How much does Medicare pay for CPT 34705?

Medicare allowed an average of $1159.54 per service and paid $923.69 of that, the balance being the patient's coinsurance and deductible (2024 data). Providers submitted an average of $3990.28, which is what they billed rather than what they received — Medicare pays its fee schedule regardless of the charge.

What is CPT code 34705?

Repair of infrarenal aorta and groin artery with graft for other than rupture on both sides with review by radiologist. It was billed 1,361 times to 1,361 Medicare beneficiaries by 99 providers in 2024.

Which specialty bills 34705 most?

Vascular Surgery, with 956 services from 69 clinicians. Next are General Surgery, Cardiac Surgery, Physician Assistant.

CPT 34705

Repair of infrarenal aorta and groin artery with graft for other than rupture on both sides with review by radiologist

$1159.54Medicare-allowed amount per service, averaged across 1,361 services

Providers submitted

$3990.28

Asking price, not received

Medicare allowed

$1159.54

The fee schedule figure

Medicare paid

$923.69

Balance is patient coinsurance

Providers submitted an average of $3990.28 for this code and Medicare allowed $1159.54 — 3.4× 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 $923.69 (80%); the rest is the patient’s coinsurance and deductible.

Services: 1,361
Beneficiaries: 1,361
Providers billing it: 99
Total allowed: $1,578,134

What Medicare pays for CPT 34705

Across 1,361 services billed by 99 providers to 1,361 beneficiaries, Medicare allowed an average of $1159.54 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 34705

Specialty	Services	Beneficiaries	Avg allowed	Providers
Vascular Surgery	956	956	$1282.85	69
General Surgery	108	108	$928.18	9
Cardiac Surgery	80	80	$1163.80	6
Physician Assistant	60	60	$212.24	4
Interventional Cardiology	42	42	$1202.58	3
Peripheral Vascular Disease	31	31	$833.45	1
Thoracic Surgery	25	25	$1016.62	2
Diagnostic Radiology	24	24	$928.83	2
Nurse Practitioner	24	24	$194.57	2
Cardiology	11	11	$1539.11	1

34705 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	187	$1091.23	$770.32	13
South Dakota	95	$933.14	$703.68	5
Illinois	93	$1424.63	$952.65	7
Arkansas	92	$1221.46	$1066.42	6
California	87	$1151.51	$907.06	7
New York	76	$1383.57	$1080.56	6
Arizona	68	$1134.68	$914.60	4
Texas	61	$1085.04	$847.13	4
Missouri	58	$1276.40	$1009.63	5
Kansas	53	$1181.47	$968.15	3
Indiana	52	$1061.20	$879.03	4
Oklahoma	44	$1362.80	$1149.87	3
Washington	42	$1107.56	$790.62	3
Mississippi	37	$980.33	$788.70	3
Alaska	36	$1026.78	$606.56	2
New Jersey	35	$1305.86	$922.40	3
North Carolina	34	$1201.60	$991.75	3
Kentucky	26	$1179.95	$923.81	2
Virginia	23	$1365.24	$1096.89	2
Massachusetts	23	$1044.09	$759.52	2
Tennessee	22	$1289.89	$1160.50	2
Iowa	14	$1304.86	$1158.51	1
Wisconsin	13	$801.13	$419.23	1
Delaware	12	$541.15	$351.19	1
North Dakota	12	$1237.34	$1057.48	1
Pennsylvania	11	$663.89	$482.23	1
District of Columbia	11	$1053.91	$532.87	1
Alabama	11	$1168.06	$1184.78	1
Georgia	11	$1231.20	$949.94	1
Ohio	11	$903.35	$575.39	1
Nebraska	11	$1277.78	$1158.96	1

Related codes

34713Exposure of groin artery for delivery of graft$135.09

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.