How much does Medicare pay for CPT 32663?

Medicare allowed an average of $1114.40 per service and paid $889.23 of that, the balance being the patient's coinsurance and deductible (2024 data). Providers submitted an average of $5361.04, which is what they billed rather than what they received — Medicare pays its fee schedule regardless of the charge.

What is CPT code 32663?

Exam of lung with removal of lung lobe using an endoscope. It was billed 5,754 times to 5,745 Medicare beneficiaries by 342 providers in 2024.

Which specialty bills 32663 most?

Thoracic Surgery, with 3,963 services from 228 clinicians. Next are Physician Assistant, Cardiac Surgery, General Surgery.

CPT 32663

Exam of lung with removal of lung lobe using an endoscope

$1114.40Medicare-allowed amount per service, averaged across 5,754 services

Providers submitted

$5361.04

Asking price, not received

Medicare allowed

$1114.40

The fee schedule figure

Medicare paid

$889.23

Balance is patient coinsurance

Providers submitted an average of $5361.04 for this code and Medicare allowed $1114.40 — 4.8× 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 $889.23 (80%); the rest is the patient’s coinsurance and deductible.

Services: 5,754
Beneficiaries: 5,745
Providers billing it: 342
Total allowed: $6,412,258

What Medicare pays for CPT 32663

Across 5,754 services billed by 342 providers to 5,745 beneficiaries, Medicare allowed an average of $1114.40 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 32663

Specialty	Services	Beneficiaries	Avg allowed	Providers
Thoracic Surgery	3,963	3,955	$1312.97	228
Physician Assistant	904	903	$187.88	56
Cardiac Surgery	425	425	$1301.99	26
General Surgery	331	331	$1262.46	22
Nurse Practitioner	79	79	$189.43	6
Cardiology	25	25	$1000.96	2
Critical Care (Intensivists)	16	16	$870.78	1
Undefined Physician type	11	11	$1269.60	1

32663 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
Florida	551	$1025.55	$723.32	33
New York	542	$1264.69	$837.49	28
California	503	$1143.76	$871.51	29
Illinois	358	$1157.09	$807.73	20
North Carolina	340	$885.63	$734.05	18
Massachusetts	292	$1268.75	$967.20	20
Pennsylvania	235	$1252.68	$966.00	13
Wisconsin	209	$859.06	$740.45	12
Texas	200	$1285.48	$995.33	13
Tennessee	193	$1183.25	$1027.43	11
Maryland	193	$1159.15	$850.78	10
Ohio	182	$1088.70	$879.76	11
Virginia	173	$1008.60	$764.97	11
New Jersey	173	$1247.43	$901.14	10
Georgia	151	$1129.44	$878.54	10
Washington	129	$1215.48	$956.59	10
Colorado	121	$820.75	$617.66	8
Arizona	115	$905.77	$708.79	5
South Carolina	110	$807.84	$633.77	6
Nebraska	109	$866.25	$761.10	7
Kentucky	104	$1160.49	$961.21	7
Kansas	86	$1186.43	$1028.96	3
Oregon	78	$1305.02	$1060.46	4
Delaware	76	$1073.37	$835.52	6
New Hampshire	71	$1154.42	$872.71	5
Oklahoma	44	$979.12	$806.65	3
Louisiana	39	$1343.48	$1071.25	3
Missouri	33	$1139.15	$925.58	2
Hawaii	32	$1319.25	$1074.82	2
District of Columbia	32	$1499.27	$1074.82	1
Arkansas	32	$1089.48	$960.21	2
Alabama	28	$1251.15	$1073.79	2
Indiana	28	$876.61	$679.08	2
Connecticut	25	$773.42	$613.38	2
Nevada	25	$1353.82	$1083.42	2
Michigan	22	$1423.90	$1024.98	2
Idaho	22	$690.20	$587.61	2
Iowa	19	$1212.55	$1075.71	1
Mississippi	16	$1234.52	$1043.89	1
Vermont	15	$1251.77	$1075.22	1
Montana	13	$182.88	$73.10	1
Minnesota	12	$1280.96	$828.26	1
Rhode Island	12	$1367.55	$1077.56	1
Maine	11	$1251.03	$1075.96	1

Related codes

32674Removal of lymph nodes of chest cavity$171.13
32666Initial removal of wedge of lung tissue$700.26
32669Removal of segment of lung tissue$1207.57

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.