How much does Medicare pay for CPT 29584?

Medicare allowed an average of $71.17 per service and paid $55.62 of that, the balance being the patient's coinsurance and deductible (2024 data). Providers submitted an average of $214.33, which is what they billed rather than what they received — Medicare pays its fee schedule regardless of the charge.

What is CPT code 29584?

Application of vein wound compression bandages on upper arm, forearm, hand, and fingers. It was billed 1,698 times to 333 Medicare beneficiaries by 13 providers in 2024.

Does 29584 pay differently in an office than a hospital?

Yes. The allowed amount averaged $72.94 in an office setting and $12.60 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 29584 most?

Physical Therapist in Private Practice, with 916 services from 6 clinicians. Next are Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Occupational Therapist in Private Practice, Family Practice.

CPT 29584

Application of vein wound compression bandages on upper arm, forearm, hand, and fingers

$71.17Medicare-allowed amount per service, averaged across 1,698 services

Providers submitted

$214.33

Asking price, not received

Medicare allowed

$71.17

The fee schedule figure

Medicare paid

$55.62

Balance is patient coinsurance

Providers submitted an average of $214.33 for this code and Medicare allowed $71.17 — 3.0× 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 $55.62 (78%); the rest is the patient’s coinsurance and deductible.

Office pays differently to hospital

Office / non-facility: $72.94
Hospital / facility: $12.60

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. 1,648 services were billed in an office setting and 50 in a facility.

Services: 1,698
Beneficiaries: 333
Providers billing it: 13
Total allowed: $120,847

What Medicare pays for CPT 29584

Across 1,698 services billed by 13 providers to 333 beneficiaries, Medicare allowed an average of $71.17 per service. That is 5.1 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 29584

Specialty	Services	Beneficiaries	Avg allowed	Providers
Physical Therapist in Private Practice	916	82	$74.95	6
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery	249	154	$57.40	1
Occupational Therapist in Private Practice	239	29	$77.47	2
Family Practice	181	20	$79.18	1
Nurse Practitioner	50	13	$12.60	1
Internal Medicine	41	13	$59.53	1
Orthopedic Surgery	22	22	$89.91	1

29584 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	498	$79.79	$62.35	4
Florida	396	$73.96	$58.45	1
District of Columbia	249	$57.40	$38.51	1
South Carolina	201	$74.19	$62.84	1
Louisiana	126	$66.15	$62.55	1
New York	86	$84.02	$58.35	2
Missouri	51	$78.05	$59.73	1
New Jersey	50	$12.60	$8.85	1
Oklahoma	41	$59.53	$56.35	1

Related codes

29581Application of vein wound compression bandages on lower leg$84.27
29540Placement of strapping to ankle or foot$26.57
29580Strapping, unna boot$59.18
29550Placement of strapping to toes$15.55
29520Placement of strapping to hip$34.88
29530Placement of strapping to knee$29.09
29515Application of short leg splint from calf to foot$62.72

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.