How much does Medicare pay for CPT 82232?

Medicare allowed an average of $15.83 per service and paid $15.83 of that, the balance being the patient's coinsurance and deductible (2024 data). Providers submitted an average of $117.84, which is what they billed rather than what they received — Medicare pays its fee schedule regardless of the charge.

What is CPT code 82232?

Beta-2 microglobulin (protein) level. It was billed 139,842 times to 78,676 Medicare beneficiaries by 623 providers in 2024.

Which specialty bills 82232 most?

Clinical Laboratory, with 91,338 services from 137 clinicians. Next are Hematology-Oncology, Pathology, Medical Oncology.

CPT 82232

Beta-2 microglobulin (protein) level

$15.83Medicare-allowed amount per service, averaged across 139,842 services

Providers submitted

$117.84

Asking price, not received

Medicare allowed

$15.83

The fee schedule figure

Medicare paid

$15.83

Balance is patient coinsurance

Providers submitted an average of $117.84 for this code and Medicare allowed $15.83 — 7.4× 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 $15.83 (100%); the rest is the patient’s coinsurance and deductible.

Services: 139,842
Beneficiaries: 78,676
Providers billing it: 623
Total allowed: $2,213,699

What Medicare pays for CPT 82232

Across 139,842 services billed by 623 providers to 78,676 beneficiaries, Medicare allowed an average of $15.83 per service. That is 1.8 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 82232

Specialty	Services	Beneficiaries	Avg allowed	Providers
Clinical Laboratory	91,338	52,277	$15.84	137
Hematology-Oncology	27,153	14,365	$15.82	313
Pathology	10,674	6,293	$15.83	10
Medical Oncology	7,873	4,033	$15.80	107
Nurse Practitioner	1,102	750	$15.72	30
Internal Medicine	799	425	$15.79	10
Hematology	511	272	$15.74	6
Hospitalist	161	91	$15.76	2
Physician Assistant	120	98	$15.76	5
Surgical Oncology	73	42	$14.34	1
Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation and Cellular Therapy	27	19	$15.86	1
Rheumatology	11	11	$14.42	1

82232 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	19,031	$15.84	$15.86	48
New Jersey	17,841	$15.83	$15.86	14
Florida	17,664	$15.84	$15.86	15
New York	13,455	$15.81	$15.86	101
Texas	12,992	$15.83	$15.86	83
North Carolina	6,081	$15.85	$15.86	9
Arizona	6,042	$15.83	$15.86	4
Virginia	4,746	$15.82	$15.86	53
Ohio	3,283	$15.84	$15.86	6
Tennessee	3,276	$15.78	$15.86	51
Alabama	3,170	$15.75	$15.86	28
Illinois	3,149	$15.85	$15.86	22
Nevada	3,060	$15.83	$15.86	27
Georgia	2,912	$15.85	$15.86	10
Maryland	2,671	$15.84	$15.86	23
Pennsylvania	2,441	$15.85	$15.86	5
Arkansas	2,010	$15.83	$15.86	19
Colorado	1,824	$15.85	$15.86	19
Connecticut	1,794	$15.86	$15.86	4
Massachusetts	1,633	$15.85	$15.86	5
Minnesota	1,568	$15.83	$15.86	5
Kansas	1,364	$15.85	$15.86	8
Michigan	1,264	$15.81	$15.86	4
Nebraska	945	$15.85	$15.86	1
Washington	705	$15.86	$15.86	3
Hawaii	657	$15.82	$15.86	2
New Mexico	455	$15.86	$15.86	1
South Dakota	452	$15.86	$15.86	2
Oklahoma	450	$15.69	$15.86	7
Utah	397	$15.63	$15.86	9
Maine	381	$15.78	$15.86	5
Louisiana	361	$15.86	$15.86	3
Mississippi	354	$15.86	$15.86	2
Indiana	347	$15.86	$15.86	6
Wisconsin	299	$15.71	$15.86	3
Iowa	182	$15.86	$15.86	3
South Carolina	150	$15.86	$15.86	2
Rhode Island	125	$15.86	$15.86	1
Puerto Rico	94	$15.23	$15.86	2
Oregon	87	$15.86	$15.86	4
Kentucky	54	$15.86	$15.86	2
Missouri	39	$15.86	$15.86	1
Delaware	37	$15.86	$15.86	1

Related codes

82248Bilirubin level$4.88
82247Bilirubin level$4.85
82274Stool analysis for blood$15.55
82270Stool analysis for blood to screen for colon tumors$4.27
82272Stool analysis for blood$4.14
82239Bile acids level$16.70

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.