How much does Medicare pay for CPT 75898?

Medicare allowed an average of $96.01 per service and paid $76.69 of that, the balance being the patient's coinsurance and deductible (2024 data). Providers submitted an average of $503.80, which is what they billed rather than what they received — Medicare pays its fee schedule regardless of the charge.

What is CPT code 75898?

Imaging of blood vessel. It was billed 12,250 times to 7,312 Medicare beneficiaries by 402 providers in 2024.

Does 75898 pay differently in an office than a hospital?

Yes. The allowed amount averaged $342.31 in an office setting and $89.30 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 75898 most?

Neurosurgery, with 6,501 services from 200 clinicians. Next are Diagnostic Radiology, Neurology, Interventional Radiology.

CPT 75898

Imaging of blood vessel

$96.01Medicare-allowed amount per service, averaged across 12,250 services

Providers submitted

$503.80

Asking price, not received

Medicare allowed

$96.01

The fee schedule figure

Medicare paid

$76.69

Balance is patient coinsurance

Providers submitted an average of $503.80 for this code and Medicare allowed $96.01 — 5.2× 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 $76.69 (80%); the rest is the patient’s coinsurance and deductible.

Office pays differently to hospital

Office / non-facility: $342.31
Hospital / facility: $89.30

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. 325 services were billed in an office setting and 11,925 in a facility.

Services: 12,250
Beneficiaries: 7,312
Providers billing it: 402
Total allowed: $1,176,123

What Medicare pays for CPT 75898

Across 12,250 services billed by 402 providers to 7,312 beneficiaries, Medicare allowed an average of $96.01 per service. That is 1.7 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 75898

Specialty	Services	Beneficiaries	Avg allowed	Providers
Neurosurgery	6,501	3,691	$89.09	200
Diagnostic Radiology	2,126	1,318	$90.02	72
Neurology	1,780	1,156	$88.74	68
Interventional Radiology	1,345	853	$92.65	50
Vascular Surgery	230	107	$103.21	3
Cardiology	160	106	$561.48	5
Neuropsychiatry	65	54	$89.33	2
Critical Care (Intensivists)	26	13	$80.10	1
Internal Medicine	17	14	$94.09	1

75898 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	1,330	$88.48	$60.44	43
Florida	1,102	$163.49	$114.43	35
New York	948	$105.49	$63.32	27
Texas	770	$88.99	$60.93	30
Illinois	672	$98.86	$60.68	20
Massachusetts	569	$92.09	$60.74	14
Pennsylvania	560	$92.94	$63.92	24
Arizona	556	$86.64	$63.43	13
Maryland	518	$68.93	$59.48	9
Virginia	403	$101.86	$70.86	13
North Carolina	349	$85.73	$60.71	14
Minnesota	332	$82.70	$60.72	8
New Jersey	316	$95.20	$60.65	12
Colorado	252	$91.22	$60.62	6
Ohio	249	$86.57	$60.62	12
Tennessee	230	$82.43	$60.57	7
Kentucky	212	$86.52	$60.65	7
Washington	211	$88.55	$60.96	8
Iowa	206	$80.75	$60.74	6
South Carolina	198	$83.88	$60.67	6
Indiana	184	$83.30	$60.62	8
Connecticut	160	$95.28	$60.65	5
Georgia	160	$88.21	$60.92	6
Nevada	158	$86.04	$60.55	4
Utah	157	$71.07	$57.51	4
Michigan	154	$94.92	$60.64	8
Louisiana	141	$85.18	$60.89	6
Alabama	127	$80.53	$60.67	5
Kansas	125	$81.73	$60.59	5
Missouri	109	$87.94	$60.55	4
Mississippi	87	$80.20	$60.63	4
Vermont	74	$80.34	$60.70	2
West Virginia	71	$90.44	$60.67	3
Nebraska	67	$77.26	$60.72	3
Oregon	57	$88.67	$60.43	2
Wisconsin	57	$79.01	$60.62	2
South Dakota	53	$80.43	$60.58	2
Hawaii	50	$86.22	$60.75	2
Delaware	44	$86.01	$60.97	2
Oklahoma	40	$80.62	$60.73	2
New Hampshire	30	$88.20	$60.64	2
North Dakota	28	$82.42	$60.56	1
District of Columbia	28	$97.00	$60.52	1
Alaska	27	$106.30	$60.77	1
Maine	27	$84.22	$60.73	1
Rhode Island	24	$80.99	$61.95	1
Arkansas	15	$79.31	$60.81	1
Idaho	13	$80.14	$60.81	1

Related codes

75894Review by radiologist of image for insertion of material to block bloo$76.92
75820Review by radiologist of 1 arm or leg vein of 1 arm or leg image$62.07
75822Review by radiologist of both arms and legs veins of both arms or legs$111.17
75825Review by radiologist of major lower body vein image$90.69
75827Review by radiologist of major upper body vein image$86.09

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.