How much does Medicare pay for CPT 73503?

Medicare allowed an average of $47.13 per service and paid $34.83 of that, the balance being the patient's coinsurance and deductible (2024 data). Providers submitted an average of $181.22, which is what they billed rather than what they received — Medicare pays its fee schedule regardless of the charge.

What is CPT code 73503?

X-ray of hip, minimum of 4 views. It was billed 32,059 times to 27,598 Medicare beneficiaries by 716 providers in 2024.

Does 73503 pay differently in an office than a hospital?

Yes. The allowed amount averaged $54.04 in an office setting and $13.00 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 73503 most?

Orthopedic Surgery, with 16,117 services from 251 clinicians. Next are Diagnostic Radiology, Physician Assistant, Independent Diagnostic Testing Facility (IDTF).

CPT 73503

X-ray of hip, minimum of 4 views

$47.13Medicare-allowed amount per service, averaged across 32,059 services

Providers submitted

$181.22

Asking price, not received

Medicare allowed

$47.13

The fee schedule figure

Medicare paid

$34.83

Balance is patient coinsurance

Providers submitted an average of $181.22 for this code and Medicare allowed $47.13 — 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 $34.83 (74%); the rest is the patient’s coinsurance and deductible.

Office pays differently to hospital

Office / non-facility: $54.04
Hospital / facility: $13.00

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. 26,660 services were billed in an office setting and 5,399 in a facility.

Services: 32,059
Beneficiaries: 27,598
Providers billing it: 716
Total allowed: $1,510,941

What Medicare pays for CPT 73503

Across 32,059 services billed by 716 providers to 27,598 beneficiaries, Medicare allowed an average of $47.13 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 73503

Specialty	Services	Beneficiaries	Avg allowed	Providers
Orthopedic Surgery	16,117	13,593	$56.67	251
Diagnostic Radiology	8,283	8,092	$26.75	307
Physician Assistant	3,346	3,058	$41.62	89
Independent Diagnostic Testing Facility (IDTF)	2,411	1,260	$67.22	9
Portable X-Ray Supplier	680	463	$27.62	7
Family Practice	388	358	$47.02	16
Nurse Practitioner	361	347	$43.60	14
Sports Medicine	278	250	$52.05	11
Internal Medicine	75	65	$49.60	5
Interventional Radiology	61	60	$23.39	4
Neurology	32	28	$42.61	1
Hand Surgery	16	13	$45.28	1
Nuclear Medicine	11	11	$13.31	1

73503 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
Florida	6,540	$50.48	$39.21	90
California	4,636	$62.98	$41.49	58
New York	3,110	$50.72	$33.51	66
Illinois	2,661	$38.57	$27.74	58
Texas	1,784	$49.46	$38.87	31
Massachusetts	1,067	$22.54	$15.04	45
Minnesota	919	$57.00	$37.23	22
Georgia	784	$45.84	$33.80	21
Pennsylvania	746	$47.58	$33.78	24
Ohio	725	$33.78	$26.35	24
Maryland	641	$33.52	$24.85	9
Michigan	633	$40.53	$32.03	18
South Carolina	563	$49.09	$38.52	5
Wisconsin	538	$20.79	$16.65	15
Virginia	529	$43.80	$32.89	19
New Jersey	517	$45.35	$29.57	26
Louisiana	405	$48.58	$38.80	7
Colorado	383	$41.53	$29.77	11
North Carolina	356	$34.02	$26.07	12
Alabama	319	$47.25	$41.07	13
Kansas	309	$32.13	$25.80	10
Tennessee	293	$41.31	$33.57	7
Nevada	292	$57.13	$42.64	5
Wyoming	287	$51.84	$35.85	9
Indiana	254	$52.74	$41.20	7
North Dakota	220	$49.47	$37.81	3
Missouri	216	$38.70	$29.14	10
Nebraska	216	$53.36	$43.39	2
Arizona	212	$46.38	$34.73	12
Mississippi	191	$22.51	$18.44	6
South Dakota	191	$52.36	$39.44	5
Oklahoma	173	$33.42	$28.85	6
Iowa	168	$35.85	$28.25	9
Kentucky	154	$37.95	$30.19	7
Arkansas	146	$47.88	$41.28	7
Idaho	139	$15.70	$11.71	4
Washington	138	$27.46	$18.15	7
Montana	120	$58.80	$44.32	1
Connecticut	105	$19.63	$14.37	3
Oregon	92	$24.90	$16.87	6
New Mexico	68	$28.82	$22.60	3
West Virginia	49	$12.79	$9.74	3
New Hampshire	48	$26.92	$19.86	3
Utah	43	$49.96	$38.44	2
District of Columbia	43	$29.34	$20.36	3
Hawaii	22	$13.06	$10.14	1
Alaska	14	$68.14	$43.62	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
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
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.