How much does Medicare pay for CPT 00350?

Medicare allowed an average of $294.10 per service and paid $232.77 of that, the balance being the patient's coinsurance and deductible (2024 data). Providers submitted an average of $3404.11, which is what they billed rather than what they received — Medicare pays its fee schedule regardless of the charge.

What is CPT code 00350?

Anesthesia for other procedure on large blood vessel of neck. It was billed 1,717 times to 1,649 Medicare beneficiaries by 101 providers in 2024.

Does 00350 pay differently in an office than a hospital?

Yes. The allowed amount averaged $272.07 in an office setting and $296.59 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 00350 most?

Anesthesiology, with 1,117 services from 70 clinicians. Next are Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA).

CPT 00350

Anesthesia for other procedure on large blood vessel of neck

$294.10Medicare-allowed amount per service, averaged across 1,717 services

Providers submitted

$3404.11

Asking price, not received

Medicare allowed

$294.10

The fee schedule figure

Medicare paid

$232.77

Balance is patient coinsurance

Providers submitted an average of $3404.11 for this code and Medicare allowed $294.10 — 11.6× 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 $232.77 (79%); the rest is the patient’s coinsurance and deductible.

Office pays differently to hospital

Office / non-facility: $272.07
Hospital / facility: $296.59

The facility rate is higher for this code, which is unusual and generally means the service depends on equipment or staffing a hospital carries. 174 services were billed in an office setting and 1,543 in a facility.

Services: 1,717
Beneficiaries: 1,649
Providers billing it: 101
Total allowed: $504,970

What Medicare pays for CPT 00350

Across 1,717 services billed by 101 providers to 1,649 beneficiaries, Medicare allowed an average of $294.10 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 00350

Specialty	Services	Beneficiaries	Avg allowed	Providers
Anesthesiology	1,117	1,078	$297.98	70
Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA)	600	571	$286.88	31

00350 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
New York	248	$346.28	$254.94	7
Texas	138	$290.47	$234.41	9
Kansas	137	$361.29	$298.28	6
Mississippi	116	$132.79	$115.13	7
Virginia	99	$269.27	$212.35	7
Oklahoma	96	$348.16	$277.50	7
California	86	$386.80	$302.90	6
Florida	83	$296.94	$229.00	5
Alabama	79	$196.66	$161.02	6
Arkansas	70	$285.38	$238.87	2
North Carolina	56	$260.19	$212.23	4
New Jersey	53	$225.23	$172.15	4
South Carolina	43	$220.23	$179.48	3
Louisiana	39	$191.71	$155.92	2
Indiana	37	$363.94	$295.02	3
Massachusetts	37	$592.44	$440.37	3
Missouri	34	$275.24	$225.05	2
West Virginia	32	$181.26	$147.42	1
Nebraska	31	$376.92	$317.03	2
Illinois	27	$277.55	$217.28	2
Nevada	26	$239.92	$202.50	2
Georgia	26	$247.88	$207.59	2
Kentucky	25	$237.76	$194.43	1
Tennessee	22	$180.89	$151.07	2
Maryland	15	$428.03	$328.85	1
Delaware	14	$258.56	$195.43	1
Iowa	13	$264.37	$214.19	1
Arizona	13	$388.19	$313.43	1
Ohio	11	$356.36	$239.88	1
Pennsylvania	11	$216.35	$166.01	1

Related codes

00300Anesthesia for other procedure on skin$142.16
00320Anesthesia for other procedure on neck area (1 year or older)$181.34

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.