How much does Medicare pay for CPT 82948?

Medicare allowed an average of $4.90 per service and paid $4.90 of that, the balance being the patient's coinsurance and deductible (2024 data). Providers submitted an average of $13.75, which is what they billed rather than what they received — Medicare pays its fee schedule regardless of the charge.

What is CPT code 82948?

Blood glucose (sugar) measurement using reagent strip. It was billed 31,521 times to 18,386 Medicare beneficiaries by 345 providers in 2024.

Which specialty bills 82948 most?

Endocrinology, with 9,909 services from 44 clinicians. Next are Internal Medicine, Nurse Practitioner, Family Practice.

CPT 82948

Blood glucose (sugar) measurement using reagent strip

$4.90Medicare-allowed amount per service, averaged across 31,521 services

Providers submitted

$13.75

Asking price, not received

Medicare allowed

$4.90

The fee schedule figure

Medicare paid

$4.90

Balance is patient coinsurance

Providers submitted an average of $13.75 for this code and Medicare allowed $4.90 — 2.8× 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 $4.90 (100%); the rest is the patient’s coinsurance and deductible.

Services: 31,521
Beneficiaries: 18,386
Providers billing it: 345
Total allowed: $154,453

What Medicare pays for CPT 82948

Across 31,521 services billed by 345 providers to 18,386 beneficiaries, Medicare allowed an average of $4.90 per service. That is 1.7 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 82948

Specialty	Services	Beneficiaries	Avg allowed	Providers
Endocrinology	9,909	5,192	$4.90	44
Internal Medicine	6,966	3,262	$4.91	55
Nurse Practitioner	6,076	4,340	$4.90	93
Family Practice	6,021	3,519	$4.86	90
Physician Assistant	854	624	$4.90	21
Gastroenterology	745	678	$4.93	18
Pain Management	259	193	$4.83	3
Emergency Medicine	176	160	$4.94	5
Hematology-Oncology	165	140	$4.94	4
Vascular Surgery	107	90	$4.89	4
Urology	64	48	$4.94	1
Pediatric Medicine	50	32	$4.94	2
Medical Oncology	48	40	$4.94	1
Interventional Pain Management	47	39	$4.24	2
General Practice	34	29	$4.63	2

82948 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	6,872	$4.91	$4.94	21
Georgia	5,220	$4.88	$4.94	65
New York	4,482	$4.90	$4.94	34
California	2,699	$4.93	$4.94	19
Mississippi	1,970	$4.86	$4.94	29
Louisiana	1,720	$4.87	$4.94	13
Texas	1,565	$4.93	$4.94	29
South Carolina	1,356	$4.88	$4.94	12
North Carolina	1,201	$4.91	$4.94	27
Alabama	948	$4.78	$4.94	19
Washington	767	$4.92	$4.94	14
Virginia	719	$4.94	$4.94	8
Tennessee	567	$4.82	$4.94	14
Massachusetts	435	$4.94	$4.94	12
Montana	222	$4.94	$4.94	2
Maryland	134	$4.94	$4.94	4
Illinois	132	$4.83	$4.94	4
Arkansas	125	$4.88	$4.94	4
New Jersey	86	$4.94	$4.94	4
Kentucky	53	$4.94	$4.94	2
Kansas	45	$4.94	$4.94	1
Oklahoma	43	$4.83	$4.94	2
Alaska	42	$4.41	$4.94	1
Rhode Island	39	$4.89	$4.94	1
Connecticut	34	$4.84	$4.94	1
New Mexico	17	$4.94	$4.94	1
Missouri	15	$4.65	$4.94	1
Wyoming	13	$4.94	$4.94	1

Related codes

82947Blood glucose (sugar) level$3.83
82962Blood glucose (sugar) test performed by hand-held instrument$3.18
82977Glutamyltransferase (liver enzyme) level$7.03
82985Glycated protein level$16.27
82945Glucose (sugar) level on body fluid$3.83
82955G6pd (enzyme) level$9.50
82950Blood glucose (sugar) level after receiving dose of glucose$4.53
82978Glutathione (protein) level$15.12
82941Gastrin (gi tract hormone) level$17.17
82951Blood glucose (sugar) tolerance test$12.59
82952Blood glucose (sugar) tolerance test$3.84

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.