How much does Medicare pay for CPT 82379?

Medicare allowed an average of $16.51 per service and paid $16.51 of that, the balance being the patient's coinsurance and deductible (2024 data). Providers submitted an average of $193.94, which is what they billed rather than what they received — Medicare pays its fee schedule regardless of the charge.

What is CPT code 82379?

Carnitine level. It was billed 1,707 times to 1,528 Medicare beneficiaries by 34 providers in 2024.

Which specialty bills 82379 most?

Clinical Laboratory, with 1,707 services from 34 clinicians.

CPT 82379

Carnitine level

$16.51Medicare-allowed amount per service, averaged across 1,707 services

Providers submitted

$193.94

Asking price, not received

Medicare allowed

$16.51

The fee schedule figure

Medicare paid

$16.51

Balance is patient coinsurance

Providers submitted an average of $193.94 for this code and Medicare allowed $16.51 — 11.7× 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 $16.51 (100%); the rest is the patient’s coinsurance and deductible.

Services: 1,707
Beneficiaries: 1,528
Providers billing it: 34
Total allowed: $28,183

What Medicare pays for CPT 82379

Across 1,707 services billed by 34 providers to 1,528 beneficiaries, Medicare allowed an average of $16.51 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 82379

Specialty	Services	Beneficiaries	Avg allowed	Providers
Clinical Laboratory	1,707	1,528	$16.51	34

82379 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
New Jersey	283	$16.53	$16.53	4
North Carolina	259	$16.53	$16.53	1
California	243	$16.53	$16.53	6
Massachusetts	189	$16.53	$16.53	2
New York	159	$16.53	$16.53	2
Georgia	125	$16.53	$16.53	1
Ohio	98	$16.39	$16.53	3
Florida	85	$16.53	$16.53	2
Minnesota	50	$16.26	$16.53	2
Puerto Rico	41	$16.53	$16.53	2
Arizona	38	$16.13	$16.53	2
Illinois	26	$16.53	$16.53	1
Texas	24	$16.53	$16.53	1
Alabama	22	$16.53	$16.53	1
Utah	18	$16.53	$16.53	1
Pennsylvania	18	$16.53	$16.53	1
Tennessee	16	$16.53	$16.53	1
Kansas	13	$16.53	$16.53	1

Related codes

82306Vitamin d-3 level$28.96
82310Calcium level$5.02
82378Carcinoembryonic antigen (cea) protein level$18.54
82330Calcium level$13.39
82340Urine calcium level$5.91
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

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.