How much does Medicare pay for CPT 37799?

Medicare allowed an average of $191.43 per service and paid $152.44 of that, the balance being the patient's coinsurance and deductible (2024 data). Providers submitted an average of $1385.86, which is what they billed rather than what they received — Medicare pays its fee schedule regardless of the charge.

What is CPT code 37799?

Other procedure on blood vessel. It was billed 2,307 times to 1,804 Medicare beneficiaries by 78 providers in 2024.

Does 37799 pay differently in an office than a hospital?

Yes. The allowed amount averaged $204.14 in an office setting and $169.44 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 37799 most?

Interventional Radiology, with 362 services from 14 clinicians. Next are Nephrology, Obstetrics & Gynecology, Emergency Medicine.

CPT 37799

Other procedure on blood vessel

$191.43Medicare-allowed amount per service, averaged across 2,307 services

Providers submitted

$1385.86

Asking price, not received

Medicare allowed

$191.43

The fee schedule figure

Medicare paid

$152.44

Balance is patient coinsurance

Providers submitted an average of $1385.86 for this code and Medicare allowed $191.43 — 7.2× 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 $152.44 (80%); the rest is the patient’s coinsurance and deductible.

Office pays differently to hospital

Office / non-facility: $204.14
Hospital / facility: $169.44

The office rate is higher because the practice supplies the room, staff and equipment out of that payment. In a hospital the facility bills those separately, so the clinician's share is smaller — the total cost to Medicare is usually higher, not lower. 1,462 services were billed in an office setting and 845 in a facility.

Services: 2,307
Beneficiaries: 1,804
Providers billing it: 78
Total allowed: $441,629

What Medicare pays for CPT 37799

Across 2,307 services billed by 78 providers to 1,804 beneficiaries, Medicare allowed an average of $191.43 per service. That is 1.3 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 37799

Specialty	Services	Beneficiaries	Avg allowed	Providers
Interventional Radiology	362	302	$147.84	14
Nephrology	355	294	$165.88	17
Obstetrics & Gynecology	355	214	$233.72	4
Emergency Medicine	310	238	$212.13	8
Vascular Surgery	293	246	$146.84	13
General Surgery	278	219	$263.25	9
Cardiac Surgery	76	68	$183.92	2
Thoracic Surgery	62	55	$78.92	2
Internal Medicine	61	45	$247.61	2
Diagnostic Radiology	56	46	$293.77	2
Interventional Cardiology	30	11	$232.13	1
Family Practice	23	22	$138.31	1
Pathology	17	17	$20.35	1
Cardiology	15	15	$89.47	1
Physician Assistant	14	12	$144.56	1

37799 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
Maryland	618	$307.13	$246.79	13
Virginia	309	$167.39	$132.39	12
Florida	219	$181.70	$143.14	8
Michigan	172	$116.21	$92.34	4
Indiana	143	$130.98	$101.00	5
New York	124	$158.87	$123.04	3
Pennsylvania	84	$153.94	$122.65	3
Colorado	71	$93.76	$74.28	2
Montana	60	$115.58	$89.81	1
Ohio	58	$138.75	$108.50	4
Kentucky	57	$230.85	$183.95	1
Texas	55	$160.19	$122.53	4
New Jersey	48	$151.38	$115.38	3
Tennessee	40	$157.39	$117.46	1
North Carolina	36	$181.13	$142.01	2
North Dakota	27	$343.25	$274.09	1
Georgia	26	$110.38	$85.47	1
Alabama	20	$97.72	$72.92	1
Massachusetts	19	$137.41	$99.85	1
Arizona	19	$43.12	$34.35	1
Minnesota	17	$20.35	$16.21	1
Utah	15	$89.47	$71.29	1
Vermont	15	$62.76	$50.76	1
Arkansas	14	$91.38	$72.80	1
South Carolina	14	$43.53	$34.38	1
Kansas	14	$112.98	$86.75	1
Mississippi	13	$126.24	$100.58	1

Related codes

37765Removal of varicose veins of arm or leg$255.82
37766Removal of varicose veins of arm or leg$359.89

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.