How much does Medicare pay for CPT 73701?

Medicare allowed an average of $54.85 per service and paid $42.38 of that, the balance being the patient's coinsurance and deductible (2024 data). Providers submitted an average of $297.65, which is what they billed rather than what they received — Medicare pays its fee schedule regardless of the charge.

What is CPT code 73701?

Ct scan of leg with contrast material. It was billed 16,818 times to 15,211 Medicare beneficiaries by 878 providers in 2024.

Does 73701 pay differently in an office than a hospital?

Yes. The allowed amount averaged $104.67 in an office setting and $53.89 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 73701 most?

Diagnostic Radiology, with 16,487 services from 859 clinicians. Next are Interventional Radiology, Radiation Oncology, Nuclear Medicine.

CPT 73701

Ct scan of leg with contrast material

$54.85Medicare-allowed amount per service, averaged across 16,818 services

Providers submitted

$297.65

Asking price, not received

Medicare allowed

$54.85

The fee schedule figure

Medicare paid

$42.38

Balance is patient coinsurance

Providers submitted an average of $297.65 for this code and Medicare allowed $54.85 — 5.4× 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 $42.38 (77%); the rest is the patient’s coinsurance and deductible.

Office pays differently to hospital

Office / non-facility: $104.67
Hospital / facility: $53.89

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. 319 services were billed in an office setting and 16,499 in a facility.

Services: 16,818
Beneficiaries: 15,211
Providers billing it: 878
Total allowed: $922,467

What Medicare pays for CPT 73701

Across 16,818 services billed by 878 providers to 15,211 beneficiaries, Medicare allowed an average of $54.85 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 73701

Specialty	Services	Beneficiaries	Avg allowed	Providers
Diagnostic Radiology	16,487	14,918	$54.80	859
Interventional Radiology	235	209	$54.99	13
Radiation Oncology	47	41	$53.31	3
Nuclear Medicine	22	18	$54.38	1
Orthopedic Surgery	14	13	$48.80	1
Independent Diagnostic Testing Facility (IDTF)	13	12	$133.61	1

73701 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	1,679	$55.86	$40.82	91
Texas	1,335	$53.38	$51.73	58
New York	1,139	$61.10	$43.70	55
Florida	1,104	$57.16	$42.74	43
Pennsylvania	1,074	$53.03	$40.36	54
Washington	796	$55.02	$38.50	42
Minnesota	739	$54.28	$40.03	44
Massachusetts	690	$56.45	$41.71	38
Michigan	677	$53.58	$40.31	27
Missouri	649	$51.29	$40.29	31
North Carolina	636	$51.54	$39.77	35
Maryland	582	$55.27	$41.11	29
Virginia	511	$53.94	$40.80	29
Colorado	469	$54.44	$39.06	26
Illinois	446	$53.95	$40.69	26
New Jersey	424	$56.48	$39.99	20
Ohio	403	$53.30	$39.96	26
Indiana	367	$51.18	$40.39	19
Arizona	324	$59.70	$45.74	19
Tennessee	251	$55.01	$42.87	16
South Carolina	235	$51.29	$40.71	15
Oregon	197	$53.53	$39.12	12
Iowa	173	$52.38	$44.58	7
New Hampshire	157	$52.85	$39.27	7
Oklahoma	146	$57.96	$46.85	9
Utah	142	$50.69	$39.58	7
Alabama	140	$50.34	$52.42	8
Connecticut	132	$55.39	$40.27	9
District of Columbia	118	$57.42	$44.10	4
Kentucky	114	$52.01	$41.01	8
Mississippi	106	$51.83	$41.32	7
Wisconsin	96	$51.57	$40.14	7
Georgia	95	$53.63	$38.47	7
Nebraska	82	$50.49	$39.61	5
New Mexico	72	$52.33	$39.19	3
Arkansas	68	$51.03	$44.47	5
Idaho	57	$50.76	$39.51	4
Montana	51	$52.62	$39.49	3
Nevada	50	$98.56	$77.00	3
Delaware	50	$52.99	$44.25	3
Vermont	43	$51.60	$38.99	3
Kansas	37	$49.08	$38.95	3
Louisiana	30	$50.95	$41.22	2
Alaska	29	$71.35	$38.79	2
South Dakota	24	$51.06	$40.03	2
Hawaii	21	$54.32	$40.94	1
Rhode Island	17	$52.10	$38.49	1
Puerto Rico	15	$54.22	$38.32	1
Maine	15	$56.10	$40.54	1
Guam	11	$56.18	$30.99	1

Related codes

73721Mri scan of leg joint without contrast$127.76
73700Ct scan of leg without contrast$61.49
73718Mri scan of leg without contrast$132.74
73720Mri scan of leg before and after contrast$138.52
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.