How much does Medicare pay for CPT 68200?

Medicare allowed an average of $33.03 per service and paid $25.37 of that, the balance being the patient's coinsurance and deductible (2024 data). Providers submitted an average of $190.17, which is what they billed rather than what they received — Medicare pays its fee schedule regardless of the charge.

What is CPT code 68200?

Injection into conjunctiva. It was billed 1,285 times to 793 Medicare beneficiaries by 44 providers in 2024.

Does 68200 pay differently in an office than a hospital?

Yes. The allowed amount averaged $34.51 in an office setting and $20.94 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 68200 most?

Ophthalmology, with 1,269 services from 43 clinicians. Next are Optometry.

CPT 68200

Injection into conjunctiva

$33.03Medicare-allowed amount per service, averaged across 1,285 services

Providers submitted

$190.17

Asking price, not received

Medicare allowed

$33.03

The fee schedule figure

Medicare paid

$25.37

Balance is patient coinsurance

Providers submitted an average of $190.17 for this code and Medicare allowed $33.03 — 5.8× 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 $25.37 (77%); the rest is the patient’s coinsurance and deductible.

Office pays differently to hospital

Office / non-facility: $34.51
Hospital / facility: $20.94

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. 1,145 services were billed in an office setting and 140 in a facility.

Services: 1,285
Beneficiaries: 793
Providers billing it: 44
Total allowed: $42,444

What Medicare pays for CPT 68200

Across 1,285 services billed by 44 providers to 793 beneficiaries, Medicare allowed an average of $33.03 per service. That is 1.6 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 68200

Specialty	Services	Beneficiaries	Avg allowed	Providers
Ophthalmology	1,269	779	$32.93	43
Optometry	16	14	$41.13	1

68200 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	142	$37.59	$26.87	3
Virginia	131	$23.75	$18.62	4
California	123	$28.12	$18.46	6
Illinois	117	$26.88	$19.42	4
Kansas	87	$39.19	$31.47	2
New York	81	$31.00	$21.75	2
Massachusetts	78	$45.52	$31.37	2
Texas	73	$36.24	$27.87	2
Arizona	73	$40.05	$30.52	2
Washington	71	$40.69	$28.97	2
Michigan	53	$26.46	$17.73	3
South Carolina	47	$20.21	$17.42	1
New Hampshire	39	$40.49	$29.30	2
Kentucky	39	$26.59	$21.50	3
New Jersey	33	$47.15	$31.33	1
Pennsylvania	24	$16.88	$13.12	1
Oregon	24	$35.85	$26.27	1
North Carolina	22	$40.81	$32.36	1
Nebraska	14	$15.29	$13.05	1
Louisiana	14	$40.39	$34.56	1

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.