How much does Medicare pay for HCPCS 0599T?

Medicare allowed an average of $81.95 per service and paid $65.14 of that, the balance being the patient's coinsurance and deductible (2024 data). Providers submitted an average of $239.35, which is what they billed rather than what they received — Medicare pays its fee schedule regardless of the charge.

What is HCPCS code 0599T?

Fluorescence wound imaging for bacteria, each additional anatomic site. It was billed 15,768 times to 4,626 Medicare beneficiaries by 129 providers in 2024.

Does 0599T pay differently in an office than a hospital?

Yes. The allowed amount averaged $80.45 in an office setting and $86.19 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 0599T most?

Nurse Practitioner, with 11,699 services from 93 clinicians. Next are Physician Assistant, Family Practice, Emergency Medicine.

HCPCS 0599T

Fluorescence wound imaging for bacteria, each additional anatomic site

$81.95Medicare-allowed amount per service, averaged across 15,768 services

Providers submitted

$239.35

Asking price, not received

Medicare allowed

$81.95

The fee schedule figure

Medicare paid

$65.14

Balance is patient coinsurance

Providers submitted an average of $239.35 for this code and Medicare allowed $81.95 — 2.9× 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 $65.14 (79%); the rest is the patient’s coinsurance and deductible.

Office pays differently to hospital

Office / non-facility: $80.45
Hospital / facility: $86.19

The facility rate is higher for this code, which is unusual and generally means the service depends on equipment or staffing a hospital carries. 11,653 services were billed in an office setting and 4,115 in a facility.

Services: 15,768
Beneficiaries: 4,626
Providers billing it: 129
Total allowed: $1,292,188

What Medicare pays for HCPCS 0599T

Across 15,768 services billed by 129 providers to 4,626 beneficiaries, Medicare allowed an average of $81.95 per service. That is 3.4 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 0599T

Specialty	Services	Beneficiaries	Avg allowed	Providers
Nurse Practitioner	11,699	3,299	$79.29	93
Physician Assistant	1,461	359	$83.49	7
Family Practice	826	267	$88.94	9
Emergency Medicine	371	138	$93.38	1
Podiatry	336	149	$85.33	8
Internal Medicine	309	158	$103.54	3
Hospice and Palliative Care	244	42	$87.83	1
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery	224	91	$112.71	1
General Surgery	152	71	$79.36	3
General Practice	125	41	$109.87	2
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation	21	11	$63.20	1

0599T 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 Jersey	6,502	$96.20	$77.56	34
Oklahoma	2,476	$76.91	$60.53	18
Florida	1,370	$86.98	$68.84	17
Missouri	1,197	$30.01	$23.75	7
Louisiana	1,114	$77.72	$61.73	18
Mississippi	921	$72.43	$57.62	10
Ohio	600	$95.63	$76.19	3
New York	403	$95.95	$80.78	2
Georgia	269	$35.08	$27.95	3
Maryland	232	$92.00	$76.78	1
Pennsylvania	140	$95.92	$76.42	2
Texas	132	$81.72	$66.77	3
Illinois	109	$12.55	$9.94	2
Tennessee	78	$79.16	$62.91	1
Indiana	77	$30.70	$25.28	2
North Carolina	70	$47.51	$39.27	3
Kansas	55	$32.69	$25.38	2
California	23	$79.54	$63.38	1

Related codes

0598TFluorescence wound imaging for bacteria$121.49

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.