusetts	3,323	$18.43	$12.37	79
Alabama	2,897	$20.76	$17.51	76
Michigan	2,875	$21.79	$16.41	80
Tennessee	2,459	$20.82	$16.77	80
Indiana	2,399	$16.78	$13.31	55
Georgia	2,205	$18.94	$15.20	72
Kentucky	2,120	$21.75	$17.50	54
Arkansas	1,900	$17.23	$13.60	48
Arizona	1,808	$19.15	$14.53	52
Connecticut	1,800	$21.32	$14.82	47
Kansas	1,769	$18.10	$14.56	52
Colorado	1,753	$19.72	$13.98	63
Iowa	1,587	$12.21	$9.74	54
South Carolina	1,569	$24.24	$18.64	46
Wisconsin	1,524	$21.20	$16.34	60
Louisiana	1,428	$20.29	$17.15	29
Oregon	1,332	$29.93	$20.06	27
Oklahoma	1,330	$15.55	$12.42	45
West Virginia	1,017	$19.00	$15.56	22
Delaware	880	$9.31	$6.98	25
Rhode Island	844	$21.16	$15.67	23
Mississippi	774	$10.79	$8.65	28
Nebraska	769	$10.58	$8.56	31
North Dakota	686	$13.96	$10.90	9
District of Columbia	531	$31.66	$21.66	8
Utah	476	$21.19	$16.48	21
Hawaii	457	$11.07	$7.56	5
Vermont	437	$12.58	$9.22	14
New Hampshire	419	$15.62	$10.68	18
Nevada	415	$20.71	$15.03	17
Maine	406	$18.81	$14.79	9
Wyoming	331	$23.89	$16.41	12
Idaho	258	$12.33	$8.79	6
Montana	254	$11.13	$8.26	10
New Mexico	140	$17.20	$12.81	9
Alaska	36	$11.85	$6.01	2
South Dakota	35	$19.91	$17.24	2
Puerto Rico	15	$8.79	$6.52	1
AA	12	$7.57	$7.33	1

Related codes

73502X-ray of hip, 2-3 views$26.38
73562X-ray of knee$27.47
73564X-ray of knee$34.42
73560X-ray of knee$18.48
73552X-ray of thigh bone$12.92
73590X-ray of lower leg$10.75
73522X-ray of both hips$35.14
73521X-ray of both hips$25.89
73565X-ray of both knees while standing$34.99
73523X-ray of both hips$33.99
73503X-ray of hip, minimum of 4 views$47.13
73551X-ray of thigh bone$16.13

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.