# CPT 73060

> Medicare paid $31.76 for CPT 73060 in the office (non-facility) setting and $31.76 in a facility under the Q3 2020 Physician Fee Schedule, effective July 2020. These are the national allowed amounts before the ~2% sequestration cut and before locality (GPCI) adjustment. This price has been unchanged since Q1 2020, when it increased 3.7%.

## What it is

A plain X-ray of the humerus, the single long bone between the shoulder and the elbow, taken from at least two different angles. Two views matter because a crack can hide completely on one projection and be obvious on another. It covers the shaft of the bone rather than the shoulder or elbow joints themselves, which have their own studies.

## Selected release

- Release: Q3 2020 (2020 C)
- Effective: July 1 – September 30, 2020
- Status indicator: A
- Office (non-facility) national allowed amount: $31.76
- Facility national allowed amount: $31.76
- Sequestration: not applied

## RVUs and formula

- Work RVU: 0.16
- Office (non-facility) practice expense RVU: 0.70
- Facility practice expense RVU: 0.70
- Malpractice RVU: 0.02
- Conversion factor: 36.0896
- Formula: `(work_rvu × work_gpci + pe_rvu × pe_gpci + mp_rvu × mp_gpci) × conversion_factor`

## Source and citation

- Source: Physician relative value file (Q3 2020)
- CMS file: https://www.cms.gov/files/zip/rvu20c-updated-06192020.zip
- Parsed file: PPRRVU20_V0618.csv, row 12,476
- Canonical page: https://localishealth.com/cpt/73060/2020/A
- Release-specific citation URL: https://localishealth.com/cpt/73060/2020/C
- Last significant update: 2026-08-04T03:09:46+00:00