How much does Medicare pay for CPT 00732?

Medicare allowed an average of $139.32 per service and paid $109.89 of that, the balance being the patient's coinsurance and deductible (2024 data). Providers submitted an average of $1542.71, which is what they billed rather than what they received — Medicare pays its fee schedule regardless of the charge.

What is CPT code 00732?

Anesthesia for procedure on gallbladder, pancreas, or liver using an endoscope. It was billed 26,272 times to 24,712 Medicare beneficiaries by 1,416 providers in 2024.

Does 00732 pay differently in an office than a hospital?

Yes. The allowed amount averaged $101.12 in an office setting and $139.33 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 00732 most?

Anesthesiology, with 15,720 services from 850 clinicians. Next are Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA), Anesthesiology Assistant, Critical Care (Intensivists).

CPT 00732

Anesthesia for procedure on gallbladder, pancreas, or liver using an endoscope

$139.32Medicare-allowed amount per service, averaged across 26,272 services

Providers submitted

$1542.71

Asking price, not received

Medicare allowed

$139.32

The fee schedule figure

Medicare paid

$109.89

Balance is patient coinsurance

Providers submitted an average of $1542.71 for this code and Medicare allowed $139.32 — 11.1× 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 $109.89 (79%); the rest is the patient’s coinsurance and deductible.

Office pays differently to hospital

Office / non-facility: $101.12
Hospital / facility: $139.33

The facility rate is higher for this code, which is unusual and generally means the service depends on equipment or staffing a hospital carries. 12 services were billed in an office setting and 26,260 in a facility.

Services: 26,272
Beneficiaries: 24,712
Providers billing it: 1,416
Total allowed: $3,660,215

What Medicare pays for CPT 00732

Across 26,272 services billed by 1,416 providers to 24,712 beneficiaries, Medicare allowed an average of $139.32 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 00732

Specialty	Services	Beneficiaries	Avg allowed	Providers
Anesthesiology	15,720	14,723	$138.84	850
Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA)	9,477	8,959	$143.10	499
Anesthesiology Assistant	815	787	$108.93	51
Critical Care (Intensivists)	103	100	$112.34	7
Pain Management	69	64	$121.74	4
Interventional Pain Management	36	30	$111.21	2
Internal Medicine	32	31	$181.50	2
Sleep Medicine	20	18	$138.82	1

00732 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	2,027	$196.06	$147.10	111
Pennsylvania	1,870	$124.13	$95.90	88
Massachusetts	1,733	$143.48	$107.44	93
Texas	1,730	$124.40	$99.47	78
New York	1,589	$166.13	$120.67	89
Florida	1,514	$150.65	$115.23	83
North Carolina	1,216	$100.92	$81.16	63
Missouri	1,091	$153.26	$120.65	45
South Carolina	1,085	$103.12	$83.23	52
Illinois	1,057	$122.27	$92.64	68
Arizona	914	$156.67	$122.34	49
Virginia	870	$125.78	$98.11	46
Indiana	820	$133.34	$107.06	45
Maryland	764	$125.46	$94.48	37
Ohio	755	$125.35	$98.94	45
New Jersey	744	$151.14	$112.08	45
Connecticut	564	$134.58	$101.20	28
Michigan	509	$138.95	$106.14	33
Tennessee	500	$133.09	$107.07	21
Kansas	438	$113.36	$90.39	28
Oklahoma	387	$155.34	$126.42	22
Colorado	375	$126.11	$97.91	24
Minnesota	367	$177.71	$141.37	25
Alabama	361	$102.16	$84.63	18
Kentucky	360	$136.24	$110.46	23
Georgia	318	$120.45	$96.19	20
Washington	267	$138.41	$101.58	16
Wisconsin	258	$119.29	$97.38	17
District of Columbia	251	$123.94	$90.57	15
Louisiana	207	$144.26	$114.78	12
Delaware	174	$127.51	$100.28	11
Arkansas	169	$181.87	$152.70	6
Mississippi	157	$136.34	$108.29	8
South Dakota	156	$101.82	$84.32	12
Iowa	156	$171.69	$139.53	6
West Virginia	140	$111.45	$84.76	9
Hawaii	71	$185.56	$148.24	2
Nevada	64	$145.80	$116.84	4
Nebraska	54	$108.70	$91.56	4
Maine	52	$113.80	$86.85	4
New Hampshire	38	$121.46	$95.16	3
North Dakota	29	$247.26	$203.31	2
Rhode Island	25	$148.82	$116.69	2
Utah	13	$130.40	$105.50	1
New Mexico	11	$208.46	$162.79	1
Wyoming	11	$181.55	$147.09	1
Idaho	11	$177.15	$135.18	1

Related codes

00731Anesthesia for other procedure on esophagus$102.80
00790Anesthesia for other procedure on upper abdomen$223.12

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.