How much does Medicare pay for CPT 50360?

Medicare allowed an average of $1948.42 per service and paid $1557.14 of that, the balance being the patient's coinsurance and deductible (2024 data). Providers submitted an average of $10,410, which is what they billed rather than what they received — Medicare pays its fee schedule regardless of the charge.

What is CPT code 50360?

Transplantation of donor kidney. It was billed 9,209 times to 9,193 Medicare beneficiaries by 444 providers in 2024.

Which specialty bills 50360 most?

General Surgery, with 8,311 services from 406 clinicians. Next are Urology, Vascular Surgery, Surgical Oncology.

CPT 50360

Transplantation of donor kidney

$1948.42Medicare-allowed amount per service, averaged across 9,209 services

Providers submitted

$10,410

Asking price, not received

Medicare allowed

$1948.42

The fee schedule figure

Medicare paid

$1557.14

Balance is patient coinsurance

Providers submitted an average of $10,410 for this code and Medicare allowed $1948.42 — 5.3× 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 $1557.14 (80%); the rest is the patient’s coinsurance and deductible.

Services: 9,209
Beneficiaries: 9,193
Providers billing it: 444
Total allowed: $17,943,000

What Medicare pays for CPT 50360

Across 9,209 services billed by 444 providers to 9,193 beneficiaries, Medicare allowed an average of $1948.42 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 50360

Specialty	Services	Beneficiaries	Avg allowed	Providers
General Surgery	8,311	8,295	$1941.25	406
Urology	636	636	$2115.16	26
Vascular Surgery	75	75	$2482.55	4
Surgical Oncology	58	58	$1252.96	2
Undefined Physician type	54	54	$2265.47	2
Internal Medicine	36	36	$392.24	1
Pediatric Medicine	28	28	$2320.95	2
Physician Assistant	11	11	$337.18	1

50360 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	1,139	$2077.45	$1539.54	49
Texas	814	$1749.25	$1358.84	37
New York	527	$2427.78	$1692.86	29
Florida	467	$2186.16	$1596.67	20
Pennsylvania	456	$1740.71	$1284.14	24
Illinois	448	$2276.34	$1528.28	22
Arizona	397	$1489.52	$1168.94	16
Tennessee	382	$1898.80	$1615.71	18
Wisconsin	369	$1479.50	$1185.59	21
Georgia	354	$1855.59	$1452.27	17
Washington	322	$1942.91	$1405.66	16
New Jersey	290	$2388.26	$1732.98	8
Ohio	284	$2071.50	$1701.50	16
Maryland	251	$2305.62	$1682.62	11
Massachusetts	228	$1814.79	$1333.17	14
Missouri	228	$1907.47	$1525.57	11
North Carolina	198	$1764.38	$1426.67	11
Minnesota	197	$1832.77	$1551.32	12
Michigan	190	$2224.47	$1637.64	13
Virginia	178	$2199.70	$1813.55	8
South Carolina	175	$1623.72	$1309.79	7
Indiana	171	$1695.16	$1439.52	6
Utah	150	$1706.80	$1317.54	6
District of Columbia	136	$2048.89	$1496.79	6
Oklahoma	122	$1600.04	$1322.16	7
Alabama	101	$1710.85	$1462.10	4
Iowa	90	$1536.42	$1287.22	4
Colorado	76	$1713.64	$1353.18	5
Louisiana	73	$2344.71	$1853.51	4
Nevada	60	$2280.06	$1849.34	2
Nebraska	50	$2053.45	$1879.78	2
North Dakota	44	$2032.27	$1695.27	3
Kentucky	36	$1429.86	$1123.44	2
Oregon	34	$2232.28	$1699.40	2
Arkansas	30	$1579.58	$1356.47	2
Hawaii	28	$1423.24	$979.54	2
Mississippi	24	$2192.92	$1663.10	2
New Hampshire	23	$330.16	$175.16	1
New Mexico	21	$2532.17	$1898.03	1
Connecticut	17	$2515.74	$1797.25	1
South Dakota	17	$2061.38	$1799.23	1
Puerto Rico	12	$825.17	$365.70	1

Related codes

50323Preparation of donor kidney for transplantation$110.43
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.