How much does Medicare pay for CPT 36832?

Medicare allowed an average of $901.69 per service and paid $715.65 of that, the balance being the patient's coinsurance and deductible (2024 data). Providers submitted an average of $2997.15, which is what they billed rather than what they received — Medicare pays its fee schedule regardless of the charge.

What is CPT code 36832?

Revision of hemodialysis graft. It was billed 4,270 times to 4,011 Medicare beneficiaries by 218 providers in 2024.

Does 36832 pay differently in an office than a hospital?

Yes. The allowed amount averaged $798.02 in an office setting and $903.93 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 36832 most?

Vascular Surgery, with 2,216 services from 114 clinicians. Next are General Surgery, Ambulatory Surgical Center, Physician Assistant.

CPT 36832

Revision of hemodialysis graft

$901.69Medicare-allowed amount per service, averaged across 4,270 services

Providers submitted

$2997.15

Asking price, not received

Medicare allowed

$901.69

The fee schedule figure

Medicare paid

$715.65

Balance is patient coinsurance

Providers submitted an average of $2997.15 for this code and Medicare allowed $901.69 — 3.3× 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 $715.65 (79%); the rest is the patient’s coinsurance and deductible.

Office pays differently to hospital

Office / non-facility: $798.02
Hospital / facility: $903.93

The facility rate is higher for this code, which is unusual and generally means the service depends on equipment or staffing a hospital carries. 90 services were billed in an office setting and 4,180 in a facility.

Services: 4,270
Beneficiaries: 4,011
Providers billing it: 218
Total allowed: $3,850,216

What Medicare pays for CPT 36832

Across 4,270 services billed by 218 providers to 4,011 beneficiaries, Medicare allowed an average of $901.69 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 36832

Specialty	Services	Beneficiaries	Avg allowed	Providers
Vascular Surgery	2,216	2,067	$714.89	114
General Surgery	1,036	978	$688.85	51
Ambulatory Surgical Center	471	444	$2759.26	21
Physician Assistant	139	137	$95.77	9
Nephrology	123	116	$657.60	5
Nurse Practitioner	68	67	$95.65	4
Thoracic Surgery	57	57	$670.48	4
Cardiac Surgery	52	45	$644.47	3
Interventional Radiology	39	36	$773.73	2
Internal Medicine	28	25	$700.68	2
Undefined Physician type	14	14	$724.73	1
Orthopedic Surgery	14	13	$627.99	1
General Practice	13	12	$893.22	1

36832 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	621	$839.39	$682.80	37
California	552	$754.10	$573.98	31
Virginia	277	$1016.76	$796.15	7
New York	235	$1245.04	$876.16	9
Florida	190	$1188.53	$941.09	11
North Carolina	159	$959.16	$797.32	7
South Carolina	157	$949.64	$831.05	8
Louisiana	154	$876.86	$738.89	8
Arizona	148	$1603.44	$1400.05	6
Illinois	148	$1219.78	$972.20	8
Mississippi	131	$613.93	$508.71	4
Missouri	127	$436.54	$335.46	7
Nevada	97	$1578.33	$1298.54	4
Oklahoma	95	$583.84	$479.23	4
Kansas	84	$646.82	$545.69	6
Maryland	84	$742.71	$561.52	3
Michigan	80	$780.82	$544.24	5
Wisconsin	74	$834.43	$724.19	6
Pennsylvania	73	$713.70	$561.28	3
Massachusetts	73	$735.59	$566.03	5
Kentucky	68	$673.47	$566.96	3
Indiana	63	$1087.52	$919.60	4
District of Columbia	59	$752.13	$580.89	1
Georgia	59	$590.22	$463.28	4
Alabama	56	$652.62	$574.03	3
Connecticut	54	$759.26	$546.36	3
Washington	50	$566.74	$449.84	3
Colorado	45	$702.00	$548.85	3
Minnesota	38	$2211.29	$1788.74	2
New Jersey	37	$742.26	$548.88	2
South Dakota	35	$658.07	$578.26	1
Rhode Island	26	$698.91	$559.56	2
Idaho	25	$666.16	$563.63	1
Ohio	23	$707.96	$567.21	2
Delaware	22	$698.83	$585.02	1
New Mexico	17	$760.99	$574.12	1
Arkansas	12	$674.19	$562.10	1
Tennessee	11	$654.68	$562.18	1
Hawaii	11	$618.59	$583.17	1

Related codes

36821Relocation of arm vein$674.97
36830Creation of artery-vein connection$761.36

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.