How much does Medicare pay for CPT 73650?

Medicare allowed an average of $22.76 per service and paid $17.01 of that, the balance being the patient's coinsurance and deductible (2024 data). Providers submitted an average of $62.64, which is what they billed rather than what they received — Medicare pays its fee schedule regardless of the charge.

What is CPT code 73650?

X-ray of heel, minimum of 2 views. It was billed 19,351 times to 13,538 Medicare beneficiaries by 521 providers in 2024.

Does 73650 pay differently in an office than a hospital?

Yes. The allowed amount averaged $23.93 in an office setting and $8.02 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 73650 most?

Podiatry, with 6,120 services from 225 clinicians. Next are Portable X-Ray Supplier, Orthopedic Surgery, Independent Diagnostic Testing Facility (IDTF).

CPT 73650

X-ray of heel, minimum of 2 views

$22.76Medicare-allowed amount per service, averaged across 19,351 services

Providers submitted

$62.64

Asking price, not received

Medicare allowed

$22.76

The fee schedule figure

Medicare paid

$17.01

Balance is patient coinsurance

Providers submitted an average of $62.64 for this code and Medicare allowed $22.76 — 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 $17.01 (75%); the rest is the patient’s coinsurance and deductible.

Office pays differently to hospital

Office / non-facility: $23.93
Hospital / facility: $8.02

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. 17,926 services were billed in an office setting and 1,425 in a facility.

Services: 19,351
Beneficiaries: 13,538
Providers billing it: 521
Total allowed: $440,429

What Medicare pays for CPT 73650

Across 19,351 services billed by 521 providers to 13,538 beneficiaries, Medicare allowed an average of $22.76 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 73650

Specialty	Services	Beneficiaries	Avg allowed	Providers
Podiatry	6,120	4,869	$27.80	225
Portable X-Ray Supplier	5,640	3,332	$15.02	66
Orthopedic Surgery	3,242	2,328	$27.12	113
Independent Diagnostic Testing Facility (IDTF)	1,841	924	$32.11	5
Diagnostic Radiology	1,770	1,522	$13.37	82
Physician Assistant	305	241	$20.64	13
Nurse Practitioner	180	117	$21.02	5
Family Practice	69	38	$20.75	3
Sports Medicine	53	48	$26.50	3
Radiation Oncology	41	36	$7.86	2
Vascular Surgery	33	28	$7.39	1
Internal Medicine	31	29	$21.93	1
Hand Surgery	14	14	$24.06	1
Emergency Medicine	12	12	$30.64	1

73650 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	2,967	$31.30	$34.33	41
Maryland	2,651	$17.00	$14.65	19
New York	1,420	$22.49	$15.37	26
Florida	1,385	$22.44	$16.84	45
Texas	1,166	$24.92	$20.16	45
Illinois	860	$23.22	$16.86	27
Ohio	705	$18.26	$14.15	18
Tennessee	629	$20.09	$17.47	18
Indiana	607	$24.46	$20.28	20
North Carolina	563	$23.74	$19.90	22
Missouri	522	$17.25	$14.35	14
Pennsylvania	458	$21.69	$18.42	16
Mississippi	454	$22.88	$20.65	14
Michigan	403	$28.01	$21.87	21
Georgia	354	$22.57	$19.56	15
South Carolina	341	$25.08	$19.90	14
Massachusetts	337	$22.73	$16.33	11
Washington	319	$9.28	$6.67	10
Connecticut	303	$29.69	$20.35	9
New Jersey	294	$19.81	$13.98	10
Virginia	249	$24.21	$17.09	12
Colorado	230	$28.25	$19.94	12
Louisiana	224	$16.51	$13.64	7
Arkansas	201	$11.95	$10.26	1
Arizona	173	$27.45	$21.24	6
Kansas	170	$21.07	$18.21	5
Kentucky	127	$23.78	$20.68	7
Wisconsin	126	$14.75	$10.54	5
Nevada	125	$19.01	$15.16	4
Oklahoma	122	$17.67	$14.95	5
Alabama	120	$22.95	$20.36	5
New Hampshire	117	$21.79	$15.80	6
Oregon	98	$26.52	$18.88	4
Iowa	95	$21.61	$17.31	4
North Dakota	82	$10.30	$7.76	4
Hawaii	81	$18.88	$12.34	4
Nebraska	66	$28.24	$22.15	4
Idaho	37	$16.92	$12.84	2
South Dakota	35	$8.06	$4.91	2
Vermont	32	$7.35	$5.07	2
Delaware	29	$27.98	$22.44	1
Minnesota	28	$14.68	$10.74	1
Rhode Island	19	$27.90	$21.25	1
New Mexico	16	$26.37	$19.84	1
Utah	11	$25.11	$18.65	1

Related codes

73630X-ray of foot$24.19
73610X-ray of ankle$21.50
73620X-ray of foot$21.74
73600X-ray of ankle$20.98
73660X-ray of toe, minimum of 2 views$17.55

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.