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Who bills 17311?

17311 is the CPT code for: Removal and microscopic exam of growth of head, neck, hands, feet, or genitals, 1-5 tissue blocks. In 2024, 3,051 providers billed 17311 933,225 times, with an estimated $417.1M paid by Medicare.

$667.02
2026 PFS national rate (office)
3,051
Providers billing it (2024)
933,225
Services billed
$417.1M
Est. Medicare paid
The fee

What does Medicare pay for 17311?

Medicare's 2026 Physician Fee Schedule national rate for 17311 is $667.02 in the office setting and $286.91 in a facility. National amounts before geographic adjustment — your locality's rate differs slightly.

Office (non-facility) rate$667.02
Facility rate$286.91
Fee schedule2026 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule

What Medicare actually paid per service in 2024, on average: $446.96 (observed payment across all settings and modifiers — not a fee-schedule rate).

The list

Who bills 17311 the most.

The top 5 billers nationally, ranked by 2024 Medicare service volume.

#ProviderSpecialtyLocationServicesEst. Medicare paid
1James Keane, M.D.DermatologyLittle Rock, AR4,347$1.7M
2Robert Leposavic, M.D.DermatologySanta Barbara, CA1,953$992K
3Long Quan, M.D., PH.D.DermatologyColumbia, SC1,887$833K
4Daniel Shurman, MDDermatologyWest Lawn, PA1,847$886K
5Evan Stiegel, M.D.DermatologyWinston Salem, NC1,818$741K

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The breakdown

Where 17311 gets billed.

Top states by volume

Florida118,037 services
California95,605 services
Texas61,454 services
New York40,776 services
Pennsylvania37,598 services
North Carolina36,952 services
Arizona34,604 services
Georgia30,537 services

About this code

CMS descriptionRemoval and microscopic exam of growth of head, neck, hands, feet, or genitals, 1-5 tissue blocks
Code typeCPT (Level I HCPCS)
Providers billing it (2024)3,051
Services billed (2024)933,225
Avg. Medicare payment per service (2024)$446.96
Where these numbers come from. Rates are CMS's own public fee-schedule files — the Physician Fee Schedule, Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule, ASP drug pricing, DMEPOS, and the OPPS/ASC addenda — each labeled with its file year on this page; national amounts are shown before geographic adjustment. Codes with no separate rate render the fee schedule's own status in words, never a fake $0. Utilization comes from CMS's public Medicare Provider Utilization & Payment data for 2024, the most recent year released. It covers traditional Medicare fee-for-service only (no commercial insurance, no Medicare Advantage), and CMS suppresses any provider-and-code line with fewer than 11 beneficiaries before publishing, so low-volume billers don't appear at all. "Est. Medicare paid" is each billing line's average Medicare payment times its service count, summed — actual per-claim payment varies by setting and modifiers. For drug and supply codes, a "service" is a billed unit (a milligram, a milliliter, a square centimeter), not a patient visit. Code descriptions are CMS's own, from the utilization files. Prospect 811 organizes public data; it doesn't add to or alter it. Not affiliated with or endorsed by CMS. Full detail on the data page.

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