How much does Medicare pay for CPT 76883?

Medicare allowed an average of $67.00 per service and paid $52.52 of that, the balance being the patient's coinsurance and deductible (2024 data). Providers submitted an average of $249.80, which is what they billed rather than what they received — Medicare pays its fee schedule regardless of the charge.

What is CPT code 76883?

Comprehensive ultrasound scan of entire length of nerves in extremity. It was billed 2,955 times to 1,826 Medicare beneficiaries by 63 providers in 2024.

Does 76883 pay differently in an office than a hospital?

Yes. The allowed amount averaged $70.05 in an office setting and $57.00 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 76883 most?

Neurology, with 1,193 services from 25 clinicians. Next are Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Diagnostic Radiology, Podiatry.

CPT 76883

Comprehensive ultrasound scan of entire length of nerves in extremity

$67.00Medicare-allowed amount per service, averaged across 2,955 services

Providers submitted

$249.80

Asking price, not received

Medicare allowed

$67.00

The fee schedule figure

Medicare paid

$52.52

Balance is patient coinsurance

Providers submitted an average of $249.80 for this code and Medicare allowed $67.00 — 3.7× 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 $52.52 (78%); the rest is the patient’s coinsurance and deductible.

Office pays differently to hospital

Office / non-facility: $70.05
Hospital / facility: $57.00

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. 2,265 services were billed in an office setting and 690 in a facility.

Services: 2,955
Beneficiaries: 1,826
Providers billing it: 63
Total allowed: $197,985

What Medicare pays for CPT 76883

Across 2,955 services billed by 63 providers to 1,826 beneficiaries, Medicare allowed an average of $67.00 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 76883

Specialty	Services	Beneficiaries	Avg allowed	Providers
Neurology	1,193	702	$68.24	25
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation	867	555	$64.59	15
Diagnostic Radiology	227	167	$66.27	7
Podiatry	185	76	$71.19	3
Rheumatology	109	73	$76.30	2
Nurse Practitioner	109	70	$58.74	2
Sports Medicine	90	54	$66.68	3
Anesthesiology	39	27	$76.36	1
Hand Surgery	37	26	$65.31	1
Psychiatry	35	25	$54.85	1
Neuropsychiatry	33	25	$67.25	1
Physician Assistant	16	11	$64.85	1
Orthopedic Surgery	15	15	$71.37	1

76883 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
Missouri	407	$58.24	$43.06	4
New York	383	$77.28	$51.84	5
Ohio	301	$57.58	$44.58	9
Florida	227	$72.87	$52.95	5
Colorado	163	$70.47	$54.58	2
Louisiana	152	$60.61	$54.65	1
California	138	$71.81	$50.26	4
Texas	126	$64.60	$50.20	2
Nevada	123	$69.66	$52.61	1
Tennessee	97	$65.42	$53.56	2
Maryland	95	$73.96	$54.51	2
Minnesota	95	$69.54	$49.25	5
New Mexico	94	$75.74	$53.99	1
New Jersey	89	$77.09	$53.14	3
Wisconsin	67	$54.00	$42.57	1
Pennsylvania	61	$57.97	$40.38	1
District of Columbia	48	$77.62	$51.22	3
Illinois	46	$72.39	$51.78	2
Massachusetts	43	$60.22	$43.25	2
Nebraska	40	$53.27	$43.18	1
Oregon	33	$67.25	$54.54	1
Virginia	29	$77.93	$54.40	1
Washington	25	$60.47	$43.23	1
Arizona	21	$55.34	$43.15	1
Kentucky	21	$61.57	$54.46	1
Kansas	17	$66.63	$54.29	1
Connecticut	14	$73.83	$50.53	1

Related codes

76856Complete ultrasound scan of pelvis$80.52
76830Ultrasound scan of uterus$88.51
76882Limited ultrasound scan of joint or other extremity structure except b$47.73
76872Ultrasound scan of pelvic region through rectum$93.36
76881Complete ultrasound scan of joint$51.91
76857Limited ultrasound scan of pelvis$43.46
76870Ultrasound scan of scrotum$55.05
76873Ultrasound scan of prostate through rectum$129.46
76800Ultrasound scan of spinal canal$160.15

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.