How much does Medicare pay for CPT 37187?

Medicare allowed an average of $2088.23 per service and paid $1662.43 of that, the balance being the patient's coinsurance and deductible (2024 data). Providers submitted an average of $8077.21, which is what they billed rather than what they received — Medicare pays its fee schedule regardless of the charge.

What is CPT code 37187?

Removal and dissolving of blood clot from vein using fluoroscopic guidance, initial treatment. It was billed 1,118 times to 973 Medicare beneficiaries by 47 providers in 2024.

Does 37187 pay differently in an office than a hospital?

Yes. The allowed amount averaged $1537.50 in an office setting and $2198.14 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 37187 most?

Diagnostic Radiology, with 281 services from 11 clinicians. Next are Interventional Radiology, Ambulatory Surgical Center, Cardiology.

CPT 37187

Removal and dissolving of blood clot from vein using fluoroscopic guidance, initial treatment

$2088.23Medicare-allowed amount per service, averaged across 1,118 services

Providers submitted

$8077.21

Asking price, not received

Medicare allowed

$2088.23

The fee schedule figure

Medicare paid

$1662.43

Balance is patient coinsurance

Providers submitted an average of $8077.21 for this code and Medicare allowed $2088.23 — 3.9× 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 $1662.43 (80%); the rest is the patient’s coinsurance and deductible.

Office pays differently to hospital

Office / non-facility: $1537.50
Hospital / facility: $2198.14

The facility rate is higher for this code, which is unusual and generally means the service depends on equipment or staffing a hospital carries. 186 services were billed in an office setting and 932 in a facility.

Services: 1,118
Beneficiaries: 973
Providers billing it: 47
Total allowed: $2,334,641

What Medicare pays for CPT 37187

Across 1,118 services billed by 47 providers to 973 beneficiaries, Medicare allowed an average of $2088.23 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 37187

Specialty	Services	Beneficiaries	Avg allowed	Providers
Diagnostic Radiology	281	225	$755.15	11
Interventional Radiology	279	246	$579.39	11
Ambulatory Surgical Center	265	231	$6772.44	6
Cardiology	101	88	$557.99	6
Interventional Cardiology	86	80	$369.62	6
Vascular Surgery	58	55	$389.54	4
General Surgery	24	24	$359.24	2
Nephrology	24	24	$1947.24	1

37187 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	310	$3457.67	$2917.28	8
California	140	$2958.23	$2105.67	5
Tennessee	117	$2836.79	$2694.48	3
Indiana	80	$376.85	$289.55	3
Texas	77	$373.07	$289.90	5
Arizona	72	$1142.92	$1000.77	2
Illinois	42	$4760.22	$4058.37	3
South Dakota	30	$397.58	$317.60	2
South Carolina	25	$314.73	$262.47	2
New York	24	$1947.24	$1276.16	1
New Mexico	23	$356.83	$276.05	1
Ohio	22	$394.45	$318.30	2
New Jersey	22	$1954.42	$1290.49	1
Oklahoma	19	$362.54	$306.16	1
Nebraska	18	$348.39	$306.57	1
Wisconsin	17	$354.32	$307.32	1
Idaho	15	$343.93	$295.26	1
Georgia	15	$382.23	$287.48	1
Nevada	15	$376.84	$306.82	1
Maryland	13	$393.46	$302.70	1
Kentucky	11	$362.54	$298.37	1
District of Columbia	11	$396.90	$270.32	1

Related codes

37191Insertion of vena cava filter$215.02
37184Primary removal and dissolving of blood clot from artery or artery gra$897.53

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.