How much does Medicare pay for CPT 73620?

Medicare allowed an average of $21.74 per service and paid $16.09 of that, the balance being the patient's coinsurance and deductible (2024 data). Providers submitted an average of $61.47, which is what they billed rather than what they received — Medicare pays its fee schedule regardless of the charge.

What is CPT code 73620?

X-ray of foot, 2 views. It was billed 262,362 times to 182,629 Medicare beneficiaries by 4,949 providers in 2024.

Does 73620 pay differently in an office than a hospital?

Yes. The allowed amount averaged $24.59 in an office setting and $7.59 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 73620 most?

Podiatry, with 124,015 services from 2,132 clinicians. Next are Diagnostic Radiology, Portable X-Ray Supplier, Orthopedic Surgery.

CPT 73620

X-ray of foot, 2 views

$21.74Medicare-allowed amount per service, averaged across 262,362 services

Providers submitted

$61.47

Asking price, not received

Medicare allowed

$21.74

The fee schedule figure

Medicare paid

$16.09

Balance is patient coinsurance

Providers submitted an average of $61.47 for this code and Medicare allowed $21.74 — 2.8× 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 $16.09 (74%); the rest is the patient’s coinsurance and deductible.

Office pays differently to hospital

Office / non-facility: $24.59
Hospital / facility: $7.59

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. 218,412 services were billed in an office setting and 43,950 in a facility.

Services: 262,362
Beneficiaries: 182,629
Providers billing it: 4,949
Total allowed: $5,703,750

What Medicare pays for CPT 73620

Across 262,362 services billed by 4,949 providers to 182,629 beneficiaries, Medicare allowed an average of $21.74 per service. That is 1.4 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 73620

Specialty	Services	Beneficiaries	Avg allowed	Providers
Podiatry	124,015	82,760	$28.18	2,132
Diagnostic Radiology	55,372	46,327	$10.31	1,979
Portable X-Ray Supplier	45,471	27,688	$15.50	133
Orthopedic Surgery	17,779	13,301	$27.22	265
Rheumatology	8,560	4,485	$25.55	114
Physician Assistant	3,033	2,239	$19.92	74
Nurse Practitioner	2,001	1,358	$21.18	42
Independent Diagnostic Testing Facility (IDTF)	1,858	1,339	$26.12	57
Interventional Radiology	1,291	1,066	$11.12	59
Family Practice	874	583	$22.03	34
Internal Medicine	703	478	$22.93	20
General Practice	509	308	$24.69	5
Emergency Medicine	272	236	$24.69	14
Nuclear Medicine	146	134	$7.12	2
Radiation Oncology	131	97	$12.12	6

73620 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	25,927	$26.70	$18.11	498
Maryland	22,704	$16.45	$12.71	154
California	22,591	$24.20	$15.82	496
Texas	22,468	$22.29	$18.28	417
Florida	20,177	$24.05	$18.28	346
Illinois	10,938	$20.30	$15.27	181
Ohio	10,056	$20.70	$16.41	166
New Jersey	9,507	$26.60	$19.01	182
North Carolina	9,159	$20.28	$16.86	173
Tennessee	6,886	$19.55	$16.82	113
Michigan	6,705	$24.34	$19.01	145
Virginia	6,633	$22.01	$16.87	143
South Carolina	6,185	$23.40	$19.77	89
Pennsylvania	5,872	$18.30	$15.14	182
Missouri	5,672	$17.00	$13.58	104
Washington	5,391	$14.58	$10.44	68
Georgia	5,277	$22.73	$18.62	122
Arizona	4,961	$23.34	$18.11	115
Arkansas	4,094	$16.42	$17.53	68
Louisiana	4,076	$19.30	$17.85	52
Indiana	3,092	$25.78	$20.81	58
Kansas	3,077	$18.87	$15.71	57
Colorado	3,047	$21.34	$16.05	89
Mississippi	2,926	$20.01	$20.55	64
Oklahoma	2,834	$19.91	$19.65	52
Massachusetts	2,768	$18.80	$13.40	74
Alabama	2,716	$21.25	$18.54	54
Kentucky	2,596	$22.39	$18.42	60
Nevada	2,479	$21.08	$15.95	49
Oregon	2,471	$22.98	$17.63	59
Connecticut	2,203	$26.49	$18.37	61
Iowa	1,762	$21.13	$17.01	33
Minnesota	1,733	$14.58	$10.99	70
Wisconsin	1,342	$19.41	$14.75	42
New Mexico	1,292	$24.76	$20.14	24
Nebraska	1,224	$15.95	$12.94	42
Rhode Island	1,141	$25.03	$18.41	18
Utah	975	$24.06	$19.16	26
Idaho	974	$18.88	$15.09	24
New Hampshire	890	$24.83	$18.25	25
West Virginia	836	$14.58	$12.07	31
Montana	664	$23.38	$19.10	15
Maine	544	$22.22	$16.50	15
District of Columbia	539	$14.48	$10.30	15
South Dakota	537	$20.59	$15.42	13
Hawaii	486	$10.32	$7.31	5
Delaware	449	$18.60	$14.85	16
North Dakota	373	$15.66	$11.79	8
Vermont	317	$15.08	$10.42	8
Alaska	294	$23.00	$14.29	9
Wyoming	257	$15.79	$11.43	11
Puerto Rico	226	$20.42	$16.82	7
Guam	19	$6.97	$4.59	1

Related codes

73630X-ray of foot$24.19
73610X-ray of ankle$21.50
73600X-ray of ankle$20.98
73660X-ray of toe, minimum of 2 views$17.55
73650X-ray of heel$22.76

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.