How much does Medicare pay for CPT 82340?

Medicare allowed an average of $5.91 per service and paid $5.91 of that, the balance being the patient's coinsurance and deductible (2024 data). Providers submitted an average of $40.42, which is what they billed rather than what they received — Medicare pays its fee schedule regardless of the charge.

What is CPT code 82340?

Urine calcium level. It was billed 118,537 times to 100,840 Medicare beneficiaries by 227 providers in 2024.

Which specialty bills 82340 most?

Clinical Laboratory, with 115,274 services from 153 clinicians. Next are Endocrinology, Pathology, Rheumatology.

CPT 82340

Urine calcium level

$5.91Medicare-allowed amount per service, averaged across 118,537 services

Providers submitted

$40.42

Asking price, not received

Medicare allowed

$5.91

The fee schedule figure

Medicare paid

$5.91

Balance is patient coinsurance

Providers submitted an average of $40.42 for this code and Medicare allowed $5.91 — 6.8× 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 $5.91 (100%); the rest is the patient’s coinsurance and deductible.

Services: 118,537
Beneficiaries: 100,840
Providers billing it: 227
Total allowed: $700,554

What Medicare pays for CPT 82340

Across 118,537 services billed by 227 providers to 100,840 beneficiaries, Medicare allowed an average of $5.91 per service. That is 1.2 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 82340

Specialty	Services	Beneficiaries	Avg allowed	Providers
Clinical Laboratory	115,274	98,456	$5.91	153
Endocrinology	2,157	1,401	$5.88	43
Pathology	316	298	$5.90	5
Rheumatology	310	288	$5.90	8
Urology	94	46	$5.78	3
Physician Assistant	80	51	$5.91	2
Hematology-Oncology	79	77	$5.91	1
Internal Medicine	76	74	$5.84	6
Nephrology	67	66	$5.91	1
Family Practice	49	48	$5.91	3
Nurse Practitioner	35	35	$5.91	2

82340 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
Illinois	56,012	$5.91	$5.91	4
California	9,164	$5.90	$5.91	28
New Jersey	8,949	$5.91	$5.91	5
Texas	6,621	$5.90	$5.91	20
North Carolina	6,389	$5.91	$5.91	4
Florida	6,052	$5.91	$5.92	9
Oklahoma	2,955	$5.91	$5.91	4
Arizona	2,541	$5.90	$5.91	3
Massachusetts	1,883	$5.91	$5.91	15
Minnesota	1,817	$5.91	$5.93	9
Kansas	1,808	$5.93	$5.93	4
Washington	1,683	$5.91	$5.91	6
Wisconsin	1,381	$5.85	$5.91	5
Ohio	1,304	$5.91	$5.91	14
Maryland	1,167	$5.91	$5.91	11
Pennsylvania	1,044	$5.90	$5.91	7
Tennessee	981	$5.88	$5.91	5
Colorado	823	$5.91	$5.91	2
Oregon	817	$5.91	$5.91	13
Alabama	778	$5.91	$5.91	3
Virginia	545	$5.89	$5.91	3
New York	544	$5.91	$5.91	5
Nevada	406	$5.90	$5.91	1
Hawaii	293	$5.89	$5.91	2
New Mexico	291	$5.86	$5.91	1
Michigan	278	$5.89	$5.91	6
Utah	265	$5.91	$5.91	6
Georgia	262	$5.91	$5.91	2
Indiana	257	$5.91	$5.91	4
Arkansas	201	$5.89	$5.91	3
Nebraska	197	$5.91	$5.91	1
Idaho	116	$5.82	$5.91	3
Iowa	112	$5.87	$5.91	4
Kentucky	100	$5.91	$5.91	1
South Dakota	98	$5.87	$5.91	2
West Virginia	67	$5.91	$5.91	1
Rhode Island	55	$5.91	$5.91	1
Maine	52	$5.91	$5.91	1
North Dakota	46	$5.85	$5.91	2
Louisiana	41	$5.91	$5.91	2
Mississippi	41	$5.75	$5.91	1
Montana	37	$5.80	$5.91	1
Connecticut	34	$5.91	$5.91	2
Puerto Rico	30	$5.63	$5.91	1

Related codes

82306Vitamin d-3 level$28.96
82310Calcium level$5.02
82378Carcinoembryonic antigen (cea) protein level$18.54
82330Calcium level$13.39
82374Carbon dioxide (bicarbonate) level$4.67
82390Ceruloplasmin (protein) level$10.52
82365Infrared analysis of stone$12.63
82397Analysis using chemiluminescent technique (light and chemical )reactio$13.82
82384Catecholamines (organic nitrogen) level$24.65
82300Cadmium level$23.10
82308Calcitonin (hormone) level$26.16
82375Carboxyhemoglobin (protein) level$12.02

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.