How much does Medicare pay for CPT 73522?

Medicare allowed an average of $35.14 per service and paid $25.43 of that, the balance being the patient's coinsurance and deductible (2024 data). Providers submitted an average of $133.57, which is what they billed rather than what they received — Medicare pays its fee schedule regardless of the charge.

What is CPT code 73522?

X-ray of both hips, 3-4 views. It was billed 107,169 times to 99,742 Medicare beneficiaries by 3,695 providers in 2024.

Does 73522 pay differently in an office than a hospital?

Yes. The allowed amount averaged $42.96 in an office setting and $14.06 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 73522 most?

Diagnostic Radiology, with 58,374 services from 2,107 clinicians. Next are Orthopedic Surgery, Portable X-Ray Supplier, Physician Assistant.

CPT 73522

X-ray of both hips, 3-4 views

$35.14Medicare-allowed amount per service, averaged across 107,169 services

Providers submitted

$133.57

Asking price, not received

Medicare allowed

$35.14

The fee schedule figure

Medicare paid

$25.43

Balance is patient coinsurance

Providers submitted an average of $133.57 for this code and Medicare allowed $35.14 — 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 $25.43 (72%); the rest is the patient’s coinsurance and deductible.

Office pays differently to hospital

Office / non-facility: $42.96
Hospital / facility: $14.06

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. 78,164 services were billed in an office setting and 29,005 in a facility.

Services: 107,169
Beneficiaries: 99,742
Providers billing it: 3,695
Total allowed: $3,765,919

What Medicare pays for CPT 73522

Across 107,169 services billed by 3,695 providers to 99,742 beneficiaries, Medicare allowed an average of $35.14 per service. 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 73522

Specialty	Services	Beneficiaries	Avg allowed	Providers
Diagnostic Radiology	58,374	56,159	$28.06	2,107
Orthopedic Surgery	25,595	24,544	$50.78	982
Portable X-Ray Supplier	11,096	7,262	$29.03	91
Physician Assistant	3,078	2,973	$40.03	146
Independent Diagnostic Testing Facility (IDTF)	2,676	2,645	$49.01	120
Rheumatology	1,457	1,432	$49.28	35
Interventional Radiology	1,285	1,245	$26.06	59
Nurse Practitioner	1,090	1,053	$39.22	42
Family Practice	593	557	$43.94	32
Internal Medicine	456	440	$38.82	20
Sports Medicine	421	415	$53.72	22
Radiation Oncology	279	276	$19.45	5
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation	177	174	$51.01	8
Vascular Surgery	109	107	$13.66	1
Pain Management	100	87	$44.83	4

73522 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
New York	13,127	$32.67	$21.75	254
California	12,652	$40.78	$25.30	407
Florida	8,155	$41.43	$31.01	244
Texas	6,444	$39.25	$29.64	262
Maryland	5,744	$39.56	$26.87	140
Illinois	3,836	$34.88	$24.86	132
Tennessee	3,335	$34.29	$27.63	112
Ohio	3,332	$27.16	$20.37	102
North Carolina	3,289	$35.54	$27.10	150
Washington	3,063	$32.67	$21.53	103
Pennsylvania	3,028	$28.17	$20.81	105
New Jersey	2,803	$45.85	$30.50	93
Virginia	2,632	$31.59	$22.86	109
Massachusetts	2,413	$28.85	$19.36	99
Georgia	2,157	$37.42	$28.61	98
Indiana	2,135	$24.05	$18.25	78
Arizona	2,113	$42.75	$30.95	78
Louisiana	1,798	$39.07	$32.97	58
Michigan	1,792	$25.88	$18.71	73
Missouri	1,699	$27.08	$20.51	86
Colorado	1,573	$40.65	$27.71	74
Connecticut	1,547	$34.32	$23.12	41
Minnesota	1,301	$38.34	$26.69	60
South Carolina	1,205	$37.97	$29.87	55
Iowa	1,169	$33.65	$25.73	58
West Virginia	1,144	$14.50	$10.46	44
Arkansas	1,097	$33.09	$27.97	33
Mississippi	1,079	$33.84	$29.01	38
Oregon	984	$34.70	$23.46	52
Oklahoma	905	$28.44	$22.89	40
Alabama	868	$30.91	$25.92	45
Hawaii	859	$23.90	$15.25	22
Wisconsin	808	$28.02	$20.37	36
Nevada	749	$37.00	$26.63	39
New Hampshire	749	$41.14	$28.91	30
Idaho	582	$19.37	$14.12	17
Kansas	560	$37.50	$29.02	27
Kentucky	536	$33.79	$26.20	30
Delaware	423	$33.83	$23.44	9
South Dakota	411	$27.07	$19.05	19
Nebraska	389	$36.21	$28.20	20
Rhode Island	345	$38.63	$25.96	15
Montana	340	$21.77	$15.37	17
District of Columbia	334	$21.41	$14.80	12
Vermont	300	$15.24	$10.97	17
Utah	274	$33.42	$25.26	19
North Dakota	261	$21.29	$14.82	5
New Mexico	257	$33.18	$25.78	12
Alaska	200	$39.34	$26.00	9
Wyoming	139	$41.34	$29.54	7
Maine	132	$31.49	$24.94	6
AA	64	$22.21	$17.14	2
Puerto Rico	38	$31.09	$23.52	2

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
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.