How much does Medicare pay for CPT 00532?

Medicare allowed an average of $105.90 per service and paid $83.70 of that, the balance being the patient's coinsurance and deductible (2024 data). Providers submitted an average of $1235.92, which is what they billed rather than what they received — Medicare pays its fee schedule regardless of the charge.

What is CPT code 00532?

Anesthesia for access to central vein. It was billed 8,595 times to 8,442 Medicare beneficiaries by 487 providers in 2024.

Does 00532 pay differently in an office than a hospital?

Yes. The allowed amount averaged $110.14 in an office setting and $104.56 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 00532 most?

Anesthesiology, with 4,948 services from 313 clinicians. Next are Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA), Pain Management, Anesthesiology Assistant.

CPT 00532

Anesthesia for access to central vein

$105.90Medicare-allowed amount per service, averaged across 8,595 services

Providers submitted

$1235.92

Asking price, not received

Medicare allowed

$105.90

The fee schedule figure

Medicare paid

$83.70

Balance is patient coinsurance

Providers submitted an average of $1235.92 for this code and Medicare allowed $105.90 — 11.7× 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 $83.70 (79%); the rest is the patient’s coinsurance and deductible.

Office pays differently to hospital

Office / non-facility: $110.14
Hospital / facility: $104.56

The office rate is higher because the practice supplies the room, staff and equipment out of that payment. In a hospital the facility bills those separately, so the clinician's share is smaller — the total cost to Medicare is usually higher, not lower. 2,059 services were billed in an office setting and 6,536 in a facility.

Services: 8,595
Beneficiaries: 8,442
Providers billing it: 487
Total allowed: $910,211

What Medicare pays for CPT 00532

Across 8,595 services billed by 487 providers to 8,442 beneficiaries, Medicare allowed an average of $105.90 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 00532

Specialty	Services	Beneficiaries	Avg allowed	Providers
Anesthesiology	4,948	4,891	$97.43	313
Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA)	3,292	3,197	$119.76	159
Pain Management	113	113	$102.97	3
Anesthesiology Assistant	90	90	$74.13	7
Interventional Pain Management	83	83	$91.09	2
Preventive Medicine	39	39	$128.30	1
Internal Medicine	19	18	$91.03	1
Family Practice	11	11	$113.91	1

00532 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	1,527	$101.76	$71.82	43
Texas	1,050	$104.63	$81.78	53
Florida	587	$113.67	$85.80	33
Alabama	444	$85.89	$70.92	29
South Carolina	398	$79.76	$64.36	29
Georgia	395	$106.99	$86.45	20
California	319	$184.11	$142.31	20
Tennessee	291	$120.36	$98.91	14
Massachusetts	250	$103.40	$80.29	17
Mississippi	242	$97.85	$81.64	16
Pennsylvania	236	$106.53	$82.61	12
Kansas	216	$110.56	$90.89	15
North Carolina	214	$97.40	$79.03	14
Kentucky	197	$91.28	$73.23	14
Arkansas	184	$118.80	$99.50	12
New Jersey	182	$136.31	$97.95	12
Louisiana	181	$85.11	$70.94	14
Missouri	177	$91.45	$73.79	14
Illinois	171	$82.15	$64.72	13
Michigan	133	$87.75	$69.62	11
Ohio	128	$88.65	$71.74	10
Maryland	126	$128.29	$102.74	9
Nebraska	125	$103.91	$85.68	9
Oregon	107	$122.21	$95.93	2
Delaware	75	$82.16	$65.87	6
Oklahoma	72	$114.26	$92.82	6
Virginia	70	$112.74	$86.96	6
Wisconsin	61	$85.14	$72.40	4
Arizona	59	$70.22	$56.70	4
Iowa	53	$134.91	$109.25	4
Nevada	46	$124.34	$100.72	1
Indiana	40	$98.65	$83.92	3
Connecticut	36	$85.50	$68.09	3
Minnesota	33	$142.60	$116.49	2
Puerto Rico	27	$211.28	$160.66	2
West Virginia	26	$78.80	$55.37	2
Washington	19	$125.09	$102.24	1
New Hampshire	18	$137.96	$103.93	1
Maine	13	$79.62	$65.82	1
U.S. Virgin Islands	12	$121.63	$100.01	1
Vermont	11	$122.68	$100.97	1
District of Columbia	11	$103.13	$75.36	1
New Mexico	11	$82.69	$68.03	1
Alaska	11	$102.84	$59.64	1
Utah	11	$138.45	$112.72	1

Related codes

00537Anesthesia for procedure to assess heart electrical activity$288.91
00520Anesthesia for other closed procedure on chest$146.70
00560Anesthesia for procedure on heart and large blood vessels$396.34
00530Anesthesia for insertion of permanent heart pacemaker$150.20
0055TMusculoskeletal surgical navigational orthopedic operation$185.99
00567Anesthesia for heart artery bypass grafting on heart-lung machine$659.46
00562Anesthesia for procedure on heart and large blood vessels$749.69
0054TComputer-assisted$168.86
00534Anesthesia for insertion or replace of pacing heart defibrillator$204.12
00541Anesthesia for procedure on chest$495.59

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.