How much does Medicare pay for CPT 62350?

Medicare allowed an average of $922.79 per service and paid $733.65 of that, the balance being the patient's coinsurance and deductible (2024 data). Providers submitted an average of $6415.29, which is what they billed rather than what they received — Medicare pays its fee schedule regardless of the charge.

What is CPT code 62350?

Insertion, revision, or repositioning of spinal canal tube for medication administration. It was billed 1,383 times to 1,349 Medicare beneficiaries by 77 providers in 2024.

Which specialty bills 62350 most?

Ambulatory Surgical Center, with 409 services from 22 clinicians. Next are Anesthesiology, Neurosurgery, Interventional Pain Management.

CPT 62350

Insertion, revision, or repositioning of spinal canal tube for medication administration

$922.79Medicare-allowed amount per service, averaged across 1,383 services

Providers submitted

$6415.29

Asking price, not received

Medicare allowed

$922.79

The fee schedule figure

Medicare paid

$733.65

Balance is patient coinsurance

Providers submitted an average of $6415.29 for this code and Medicare allowed $922.79 — 7.0× 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 $733.65 (80%); the rest is the patient’s coinsurance and deductible.

Services: 1,383
Beneficiaries: 1,349
Providers billing it: 77
Total allowed: $1,276,219

What Medicare pays for CPT 62350

Across 1,383 services billed by 77 providers to 1,349 beneficiaries, Medicare allowed an average of $922.79 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 62350

Specialty	Services	Beneficiaries	Avg allowed	Providers
Ambulatory Surgical Center	409	405	$2247.97	22
Anesthesiology	303	295	$379.08	15
Neurosurgery	185	178	$384.83	10
Interventional Pain Management	178	171	$375.85	11
Pain Management	146	144	$361.16	10
Orthopedic Surgery	59	56	$231.89	3
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation	40	39	$355.98	3
Diagnostic Radiology	24	24	$362.18	1
Family Practice	21	19	$381.69	1
Neurology	18	18	$360.11	1

62350 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
Texas	207	$732.76	$617.86	12
Indiana	164	$1368.50	$1139.19	8
California	143	$714.70	$556.43	7
Minnesota	132	$1627.23	$1298.82	6
Florida	103	$1126.82	$958.19	7
Kansas	80	$854.79	$716.02	3
Kentucky	73	$597.63	$513.46	3
Massachusetts	60	$369.46	$264.07	4
Missouri	56	$825.33	$676.97	3
Wisconsin	48	$1153.60	$953.62	2
Oklahoma	48	$775.55	$693.76	3
Illinois	40	$1178.07	$907.72	3
Arizona	32	$369.12	$316.35	2
Arkansas	26	$344.28	$309.60	2
Idaho	25	$351.67	$316.28	2
Ohio	23	$1317.32	$1094.26	2
South Carolina	22	$372.07	$301.30	1
Maryland	20	$2547.06	$2005.10	1
Pennsylvania	17	$340.37	$322.55	1
New York	15	$310.72	$221.94	1
Washington	14	$365.10	$313.49	1
Alabama	12	$330.52	$313.36	1
West Virginia	12	$363.17	$319.80	1
South Dakota	11	$368.96	$312.81	1

Related codes

62323Injection of substance into lower spine canal$200.33
62321Injection of substance into middle or upper spine canal$215.08
62370Electronic analysis reprogramming and refill of spinal canal drug infu$76.65
62328Removal of spinal fluid$81.96
62369Electronic analysis reprogramming and refill of spinal canal drug infu$78.93
62368Electronic analysis and reprogramming of spinal canal drug infusion pu$39.38
62322Injection of substance into lower spine canal$84.43
62367Electronic analysis of spinal canal drug infusion pump$28.62
62362Insertion of programmable spinal canal drug infusion pump$4222.97
62324Insertion of tube and injection of substance into middle or upper spin$90.95
62304X-ray of lower spinal canal$156.91

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.