# CPT 73610

> Medicare paid $32.04 for CPT 73610 in the office (non-facility) setting and $32.04 in a facility under the Q2 2018 Physician Fee Schedule, effective April 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 increased 0.3%.

## What it is

A complete plain X-ray of the ankle, taken from at least three angles rather than the basic pair. The third picture is usually a mortise view - the leg turned slightly inward so the joint space between the ankle bone and the two leg bones lines up evenly. That view is what reveals subtle widening from a ligament injury. A shorter two-view ankle study has its own code.

## Selected release

- Release: Q2 2018 (2018 B)
- Effective: April 1 – June 30, 2018
- Status indicator: A
- Office (non-facility) national allowed amount: $32.04
- Facility national allowed amount: $32.04
- Sequestration: not applied

## RVUs and formula

- Work RVU: 0.17
- Office (non-facility) practice expense RVU: 0.70
- Facility practice expense RVU: 0.70
- 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 (Q2 2018)
- CMS file: https://www.cms.gov/medicare/medicare-fee-for-service-payment/physicianfeesched/downloads/rvu18b.zip
- Parsed file: PPRRVU18_APR.csv, row 12,049
- Canonical page: https://localishealth.com/cpt/73610/2018/A
- Release-specific citation URL: https://localishealth.com/cpt/73610/2018/B
- Last significant update: 2026-08-04T03:08:19+00:00