How much does Medicare pay for CPT 73718?

Medicare allowed an average of $132.74 per service and paid $101.57 of that, the balance being the patient's coinsurance and deductible (2024 data). Providers submitted an average of $922.47, which is what they billed rather than what they received — Medicare pays its fee schedule regardless of the charge.

What is CPT code 73718?

Mri scan of leg without contrast. It was billed 105,803 times to 96,586 Medicare beneficiaries by 3,249 providers in 2024.

Does 73718 pay differently in an office than a hospital?

Yes. The allowed amount averaged $180.48 in an office setting and $62.04 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 73718 most?

Diagnostic Radiology, with 91,946 services from 2,706 clinicians. Next are Independent Diagnostic Testing Facility (IDTF), Orthopedic Surgery, Podiatry.

CPT 73718

Mri scan of leg without contrast

$132.74Medicare-allowed amount per service, averaged across 105,803 services

Providers submitted

$922.47

Asking price, not received

Medicare allowed

$132.74

The fee schedule figure

Medicare paid

$101.57

Balance is patient coinsurance

Providers submitted an average of $922.47 for this code and Medicare allowed $132.74 — 6.9× 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 $101.57 (77%); the rest is the patient’s coinsurance and deductible.

Office pays differently to hospital

Office / non-facility: $180.48
Hospital / facility: $62.04

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. 63,157 services were billed in an office setting and 42,646 in a facility.

Services: 105,803
Beneficiaries: 96,586
Providers billing it: 3,249
Total allowed: $14,044,290

What Medicare pays for CPT 73718

Across 105,803 services billed by 3,249 providers to 96,586 beneficiaries, Medicare allowed an average of $132.74 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 73718

Specialty	Services	Beneficiaries	Avg allowed	Providers
Diagnostic Radiology	91,946	83,743	$123.16	2,706
Independent Diagnostic Testing Facility (IDTF)	9,230	8,585	$209.59	320
Orthopedic Surgery	2,127	1,985	$176.93	110
Podiatry	1,802	1,653	$175.93	78
Interventional Radiology	281	231	$95.40	13
Nuclear Medicine	109	96	$124.99	2
Family Practice	82	81	$171.23	5
Rheumatology	40	35	$170.07	2
Pediatric Medicine	36	32	$166.45	2
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation	30	27	$170.23	2
Hand Surgery	28	28	$146.63	2
Internal Medicine	18	17	$166.81	1
Sports Medicine	16	16	$173.40	1
Neurosurgery	13	12	$229.77	1
Physician Assistant	12	12	$170.13	1

73718 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	14,201	$158.55	$106.16	386
Florida	11,002	$157.73	$120.81	284
New York	10,422	$162.50	$108.52	212
Texas	7,746	$134.56	$105.87	254
Ohio	4,908	$89.95	$68.55	125
New Jersey	4,791	$180.87	$123.12	128
Illinois	4,203	$107.26	$79.43	161
Pennsylvania	3,873	$104.83	$77.86	128
Maryland	3,487	$163.33	$115.72	77
Virginia	3,274	$122.58	$87.97	85
Missouri	2,756	$97.87	$74.59	86
Massachusetts	2,726	$128.15	$89.27	83
Arizona	2,442	$151.62	$116.52	62
North Carolina	2,292	$85.58	$67.75	100
Colorado	2,211	$133.10	$95.78	77
Georgia	1,978	$113.07	$87.73	84
Tennessee	1,916	$88.79	$70.09	72
Minnesota	1,799	$107.36	$80.14	72
South Carolina	1,689	$105.04	$84.71	64
Washington	1,521	$104.82	$73.79	54
Indiana	1,475	$93.46	$74.65	59
Michigan	1,372	$99.86	$73.28	49
Oklahoma	986	$94.02	$75.69	35
Connecticut	967	$149.05	$105.65	28
Arkansas	950	$71.64	$63.04	40
Nevada	928	$149.91	$116.14	30
Louisiana	907	$105.05	$86.94	40
Kansas	869	$99.22	$80.32	37
Alabama	834	$101.86	$83.67	40
Wisconsin	766	$91.22	$69.25	41
Mississippi	727	$110.75	$95.77	26
Kentucky	709	$105.46	$86.09	33
Delaware	610	$141.94	$108.77	14
Oregon	489	$98.31	$73.91	20
Iowa	435	$87.68	$67.72	18
Idaho	389	$77.90	$62.64	15
District of Columbia	381	$171.59	$123.08	7
Nebraska	375	$82.34	$64.88	14
Utah	282	$130.25	$102.25	16
Maine	273	$98.60	$76.89	12
West Virginia	266	$73.49	$54.36	12
New Mexico	265	$116.23	$94.28	7
New Hampshire	260	$82.48	$61.74	14
South Dakota	213	$67.39	$47.77	11
Rhode Island	198	$186.47	$132.24	6
Montana	114	$94.35	$71.51	7
Wyoming	110	$133.75	$103.59	6
Hawaii	104	$154.91	$107.17	5
Puerto Rico	99	$63.26	$46.80	1
Alaska	85	$223.33	$146.61	5
Vermont	62	$110.91	$79.22	4
AP	30	$189.85	$122.95	1
Guam	22	$236.43	$140.15	1
North Dakota	14	$60.23	$47.57	1

Related codes

73721Mri scan of leg joint without contrast$127.76
73700Ct scan of leg without contrast$61.49
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.