How much does Medicare pay for CPT 92083?

Medicare allowed an average of $61.28 per service and paid $43.10 of that, the balance being the patient's coinsurance and deductible (2024 data). Providers submitted an average of $150.04, which is what they billed rather than what they received — Medicare pays its fee schedule regardless of the charge.

What is CPT code 92083?

Exam of visual field with extended testing. It was billed 2,652,036 times to 2,331,412 Medicare beneficiaries by 25,834 providers in 2024.

Does 92083 pay differently in an office than a hospital?

Yes. The allowed amount averaged $62.12 in an office setting and $26.88 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 92083 most?

Ophthalmology, with 1,792,433 services from 11,090 clinicians. Next are Optometry, Neurology, Physician Assistant.

CPT 92083

Exam of visual field with extended testing

$61.28Medicare-allowed amount per service, averaged across 2,652,036 services

Providers submitted

$150.04

Asking price, not received

Medicare allowed

$61.28

The fee schedule figure

Medicare paid

$43.10

Balance is patient coinsurance

Providers submitted an average of $150.04 for this code and Medicare allowed $61.28 — 2.4× 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 $43.10 (70%); the rest is the patient’s coinsurance and deductible.

Office pays differently to hospital

Office / non-facility: $62.12
Hospital / facility: $26.88

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. 2,588,731 services were billed in an office setting and 63,305 in a facility.

Services: 2,652,036
Beneficiaries: 2,331,412
Providers billing it: 25,834
Total allowed: $162,516,766

What Medicare pays for CPT 92083

Across 2,652,036 services billed by 25,834 providers to 2,331,412 beneficiaries, Medicare allowed an average of $61.28 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 92083

Specialty	Services	Beneficiaries	Avg allowed	Providers
Ophthalmology	1,792,433	1,577,388	$61.98	11,090
Optometry	845,169	742,519	$60.03	14,587
Neurology	10,504	8,262	$49.83	109
Physician Assistant	1,753	1,231	$38.53	19
Internal Medicine	538	497	$46.80	4
Nurse Practitioner	403	381	$47.88	7
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery	345	313	$49.36	5
Pathology	297	281	$25.16	1
Family Practice	196	193	$57.77	3
Neurosurgery	94	73	$58.02	1
Unknown Supplier/Provider Specialty	72	61	$60.32	2
Diagnostic Radiology	71	60	$26.42	1
General Surgery	56	51	$58.59	1
General Practice	45	44	$85.99	1
Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine	30	28	$59.71	1

92083 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	291,351	$68.45	$42.15	2,003
New York	223,326	$68.44	$44.29	1,641
Florida	215,537	$60.37	$43.61	1,564
Texas	157,158	$59.66	$42.81	1,678
Pennsylvania	127,690	$59.34	$41.88	1,344
Illinois	105,275	$60.24	$41.82	1,001
New Jersey	95,836	$68.95	$44.46	819
Virginia	94,028	$61.42	$42.67	706
Maryland	89,917	$67.78	$43.71	478
Ohio	83,134	$54.36	$39.69	955
Massachusetts	81,200	$60.83	$38.64	683
North Carolina	70,865	$57.66	$42.57	791
Michigan	67,772	$57.16	$41.44	735
Arizona	60,961	$59.46	$41.68	495
Georgia	57,755	$58.94	$43.34	611
Washington	56,588	$62.94	$40.70	649
Indiana	50,120	$57.86	$42.10	667
Tennessee	49,209	$56.10	$42.71	573
Missouri	45,476	$56.48	$41.34	529
South Carolina	42,712	$58.18	$42.70	396
Wisconsin	36,072	$53.76	$37.12	555
Minnesota	34,116	$59.26	$39.65	546
Iowa	32,747	$55.87	$41.41	388
Oklahoma	30,489	$55.67	$42.62	418
Kansas	29,456	$56.26	$41.84	403
Louisiana	28,478	$51.25	$39.34	316
Arkansas	27,809	$53.07	$41.63	291
Oregon	27,065	$60.54	$40.49	360
Alabama	26,966	$54.92	$43.25	386
Colorado	25,859	$57.48	$38.52	360
Connecticut	25,752	$66.85	$43.71	328
Kentucky	24,242	$56.18	$42.70	363
Mississippi	23,586	$53.21	$42.77	261
Nevada	20,791	$62.18	$43.12	155
Nebraska	20,114	$55.83	$41.05	234
New Hampshire	19,870	$59.83	$39.79	178
Hawaii	17,301	$66.36	$42.21	176
Utah	13,293	$54.32	$39.42	164
Delaware	13,082	$61.99	$43.35	114
New Mexico	12,146	$55.78	$40.95	145
West Virginia	11,182	$52.42	$39.53	148
Montana	10,862	$59.79	$39.94	131
Idaho	10,228	$56.79	$41.78	161
Maine	10,070	$58.43	$40.44	180
South Dakota	8,593	$59.94	$41.68	137
Rhode Island	7,809	$64.06	$43.61	129
Alaska	7,637	$71.04	$40.48	96
District of Columbia	7,365	$67.31	$42.76	49
Vermont	7,154	$58.08	$38.62	85
North Dakota	6,968	$53.50	$36.18	119
Wyoming	6,072	$59.65	$41.02	70
Puerto Rico	1,713	$60.56	$41.32	52
U.S. Virgin Islands	746	$61.57	$36.61	6
Guam	186	$67.43	$40.91	5
Northern Mariana Islands	163	$68.53	$39.81	3
AA	63	$58.19	$39.69	1

Related codes

92014Established patient complete exam of visual system$124.11
92012Established patient problem focused exam of visual system$90.55
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
92082Exam of visual field$43.78
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.