How much does Medicare pay for CPT 61783?

Medicare allowed an average of $211.81 per service and paid $169.18 of that, the balance being the patient's coinsurance and deductible (2024 data). Providers submitted an average of $1135.67, which is what they billed rather than what they received — Medicare pays its fee schedule regardless of the charge.

What is CPT code 61783?

Computer-assisted spinal procedure. It was billed 27,596 times to 27,007 Medicare beneficiaries by 1,186 providers in 2024.

Which specialty bills 61783 most?

Neurosurgery, with 16,861 services from 741 clinicians. Next are Orthopedic Surgery, Physician Assistant, Nurse Practitioner.

CPT 61783

Computer-assisted spinal procedure

$211.81Medicare-allowed amount per service, averaged across 27,596 services

Providers submitted

$1135.67

Asking price, not received

Medicare allowed

$211.81

The fee schedule figure

Medicare paid

$169.18

Balance is patient coinsurance

Providers submitted an average of $1135.67 for this code and Medicare allowed $211.81 — 5.4× 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 $169.18 (80%); the rest is the patient’s coinsurance and deductible.

Services: 27,596
Beneficiaries: 27,007
Providers billing it: 1,186
Total allowed: $5,845,109

What Medicare pays for CPT 61783

Across 27,596 services billed by 1,186 providers to 27,007 beneficiaries, Medicare allowed an average of $211.81 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 61783

Specialty	Services	Beneficiaries	Avg allowed	Providers
Neurosurgery	16,861	16,493	$225.08	741
Orthopedic Surgery	8,982	8,783	$217.25	363
Physician Assistant	1,100	1,086	$29.82	52
Nurse Practitioner	409	406	$28.08	17
Neurology	126	122	$214.77	8
Cardiology	59	59	$211.25	1
General Surgery	19	19	$283.07	1
Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine	16	16	$220.56	1
Anesthesiology	13	12	$220.16	1
Vascular Surgery	11	11	$277.27	1

61783 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	2,133	$233.97	$167.97	84
California	1,910	$211.19	$165.71	88
Ohio	1,800	$222.57	$180.85	66
Texas	1,679	$224.13	$178.43	76
Indiana	1,601	$146.42	$134.31	62
Virginia	1,337	$208.60	$170.25	50
Tennessee	1,067	$193.40	$179.05	34
Massachusetts	1,055	$233.49	$180.24	37
North Carolina	1,028	$202.56	$176.60	53
Illinois	1,019	$251.58	$180.72	43
Georgia	942	$217.78	$172.43	40
Pennsylvania	921	$220.02	$175.33	43
New York	901	$272.84	$180.39	47
South Carolina	827	$215.88	$181.05	30
Michigan	700	$201.60	$152.89	37
Colorado	664	$222.24	$180.83	29
Kentucky	566	$220.72	$181.10	22
Minnesota	530	$198.26	$180.70	28
Nebraska	512	$142.05	$133.98	25
Arizona	505	$215.44	$180.70	24
Maryland	493	$243.97	$180.74	20
Iowa	470	$175.27	$161.90	13
Wisconsin	468	$198.87	$180.81	26
Alabama	406	$192.67	$176.30	20
Kansas	372	$176.27	$156.86	17
Missouri	358	$201.99	$166.61	14
Connecticut	351	$243.81	$179.18	19
Arkansas	340	$191.34	$174.53	16
Utah	318	$146.39	$119.99	12
Washington	299	$202.63	$168.56	16
Delaware	285	$221.73	$180.45	8
Idaho	163	$199.52	$180.42	8
West Virginia	161	$239.40	$181.34	7
Oklahoma	151	$211.86	$180.78	5
Montana	145	$224.47	$179.35	6
Mississippi	141	$202.18	$180.91	7
Louisiana	129	$212.98	$180.91	7
New Jersey	122	$239.12	$177.08	6
Nevada	121	$181.28	$147.96	7
Oregon	105	$213.93	$180.47	6
District of Columbia	103	$250.88	$180.63	5
New Hampshire	97	$220.50	$180.80	6
Wyoming	84	$167.52	$137.43	3
South Dakota	62	$198.87	$180.29	4
North Dakota	60	$175.24	$149.31	4
Alaska	39	$189.23	$124.74	3
Rhode Island	36	$252.50	$180.45	2
Vermont	20	$204.59	$180.26	1

Related codes

61782Computer-assisted procedure outside membrane covering brain$167.85
61781Computer-assisted procedure inside brain$235.29
61797Computer-assisted radiosurgery of simple growth of brain$222.21
61796Computer-assisted radiosurgery of simple growth of brain$1039.54
61798Computer-assisted radiosurgery of complex growth of brain$1414.29

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.

What doctors are paid →·Look up a clinician →·All procedure codes →

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.