# CPT 73110

> Medicare paid $35.64 for CPT 73110 in the office (non-facility) setting and $35.64 in a facility under the Q4 2018 Physician Fee Schedule, effective October 2018. These are the national allowed amounts before the ~2% sequestration cut and before locality (GPCI) adjustment. This price has been unchanged since Q1 2018, when it decreased 0.7%.

## What it is

A complete plain X-ray of the wrist, taken from at least three angles rather than the basic two. The wrist packs eight small bones into a tight space, so they overlap on any single picture and the additional views are what let a radiologist see each one clearly. A brief two-view wrist study exists as its own code.

## Selected release

- Release: Q4 2018 (2018 D)
- Effective: October 1 – December 31, 2018
- Status indicator: A
- Office (non-facility) national allowed amount: $35.64
- Facility national allowed amount: $35.64
- Sequestration: not applied

## RVUs and formula

- Work RVU: 0.17
- Office (non-facility) practice expense RVU: 0.80
- Facility practice expense RVU: 0.80
- Malpractice RVU: 0.02
- Conversion factor: 35.9996
- Formula: `(work_rvu × work_gpci + pe_rvu × pe_gpci + mp_rvu × mp_gpci) × conversion_factor`

## Source and citation

- Source: Physician relative value file (Q4 2018)
- CMS file: https://www.cms.gov/medicare/medicare-fee-for-service-payment/physicianfeesched/downloads/rvu18d.zip
- Parsed file: PPRRVU18_OCT.csv, row 11,978
- Canonical page: https://localishealth.com/cpt/73110/2018/A
- Release-specific citation URL: https://localishealth.com/cpt/73110/2018/D
- Last significant update: 2026-08-04T03:08:37+00:00