How much does Medicare pay for CPT 64611?

Medicare allowed an average of $121.19 per service and paid $92.90 of that, the balance being the patient's coinsurance and deductible (2024 data). Providers submitted an average of $417.86, which is what they billed rather than what they received — Medicare pays its fee schedule regardless of the charge.

What is CPT code 64611?

Injection of chemical for paralysis of salivary glands on both sides of mouth. It was billed 4,923 times to 2,158 Medicare beneficiaries by 115 providers in 2024.

Does 64611 pay differently in an office than a hospital?

Yes. The allowed amount averaged $123.54 in an office setting and $111.33 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 64611 most?

Neurology, with 4,596 services from 107 clinicians. Next are Nurse Practitioner, Psychiatry, Nephrology.

CPT 64611

Injection of chemical for paralysis of salivary glands on both sides of mouth

$121.19Medicare-allowed amount per service, averaged across 4,923 services

Providers submitted

$417.86

Asking price, not received

Medicare allowed

$121.19

The fee schedule figure

Medicare paid

$92.90

Balance is patient coinsurance

Providers submitted an average of $417.86 for this code and Medicare allowed $121.19 — 3.4× 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 $92.90 (77%); the rest is the patient’s coinsurance and deductible.

Office pays differently to hospital

Office / non-facility: $123.54
Hospital / facility: $111.33

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. 3,977 services were billed in an office setting and 946 in a facility.

Services: 4,923
Beneficiaries: 2,158
Providers billing it: 115
Total allowed: $596,618

What Medicare pays for CPT 64611

Across 4,923 services billed by 115 providers to 2,158 beneficiaries, Medicare allowed an average of $121.19 per service. That is 2.3 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 64611

Specialty	Services	Beneficiaries	Avg allowed	Providers
Neurology	4,596	1,991	$122.02	107
Nurse Practitioner	232	128	$96.21	6
Psychiatry	52	21	$134.04	1
Nephrology	43	18	$152.23	1

64611 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	1,435	$122.20	$84.91	19
Florida	506	$133.53	$92.00	14
New York	446	$148.76	$94.43	11
Texas	336	$116.93	$91.35	9
Illinois	219	$126.06	$86.87	8
Oklahoma	189	$80.45	$65.84	2
District of Columbia	188	$128.82	$84.63	5
Maryland	155	$129.25	$92.04	4
Arizona	129	$117.12	$93.26	4
Michigan	116	$124.49	$87.58	3
Georgia	107	$119.36	$88.13	3
Ohio	100	$96.92	$95.45	3
Virginia	95	$99.99	$79.84	3
Kansas	85	$99.16	$81.49	2
Pennsylvania	78	$114.16	$90.08	3
New Jersey	78	$134.87	$94.46	3
Washington	72	$126.46	$85.80	2
North Carolina	66	$105.89	$78.61	2
Missouri	61	$87.78	$75.69	2
Alabama	57	$114.70	$93.67	1
Montana	56	$113.65	$85.56	2
South Carolina	52	$120.64	$99.48	2
Kentucky	52	$105.99	$80.11	1
Iowa	52	$91.60	$76.64	1
Tennessee	35	$101.57	$83.28	1
Nevada	34	$102.12	$68.39	1
Arkansas	34	$88.04	$79.72	1
Massachusetts	33	$113.46	$72.34	1
Colorado	29	$97.17	$72.85	1
Connecticut	28	$148.44	$98.22	1

Related codes

64635Destruction of lower or sacral spinal facet joint nerves$498.61
64636Destruction of lower or sacral spinal facet joint nerves$170.99
64615Injection of chemical for paralysis of facial and neck nerve muscles o$139.05
64633Destruction of upper or middle spinal facet joint nerves$505.48
64640Destruction of peripheral nerve or branch$128.51
64616Injection of chemical for paralysis of nerve muscles on side of neck e$175.81
64634Destruction of upper or middle spinal facet joint nerves$174.09
64612Injection of chemical for paralysis of nerve muscles on side of face$170.37
64642Injection of chemical for paralysis of nerve muscles on arm or leg$120.67
64643Injection of chemical for paralysis of nerve muscles on arm or leg$81.52
64644Injection of chemical for paralysis of nerve muscles on arm or leg$147.30
64624Destruction of nerve branches of knee$425.22

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.