How much does Medicare pay for CPT 01939?

Medicare allowed an average of $107.35 per service and paid $83.65 of that, the balance being the patient's coinsurance and deductible (2024 data). Providers submitted an average of $1516.02, which is what they billed rather than what they received — Medicare pays its fee schedule regardless of the charge.

Does 01939 pay differently in an office than a hospital?

Yes. The allowed amount averaged $108.00 in an office setting and $107.03 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 01939 most?

Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA), with 7,164 services from 281 clinicians. Next are Anesthesiology, Pain Management, Interventional Pain Management.

CPT 01939

Anesthesia for nerve destruction procedures on spine or spinal cord of neck or upper back accessed through skin using imaging guidance

$107.35Medicare-allowed amount per service, averaged across 8,840 services

Providers submitted

$1516.02

Asking price, not received

Medicare allowed

$107.35

The fee schedule figure

Medicare paid

$83.65

Balance is patient coinsurance

Providers submitted an average of $1516.02 for this code and Medicare allowed $107.35 — 14.1× 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 $83.65 (78%); the rest is the patient’s coinsurance and deductible.

Office pays differently to hospital

Office / non-facility: $108.00
Hospital / facility: $107.03

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. 2,904 services were billed in an office setting and 5,936 in a facility.

Services: 8,840
Beneficiaries: 7,671
Providers billing it: 359
Total allowed: $948,974

What Medicare pays for CPT 01939

Across 8,840 services billed by 359 providers to 7,671 beneficiaries, Medicare allowed an average of $107.35 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 01939

Specialty	Services	Beneficiaries	Avg allowed	Providers
Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA)	7,164	6,234	$107.03	281
Anesthesiology	1,570	1,333	$108.24	72
Pain Management	82	80	$119.28	4
Interventional Pain Management	13	13	$145.27	1
Anesthesiology Assistant	11	11	$59.27	1

01939 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
Texas	1,258	$105.28	$83.20	61
Arizona	1,017	$101.73	$81.24	34
Florida	939	$113.13	$86.76	38
Georgia	923	$114.13	$88.31	32
California	588	$113.51	$88.88	26
Tennessee	418	$105.67	$86.67	17
Kentucky	338	$98.98	$77.45	11
Michigan	314	$112.71	$89.89	10
Louisiana	310	$104.18	$84.40	17
Alabama	291	$102.00	$84.02	12
Arkansas	210	$99.83	$83.00	7
Minnesota	175	$106.81	$87.45	7
New York	166	$128.41	$91.93	7
Illinois	163	$104.97	$81.68	7
Colorado	140	$110.06	$82.69	6
New Jersey	139	$114.88	$87.69	5
Maryland	135	$116.14	$85.30	6
Ohio	126	$55.58	$45.28	6
Nebraska	112	$99.10	$77.66	3
Pennsylvania	108	$105.64	$84.02	6
Indiana	102	$96.24	$80.66	4
Hawaii	88	$108.94	$83.57	3
Mississippi	85	$104.72	$93.24	2
Oklahoma	79	$103.98	$84.24	4
Massachusetts	74	$126.62	$92.84	3
New Hampshire	67	$117.62	$94.72	2
Washington	56	$122.05	$93.27	2
Virginia	53	$119.46	$83.54	2
North Carolina	47	$92.54	$79.42	3
Missouri	45	$109.99	$85.44	3
Iowa	45	$100.81	$82.52	1
Idaho	40	$106.81	$87.60	2
Wisconsin	39	$109.39	$90.26	1
Oregon	31	$104.92	$85.75	1
Kansas	30	$112.83	$83.80	2
South Carolina	23	$105.70	$86.63	2
Connecticut	20	$106.74	$81.08	1
District of Columbia	20	$112.97	$92.71	1
Alaska	15	$110.95	$89.14	1
South Dakota	11	$63.53	$48.19	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
01924Anesthesia for x-ray on arteries$214.93
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.