How much does Medicare pay for CPT 82088?

Medicare allowed an average of $39.58 per service and paid $39.58 of that, the balance being the patient's coinsurance and deductible (2024 data). Providers submitted an average of $177.15, which is what they billed rather than what they received — Medicare pays its fee schedule regardless of the charge.

What is CPT code 82088?

Aldosterone hormone level. It was billed 49,641 times to 43,864 Medicare beneficiaries by 135 providers in 2024.

Which specialty bills 82088 most?

Clinical Laboratory, with 48,845 services from 128 clinicians. Next are Endocrinology, Pathology.

CPT 82088

Aldosterone hormone level

$39.58Medicare-allowed amount per service, averaged across 49,641 services

Providers submitted

$177.15

Asking price, not received

Medicare allowed

$39.58

The fee schedule figure

Medicare paid

$39.58

Balance is patient coinsurance

Providers submitted an average of $177.15 for this code and Medicare allowed $39.58 — 4.5× 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 $39.58 (100%); the rest is the patient’s coinsurance and deductible.

Services: 49,641
Beneficiaries: 43,864
Providers billing it: 135
Total allowed: $1,964,791

What Medicare pays for CPT 82088

Across 49,641 services billed by 135 providers to 43,864 beneficiaries, Medicare allowed an average of $39.58 per service. 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 82088

Specialty	Services	Beneficiaries	Avg allowed	Providers
Clinical Laboratory	48,845	43,223	$39.57	128
Endocrinology	697	559	$39.87	5
Pathology	99	82	$39.93	2

82088 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
North Carolina	8,786	$39.88	$39.94	2
New Jersey	6,500	$39.93	$39.94	7
California	5,765	$37.83	$39.94	13
Florida	5,373	$39.90	$39.94	12
Texas	3,815	$39.88	$39.94	9
Arizona	2,188	$39.83	$39.94	3
New York	1,932	$39.84	$39.94	7
Georgia	1,892	$39.93	$39.94	1
Massachusetts	1,877	$39.93	$39.94	4
Tennessee	985	$39.60	$39.94	3
Ohio	920	$39.78	$39.94	9
Minnesota	919	$39.84	$39.94	4
Kansas	914	$39.93	$39.94	4
Illinois	803	$39.93	$39.94	1
Alabama	758	$39.93	$39.94	2
Maryland	688	$39.79	$39.94	4
Wisconsin	624	$39.67	$39.94	3
Washington	613	$39.53	$39.94	5
Pennsylvania	596	$39.83	$39.94	5
Virginia	512	$34.33	$39.94	4
Nevada	496	$39.89	$39.94	1
Utah	489	$39.85	$39.94	3
Oklahoma	413	$39.85	$39.94	3
Colorado	367	$39.93	$39.94	3
Louisiana	305	$39.93	$39.94	2
Oregon	277	$39.55	$39.94	4
Hawaii	222	$39.74	$39.94	2
Indiana	127	$39.93	$39.94	1
Kentucky	104	$39.93	$39.94	2
Iowa	96	$39.61	$39.94	2
New Mexico	62	$39.71	$39.94	1
Michigan	50	$39.93	$39.94	2
Rhode Island	46	$39.93	$39.94	1
Maine	38	$39.93	$39.94	1
Connecticut	23	$39.93	$39.94	1
South Dakota	22	$39.93	$39.94	1
Puerto Rico	19	$38.67	$39.94	1
Idaho	14	$39.93	$39.94	1
Mississippi	11	$37.45	$39.94	1

Related codes

82043Urine microalbumin (protein) level$5.65
82040Albumin (protein) level$4.78
82044Urine microalbumin (protein) analysis$6.07
82024Adrenocorticotropic hormone (acth) level$37.74
82085Aldolase (enzyme) level$9.46
82010Ketone bodies analysis$7.97
82075Measurement of alcohol level in breath specimen$29.02
82042Cerebrospinal fluid$7.55

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.