# CPT 73130

> Medicare paid $36.99 for CPT 73130 in the office (non-facility) setting and $36.99 in a facility under the Q3 2021 Physician Fee Schedule, effective July 2021. These are the national allowed amounts before the ~2% sequestration cut and before locality (GPCI) adjustment. This price has been unchanged since Q1 2021, when it increased 4.6%.

## What it is

A plain X-ray of the hand taken from at least three angles, including an oblique or turned view alongside the front and side pictures. The extra angle separates the finger and palm bones, which stack on top of one another when the hand is photographed flat. A shorter two-view hand study is billed under a different code.

## Selected release

- Release: Q3 2021 (2021 C)
- Effective: July 1 – September 30, 2021
- Status indicator: A
- Office (non-facility) national allowed amount: $36.99
- Facility national allowed amount: $36.99
- Sequestration: not applied

## RVUs and formula

- Work RVU: 0.17
- Office (non-facility) practice expense RVU: 0.87
- Facility practice expense RVU: 0.87
- Malpractice RVU: 0.02
- Conversion factor: 34.8931
- Formula: `(work_rvu × work_gpci + pe_rvu × pe_gpci + mp_rvu × mp_gpci) × conversion_factor`

## Source and citation

- Source: Physician relative value file (Q3 2021)
- CMS file: https://www.cms.gov/files/zip/rvu21c-updated-6302021.zip
- Parsed file: PPRRVU21_JUL.csv, row 12,541
- Canonical page: https://localishealth.com/cpt/73130/2021/A
- Release-specific citation URL: https://localishealth.com/cpt/73130/2021/C
- Last significant update: 2026-08-04T03:10:45+00:00