How much does Medicare pay for CPT 86036?

Medicare allowed an average of $11.80 per service and paid $11.80 of that, the balance being the patient's coinsurance and deductible (2024 data). Providers submitted an average of $138.42, which is what they billed rather than what they received — Medicare pays its fee schedule regardless of the charge.

What is CPT code 86036?

Screening test for antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody. It was billed 60,761 times to 50,643 Medicare beneficiaries by 108 providers in 2024.

Which specialty bills 86036 most?

Clinical Laboratory, with 60,544 services from 104 clinicians. Next are Pathology, Rheumatology, Internal Medicine.

CPT 86036

Screening test for antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody

$11.80Medicare-allowed amount per service, averaged across 60,761 services

Providers submitted

$138.42

Asking price, not received

Medicare allowed

$11.80

The fee schedule figure

Medicare paid

$11.80

Balance is patient coinsurance

Providers submitted an average of $138.42 for this code and Medicare allowed $11.80 — 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 $11.80 (100%); the rest is the patient’s coinsurance and deductible.

Services: 60,761
Beneficiaries: 50,643
Providers billing it: 108
Total allowed: $716,980

What Medicare pays for CPT 86036

Across 60,761 services billed by 108 providers to 50,643 beneficiaries, Medicare allowed an average of $11.80 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 86036

Specialty	Services	Beneficiaries	Avg allowed	Providers
Clinical Laboratory	60,544	50,551	$11.80	104
Pathology	105	51	$11.81	1
Rheumatology	97	26	$11.81	2
Internal Medicine	15	15	$11.81	1

86036 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
California	13,351	$11.81	$11.81	10
New Jersey	7,188	$11.80	$11.81	6
Texas	6,978	$11.81	$11.81	7
Florida	5,789	$11.81	$11.81	5
Georgia	2,976	$11.81	$11.81	1
North Carolina	2,626	$11.81	$11.81	5
Arizona	2,468	$11.78	$11.81	3
Kansas	1,659	$11.81	$11.81	3
Illinois	1,600	$11.81	$11.81	2
Massachusetts	1,479	$11.81	$11.81	2
Tennessee	1,454	$11.78	$11.81	2
Oklahoma	1,362	$11.77	$11.81	3
Minnesota	1,314	$11.81	$11.81	5
Pennsylvania	1,153	$11.79	$11.81	4
Ohio	1,095	$11.80	$11.81	8
Hawaii	911	$11.76	$11.81	1
Washington	910	$11.80	$11.81	5
New York	868	$11.81	$11.81	6
Utah	843	$11.80	$11.81	2
Nevada	830	$11.79	$11.81	1
Virginia	722	$11.78	$11.81	4
Maryland	499	$11.81	$11.81	2
Alabama	474	$11.81	$11.81	2
Colorado	387	$11.81	$11.81	3
New Mexico	371	$11.73	$11.81	1
Iowa	340	$11.75	$11.81	2
Maine	305	$11.72	$11.81	1
Wisconsin	292	$11.67	$11.81	4
South Dakota	175	$11.81	$11.81	1
Indiana	129	$11.65	$11.81	1
Mississippi	53	$11.81	$11.81	1
Oregon	42	$11.81	$11.81	1
Wyoming	37	$11.58	$11.81	1
Idaho	36	$11.81	$11.81	1
Connecticut	24	$11.81	$11.81	1
Kentucky	21	$11.81	$11.81	1

Related codes

86003Measurement of antibody (ige) to allergic substance$5.11
86038Screening test for autoimmune disorder$11.83
86039Measurement of antibody for assessment of autoimmune disorder$10.93
86037Antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody titer$11.81
86008Measurement of antibody (ige) to allergic substance$17.54
86015Measurement of actin (smooth muscle) antibody$11.80
86021Antibody identification test for white blood cell antibodies$14.74
86001Measurement of antibody (igg) to allergic substance$6.19
86077Blood bank physician services for cross match and/or evaluation and wr$48.77
86060Measurement for strep antibody (strep throat)$7.15
86041Test for acetylcholine receptor binding antibody$17.97
86063Screening test for strep antibody (strep throat)$5.65

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.