How much does Medicare pay for CPT 33534?

Medicare allowed an average of $1775.80 per service and paid $1419.05 of that, the balance being the patient's coinsurance and deductible (2024 data). Providers submitted an average of $8930.53, which is what they billed rather than what they received — Medicare pays its fee schedule regardless of the charge.

What is CPT code 33534?

Coronary artery bypass using artery graft, 2 grafts. It was billed 1,616 times to 1,613 Medicare beneficiaries by 102 providers in 2024.

Which specialty bills 33534 most?

Thoracic Surgery, with 856 services from 51 clinicians. Next are Cardiac Surgery, Physician Assistant, Cardiology.

CPT 33534

Coronary artery bypass using artery graft, 2 grafts

$1775.80Medicare-allowed amount per service, averaged across 1,616 services

Providers submitted

$8930.53

Asking price, not received

Medicare allowed

$1775.80

The fee schedule figure

Medicare paid

$1419.05

Balance is patient coinsurance

Providers submitted an average of $8930.53 for this code and Medicare allowed $1775.80 — 5.0× 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 $1419.05 (80%); the rest is the patient’s coinsurance and deductible.

Services: 1,616
Beneficiaries: 1,613
Providers billing it: 102
Total allowed: $2,869,693

What Medicare pays for CPT 33534

Across 1,616 services billed by 102 providers to 1,613 beneficiaries, Medicare allowed an average of $1775.80 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 33534

Specialty	Services	Beneficiaries	Avg allowed	Providers
Thoracic Surgery	856	856	$2032.53	51
Cardiac Surgery	462	461	$1979.49	30
Physician Assistant	213	211	$283.92	15
Cardiology	47	47	$2055.34	3
General Surgery	38	38	$1532.77	3

33534 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 York	185	$1887.89	$1325.60	10
North Carolina	168	$1374.90	$1116.06	9
Illinois	114	$2266.36	$1655.61	7
Massachusetts	103	$1824.45	$1393.81	8
District of Columbia	96	$2222.96	$1588.28	3
Texas	80	$1707.65	$1360.34	5
California	71	$1687.72	$1267.33	5
Wisconsin	65	$1067.97	$924.62	3
Virginia	62	$2165.68	$1580.00	4
Pennsylvania	59	$1831.07	$1353.94	4
Missouri	57	$2000.20	$1565.58	3
Michigan	56	$1569.09	$1196.31	4
Tennessee	49	$1832.51	$1576.48	3
Ohio	40	$1911.70	$1619.07	3
Florida	40	$2148.03	$1579.28	3
Kentucky	38	$1499.97	$1147.98	3
Arizona	36	$1462.29	$1157.07	3
Montana	32	$1817.86	$1446.09	2
North Dakota	30	$1044.92	$843.28	2
Indiana	30	$2086.84	$1522.37	2
New Jersey	29	$2183.68	$1621.38	2
Utah	25	$849.14	$615.76	2
Louisiana	24	$2121.30	$1558.82	2
Connecticut	24	$1335.86	$899.91	2
Georgia	15	$2140.99	$1629.21	1
Oklahoma	14	$1859.43	$1637.11	1
South Carolina	14	$1953.68	$1571.23	1
New Mexico	13	$1896.74	$1720.71	1
Washington	13	$1416.87	$1034.20	1
Wyoming	12	$2050.59	$1613.30	1
New Hampshire	11	$1912.64	$1534.77	1
Alaska	11	$364.91	$104.36	1

Related codes

33533Coronary artery bypass$1166.73
33508Harvest of vein$11.28
33518Coronary artery bypass$295.62
33517Coronary artery bypass$147.00
33519Coronary artery bypass$408.71

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.