How much does Medicare pay for CPT 73502?

Medicare allowed an average of $26.38 per service and paid $19.21 of that, the balance being the patient's coinsurance and deductible (2024 data). Providers submitted an average of $100.43, which is what they billed rather than what they received — Medicare pays its fee schedule regardless of the charge.

What is CPT code 73502?

X-ray of hip, 2-3 views. It was billed 2,430,495 times to 2,107,428 Medicare beneficiaries by 33,149 providers in 2024.

Does 73502 pay differently in an office than a hospital?

Yes. The allowed amount averaged $37.34 in an office setting and $10.60 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 73502 most?

Diagnostic Radiology, with 1,265,526 services from 17,312 clinicians. Next are Orthopedic Surgery, Physician Assistant, Portable X-Ray Supplier.

CPT 73502

X-ray of hip, 2-3 views

$26.38Medicare-allowed amount per service, averaged across 2,430,495 services

Providers submitted

$100.43

Asking price, not received

Medicare allowed

$26.38

The fee schedule figure

Medicare paid

$19.21

Balance is patient coinsurance

Providers submitted an average of $100.43 for this code and Medicare allowed $26.38 — 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 $19.21 (73%); the rest is the patient’s coinsurance and deductible.

Office pays differently to hospital

Office / non-facility: $37.34
Hospital / facility: $10.60

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. 1,434,475 services were billed in an office setting and 996,020 in a facility.

Services: 2,430,495
Beneficiaries: 2,107,428
Providers billing it: 33,149
Total allowed: $64,116,458

What Medicare pays for CPT 73502

Across 2,430,495 services billed by 33,149 providers to 2,107,428 beneficiaries, Medicare allowed an average of $26.38 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 73502

Specialty	Services	Beneficiaries	Avg allowed	Providers
Diagnostic Radiology	1,265,526	1,201,850	$15.71	17,312
Orthopedic Surgery	685,504	516,331	$42.84	7,671
Physician Assistant	160,940	137,258	$33.71	3,368
Portable X-Ray Supplier	140,193	89,237	$25.29	246
Interventional Radiology	38,193	36,831	$15.30	684
Nurse Practitioner	35,700	30,783	$33.63	820
Family Practice	24,258	22,660	$39.03	933
Independent Diagnostic Testing Facility (IDTF)	21,965	19,797	$42.65	387
Sports Medicine	20,474	18,324	$43.40	530
Internal Medicine	8,596	7,896	$35.48	333
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation	6,935	6,572	$45.43	267
Emergency Medicine	4,737	4,563	$30.52	176
Rheumatology	3,182	2,558	$45.53	86
Radiation Oncology	2,295	2,015	$16.11	19
Hand Surgery	2,086	1,659	$40.79	67

73502 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	194,994	$29.91	$19.15	2,499
Florida	178,858	$31.87	$23.84	2,241
Texas	152,076	$27.53	$20.73	2,282
New York	139,035	$27.45	$18.34	1,520
Illinois	115,984	$24.92	$17.97	1,407
Pennsylvania	93,416	$23.82	$17.67	1,344
Maryland	92,129	$28.60	$20.13	710
Ohio	88,875	$20.74	$15.91	1,180
North Carolina	80,944	$26.60	$20.40	1,364
Massachusetts	77,395	$23.04	$15.42	799
Virginia	73,761	$27.45	$19.79	936
Tennessee	67,744	$27.23	$22.02	1,027
New Jersey	63,609	$33.69	$22.60	1,008
Georgia	61,161	$29.62	$22.76	1,045
Michigan	59,872	$22.29	$16.82	1,002
Missouri	58,526	$19.77	$15.30	770
Minnesota	54,954	$20.64	$14.70	925
Washington	53,606	$25.61	$17.28	668
Arizona	51,752	$33.41	$24.59	609
South Carolina	48,762	$28.61	$22.40	708
Indiana	47,786	$24.73	$19.37	724
Wisconsin	42,656	$20.75	$15.25	639
Colorado	41,516	$28.42	$19.79	641
Oklahoma	35,796	$23.32	$18.84	466
Louisiana	32,616	$24.40	$19.79	490
Alabama	32,312	$26.44	$22.02	591
Kansas	31,508	$24.32	$19.17	394
Arkansas	30,993	$23.45	$19.40	384
Kentucky	29,783	$24.73	$19.74	450
Iowa	28,498	$22.94	$17.76	357
Mississippi	27,992	$25.81	$21.52	388
Connecticut	25,791	$28.41	$19.47	445
Oregon	23,528	$24.30	$17.17	402
Nebraska	21,162	$21.51	$16.65	276
Nevada	19,411	$30.68	$22.58	301
New Hampshire	17,406	$23.10	$16.55	198
Utah	13,427	$28.02	$21.79	272
Idaho	13,234	$19.01	$14.58	194
New Mexico	11,591	$22.06	$16.59	154
Rhode Island	10,667	$28.17	$19.77	153
Delaware	10,628	$31.68	$23.56	91
West Virginia	10,209	$15.32	$11.28	159
South Dakota	10,182	$21.16	$15.40	137
Maine	9,806	$14.63	$10.31	155
Montana	9,557	$23.78	$16.73	137
North Dakota	7,464	$14.77	$10.63	78
Alaska	5,787	$32.48	$20.60	110
Hawaii	5,652	$22.34	$14.65	87
Vermont	5,473	$11.46	$7.93	58
Wyoming	4,907	$24.81	$17.83	74
District of Columbia	4,467	$26.84	$17.58	71
AA	390	$16.44	$12.39	3
Puerto Rico	321	$17.70	$13.04	11
AP	250	$20.17	$13.37	3
U.S. Virgin Islands	99	$39.89	$28.33	5
Guam	86	$34.54	$20.43	4

Related codes

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
73501X-ray of hip, 1 view$20.45
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.