How much does Medicare pay for CPT 50323?

Medicare allowed an average of $110.43 per service and paid $87.96 of that, the balance being the patient's coinsurance and deductible (2024 data). Providers submitted an average of $1995.55, which is what they billed rather than what they received — Medicare pays its fee schedule regardless of the charge.

What is CPT code 50323?

Preparation of donor kidney for transplantation. It was billed 5,827 times to 5,820 Medicare beneficiaries by 313 providers in 2024.

Which specialty bills 50323 most?

General Surgery, with 5,313 services from 286 clinicians. Next are Urology, Undefined Physician type, Surgical Oncology.

CPT 50323

Preparation of donor kidney for transplantation

$110.43Medicare-allowed amount per service, averaged across 5,827 services

Providers submitted

$1995.55

Asking price, not received

Medicare allowed

$110.43

The fee schedule figure

Medicare paid

$87.96

Balance is patient coinsurance

Providers submitted an average of $1995.55 for this code and Medicare allowed $110.43 — 18.1× 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 $87.96 (80%); the rest is the patient’s coinsurance and deductible.

Services: 5,827
Beneficiaries: 5,820
Providers billing it: 313
Total allowed: $643,476

What Medicare pays for CPT 50323

Across 5,827 services billed by 313 providers to 5,820 beneficiaries, Medicare allowed an average of $110.43 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 50323

Specialty	Services	Beneficiaries	Avg allowed	Providers
General Surgery	5,313	5,306	$112.06	286
Urology	366	366	$93.13	20
Undefined Physician type	48	48	$100.00	2
Surgical Oncology	40	40	$63.03	1
Vascular Surgery	36	36	$119.21	2
Pediatric Medicine	24	24	$99.44	2

50323 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	719	$90.41	$71.09	34
Texas	409	$56.54	$44.99	23
Illinois	361	$140.39	$109.98	21
Arizona	323	$65.89	$52.36	16
New York	313	$111.70	$87.20	18
Florida	303	$195.21	$156.13	14
Tennessee	286	$88.88	$70.96	15
Washington	243	$89.54	$70.98	14
Wisconsin	241	$96.83	$77.37	15
Georgia	231	$93.81	$74.83	13
New Jersey	225	$202.41	$161.15	8
Pennsylvania	197	$217.56	$172.68	10
Missouri	196	$62.41	$49.62	10
Maryland	191	$250.05	$198.22	11
Ohio	185	$88.73	$70.92	11
Virginia	128	$101.45	$80.31	6
Indiana	124	$71.27	$56.89	5
Utah	119	$74.15	$59.04	6
North Carolina	117	$79.48	$62.69	7
Michigan	113	$144.99	$115.40	8
South Carolina	99	$94.88	$76.79	5
Massachusetts	86	$66.08	$52.65	6
Minnesota	85	$117.87	$93.57	6
Iowa	71	$55.63	$44.32	3
Oklahoma	69	$53.98	$43.90	4
District of Columbia	65	$259.24	$208.06	4
Alabama	57	$85.54	$68.86	3
Louisiana	57	$113.51	$88.75	3
Nebraska	39	$67.37	$53.68	2
North Dakota	27	$95.57	$75.84	2
Colorado	26	$50.78	$40.26	2
New Mexico	21	$70.42	$52.55	1
South Dakota	17	$84.83	$67.59	1
New Hampshire	17	$23.89	$19.03	1
Oregon	17	$95.24	$72.70	1
Kentucky	16	$79.86	$61.54	1
Arkansas	12	$71.56	$57.02	1
Connecticut	11	$94.17	$71.48	1
Puerto Rico	11	$30.76	$24.51	1

Related codes

50360Transplantation of donor kidney$1948.42
50327Preparation of donor kidney and veins for transplantation$93.72

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.