How much does Medicare pay for CPT 73523?

Medicare allowed an average of $33.99 per service and paid $24.77 of that, the balance being the patient's coinsurance and deductible (2024 data). Providers submitted an average of $137.06, which is what they billed rather than what they received — Medicare pays its fee schedule regardless of the charge.

What is CPT code 73523?

X-ray of both hips, minimum of 5 views. It was billed 59,492 times to 55,160 Medicare beneficiaries by 1,994 providers in 2024.

Does 73523 pay differently in an office than a hospital?

Yes. The allowed amount averaged $44.66 in an office setting and $15.14 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 73523 most?

Diagnostic Radiology, with 38,112 services from 1,470 clinicians. Next are Portable X-Ray Supplier, Orthopedic Surgery, Physician Assistant.

CPT 73523

X-ray of both hips, minimum of 5 views

$33.99Medicare-allowed amount per service, averaged across 59,492 services

Providers submitted

$137.06

Asking price, not received

Medicare allowed

$33.99

The fee schedule figure

Medicare paid

$24.77

Balance is patient coinsurance

Providers submitted an average of $137.06 for this code and Medicare allowed $33.99 — 4.0× 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 $24.77 (73%); the rest is the patient’s coinsurance and deductible.

Office pays differently to hospital

Office / non-facility: $44.66
Hospital / facility: $15.14

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. 37,985 services were billed in an office setting and 21,507 in a facility.

Services: 59,492
Beneficiaries: 55,160
Providers billing it: 1,994
Total allowed: $2,022,133

What Medicare pays for CPT 73523

Across 59,492 services billed by 1,994 providers to 55,160 beneficiaries, Medicare allowed an average of $33.99 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 73523

Specialty	Services	Beneficiaries	Avg allowed	Providers
Diagnostic Radiology	38,112	37,510	$28.01	1,470
Portable X-Ray Supplier	9,806	6,391	$34.14	46
Orthopedic Surgery	7,644	7,376	$58.43	302
Physician Assistant	1,048	1,019	$45.89	45
Independent Diagnostic Testing Facility (IDTF)	887	882	$54.93	38
Interventional Radiology	803	802	$23.77	40
Family Practice	249	249	$44.53	11
Nurse Practitioner	218	216	$44.88	9
Internal Medicine	191	189	$46.97	6
Emergency Medicine	124	124	$49.73	3
Sports Medicine	122	122	$57.63	8
Nuclear Medicine	91	91	$45.49	4
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation	73	72	$55.70	4
Radiation Oncology	30	24	$23.25	2
Rheumatology	29	29	$61.30	2

73523 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	8,279	$36.55	$24.68	171
Florida	5,915	$38.92	$28.77	173
California	4,520	$40.36	$25.90	149
Illinois	4,064	$31.17	$21.71	141
Ohio	3,803	$20.63	$15.32	105
Massachusetts	3,140	$26.21	$17.50	118
Arizona	2,945	$46.92	$34.10	85
Pennsylvania	2,770	$36.66	$26.57	104
Texas	2,552	$39.45	$30.06	104
New Jersey	2,259	$41.91	$27.86	107
Maryland	1,913	$31.50	$23.22	34
Michigan	1,611	$26.12	$18.94	76
Missouri	1,394	$23.09	$17.45	54
Virginia	1,184	$29.35	$20.32	48
Minnesota	1,121	$45.69	$30.38	47
North Carolina	1,054	$35.03	$26.67	40
Arkansas	967	$21.94	$20.68	2
New Hampshire	799	$20.46	$13.57	31
Tennessee	773	$42.80	$34.19	31
South Carolina	718	$31.69	$24.09	28
West Virginia	565	$15.32	$11.08	24
Colorado	553	$37.73	$26.44	17
Wisconsin	549	$21.27	$14.54	28
Oklahoma	541	$40.75	$31.45	16
Kansas	505	$34.10	$26.69	19
New Mexico	468	$34.80	$25.67	16
Georgia	436	$32.10	$25.12	20
Indiana	432	$27.72	$21.54	26
Kentucky	393	$22.64	$17.33	21
Alabama	357	$33.68	$27.24	8
Delaware	354	$27.75	$21.04	13
Nebraska	324	$47.13	$33.96	19
Washington	323	$28.00	$19.60	17
Nevada	311	$27.48	$19.51	17
Connecticut	176	$20.73	$14.26	10
Rhode Island	174	$35.98	$23.45	9
Iowa	160	$18.05	$12.57	9
Vermont	146	$21.16	$15.32	6
North Dakota	145	$28.72	$20.83	6
South Dakota	120	$40.00	$30.05	7
Maine	111	$15.13	$10.26	7
Mississippi	94	$14.65	$9.91	4
Oregon	94	$34.84	$22.30	6
Louisiana	80	$34.83	$25.09	5
Utah	71	$29.14	$21.39	3
Wyoming	67	$44.50	$30.81	4
District of Columbia	51	$53.30	$33.53	3
Alaska	45	$64.43	$43.93	3
Montana	29	$57.62	$45.74	1
AA	25	$31.68	$23.26	1
Hawaii	12	$14.98	$11.43	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
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.