How much does Medicare pay for CPT 73706?

Medicare allowed an average of $115.70 per service and paid $89.97 of that, the balance being the patient's coinsurance and deductible (2024 data). Providers submitted an average of $429.33, which is what they billed rather than what they received — Medicare pays its fee schedule regardless of the charge.

What is CPT code 73706?

Ct scan of blood vessels of lower leg with contrast. It was billed 1,344 times to 1,158 Medicare beneficiaries by 63 providers in 2024.

Does 73706 pay differently in an office than a hospital?

Yes. The allowed amount averaged $247.11 in an office setting and $108.37 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 73706 most?

Diagnostic Radiology, with 1,118 services from 51 clinicians. Next are Interventional Radiology, Vascular Surgery, Cardiology.

CPT 73706

Ct scan of blood vessels of lower leg with contrast

$115.70Medicare-allowed amount per service, averaged across 1,344 services

Providers submitted

$429.33

Asking price, not received

Medicare allowed

$115.70

The fee schedule figure

Medicare paid

$89.97

Balance is patient coinsurance

Providers submitted an average of $429.33 for this code and Medicare allowed $115.70 — 3.7× 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 $89.97 (78%); the rest is the patient’s coinsurance and deductible.

Office pays differently to hospital

Office / non-facility: $247.11
Hospital / facility: $108.37

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. 71 services were billed in an office setting and 1,273 in a facility.

Services: 1,344
Beneficiaries: 1,158
Providers billing it: 63
Total allowed: $155,501

What Medicare pays for CPT 73706

Across 1,344 services billed by 63 providers to 1,158 beneficiaries, Medicare allowed an average of $115.70 per service. That is 1.2 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 73706

Specialty	Services	Beneficiaries	Avg allowed	Providers
Diagnostic Radiology	1,118	962	$116.08	51
Interventional Radiology	203	174	$105.04	10
Vascular Surgery	12	11	$86.10	1
Cardiology	11	11	$305.97	1

73706 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
Indiana	325	$153.18	$127.33	7
California	155	$106.43	$75.44	10
Massachusetts	135	$103.74	$73.06	6
Pennsylvania	119	$85.31	$65.89	6
Texas	99	$86.15	$74.84	5
Illinois	58	$155.59	$125.45	1
Michigan	52	$89.18	$65.38	3
Ohio	38	$92.73	$71.63	3
Minnesota	36	$92.92	$68.03	2
Oklahoma	33	$82.31	$70.22	2
Washington	31	$86.39	$62.80	1
Virginia	29	$84.74	$66.56	2
Nevada	25	$260.53	$184.19	1
New York	25	$207.07	$134.41	2
Oregon	21	$90.69	$66.27	1
New Jersey	20	$93.48	$66.61	1
Arizona	19	$85.90	$66.92	1
Tennessee	18	$89.56	$66.84	1
Kansas	17	$81.90	$57.23	1
Utah	15	$84.09	$62.26	1
Missouri	14	$90.91	$71.19	1
Florida	13	$99.99	$77.61	1
Wisconsin	13	$83.01	$66.65	1
District of Columbia	12	$93.85	$67.06	1
Guam	11	$90.89	$78.76	1
Maryland	11	$91.87	$67.33	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
73701Ct scan of leg$54.85
73723Mri scan of leg joint before and after contrast$189.99

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.