How much does Medicare pay for CPT 23350?

Medicare allowed an average of $135.99 per service and paid $105.29 of that, the balance being the patient's coinsurance and deductible (2024 data). Providers submitted an average of $551.82, which is what they billed rather than what they received — Medicare pays its fee schedule regardless of the charge.

What is CPT code 23350?

Injection of contrast for imaging of shoulder joint. It was billed 7,075 times to 6,278 Medicare beneficiaries by 269 providers in 2024.

Does 23350 pay differently in an office than a hospital?

Yes. The allowed amount averaged $155.68 in an office setting and $46.92 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 23350 most?

Diagnostic Radiology, with 2,396 services from 127 clinicians. Next are Orthopedic Surgery, Independent Diagnostic Testing Facility (IDTF), Physician Assistant.

CPT 23350

Injection of contrast for imaging of shoulder joint

$135.99Medicare-allowed amount per service, averaged across 7,075 services

Providers submitted

$551.82

Asking price, not received

Medicare allowed

$135.99

The fee schedule figure

Medicare paid

$105.29

Balance is patient coinsurance

Providers submitted an average of $551.82 for this code and Medicare allowed $135.99 — 4.1× 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 $105.29 (77%); the rest is the patient’s coinsurance and deductible.

Office pays differently to hospital

Office / non-facility: $155.68
Hospital / facility: $46.92

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. 5,794 services were billed in an office setting and 1,281 in a facility.

Services: 7,075
Beneficiaries: 6,278
Providers billing it: 269
Total allowed: $962,129

What Medicare pays for CPT 23350

Across 7,075 services billed by 269 providers to 6,278 beneficiaries, Medicare allowed an average of $135.99 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 23350

Specialty	Services	Beneficiaries	Avg allowed	Providers
Diagnostic Radiology	2,396	2,361	$104.46	127
Orthopedic Surgery	1,216	1,028	$154.47	26
Independent Diagnostic Testing Facility (IDTF)	1,033	1,011	$151.16	37
Physician Assistant	420	415	$66.35	21
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation	403	357	$173.66	17
Family Practice	305	269	$175.08	6
Interventional Pain Management	290	148	$166.87	6
Pain Management	269	162	$159.28	9
Anesthesiology	207	143	$181.78	5
General Practice	178	43	$185.97	1
Sports Medicine	147	137	$162.62	5
Hand Surgery	116	111	$159.43	3
Nurse Practitioner	58	56	$97.85	3
Interventional Radiology	25	25	$169.21	2
Emergency Medicine	12	12	$194.25	1

23350 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	1,096	$133.76	$107.49	34
California	965	$145.67	$104.30	28
Florida	825	$158.14	$123.08	25
Washington	431	$143.30	$100.69	21
Illinois	404	$173.61	$132.80	14
New York	364	$178.53	$122.10	9
Alabama	316	$135.69	$119.07	13
Louisiana	186	$146.20	$122.30	6
Virginia	184	$70.24	$52.80	5
New Jersey	183	$171.01	$125.63	6
South Carolina	182	$98.70	$82.92	9
Massachusetts	169	$140.74	$101.18	5
Georgia	167	$148.23	$120.57	9
Arkansas	163	$45.20	$36.74	5
North Carolina	152	$100.04	$81.56	9
Missouri	131	$70.38	$58.76	8
Iowa	123	$146.67	$118.95	8
Oklahoma	122	$90.95	$77.13	7
Connecticut	112	$178.15	$119.70	3
Utah	106	$106.03	$91.18	5
Arizona	104	$140.54	$108.89	6
New Hampshire	90	$80.17	$58.30	5
Alaska	64	$126.47	$79.89	3
Montana	53	$48.90	$37.56	2
Nebraska	51	$105.61	$87.42	2
Kentucky	48	$143.16	$125.07	3
Tennessee	46	$138.39	$118.18	4
Indiana	45	$145.18	$123.53	2
Kansas	33	$44.58	$34.20	2
Pennsylvania	27	$160.30	$125.84	1
Mississippi	25	$86.01	$81.59	2
Colorado	24	$99.74	$81.86	2
Minnesota	23	$104.81	$81.23	2
Wyoming	20	$48.12	$39.20	1
Idaho	16	$46.43	$39.35	1
Ohio	13	$151.14	$116.76	1
Wisconsin	12	$48.46	$38.32	1

Related codes

23395Relocation of one muscle of shoulder or upper arm$517.85

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.