How much does Medicare pay for CPT 73723?

Medicare allowed an average of $189.99 per service and paid $147.00 of that, the balance being the patient's coinsurance and deductible (2024 data). Providers submitted an average of $1127.26, which is what they billed rather than what they received — Medicare pays its fee schedule regardless of the charge.

What is CPT code 73723?

Mri scan of leg joint before and after contrast. It was billed 8,722 times to 8,111 Medicare beneficiaries by 484 providers in 2024.

Does 73723 pay differently in an office than a hospital?

Yes. The allowed amount averaged $310.88 in an office setting and $99.83 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 73723 most?

Diagnostic Radiology, with 8,110 services from 449 clinicians. Next are Independent Diagnostic Testing Facility (IDTF), Physician Assistant, Nuclear Medicine.

CPT 73723

Mri scan of leg joint before and after contrast

$189.99Medicare-allowed amount per service, averaged across 8,722 services

Providers submitted

$1127.26

Asking price, not received

Medicare allowed

$189.99

The fee schedule figure

Medicare paid

$147.00

Balance is patient coinsurance

Providers submitted an average of $1127.26 for this code and Medicare allowed $189.99 — 5.9× 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 $147.00 (77%); the rest is the patient’s coinsurance and deductible.

Office pays differently to hospital

Office / non-facility: $310.88
Hospital / facility: $99.83

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. 3,726 services were billed in an office setting and 4,996 in a facility.

Services: 8,722
Beneficiaries: 8,111
Providers billing it: 484
Total allowed: $1,657,093

What Medicare pays for CPT 73723

Across 8,722 services billed by 484 providers to 8,111 beneficiaries, Medicare allowed an average of $189.99 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 73723

Specialty	Services	Beneficiaries	Avg allowed	Providers
Diagnostic Radiology	8,110	7,558	$179.05	449
Independent Diagnostic Testing Facility (IDTF)	563	509	$336.51	33
Physician Assistant	34	33	$271.04	1
Nuclear Medicine	15	11	$419.62	1

73723 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	971	$214.38	$146.81	50
New York	879	$214.01	$145.57	36
Florida	859	$231.15	$180.38	45
Texas	635	$247.77	$198.92	38
Missouri	392	$140.36	$106.75	23
Massachusetts	373	$222.79	$157.40	22
Illinois	356	$121.37	$88.22	21
Ohio	295	$211.89	$162.44	12
New Jersey	277	$301.54	$208.06	16
Michigan	277	$97.64	$73.47	13
Minnesota	262	$138.25	$102.90	18
Arizona	257	$216.92	$168.04	14
Colorado	221	$104.77	$79.79	14
Virginia	212	$208.25	$150.03	14
North Carolina	208	$158.61	$132.07	15
Pennsylvania	206	$143.21	$104.72	13
Tennessee	180	$125.67	$96.63	11
Maryland	166	$336.96	$237.16	8
Nevada	164	$279.28	$214.93	9
Washington	156	$102.51	$72.98	10
Iowa	141	$93.96	$73.98	7
South Carolina	92	$119.80	$96.57	6
Georgia	91	$137.01	$103.38	6
Arkansas	88	$96.10	$76.17	5
Connecticut	83	$108.17	$75.31	3
Kentucky	71	$144.06	$114.39	5
Rhode Island	69	$226.27	$167.55	4
Kansas	65	$95.65	$71.86	5
Indiana	65	$94.25	$71.33	4
Alaska	65	$221.27	$144.62	4
Nebraska	64	$128.67	$101.61	3
District of Columbia	61	$316.86	$230.03	3
New Hampshire	54	$98.98	$72.23	4
Oklahoma	53	$94.50	$75.43	3
South Dakota	41	$95.67	$68.62	2
Idaho	40	$94.40	$74.34	3
Wisconsin	38	$96.16	$69.17	3
New Mexico	36	$96.18	$63.94	2
Alabama	33	$201.86	$173.12	2
Puerto Rico	26	$98.36	$65.96	1
Louisiana	25	$285.78	$248.21	2
Guam	19	$378.65	$269.97	1
Montana	16	$96.74	$75.94	1
Utah	15	$94.73	$76.13	1
Mississippi	13	$93.15	$64.42	1
Delaware	12	$98.75	$76.19	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
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.