How much does Medicare pay for CPT 82150?

Medicare allowed an average of $6.34 per service and paid $6.34 of that, the balance being the patient's coinsurance and deductible (2024 data). Providers submitted an average of $37.54, which is what they billed rather than what they received — Medicare pays its fee schedule regardless of the charge.

What is CPT code 82150?

Amylase (enzyme) level. It was billed 331,361 times to 250,485 Medicare beneficiaries by 1,146 providers in 2024.

Does 82150 pay differently in an office than a hospital?

Yes. The allowed amount averaged $6.34 in an office setting and $6.35 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 82150 most?

Clinical Laboratory, with 278,160 services from 444 clinicians. Next are Internal Medicine, Family Practice, Cardiology.

CPT 82150

Amylase (enzyme) level

$6.34Medicare-allowed amount per service, averaged across 331,361 services

Providers submitted

$37.54

Asking price, not received

Medicare allowed

$6.34

The fee schedule figure

Medicare paid

$6.34

Balance is patient coinsurance

Providers submitted an average of $37.54 for this code and Medicare allowed $6.34 — 5.9× 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 $6.34 (100%); the rest is the patient’s coinsurance and deductible.

Office pays differently to hospital

Office / non-facility: $6.34
Hospital / facility: $6.35

The facility rate is higher for this code, which is unusual and generally means the service depends on equipment or staffing a hospital carries. 331,349 services were billed in an office setting and 12 in a facility.

Services: 331,361
Beneficiaries: 250,485
Providers billing it: 1,146
Total allowed: $2,100,829

What Medicare pays for CPT 82150

Across 331,361 services billed by 1,146 providers to 250,485 beneficiaries, Medicare allowed an average of $6.34 per service. That is 1.3 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 82150

Specialty	Services	Beneficiaries	Avg allowed	Providers
Clinical Laboratory	278,160	216,143	$6.34	444
Internal Medicine	21,482	12,625	$6.33	197
Family Practice	6,354	5,181	$6.32	168
Cardiology	5,520	2,903	$6.34	13
Pathology	3,514	2,594	$6.31	25
Rheumatology	3,236	1,792	$6.34	11
Nurse Practitioner	2,235	2,106	$6.32	97
Gastroenterology	1,681	1,385	$6.30	30
Physician Assistant	1,272	1,193	$6.34	57
Urology	1,270	801	$6.28	4
Medical Oncology	1,243	510	$6.35	8
Hematology-Oncology	1,172	479	$6.34	19
Emergency Medicine	1,096	985	$6.33	42
Interventional Cardiology	1,057	482	$6.35	1
Pulmonary Disease	709	312	$6.35	1

82150 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	84,822	$6.35	$6.35	149
New Jersey	43,491	$6.34	$6.35	40
Florida	26,456	$6.35	$6.35	81
Texas	25,620	$6.34	$6.35	96
New York	22,982	$6.35	$6.35	67
North Carolina	20,474	$6.35	$6.35	38
Illinois	14,415	$6.35	$6.35	50
Tennessee	9,679	$6.33	$6.35	79
Alabama	8,863	$6.34	$6.35	28
Arizona	8,634	$6.33	$6.35	10
Ohio	8,508	$6.33	$6.35	26
Massachusetts	5,528	$6.34	$6.35	15
Kansas	4,801	$6.35	$6.35	14
Georgia	4,468	$6.34	$6.35	22
Maryland	3,856	$6.34	$6.35	21
Pennsylvania	3,754	$6.33	$6.35	17
Washington	2,928	$6.34	$6.35	12
Oklahoma	2,812	$6.34	$6.35	8
Missouri	2,411	$6.33	$6.35	51
Louisiana	2,283	$6.34	$6.35	20
Virginia	2,258	$6.34	$6.35	27
Michigan	2,096	$6.34	$6.35	18
Nevada	1,851	$6.34	$6.35	6
Colorado	1,511	$6.33	$6.35	13
Wisconsin	1,491	$6.00	$6.35	9
Mississippi	1,491	$6.30	$6.35	33
South Carolina	1,472	$6.33	$6.35	34
Hawaii	1,422	$6.33	$6.35	2
Minnesota	1,393	$6.28	$6.35	12
Kentucky	1,188	$6.33	$6.35	18
Utah	1,065	$6.31	$6.35	11
Iowa	997	$6.26	$6.35	14
Nebraska	904	$6.31	$6.35	19
Arkansas	869	$6.32	$6.35	22
Oregon	807	$6.30	$6.35	8
Indiana	678	$6.33	$6.35	9
North Dakota	584	$6.34	$6.35	4
New Mexico	553	$6.34	$6.35	4
Rhode Island	390	$6.34	$6.35	1
Puerto Rico	374	$6.32	$6.35	6
South Dakota	212	$6.35	$6.35	6
District of Columbia	175	$6.28	$6.35	2
Connecticut	173	$6.24	$6.35	4
Idaho	163	$6.35	$6.35	4
Maine	110	$6.31	$6.35	1
West Virginia	79	$6.30	$6.35	4
Delaware	69	$6.35	$6.35	2
Montana	66	$6.35	$6.35	3
New Hampshire	60	$6.35	$6.35	2
Wyoming	46	$6.35	$6.35	2
U.S. Virgin Islands	15	$6.35	$6.35	1
Alaska	14	$6.35	$6.35	1

Related codes

82172Apolipoprotein level$20.61
82140Ammonia level$14.27
82105Alpha-fetoprotein (afp) level$16.40
82103Alpha-1-antitrypsin (protein) blood test$13.14
82164Angiotensin l - converting enzyme (ace) level$14.25
82175Arsenic level$18.22
82180Ascorbic acid (vitamin c) level$9.68
82107Alpha-fetoprotein (afp) analysis$62.98
82104Alpha-1-antitrypsin (protein) blood test$14.13
82139Amino acid level$16.52
82108Aluminum level$24.78
82157Androstenedione (hormone) level$28.62

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.