How much does Medicare pay for CPT 00140?

Medicare allowed an average of $123.68 per service and paid $97.09 of that, the balance being the patient's coinsurance and deductible (2024 data). Providers submitted an average of $1134.62, which is what they billed rather than what they received — Medicare pays its fee schedule regardless of the charge.

What is CPT code 00140?

Anesthesia for other procedure on eye. It was billed 116,469 times to 106,007 Medicare beneficiaries by 3,405 providers in 2024.

Does 00140 pay differently in an office than a hospital?

Yes. The allowed amount averaged $101.47 in an office setting and $124.64 in a facility. The office rate is generally higher because the practice supplies the room, staff and equipment out of that single payment; in a hospital those are billed separately by the facility.

Which specialty bills 00140 most?

Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA), with 58,597 services from 1,815 clinicians. Next are Anesthesiology, Anesthesiology Assistant, Pain Management.

CPT 00140

Anesthesia for other procedure on eye

$123.68Medicare-allowed amount per service, averaged across 116,469 services

Providers submitted

$1134.62

Asking price, not received

Medicare allowed

$123.68

The fee schedule figure

Medicare paid

$97.09

Balance is patient coinsurance

Providers submitted an average of $1134.62 for this code and Medicare allowed $123.68 — 9.2× less. That gap is normal and means nothing on its own: Medicare pays its fee schedule regardless of what is billed, so the submitted figure describes a hospital chargemaster, not a price anyone paid. Of the allowed amount Medicare paid $97.09 (79%); the rest is the patient’s coinsurance and deductible.

Office pays differently to hospital

Office / non-facility: $101.47
Hospital / facility: $124.64

The facility rate is higher for this code, which is unusual and generally means the service depends on equipment or staffing a hospital carries. 4,805 services were billed in an office setting and 111,664 in a facility.

Services: 116,469
Beneficiaries: 106,007
Providers billing it: 3,405
Total allowed: $14,404,886

What Medicare pays for CPT 00140

Across 116,469 services billed by 3,405 providers to 106,007 beneficiaries, Medicare allowed an average of $123.68 per service. The allowed amount is the figure that matters: it is what Medicare and the patient together owe, set by the fee schedule and adjusted for local practice costs. What a provider chose to submit has no bearing on it.

Who bills 00140

Specialty	Services	Beneficiaries	Avg allowed	Providers
Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA)	58,597	52,717	$123.35	1,815
Anesthesiology	55,825	51,336	$125.11	1,525
Anesthesiology Assistant	1,412	1,359	$77.41	50
Pain Management	428	397	$140.94	8
Critical Care (Intensivists)	89	88	$91.55	4
Interventional Pain Management	77	72	$128.93	2
Emergency Medicine	41	38	$132.41	1

00140 reimbursement by state

Two different numbers. Allowed is what Medicare actually allowed in that state, which includes the local practice-cost adjustment. Standardized strips that geographic adjustment out of the payment, so it is the column to use when comparing states — a difference there reflects how the code was billed, not what it costs to run a practice locally.

State	Services	Allowed	Standardized pmt	Providers
California	13,419	$152.75	$115.13	429
New York	10,272	$132.05	$94.05	185
Texas	8,045	$108.08	$86.17	240
Florida	8,022	$126.36	$96.11	231
Pennsylvania	5,020	$108.01	$84.24	166
Massachusetts	4,894	$121.01	$91.54	111
Georgia	4,379	$99.02	$78.55	122
Michigan	4,365	$103.89	$79.54	122
New Jersey	4,355	$134.58	$99.91	89
North Carolina	4,139	$91.94	$74.27	151
Virginia	3,347	$104.34	$82.47	108
Maryland	2,986	$147.23	$110.77	89
South Carolina	2,716	$114.83	$92.67	75
Ohio	2,548	$120.68	$95.07	103
Arizona	2,381	$140.14	$110.90	69
Illinois	2,236	$126.62	$96.96	85
Alabama	1,953	$76.56	$62.46	53
Washington	1,935	$154.05	$120.36	46
Missouri	1,913	$127.07	$99.97	75
Indiana	1,893	$117.25	$96.94	62
Tennessee	1,839	$122.01	$99.84	76
Oklahoma	1,707	$130.68	$105.41	37
Minnesota	1,629	$114.18	$90.86	67
Connecticut	1,591	$96.06	$72.84	60
Louisiana	1,403	$124.36	$99.51	42
Colorado	1,288	$112.91	$88.70	52
Kansas	1,274	$131.91	$107.73	37
Nevada	1,187	$135.94	$108.89	26
Wisconsin	1,148	$103.70	$85.48	43
Arkansas	1,124	$128.94	$109.88	24
Nebraska	1,054	$129.62	$105.76	23
Mississippi	911	$116.26	$93.27	27
Idaho	902	$137.83	$114.28	18
South Dakota	895	$123.62	$101.84	13
Kentucky	794	$122.09	$99.23	29
Oregon	784	$126.15	$96.39	31
New Hampshire	759	$132.00	$105.72	21
Iowa	725	$142.19	$113.34	22
Utah	722	$119.77	$96.27	34
New Mexico	539	$129.64	$103.93	10
Montana	507	$138.25	$102.84	6
Puerto Rico	507	$185.05	$147.19	5
North Dakota	367	$130.12	$104.62	12
Delaware	341	$107.92	$85.15	9
District of Columbia	319	$116.81	$88.97	11
Hawaii	288	$144.55	$116.88	10
Rhode Island	277	$112.48	$83.62	11
West Virginia	258	$103.17	$79.92	15
Wyoming	166	$136.79	$101.76	4
Maine	157	$142.89	$112.44	9
Vermont	137	$123.15	$97.80	8
Alaska	39	$206.56	$119.79	1
Guam	13	$188.78	$128.88	1

Related codes

00142Anesthesia for lens surgery$94.99
00145Anesthesia for retinal surgery$148.90
00104Anesthesia for electroshock therapy$80.75
00103Anesthesia for procedure on eyelid$139.67
00160Anesthesia for other procedure on nose and sinuses$150.31
00144Anesthesia for procedure on eye for corneal transplant$143.81
00170Anesthesia for other procedure on mouth$148.06
00120Anesthesia for other procedure on external middle and inner ear$184.90

Billing this code is not the same as earning it

An allowed amount is revenue to a practice, not income to a clinician. It funds staff, premises, equipment and supplies before anyone is paid. What clinicians actually earn is published separately by the Department of Labor, and what industry pays them is published separately again by CMS — this site carries both.

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Where this comes from. CMS Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, by Provider and Service, 2024. It covers fee-for-service Original Medicare Part B only — not Medicare Advantage, not Medicaid, and not commercial insurance, which typically pays more for the same code.

How it is averaged. CMS publishes one average per provider per code. Every figure here is re-weighted by the number of services, so a clinician who billed the code 4,000 times counts 4,000 times more than one who billed it twice. CMS also suppresses any provider-code pair with fewer than 11 beneficiaries, so low-volume practice is missing from these totals by design.