How much does Medicare pay for CPT 86077?

Medicare allowed an average of $48.77 per service and paid $37.94 of that, the balance being the patient's coinsurance and deductible (2024 data). Providers submitted an average of $210.18, which is what they billed rather than what they received — Medicare pays its fee schedule regardless of the charge.

What is CPT code 86077?

Blood bank physician services for cross match and/or evaluation and written report. It was billed 33,894 times to 23,470 Medicare beneficiaries by 438 providers in 2024.

Does 86077 pay differently in an office than a hospital?

Yes. The allowed amount averaged $51.64 in an office setting and $48.70 in a facility. The office rate is generally higher because the practice supplies the room, staff and equipment out of that single payment; in a hospital those are billed separately by the facility.

Which specialty bills 86077 most?

Pathology, with 33,218 services from 427 clinicians. Next are Clinical Laboratory, Internal Medicine, Pediatric Medicine.

CPT 86077

Blood bank physician services for cross match and/or evaluation and written report

$48.77Medicare-allowed amount per service, averaged across 33,894 services

Providers submitted

$210.18

Asking price, not received

Medicare allowed

$48.77

The fee schedule figure

Medicare paid

$37.94

Balance is patient coinsurance

Providers submitted an average of $210.18 for this code and Medicare allowed $48.77 — 4.3× 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 $37.94 (78%); the rest is the patient’s coinsurance and deductible.

Office pays differently to hospital

Office / non-facility: $51.64
Hospital / facility: $48.70

The office rate is higher because the practice supplies the room, staff and equipment out of that payment. In a hospital the facility bills those separately, so the clinician's share is smaller — the total cost to Medicare is usually higher, not lower. 813 services were billed in an office setting and 33,081 in a facility.

Services: 33,894
Beneficiaries: 23,470
Providers billing it: 438
Total allowed: $1,653,010

What Medicare pays for CPT 86077

Across 33,894 services billed by 438 providers to 23,470 beneficiaries, Medicare allowed an average of $48.77 per service. That is 1.4 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 86077

Specialty	Services	Beneficiaries	Avg allowed	Providers
Pathology	33,218	22,960	$48.74	427
Clinical Laboratory	347	243	$49.33	4
Internal Medicine	181	122	$53.55	1
Pediatric Medicine	66	63	$50.09	2
Hematology-Oncology	39	39	$44.75	2
Anesthesiology	25	25	$45.32	1
Hematology	18	18	$47.04	1

86077 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
Illinois	5,111	$49.37	$36.25	22
California	5,074	$50.46	$36.29	32
Texas	3,977	$47.41	$36.59	39
New York	3,539	$51.39	$36.74	37
Florida	2,203	$47.82	$36.59	38
Pennsylvania	1,905	$50.01	$36.74	31
Massachusetts	1,356	$50.25	$37.22	19
Arizona	1,319	$47.69	$37.00	8
Missouri	761	$46.45	$36.35	12
Ohio	740	$45.76	$36.94	18
Wisconsin	594	$46.12	$36.80	11
Kentucky	520	$47.53	$36.57	9
North Carolina	515	$44.67	$36.95	12
Virginia	502	$48.83	$37.43	15
Connecticut	480	$49.60	$36.50	15
Arkansas	443	$40.76	$37.30	10
Alabama	443	$44.43	$36.70	10
Tennessee	381	$44.87	$37.27	12
Georgia	381	$46.92	$36.93	8
Colorado	380	$48.01	$36.75	6
Maryland	374	$51.43	$36.07	5
New Jersey	358	$51.20	$37.19	6
Iowa	326	$46.31	$36.25	9
Michigan	282	$47.71	$37.59	6
South Carolina	244	$45.38	$37.09	2
Indiana	228	$46.85	$38.47	7
Washington	216	$51.65	$36.02	6
Oregon	211	$49.82	$36.95	3
Rhode Island	195	$47.11	$35.66	5
District of Columbia	155	$50.94	$36.96	3
Minnesota	139	$46.06	$36.21	3
Hawaii	103	$51.19	$37.42	2
New Hampshire	97	$46.43	$37.25	4
Louisiana	86	$45.72	$37.50	3
Nebraska	64	$44.71	$36.47	3
Kansas	39	$45.03	$37.59	1
West Virginia	35	$45.78	$36.53	1
Oklahoma	34	$45.10	$36.37	1
Alaska	30	$62.94	$37.50	1
Vermont	20	$48.10	$37.46	1
Nevada	20	$48.64	$37.55	1
New Mexico	14	$46.09	$37.58	1

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86008Measurement of antibody (ige) to allergic substance$17.54
86036Screening test for antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody$11.80
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
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.