How much does Medicare pay for CPT 82175?

Medicare allowed an average of $18.22 per service and paid $18.22 of that, the balance being the patient's coinsurance and deductible (2024 data). Providers submitted an average of $131.63, which is what they billed rather than what they received — Medicare pays its fee schedule regardless of the charge.

What is CPT code 82175?

Arsenic level. It was billed 29,914 times to 26,944 Medicare beneficiaries by 90 providers in 2024.

Which specialty bills 82175 most?

Clinical Laboratory, with 29,902 services from 89 clinicians. Next are Pathology.

CPT 82175

Arsenic level

$18.22Medicare-allowed amount per service, averaged across 29,914 services

Providers submitted

$131.63

Asking price, not received

Medicare allowed

$18.22

The fee schedule figure

Medicare paid

$18.22

Balance is patient coinsurance

Providers submitted an average of $131.63 for this code and Medicare allowed $18.22 — 7.2× 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 $18.22 (100%); the rest is the patient’s coinsurance and deductible.

Services: 29,914
Beneficiaries: 26,944
Providers billing it: 90
Total allowed: $545,033

What Medicare pays for CPT 82175

Across 29,914 services billed by 90 providers to 26,944 beneficiaries, Medicare allowed an average of $18.22 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 82175

Specialty	Services	Beneficiaries	Avg allowed	Providers
Clinical Laboratory	29,902	26,933	$18.22	89
Pathology	12	11	$18.59	1

82175 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	10,089	$17.57	$18.59	3
New Jersey	4,417	$18.55	$18.59	7
Florida	3,559	$18.59	$18.59	7
California	2,701	$18.49	$18.59	10
Pennsylvania	2,034	$18.58	$18.59	5
Texas	1,333	$18.58	$18.59	6
Georgia	865	$18.59	$18.59	1
Washington	554	$18.56	$18.59	3
Hawaii	448	$18.59	$18.59	2
Ohio	443	$18.59	$18.59	5
Tennessee	430	$18.55	$18.59	3
Arizona	424	$18.59	$18.59	3
Kansas	417	$18.59	$18.59	3
Nevada	373	$18.59	$18.59	1
Utah	260	$18.59	$18.59	2
Alabama	247	$18.59	$18.59	1
Maryland	210	$18.59	$18.59	3
New York	208	$18.59	$18.59	4
Virginia	197	$16.94	$18.59	2
Colorado	133	$18.59	$18.59	2
Oregon	115	$18.36	$18.59	3
Oklahoma	112	$18.59	$18.59	3
New Mexico	84	$18.59	$18.59	1
Massachusetts	52	$18.59	$18.59	2
Minnesota	44	$18.59	$18.59	1
Illinois	42	$18.59	$18.59	1
Kentucky	32	$18.59	$18.59	1
Indiana	22	$18.59	$18.59	1
Iowa	20	$18.45	$18.59	1
Wisconsin	19	$18.59	$18.59	1
Mississippi	18	$18.59	$18.59	1
Michigan	12	$18.59	$18.59	1

Related codes

82172Apolipoprotein level$20.61
82150Amylase (enzyme) level$6.34
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
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.

What doctors are paid →·Look up a clinician →·All procedure codes →

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.