How much does Medicare pay for CPT 92519?

Medicare allowed an average of $126.29 per service and paid $98.38 of that, the balance being the patient's coinsurance and deductible (2024 data). Providers submitted an average of $416.13, which is what they billed rather than what they received — Medicare pays its fee schedule regardless of the charge.

What is CPT code 92519?

Vemp testing of upper and lower branches of inner ear nerve with interpretation and report. It was billed 5,477 times to 4,328 Medicare beneficiaries by 145 providers in 2024.

Does 92519 pay differently in an office than a hospital?

Yes. The allowed amount averaged $127.74 in an office setting and $66.15 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 92519 most?

Audiologist, with 3,761 services from 83 clinicians. Next are Otolaryngology, Neurology, Internal Medicine.

CPT 92519

Vemp testing of upper and lower branches of inner ear nerve with interpretation and report

$126.29Medicare-allowed amount per service, averaged across 5,477 services

Providers submitted

$416.13

Asking price, not received

Medicare allowed

$126.29

The fee schedule figure

Medicare paid

$98.38

Balance is patient coinsurance

Providers submitted an average of $416.13 for this code and Medicare allowed $126.29 — 3.3× 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 $98.38 (78%); the rest is the patient’s coinsurance and deductible.

Office pays differently to hospital

Office / non-facility: $127.74
Hospital / facility: $66.15

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. 5,348 services were billed in an office setting and 129 in a facility.

Services: 5,477
Beneficiaries: 4,328
Providers billing it: 145
Total allowed: $691,690

What Medicare pays for CPT 92519

Across 5,477 services billed by 145 providers to 4,328 beneficiaries, Medicare allowed an average of $126.29 per service. That is 1.3 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 92519

Specialty	Services	Beneficiaries	Avg allowed	Providers
Audiologist	3,761	2,617	$127.42	83
Otolaryngology	1,116	1,113	$118.39	46
Neurology	506	506	$138.17	11
Internal Medicine	36	35	$109.79	1
Family Practice	19	18	$125.76	1
Physician Assistant	14	14	$102.57	1
Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine	14	14	$120.67	1
Nurse Practitioner	11	11	$89.43	1

92519 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	1,831	$136.49	$98.77	8
Florida	419	$120.94	$97.79	18
Maryland	363	$123.54	$88.37	13
Texas	334	$122.43	$97.83	10
Georgia	325	$122.62	$98.21	12
Missouri	213	$120.18	$97.88	7
Washington	201	$116.86	$84.67	6
Arizona	192	$120.33	$98.80	6
South Carolina	187	$113.42	$93.04	9
Tennessee	186	$111.39	$94.54	5
Colorado	182	$124.55	$98.52	6
Illinois	174	$126.95	$93.43	2
Minnesota	162	$131.20	$98.41	6
Virginia	96	$125.95	$96.73	5
New York	93	$127.57	$98.67	5
Alabama	83	$114.51	$96.71	3
Mississippi	78	$102.73	$98.70	3
New Mexico	74	$118.50	$98.88	4
Pennsylvania	49	$128.04	$97.21	3
Delaware	43	$125.30	$99.69	3
North Carolina	39	$131.99	$92.85	2
Nebraska	29	$117.06	$86.85	2
Michigan	29	$120.39	$89.60	1
Wisconsin	27	$111.55	$93.01	2
Nevada	26	$124.63	$94.55	1
Utah	17	$118.80	$99.21	1
Arkansas	13	$112.30	$75.42	1
New Jersey	12	$144.42	$99.68	1

Related codes

92557Comprehensive hearing and speech recognition test$36.00
92567Test to assess middle ear function$15.98
92507Treatment of speech$72.06
92504Exam of ear using a microscope$26.45
92526Treatment of swallowing and feeding disorder$84.14
92550Test for eardrum and muscle function$22.10
92588Placement of ear probe for computerized measurement of repeated sounds$33.35
92552Test for hearing various pitches$37.66
92540Evaluation and testing for balance$103.83
92556Test for ability to detect and repeat spoken words$43.60
92537Test to assess balance during warm and cool irrigation in both ears$38.90
92546Test for abnormal eye movement$131.13

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.