How much does Medicare pay for CPT 01810?

Medicare allowed an average of $83.60 per service and paid $65.44 of that, the balance being the patient's coinsurance and deductible (2024 data). Providers submitted an average of $967.28, which is what they billed rather than what they received — Medicare pays its fee schedule regardless of the charge.

What is CPT code 01810?

Anesthesia for procedure on nerves, muscles, tendons, and tissue of forearm, wrist, and hand. It was billed 113,804 times to 110,997 Medicare beneficiaries by 4,944 providers in 2024.

Does 01810 pay differently in an office than a hospital?

Yes. The allowed amount averaged $75.17 in an office setting and $83.84 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 01810 most?

Anesthesiology, with 65,880 services from 2,662 clinicians. Next are Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA), Anesthesiology Assistant, Pain Management.

CPT 01810

Anesthesia for procedure on nerves, muscles, tendons, and tissue of forearm, wrist, and hand

$83.60Medicare-allowed amount per service, averaged across 113,804 services

Providers submitted

$967.28

Asking price, not received

Medicare allowed

$83.60

The fee schedule figure

Medicare paid

$65.44

Balance is patient coinsurance

Providers submitted an average of $967.28 for this code and Medicare allowed $83.60 — 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 $65.44 (78%); the rest is the patient’s coinsurance and deductible.

Office pays differently to hospital

Office / non-facility: $75.17
Hospital / facility: $83.84

The facility rate is higher for this code, which is unusual and generally means the service depends on equipment or staffing a hospital carries. 3,107 services were billed in an office setting and 110,697 in a facility.

Services: 113,804
Beneficiaries: 110,997
Providers billing it: 4,944
Total allowed: $9,514,014

What Medicare pays for CPT 01810

Across 113,804 services billed by 4,944 providers to 110,997 beneficiaries, Medicare allowed an average of $83.60 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 01810

Specialty	Services	Beneficiaries	Avg allowed	Providers
Anesthesiology	65,880	64,128	$83.34	2,662
Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA)	45,434	44,418	$84.97	2,153
Anesthesiology Assistant	1,999	1,971	$59.09	108
Pain Management	182	178	$86.78	7
Interventional Pain Management	148	141	$102.11	4
Internal Medicine	76	76	$80.16	4
Critical Care (Intensivists)	24	24	$109.50	2
Hospitalist	18	18	$120.28	1
Nurse Practitioner	17	17	$60.06	1
Emergency Medicine	15	15	$66.80	1
Allergy/ Immunology	11	11	$107.34	1

01810 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
Florida	8,320	$91.91	$70.04	312
Texas	8,295	$85.57	$67.30	386
Pennsylvania	7,618	$68.71	$53.98	292
New York	6,770	$80.18	$58.30	277
Massachusetts	5,547	$74.72	$56.71	268
California	5,308	$128.96	$98.68	249
Virginia	4,795	$70.53	$56.12	209
North Carolina	4,398	$65.93	$53.02	206
Ohio	4,287	$71.53	$56.06	206
Michigan	4,199	$70.02	$53.89	166
Tennessee	4,055	$77.04	$62.64	178
South Carolina	3,977	$66.36	$53.68	155
Georgia	3,705	$83.37	$66.24	182
New Jersey	3,651	$82.65	$61.20	126
Illinois	2,828	$91.90	$69.72	143
Alabama	2,749	$61.51	$50.99	121
Missouri	2,383	$77.05	$62.09	106
Maryland	2,378	$107.61	$81.41	83
Washington	2,267	$110.30	$85.34	104
Arkansas	2,051	$90.48	$75.66	61
Colorado	1,764	$91.55	$70.95	76
Connecticut	1,753	$69.80	$52.58	68
Mississippi	1,560	$71.36	$59.03	66
Kansas	1,471	$92.09	$74.39	63
Arizona	1,425	$112.87	$89.72	63
Louisiana	1,384	$94.39	$75.75	68
Indiana	1,338	$100.28	$81.44	58
Oklahoma	1,226	$101.73	$82.30	65
Kentucky	1,034	$94.68	$75.31	50
Minnesota	1,032	$78.13	$62.59	63
Rhode Island	883	$60.74	$47.18	25
Delaware	839	$66.33	$51.99	21
North Dakota	734	$56.93	$45.76	26
New Hampshire	683	$81.28	$65.52	31
South Dakota	679	$72.62	$58.93	43
Nevada	658	$106.14	$84.22	32
Nebraska	628	$100.18	$83.10	33
Oregon	568	$118.86	$93.15	28
Wisconsin	553	$91.40	$73.57	30
Utah	491	$98.73	$76.05	21
Idaho	488	$112.49	$94.04	19
Maine	465	$81.90	$65.59	25
Iowa	463	$103.18	$83.52	31
West Virginia	438	$72.29	$58.38	19
District of Columbia	371	$76.58	$58.71	17
New Mexico	359	$95.82	$75.31	17
Vermont	274	$75.93	$56.39	16
Alaska	268	$133.50	$81.99	16
Wyoming	192	$126.83	$96.99	10
Montana	97	$117.47	$88.19	7
Puerto Rico	54	$135.16	$106.17	3
Hawaii	40	$83.65	$62.18	3
Guam	11	$132.08	$99.69	1

Related codes

01844Anesthesia for placement or revision of blood flow shunt$176.37
01830Anesthesia for other procedure on forearm$113.07

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.