How much does Medicare pay for CPT 73700?

Medicare allowed an average of $61.49 per service and paid $46.26 of that, the balance being the patient's coinsurance and deductible (2024 data). Providers submitted an average of $385.51, which is what they billed rather than what they received — Medicare pays its fee schedule regardless of the charge.

What is CPT code 73700?

Ct scan of leg without contrast. It was billed 350,738 times to 329,538 Medicare beneficiaries by 8,754 providers in 2024.

Does 73700 pay differently in an office than a hospital?

Yes. The allowed amount averaged $101.34 in an office setting and $45.96 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 73700 most?

Diagnostic Radiology, with 321,792 services from 8,030 clinicians. Next are Independent Diagnostic Testing Facility (IDTF), Orthopedic Surgery, Interventional Radiology.

CPT 73700

Ct scan of leg without contrast

$61.49Medicare-allowed amount per service, averaged across 350,738 services

Providers submitted

$385.51

Asking price, not received

Medicare allowed

$61.49

The fee schedule figure

Medicare paid

$46.26

Balance is patient coinsurance

Providers submitted an average of $385.51 for this code and Medicare allowed $61.49 — 6.3× 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 $46.26 (75%); the rest is the patient’s coinsurance and deductible.

Office pays differently to hospital

Office / non-facility: $101.34
Hospital / facility: $45.96

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. 98,357 services were billed in an office setting and 252,381 in a facility.

Services: 350,738
Beneficiaries: 329,538
Providers billing it: 8,754
Total allowed: $21,566,880

What Medicare pays for CPT 73700

Across 350,738 services billed by 8,754 providers to 329,538 beneficiaries, Medicare allowed an average of $61.49 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 73700

Specialty	Services	Beneficiaries	Avg allowed	Providers
Diagnostic Radiology	321,792	303,686	$58.66	8,030
Independent Diagnostic Testing Facility (IDTF)	11,694	10,683	$114.60	268
Orthopedic Surgery	8,186	7,040	$92.67	175
Interventional Radiology	4,631	4,402	$49.83	181
Podiatry	1,674	1,335	$101.54	26
Nuclear Medicine	561	374	$49.13	14
Internal Medicine	521	464	$93.10	12
Radiation Oncology	513	440	$49.95	7
Pediatric Medicine	266	256	$89.22	4
Family Practice	192	180	$76.29	6
Nurse Practitioner	107	100	$92.26	4
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation	104	98	$68.59	2
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery	104	99	$45.61	1
Emergency Medicine	80	75	$76.77	5
Physician Assistant	57	56	$74.41	4

73700 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	32,810	$76.52	$51.38	858
Florida	26,612	$73.68	$54.69	550
Texas	24,968	$60.75	$47.66	610
New York	21,856	$66.71	$45.67	450
Illinois	16,584	$53.84	$39.15	423
Ohio	13,553	$51.50	$38.11	288
Pennsylvania	13,289	$52.83	$39.04	356
New Jersey	12,171	$78.30	$54.01	286
Virginia	11,680	$62.08	$45.30	226
North Carolina	11,615	$55.67	$43.77	270
Minnesota	11,000	$56.57	$40.83	328
Massachusetts	9,909	$52.64	$36.44	259
Michigan	9,720	$50.65	$36.63	238
Missouri	9,054	$55.26	$42.23	214
Arizona	8,663	$75.71	$58.14	163
Colorado	8,564	$65.12	$45.85	180
Tennessee	8,478	$51.50	$39.52	206
Maryland	7,536	$68.54	$48.81	211
Georgia	7,447	$60.38	$45.73	222
Washington	7,113	$64.44	$44.70	154
Indiana	7,052	$52.42	$40.17	175
South Carolina	5,725	$57.56	$44.47	153
Oklahoma	5,163	$52.09	$40.36	127
Louisiana	5,047	$56.69	$45.53	147
Alabama	4,894	$48.65	$37.64	168
Connecticut	4,072	$70.26	$49.54	113
Wisconsin	3,818	$51.87	$38.54	146
Kansas	3,693	$51.00	$39.47	94
Arkansas	3,453	$45.92	$38.39	102
Kentucky	3,398	$55.63	$42.89	99
Oregon	3,154	$64.51	$47.17	79
Iowa	3,097	$53.65	$40.52	70
Mississippi	2,910	$54.34	$47.90	94
Nebraska	2,730	$48.41	$37.20	74
Nevada	2,543	$60.28	$44.69	73
New Hampshire	2,111	$47.30	$34.26	57
Idaho	1,806	$49.70	$37.04	38
Rhode Island	1,724	$63.26	$43.71	48
West Virginia	1,532	$45.74	$34.63	70
Utah	1,455	$60.70	$45.05	51
New Mexico	1,139	$54.18	$40.54	31
District of Columbia	970	$66.56	$48.42	27
South Dakota	917	$47.59	$33.55	21
Delaware	916	$59.97	$44.87	27
Wyoming	799	$61.56	$45.52	25
Montana	770	$54.74	$40.55	26
North Dakota	757	$49.32	$35.88	30
Alaska	658	$97.53	$58.35	24
Maine	615	$50.11	$35.57	25
Vermont	415	$44.72	$31.61	17
Hawaii	352	$54.44	$38.44	20
Puerto Rico	180	$45.93	$34.08	4
AA	131	$45.24	$34.32	2
AP	75	$70.56	$47.67	2
Guam	27	$47.09	$35.04	2
XX	18	$46.90	$35.01	1

Related codes

73721Mri scan of leg joint without contrast$127.76
73718Mri scan of leg without contrast$132.74
73720Mri scan of leg before and after contrast$138.52
73701Ct scan of leg$54.85
73723Mri scan of leg joint before and after contrast$189.99
73706Ct scan of blood vessels of lower leg$115.70

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.