How much does Medicare pay for CPT 82671?

Medicare allowed an average of $31.42 per service and paid $31.42 of that, the balance being the patient's coinsurance and deductible (2024 data). Providers submitted an average of $417.79, which is what they billed rather than what they received — Medicare pays its fee schedule regardless of the charge.

What is CPT code 82671?

Estrogen analysis, fractionated. It was billed 5,207 times to 4,228 Medicare beneficiaries by 44 providers in 2024.

Which specialty bills 82671 most?

Clinical Laboratory, with 5,194 services from 43 clinicians. Next are Pathology.

CPT 82671

Estrogen analysis, fractionated

$31.42Medicare-allowed amount per service, averaged across 5,207 services

Providers submitted

$417.79

Asking price, not received

Medicare allowed

$31.42

The fee schedule figure

Medicare paid

$31.42

Balance is patient coinsurance

Providers submitted an average of $417.79 for this code and Medicare allowed $31.42 — 13.3× 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 $31.42 (100%); the rest is the patient’s coinsurance and deductible.

Services: 5,207
Beneficiaries: 4,228
Providers billing it: 44
Total allowed: $163,604

What Medicare pays for CPT 82671

Across 5,207 services billed by 44 providers to 4,228 beneficiaries, Medicare allowed an average of $31.42 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 82671

Specialty	Services	Beneficiaries	Avg allowed	Providers
Clinical Laboratory	5,194	4,216	$31.42	43
Pathology	13	12	$31.65	1

82671 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
Florida	1,001	$31.65	$31.65	2
New Jersey	801	$31.55	$31.65	2
Texas	646	$31.64	$31.65	3
California	429	$31.56	$31.65	5
Tennessee	414	$31.65	$31.65	2
Arizona	222	$31.65	$31.65	1
Kansas	198	$31.65	$31.65	1
Oregon	188	$31.28	$31.65	1
Illinois	174	$31.65	$31.65	2
New York	143	$31.65	$31.65	1
New Mexico	134	$31.65	$31.65	1
Georgia	128	$31.65	$31.65	1
Nevada	120	$31.65	$31.65	1
Utah	100	$31.65	$31.65	2
Massachusetts	83	$31.65	$31.65	2
North Carolina	55	$14.29	$31.65	1
Alabama	47	$31.13	$31.65	2
Minnesota	46	$31.65	$31.65	1
Louisiana	44	$31.65	$31.65	1
Oklahoma	41	$31.65	$31.65	2
Washington	36	$31.65	$31.65	1
Ohio	35	$31.65	$31.65	2
Maryland	27	$31.65	$31.65	1
Pennsylvania	21	$31.65	$31.65	1
Indiana	18	$31.65	$31.65	1
Kentucky	18	$31.65	$31.65	1
South Dakota	14	$31.65	$31.65	1
Michigan	13	$31.65	$31.65	1
Wisconsin	11	$31.65	$31.65	1

Related codes

82607Cyanocobalamin (vitamin b-12) level$14.76
82670Measurement of total estradiol (hormone)$27.32
82627Dehydroepiandrosterone (dhea-s) hormone level$21.75
82652Dihydroxyvitamin d$37.66
82626Dehydroepiandrosterone (dhea) hormone level$24.75
82610Cystatin c (enzyme inhibitor) level$18.12
82668Erythropoietin (protein) level$18.38
82677Estriol (hormone) level$23.69
82653Measurement of pancreatic elastase (enzyme) in stool$22.48
82672Estrogen analysis$21.25
82679Estrone (hormone) level$24.43
82656Detection of pancreatic elastase (enzyme) in stool$11.29

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.