How much does Medicare pay for CPT 00300?

Medicare allowed an average of $142.16 per service and paid $111.63 of that, the balance being the patient's coinsurance and deductible (2024 data). Providers submitted an average of $1610.25, which is what they billed rather than what they received — Medicare pays its fee schedule regardless of the charge.

What is CPT code 00300?

Anesthesia for other procedure on skin, muscles, or nerves of head, neck, and upper back. It was billed 37,437 times to 35,936 Medicare beneficiaries by 2,068 providers in 2024.

Does 00300 pay differently in an office than a hospital?

Yes. The allowed amount averaged $121.92 in an office setting and $142.82 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 00300 most?

Anesthesiology, with 22,277 services from 1,279 clinicians. Next are Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA), Anesthesiology Assistant, Pain Management.

CPT 00300

Anesthesia for other procedure on skin, muscles, or nerves of head, neck, and upper back

$142.16Medicare-allowed amount per service, averaged across 37,437 services

Providers submitted

$1610.25

Asking price, not received

Medicare allowed

$142.16

The fee schedule figure

Medicare paid

$111.63

Balance is patient coinsurance

Providers submitted an average of $1610.25 for this code and Medicare allowed $142.16 — 11.3× 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 $111.63 (79%); the rest is the patient’s coinsurance and deductible.

Office pays differently to hospital

Office / non-facility: $121.92
Hospital / facility: $142.82

The facility rate is higher for this code, which is unusual and generally means the service depends on equipment or staffing a hospital carries. 1,176 services were billed in an office setting and 36,261 in a facility.

Services: 37,437
Beneficiaries: 35,936
Providers billing it: 2,068
Total allowed: $5,322,044

What Medicare pays for CPT 00300

Across 37,437 services billed by 2,068 providers to 35,936 beneficiaries, Medicare allowed an average of $142.16 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 00300

Specialty	Services	Beneficiaries	Avg allowed	Providers
Anesthesiology	22,277	21,408	$131.94	1,279
Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA)	14,517	13,904	$158.44	751
Anesthesiology Assistant	334	323	$108.46	23
Pain Management	160	153	$171.15	7
Interventional Pain Management	38	38	$113.78	2
Preventive Medicine	25	24	$204.98	1
Critical Care (Intensivists)	21	21	$102.89	1
Internal Medicine	19	19	$101.85	1
Emergency Medicine	17	17	$100.34	1
Vascular Surgery	15	15	$164.83	1
Family Practice	14	14	$101.05	1

00300 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
Texas	4,448	$143.38	$114.72	216
Florida	3,799	$143.47	$109.77	201
Mississippi	1,650	$126.94	$104.67	82
California	1,596	$194.37	$148.20	88
Tennessee	1,573	$124.17	$100.65	83
Ohio	1,540	$112.34	$88.46	86
Georgia	1,458	$146.09	$115.10	86
Alabama	1,383	$101.23	$83.31	77
Pennsylvania	1,366	$119.59	$94.03	83
South Carolina	1,290	$123.08	$99.63	76
New York	1,261	$144.43	$104.24	84
North Carolina	1,158	$117.10	$94.06	69
Virginia	1,136	$121.18	$96.75	65
Arizona	1,066	$174.64	$139.37	45
Oklahoma	828	$174.11	$142.34	46
Illinois	754	$131.14	$98.54	40
Indiana	743	$160.84	$130.64	36
Michigan	743	$140.72	$107.20	44
Arkansas	688	$162.27	$135.16	37
Missouri	685	$143.47	$114.69	42
Massachusetts	682	$149.73	$113.32	48
Kansas	676	$127.05	$103.07	42
South Dakota	605	$106.04	$86.93	36
Kentucky	595	$153.83	$125.32	36
Minnesota	543	$158.34	$126.58	27
New Jersey	542	$165.30	$121.95	25
Louisiana	530	$155.67	$124.82	26
Washington	492	$188.85	$144.89	30
Maryland	423	$179.92	$137.87	26
West Virginia	401	$119.02	$92.37	24
Wisconsin	315	$121.07	$100.21	19
Colorado	290	$174.25	$136.82	17
Delaware	274	$168.31	$130.49	11
Nebraska	254	$139.82	$115.03	18
Oregon	222	$181.33	$145.10	11
Nevada	208	$172.79	$139.52	12
Iowa	179	$165.55	$127.67	10
Connecticut	161	$137.07	$102.75	10
New Mexico	101	$221.13	$172.88	5
Hawaii	101	$196.41	$155.02	3
Idaho	99	$178.70	$146.59	4
North Dakota	90	$124.51	$103.88	7
Utah	83	$167.47	$139.58	5
District of Columbia	81	$122.19	$89.37	6
Maine	75	$125.37	$99.14	5
Rhode Island	61	$87.16	$68.54	4
Alaska	56	$195.94	$142.65	4
New Hampshire	49	$120.28	$95.58	4
Montana	35	$163.44	$129.99	3
Guam	13	$182.03	$145.13	1
Puerto Rico	12	$227.98	$178.06	1
Vermont	12	$116.05	$94.02	1
U.S. Virgin Islands	12	$185.12	$148.82	1

Related codes

00320Anesthesia for other procedure on neck area (1 year or older)$181.34
00350Anesthesia for other procedure on large blood vessel of neck$294.10

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.