How much does Medicare pay for CPT 37184?

Medicare allowed an average of $897.53 per service and paid $716.11 of that, the balance being the patient's coinsurance and deductible (2024 data). Providers submitted an average of $5926.86, which is what they billed rather than what they received — Medicare pays its fee schedule regardless of the charge.

What is CPT code 37184?

Primary removal and dissolving of blood clot from artery or artery graft using fluoroscopic guidance, initial vessel. It was billed 1,868 times to 1,557 Medicare beneficiaries by 99 providers in 2024.

Does 37184 pay differently in an office than a hospital?

Yes. The allowed amount averaged $889.06 in an office setting and $900.14 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 37184 most?

Vascular Surgery, with 532 services from 29 clinicians. Next are Interventional Radiology, Diagnostic Radiology, Cardiology.

CPT 37184

Primary removal and dissolving of blood clot from artery or artery graft using fluoroscopic guidance, initial vessel

$897.53Medicare-allowed amount per service, averaged across 1,868 services

Providers submitted

$5926.86

Asking price, not received

Medicare allowed

$897.53

The fee schedule figure

Medicare paid

$716.11

Balance is patient coinsurance

Providers submitted an average of $5926.86 for this code and Medicare allowed $897.53 — 6.6× 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 $716.11 (80%); the rest is the patient’s coinsurance and deductible.

Office pays differently to hospital

Office / non-facility: $889.06
Hospital / facility: $900.14

The facility rate is higher for this code, which is unusual and generally means the service depends on equipment or staffing a hospital carries. 440 services were billed in an office setting and 1,428 in a facility.

Services: 1,868
Beneficiaries: 1,557
Providers billing it: 99
Total allowed: $1,676,586

What Medicare pays for CPT 37184

Across 1,868 services billed by 99 providers to 1,557 beneficiaries, Medicare allowed an average of $897.53 per service. That is 1.2 services per beneficiary, so this is a code patients typically receive more than once. 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 37184

Specialty	Services	Beneficiaries	Avg allowed	Providers
Vascular Surgery	532	443	$499.15	29
Interventional Radiology	393	287	$626.33	17
Diagnostic Radiology	315	289	$578.81	20
Cardiology	286	269	$552.93	17
Ambulatory Surgical Center	150	98	$5041.87	4
Interventional Cardiology	125	112	$364.65	8
Peripheral Vascular Disease	38	34	$376.12	2
General Surgery	29	25	$285.39	2

37184 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
California	547	$1587.66	$1193.40	13
Florida	157	$407.53	$311.75	10
Texas	79	$594.99	$469.78	6
South Carolina	76	$555.09	$456.22	6
Maryland	75	$552.52	$420.75	5
Georgia	73	$475.80	$361.27	5
South Dakota	72	$403.51	$342.31	5
Alabama	58	$2181.68	$1924.35	3
Tennessee	58	$497.27	$423.40	4
New York	57	$643.29	$493.70	3
Oklahoma	56	$374.18	$308.73	3
Pennsylvania	51	$445.22	$358.10	4
Indiana	47	$399.75	$346.34	2
Ohio	45	$412.47	$337.13	3
New Jersey	44	$423.15	$311.72	3
Arizona	43	$2732.10	$2192.11	2
Arkansas	42	$655.30	$591.45	2
Washington	36	$317.94	$248.77	2
Massachusetts	32	$349.77	$265.61	2
Mississippi	31	$458.18	$404.06	2
North Carolina	29	$465.36	$390.82	2
Missouri	24	$331.35	$272.27	2
Idaho	17	$341.03	$297.36	1
Michigan	17	$411.62	$316.47	1
North Dakota	15	$360.01	$286.82	1
Montana	14	$535.72	$432.80	1
Colorado	13	$377.25	$275.08	1
Kansas	13	$233.06	$201.14	1
Iowa	12	$365.83	$341.17	1
Illinois	12	$538.89	$462.20	1
Virginia	12	$363.74	$285.91	1
New Mexico	11	$538.43	$427.85	1

Related codes

37191Insertion of vena cava filter$215.02
37187Removal and dissolving of blood clot from vein$2088.23

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.