How much does Medicare pay for CPT 01924?

Medicare allowed an average of $214.93 per service and paid $169.89 of that, the balance being the patient's coinsurance and deductible (2024 data). Providers submitted an average of $2794.88, which is what they billed rather than what they received — Medicare pays its fee schedule regardless of the charge.

What is CPT code 01924?

Anesthesia for x-ray on arteries. It was billed 11,478 times to 9,874 Medicare beneficiaries by 339 providers in 2024.

Does 01924 pay differently in an office than a hospital?

Yes. The allowed amount averaged $208.43 in an office setting and $222.60 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 01924 most?

Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA), with 7,465 services from 186 clinicians. Next are Anesthesiology, Anesthesiology Assistant, Pain Management.

CPT 01924

Anesthesia for x-ray on arteries

$214.93Medicare-allowed amount per service, averaged across 11,478 services

Providers submitted

$2794.88

Asking price, not received

Medicare allowed

$214.93

The fee schedule figure

Medicare paid

$169.89

Balance is patient coinsurance

Providers submitted an average of $2794.88 for this code and Medicare allowed $214.93 — 13.0× 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 $169.89 (79%); the rest is the patient’s coinsurance and deductible.

Office pays differently to hospital

Office / non-facility: $208.43
Hospital / facility: $222.60

The facility rate is higher for this code, which is unusual and generally means the service depends on equipment or staffing a hospital carries. 6,216 services were billed in an office setting and 5,262 in a facility.

Services: 11,478
Beneficiaries: 9,874
Providers billing it: 339
Total allowed: $2,466,967

What Medicare pays for CPT 01924

Across 11,478 services billed by 339 providers to 9,874 beneficiaries, Medicare allowed an average of $214.93 per service. That is 1.2 services per beneficiary, so this is a code patients typically receive more than once. 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 01924

Specialty	Services	Beneficiaries	Avg allowed	Providers
Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA)	7,465	6,430	$207.89	186
Anesthesiology	3,910	3,355	$230.25	147
Anesthesiology Assistant	70	65	$137.63	4
Pain Management	33	24	$154.32	2

01924 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	2,388	$259.67	$197.47	41
Texas	1,827	$185.92	$147.75	64
New York	1,646	$231.62	$164.54	53
Tennessee	800	$204.98	$168.93	30
Kansas	491	$198.57	$162.07	12
Florida	439	$190.15	$145.55	22
Maryland	395	$186.53	$139.23	9
North Carolina	393	$199.01	$150.89	9
Mississippi	269	$156.97	$128.06	7
District of Columbia	256	$179.64	$129.61	2
Nebraska	223	$199.72	$163.61	2
Arizona	181	$214.94	$173.73	7
Connecticut	178	$223.32	$172.87	6
Alabama	162	$194.34	$161.71	6
South Carolina	161	$143.61	$115.76	10
Georgia	157	$208.59	$170.50	5
New Jersey	152	$227.76	$165.19	7
Illinois	130	$222.07	$173.21	4
Arkansas	123	$231.34	$196.23	4
Ohio	122	$201.24	$141.90	4
Oklahoma	114	$168.68	$129.87	1
Virginia	112	$175.80	$135.48	5
Oregon	105	$197.79	$161.72	2
Missouri	91	$225.91	$183.63	3
AP	77	$232.26	$184.42	1
Massachusetts	71	$323.26	$237.19	4
Louisiana	63	$265.65	$220.23	1
Guam	60	$238.95	$192.29	2
Nevada	53	$212.42	$163.20	1
Kentucky	47	$216.98	$180.72	3
Pennsylvania	40	$237.97	$174.08	3
Iowa	28	$178.63	$157.24	1
Puerto Rico	27	$295.39	$230.89	2
Indiana	27	$195.95	$155.73	2
Delaware	25	$187.49	$141.71	1
XX	21	$228.68	$173.88	1
Minnesota	13	$121.59	$100.98	1
West Virginia	11	$121.64	$97.02	1

Related codes

01922Anesthesia for x-ray or radiation therapy$135.98
01992Anesthesia for nerve block and injection procedure$117.33
01938Anesthesia for injection$85.34
01926Anesthesia for x-ray on artery of brain$227.98
01940Anesthesia for nerve destruction procedures on spine or spinal cord of$107.14
01996Daily hospital management of continuous spinal drug administration$62.53
01937Anesthesia for injection$89.46
01942Anesthesia for nerve modulation procedure spinal cord or repair of bon$152.21
01939Anesthesia for nerve destruction procedures on spine or spinal cord of$107.35
01916Anesthesia for x-ray exam of arteries and veins$162.11
01991Anesthesia for nerve block and injection$78.53
01920Anesthesia for x-ray on heart vessels and chambers$181.92

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.