How much does Medicare pay for CPT 51741?

Medicare allowed an average of $10.90 per service and paid $8.12 of that, the balance being the patient's coinsurance and deductible (2024 data). Providers submitted an average of $202.80, which is what they billed rather than what they received — Medicare pays its fee schedule regardless of the charge.

What is CPT code 51741?

Electronic assessment of bladder emptying. It was billed 300,902 times to 250,277 Medicare beneficiaries by 4,356 providers in 2024.

Does 51741 pay differently in an office than a hospital?

Yes. The allowed amount averaged $11.21 in an office setting and $5.67 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 51741 most?

Urology, with 247,403 services from 3,114 clinicians. Next are Obstetrics & Gynecology, Nurse Practitioner, Physician Assistant.

CPT 51741

Electronic assessment of bladder emptying

$10.90Medicare-allowed amount per service, averaged across 300,902 services

Providers submitted

$202.80

Asking price, not received

Medicare allowed

$10.90

The fee schedule figure

Medicare paid

$8.12

Balance is patient coinsurance

Providers submitted an average of $202.80 for this code and Medicare allowed $10.90 — 18.6× 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 $8.12 (74%); the rest is the patient’s coinsurance and deductible.

Office pays differently to hospital

Office / non-facility: $11.21
Hospital / facility: $5.67

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. 284,088 services were billed in an office setting and 16,814 in a facility.

Services: 300,902
Beneficiaries: 250,277
Providers billing it: 4,356
Total allowed: $3,279,832

What Medicare pays for CPT 51741

Across 300,902 services billed by 4,356 providers to 250,277 beneficiaries, Medicare allowed an average of $10.90 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 51741

Specialty	Services	Beneficiaries	Avg allowed	Providers
Urology	247,403	201,170	$11.50	3,114
Obstetrics & Gynecology	28,018	25,984	$7.59	623
Nurse Practitioner	12,728	11,785	$8.29	336
Physician Assistant	10,004	9,203	$9.06	246
Undefined Physician type	969	662	$7.76	8
Internal Medicine	605	518	$11.66	7
Certified Nurse Midwife	302	182	$11.25	2
General Surgery	221	208	$10.85	5
Certified Clinical Nurse Specialist	173	159	$9.32	2
Gynecological Oncology	155	99	$6.82	2
Family Practice	154	141	$8.75	3
Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine	51	49	$4.79	1
Radiation Oncology	39	37	$10.39	3
Surgical Oncology	37	37	$7.60	2
General Practice	26	26	$8.72	1

51741 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
New York	43,089	$12.64	$8.02	396
California	42,664	$12.39	$8.30	385
Florida	33,188	$11.19	$7.92	407
New Jersey	21,632	$13.18	$8.91	210
Texas	16,452	$9.87	$7.34	298
Arizona	14,374	$10.42	$7.81	153
Pennsylvania	12,467	$11.13	$7.88	206
Illinois	10,116	$9.86	$6.85	166
Massachusetts	9,221	$10.42	$7.23	122
Ohio	7,216	$7.32	$5.58	174
Maryland	6,995	$12.99	$8.82	119
Georgia	6,909	$8.54	$6.56	133
Tennessee	5,248	$9.02	$7.23	80
North Carolina	4,904	$8.47	$6.76	119
Minnesota	4,353	$11.50	$7.92	56
Virginia	4,346	$9.02	$6.47	111
Missouri	4,054	$7.78	$6.06	74
Colorado	3,849	$9.61	$7.04	94
Oklahoma	3,745	$10.54	$8.34	32
South Carolina	3,236	$8.44	$7.02	66
Washington	3,184	$8.95	$6.37	71
Michigan	3,010	$9.14	$6.73	80
Indiana	3,003	$8.16	$6.66	87
Delaware	2,869	$12.38	$8.61	22
Mississippi	2,597	$8.55	$7.02	45
Kansas	2,255	$9.67	$7.81	43
Wisconsin	2,250	$8.08	$6.35	55
Louisiana	2,226	$9.60	$7.40	52
Nebraska	2,123	$9.39	$7.84	24
Oregon	1,852	$6.20	$4.68	54
Nevada	1,746	$8.90	$6.70	35
Kentucky	1,721	$9.48	$7.71	40
Connecticut	1,513	$9.93	$6.74	32
Utah	1,321	$7.58	$5.81	40
District of Columbia	1,314	$12.87	$8.18	15
Iowa	1,137	$7.35	$5.90	40
Alabama	1,063	$6.65	$5.55	31
Puerto Rico	894	$13.26	$9.52	23
New Hampshire	873	$10.12	$7.05	13
Montana	729	$7.26	$5.41	15
Idaho	665	$6.16	$5.01	22
Rhode Island	606	$10.90	$7.83	15
Arkansas	593	$7.50	$6.54	22
South Dakota	565	$6.23	$4.85	12
Wyoming	487	$11.37	$8.52	6
New Mexico	393	$8.43	$6.04	10
Maine	365	$7.53	$5.84	11
Vermont	319	$6.41	$4.62	7
North Dakota	315	$7.80	$5.72	8
Alaska	261	$8.03	$5.51	6
West Virginia	222	$5.40	$4.32	11
Hawaii	181	$6.28	$4.90	5
U.S. Virgin Islands	150	$14.01	$8.54	2
ZZ	42	$5.26	$4.12	1

Related codes

51798Ultrasound measurement of bladder capacity after voiding$11.33
51702Simple insertion of temporary bladder tube$56.08
51700Simple bladder irrigation and/or instillation$62.89
51784Non-needle measurement and recording of electrical activity of muscles$32.26
51701Insertion of temporary bladder tube$41.58
51797Insertion of device into abdomen$155.21
51720Instillation of anti-cancer drug into bladder$79.02
51728Complex measurement of pressure of urine flow in bladder$308.93
51705Simple change of bladder tube$86.83
51729Complex measurement of pressure of urine flow in bladder$338.91
51703Complicated insertion of bladder tube$133.52
51725Simple measurement of pressure of urine flow in bladder$165.67

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.