How much does Medicare pay for CPT 33519?

Medicare allowed an average of $408.71 per service and paid $326.40 of that, the balance being the patient's coinsurance and deductible (2024 data). Providers submitted an average of $1657.56, which is what they billed rather than what they received — Medicare pays its fee schedule regardless of the charge.

What is CPT code 33519?

Coronary artery bypass using vein or artery graft, 3 grafts. It was billed 4,018 times to 4,018 Medicare beneficiaries by 262 providers in 2024.

Which specialty bills 33519 most?

Thoracic Surgery, with 1,911 services from 123 clinicians. Next are Cardiac Surgery, Physician Assistant, Nurse Practitioner.

CPT 33519

Coronary artery bypass using vein or artery graft, 3 grafts

$408.71Medicare-allowed amount per service, averaged across 4,018 services

Providers submitted

$1657.56

Asking price, not received

Medicare allowed

$408.71

The fee schedule figure

Medicare paid

$326.40

Balance is patient coinsurance

Providers submitted an average of $1657.56 for this code and Medicare allowed $408.71 — 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 $326.40 (80%); the rest is the patient’s coinsurance and deductible.

Services: 4,018
Beneficiaries: 4,018
Providers billing it: 262
Total allowed: $1,642,197

What Medicare pays for CPT 33519

Across 4,018 services billed by 262 providers to 4,018 beneficiaries, Medicare allowed an average of $408.71 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 33519

Specialty	Services	Beneficiaries	Avg allowed	Providers
Thoracic Surgery	1,911	1,911	$491.75	123
Cardiac Surgery	1,174	1,174	$487.33	73
Physician Assistant	671	671	$69.73	48
Nurse Practitioner	95	95	$67.08	7
Cardiology	82	82	$503.37	5
General Surgery	39	39	$311.81	3
Vascular Surgery	34	34	$523.04	2
Psychiatry	12	12	$495.61	1

33519 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	499	$355.74	$263.79	31
Texas	454	$351.27	$284.74	31
California	306	$300.89	$241.18	21
Illinois	243	$558.04	$397.44	15
South Carolina	203	$417.77	$353.33	12
Tennessee	177	$432.21	$371.65	11
Kentucky	136	$366.11	$287.38	9
Arizona	134	$422.90	$346.90	11
Arkansas	133	$396.87	$358.07	7
New Jersey	128	$508.97	$401.38	8
North Carolina	126	$346.04	$294.76	8
Virginia	126	$431.54	$336.88	9
Oklahoma	118	$482.49	$410.37	6
Louisiana	116	$438.59	$359.41	7
Ohio	113	$452.84	$337.40	9
Kansas	110	$415.82	$364.31	6
Nebraska	96	$345.33	$317.66	6
Massachusetts	84	$426.48	$324.01	5
Alabama	61	$330.50	$278.68	5
District of Columbia	60	$566.53	$416.64	3
New York	57	$588.83	$413.24	4
Colorado	56	$392.68	$292.90	4
Indiana	50	$380.09	$334.31	4
Georgia	50	$525.09	$415.01	3
Iowa	44	$466.26	$413.51	2
West Virginia	40	$391.66	$299.76	3
Montana	36	$383.56	$304.06	3
Wisconsin	34	$459.98	$413.43	2
Maryland	31	$557.72	$412.90	2
Mississippi	26	$317.00	$266.81	2
New Hampshire	24	$514.45	$412.46	2
Nevada	24	$476.68	$416.99	2
Oregon	24	$504.23	$413.30	2
Pennsylvania	19	$551.20	$413.36	1
Washington	17	$465.07	$412.44	1
North Dakota	15	$65.94	$56.19	1
Idaho	14	$482.52	$413.46	1
Utah	12	$470.36	$353.10	1
Vermont	11	$65.26	$56.37	1
Michigan	11	$512.93	$413.19	1

Related codes

33533Coronary artery bypass$1166.73
33508Harvest of vein$11.28
33518Coronary artery bypass$295.62
33517Coronary artery bypass$147.00
33534Coronary artery bypass$1775.80

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.