How much does Medicare pay for CPT 64483?

Medicare allowed an average of $263.09 per service and paid $204.31 of that, the balance being the patient's coinsurance and deductible (2024 data). Providers submitted an average of $1882.28, which is what they billed rather than what they received — Medicare pays its fee schedule regardless of the charge.

What is CPT code 64483?

Injection of anesthetic and/or steroid drug into sacral spine nerve root using imaging guidance, single level. It was billed 867,623 times to 592,657 Medicare beneficiaries by 8,175 providers in 2024.

Does 64483 pay differently in an office than a hospital?

Yes. The allowed amount averaged $272.71 in an office setting and $257.83 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 64483 most?

Ambulatory Surgical Center, with 262,450 services from 1,392 clinicians. Next are Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Pain Management, Anesthesiology.

CPT 64483

Injection of anesthetic and/or steroid drug into sacral spine nerve root using imaging guidance, single level

$263.09Medicare-allowed amount per service, averaged across 867,623 services

Providers submitted

$1882.28

Asking price, not received

Medicare allowed

$263.09

The fee schedule figure

Medicare paid

$204.31

Balance is patient coinsurance

Providers submitted an average of $1882.28 for this code and Medicare allowed $263.09 — 7.2× 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 $204.31 (78%); the rest is the patient’s coinsurance and deductible.

Office pays differently to hospital

Office / non-facility: $272.71
Hospital / facility: $257.83

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. 307,208 services were billed in an office setting and 560,415 in a facility.

Services: 867,623
Beneficiaries: 592,657
Providers billing it: 8,175
Total allowed: $228,262,935

What Medicare pays for CPT 64483

Across 867,623 services billed by 8,175 providers to 592,657 beneficiaries, Medicare allowed an average of $263.09 per service. That is 1.5 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 64483

Specialty	Services	Beneficiaries	Avg allowed	Providers
Ambulatory Surgical Center	262,450	143,167	$405.32	1,392
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation	208,965	156,425	$201.15	1,987
Pain Management	136,926	102,457	$201.79	1,660
Anesthesiology	110,999	81,806	$194.27	1,406
Interventional Pain Management	100,647	72,229	$211.63	933
Orthopedic Surgery	21,390	15,563	$210.04	259
Diagnostic Radiology	8,756	7,756	$163.79	250
Neurology	2,863	2,117	$234.05	49
Family Practice	2,557	1,906	$187.26	24
Neurosurgery	1,972	1,522	$172.58	39
Sports Medicine	1,949	1,533	$167.91	34
Interventional Radiology	1,302	980	$225.50	27
Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine	1,230	874	$200.34	7
Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA)	1,192	956	$173.86	33
Internal Medicine	759	508	$232.99	16

64483 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	95,886	$326.72	$216.01	794
Texas	66,250	$250.04	$202.97	694
Florida	65,880	$272.35	$217.93	615
Georgia	41,664	$271.10	$220.47	361
Arizona	36,025	$278.41	$221.48	248
Maryland	34,883	$285.78	$223.46	239
New York	33,832	$277.85	$194.62	415
Pennsylvania	32,699	$247.24	$192.45	330
Illinois	31,074	$244.96	$187.12	289
New Jersey	29,006	$296.25	$215.14	318
Ohio	27,885	$220.30	$178.77	274
North Carolina	25,868	$245.30	$198.17	245
Virginia	25,440	$270.14	$205.65	168
Tennessee	21,098	$255.57	$219.34	161
South Carolina	20,809	$253.60	$209.75	134
Colorado	20,238	$265.69	$207.47	162
Indiana	17,983	$246.47	$200.99	188
Louisiana	16,536	$223.01	$190.46	149
Washington	15,682	$262.52	$193.89	159
Mississippi	13,834	$231.33	$206.73	69
Kansas	13,752	$225.40	$187.87	87
Alabama	13,570	$214.44	$190.05	118
Massachusetts	13,234	$232.94	$166.16	162
Minnesota	12,955	$256.99	$198.43	165
Michigan	12,232	$243.81	$193.54	198
Missouri	11,162	$195.23	$157.08	136
Arkansas	10,534	$244.44	$209.19	75
Wisconsin	10,423	$212.85	$171.88	176
Oklahoma	9,982	$211.44	$177.02	90
Delaware	9,375	$288.73	$223.31	32
Oregon	8,781	$292.51	$219.19	96
Utah	8,187	$254.69	$205.04	99
Nevada	8,113	$297.55	$228.82	94
Kentucky	8,018	$241.76	$203.65	78
Nebraska	6,270	$233.44	$195.95	58
Connecticut	5,945	$287.84	$210.16	76
Iowa	4,171	$220.46	$181.80	53
Idaho	4,145	$221.13	$182.28	58
New Hampshire	3,792	$238.70	$184.94	41
Wyoming	3,314	$268.18	$215.04	27
South Dakota	3,129	$150.35	$121.53	26
Montana	2,741	$226.85	$180.46	37
New Mexico	2,729	$236.44	$194.51	32
Rhode Island	1,813	$262.40	$202.89	21
West Virginia	1,442	$167.05	$134.77	29
Alaska	1,322	$314.01	$207.35	19
North Dakota	928	$184.24	$147.43	17
Maine	797	$140.93	$105.57	18
District of Columbia	758	$206.71	$144.30	14
Vermont	564	$141.10	$102.83	10
Puerto Rico	459	$224.41	$183.46	9
Hawaii	305	$262.88	$194.73	9
U.S. Virgin Islands	109	$249.26	$225.55	3

Related codes

64493Injection of lower or sacral spine facet joint$243.14
64494Injection of lower or sacral spine facet joint$96.60
64450Injection of anesthetic agent and/or steroid into other nerve or branc$44.99
64447Injection of anesthetic agent and/or steroid into thigh nerve (femoral$58.78
64484Injection of anesthetic and/or steroid drug into sacral spine nerve ro$84.15
64490Injection of upper or middle spine facet joint$259.70
64415Injection of anesthetic agent and/or steroid into arm nerve bundle (br$67.89
64491Injection of upper or middle spine facet joint$100.48
64445Injection of anesthetic agent and/or steroid into lower back and leg n$173.06
64405Injection of anesthetic agent and/or steroid into upper neck and back$71.75
64479Injection of anesthetic and/or steroid drug into upper or middle spine$275.58
64455Injection of anesthetic and/or steroid drug into foot nerve$48.08

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.