How much does Medicare pay for CPT 92082?

Medicare allowed an average of $43.78 per service and paid $31.16 of that, the balance being the patient's coinsurance and deductible (2024 data). Providers submitted an average of $100.77, which is what they billed rather than what they received — Medicare pays its fee schedule regardless of the charge.

What is CPT code 92082?

Exam of visual field with intermediate testing. It was billed 86,717 times to 79,754 Medicare beneficiaries by 1,447 providers in 2024.

Does 92082 pay differently in an office than a hospital?

Yes. The allowed amount averaged $44.64 in an office setting and $20.00 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 92082 most?

Ophthalmology, with 46,299 services from 807 clinicians. Next are Optometry, Neurology, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery.

CPT 92082

Exam of visual field with intermediate testing

$43.78Medicare-allowed amount per service, averaged across 86,717 services

Providers submitted

$100.77

Asking price, not received

Medicare allowed

$43.78

The fee schedule figure

Medicare paid

$31.16

Balance is patient coinsurance

Providers submitted an average of $100.77 for this code and Medicare allowed $43.78 — 2.3× 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 $31.16 (71%); the rest is the patient’s coinsurance and deductible.

Office pays differently to hospital

Office / non-facility: $44.64
Hospital / facility: $20.00

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. 83,718 services were billed in an office setting and 2,999 in a facility.

Services: 86,717
Beneficiaries: 79,754
Providers billing it: 1,447
Total allowed: $3,796,470

What Medicare pays for CPT 92082

Across 86,717 services billed by 1,447 providers to 79,754 beneficiaries, Medicare allowed an average of $43.78 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 92082

Specialty	Services	Beneficiaries	Avg allowed	Providers
Ophthalmology	46,299	43,349	$43.73	807
Optometry	38,991	35,200	$44.32	623
Neurology	806	648	$26.97	6
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery	335	324	$39.10	6
Physician Assistant	171	168	$22.81	3
Audiologist	98	48	$47.10	1
Otolaryngology	17	17	$30.56	1

92082 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	9,579	$50.19	$32.21	148
Florida	9,410	$44.86	$33.08	141
Texas	6,531	$42.77	$31.72	111
New York	4,736	$48.70	$32.35	63
Arizona	3,911	$44.49	$32.07	35
Kansas	3,565	$33.84	$24.56	32
New Jersey	3,479	$51.59	$33.05	45
Michigan	3,244	$41.88	$30.23	57
North Carolina	3,024	$36.81	$27.71	50
Hawaii	2,910	$48.65	$31.66	18
Illinois	2,833	$44.32	$32.18	52
Pennsylvania	2,403	$40.39	$28.46	51
Ohio	2,189	$37.02	$28.55	31
Missouri	2,178	$41.09	$31.03	32
Tennessee	2,048	$41.34	$32.62	44
Massachusetts	1,900	$47.37	$30.17	43
Georgia	1,820	$44.36	$32.92	38
Iowa	1,707	$38.97	$28.58	34
Indiana	1,699	$43.55	$32.20	22
Washington	1,331	$45.28	$30.51	24
Virginia	1,220	$46.07	$32.95	24
Vermont	1,128	$21.69	$15.28	8
Colorado	1,063	$47.80	$32.16	21
Wisconsin	953	$37.18	$26.76	19
Arkansas	932	$40.61	$32.91	18
Maryland	866	$44.85	$33.09	19
Mississippi	841	$40.87	$32.19	19
Kentucky	835	$42.16	$31.07	16
Oklahoma	745	$42.26	$30.45	15
Nebraska	676	$34.39	$25.47	14
Maine	657	$44.78	$30.86	9
New Hampshire	653	$37.31	$26.52	5
Alabama	625	$41.64	$33.02	20
Minnesota	623	$41.88	$29.41	27
Connecticut	620	$49.71	$32.26	15
South Carolina	576	$42.28	$31.00	15
Louisiana	442	$42.41	$32.38	15
Oregon	386	$46.19	$31.82	18
Idaho	380	$42.88	$32.49	12
Utah	370	$42.27	$32.15	10
West Virginia	253	$39.67	$30.98	10
South Dakota	194	$45.57	$31.02	4
Wyoming	185	$43.75	$29.45	3
Delaware	182	$44.57	$31.91	8
Alaska	175	$55.67	$32.01	4
District of Columbia	147	$52.46	$32.61	5
New Mexico	124	$40.22	$31.92	7
Nevada	119	$47.41	$32.73	4
Rhode Island	80	$48.12	$29.09	2
North Dakota	70	$35.71	$27.08	5
Puerto Rico	50	$45.09	$27.71	3
Montana	50	$48.07	$33.80	2

Related codes

92014Established patient complete exam of visual system$124.11
92012Established patient problem focused exam of visual system$90.55
92083Exam of visual field$61.28
92004New patient complete exam of visual system$145.45
92020Exam of the internal drainage system of eye$27.92
92025Ct scan of cornea$34.33
92060Exam to measure eye deviation and range of motion$60.27
92002New patient problem focused exam of visual system$84.57
92081Exam of visual field$30.43
92065Eye training exercise performed by health care professional$39.76
92071Fitting of contact lens for treatment of eye surface disease$37.72
92066Eye training exercise under supervision of health care professional$26.12

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.