How much does Medicare pay for CPT 85303?

Medicare allowed an average of $13.54 per service and paid $13.54 of that, the balance being the patient's coinsurance and deductible (2024 data). Providers submitted an average of $190.40, which is what they billed rather than what they received — Medicare pays its fee schedule regardless of the charge.

What is CPT code 85303?

Protein c antigen (clotting inhibitor) measurement. It was billed 16,051 times to 15,528 Medicare beneficiaries by 95 providers in 2024.

Which specialty bills 85303 most?

Clinical Laboratory, with 15,985 services from 91 clinicians. Next are Pathology, Hematology-Oncology.

CPT 85303

Protein c antigen (clotting inhibitor) measurement

$13.54Medicare-allowed amount per service, averaged across 16,051 services

Providers submitted

$190.40

Asking price, not received

Medicare allowed

$13.54

The fee schedule figure

Medicare paid

$13.54

Balance is patient coinsurance

Providers submitted an average of $190.40 for this code and Medicare allowed $13.54 — 14.1× 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 $13.54 (100%); the rest is the patient’s coinsurance and deductible.

Services: 16,051
Beneficiaries: 15,528
Providers billing it: 95
Total allowed: $217,331

What Medicare pays for CPT 85303

Across 16,051 services billed by 95 providers to 15,528 beneficiaries, Medicare allowed an average of $13.54 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 85303

Specialty	Services	Beneficiaries	Avg allowed	Providers
Clinical Laboratory	15,985	15,462	$13.54	91
Pathology	52	52	$13.56	3
Hematology-Oncology	14	14	$13.56	1

85303 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	2,867	$13.53	$13.56	5
North Carolina	2,359	$13.56	$13.56	3
Arizona	1,863	$13.54	$13.56	3
Texas	1,702	$13.55	$13.56	8
California	1,470	$13.54	$13.56	14
Florida	1,348	$13.56	$13.56	5
Georgia	588	$13.56	$13.56	1
New York	475	$13.54	$13.56	3
Tennessee	387	$13.54	$13.56	2
Minnesota	357	$13.56	$13.56	2
Kansas	356	$13.53	$13.56	4
Massachusetts	277	$13.56	$13.56	3
Colorado	272	$13.56	$13.56	3
Illinois	218	$13.56	$13.56	1
Pennsylvania	200	$13.56	$13.56	5
Nevada	193	$13.56	$13.56	1
Ohio	187	$13.49	$13.56	4
Oklahoma	117	$13.56	$13.56	2
Wisconsin	114	$13.45	$13.56	2
Maryland	105	$13.56	$13.56	3
Alabama	97	$13.44	$13.56	2
Washington	88	$13.54	$13.56	3
New Mexico	66	$13.56	$13.56	1
Virginia	60	$13.56	$13.56	2
Hawaii	59	$13.44	$13.56	2
Iowa	39	$13.56	$13.56	2
Utah	38	$13.56	$13.56	1
Oregon	34	$13.56	$13.56	1
Indiana	30	$13.56	$13.56	1
Kentucky	19	$13.56	$13.56	1
South Dakota	17	$12.45	$13.56	1
Puerto Rico	14	$13.56	$13.56	1
Connecticut	13	$12.73	$13.56	1
Michigan	11	$13.56	$13.56	1
Maine	11	$13.56	$13.56	1

Related codes

85379Coagulation function measurement$9.96
85384Fibrinogen (factor 1) activity measurement$9.52
85390Coagulation function screening test$33.93
85306Protein s (clotting inhibitor) measurement$14.99
85385Fibrinogen (factor 1) antigen detection$14.16
85300Antithrombin iii antigen (clotting inhibitor) activity$11.60
85305Protein s (clotting inhibitor) level$11.36
85302Protein c, (clotting inhibitor) activity$11.75
85307Activated protein resistance assay$14.99
85301Antithrombin iii antigen (clotting inhibitor) level$10.58
85347Coagulation time measurement$4.18
85362Coagulation function analysis$6.73

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.