How much does Medicare pay for CPT 92524?

Medicare allowed an average of $109.19 per service and paid $84.43 of that, the balance being the patient's coinsurance and deductible (2024 data). Providers submitted an average of $331.25, which is what they billed rather than what they received — Medicare pays its fee schedule regardless of the charge.

What is CPT code 92524?

Analysis of voice and resonance production. It was billed 22,266 times to 19,571 Medicare beneficiaries by 515 providers in 2024.

Which specialty bills 92524 most?

Speech Language Pathologist, with 17,426 services from 395 clinicians. Next are Otolaryngology, Physician Assistant, Audiologist.

CPT 92524

Analysis of voice and resonance production

$109.19Medicare-allowed amount per service, averaged across 22,266 services

Providers submitted

$331.25

Asking price, not received

Medicare allowed

$109.19

The fee schedule figure

Medicare paid

$84.43

Balance is patient coinsurance

Providers submitted an average of $331.25 for this code and Medicare allowed $109.19 — 3.0× 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 $84.43 (77%); the rest is the patient’s coinsurance and deductible.

Services: 22,266
Beneficiaries: 19,571
Providers billing it: 515
Total allowed: $2,431,225

What Medicare pays for CPT 92524

Across 22,266 services billed by 515 providers to 19,571 beneficiaries, Medicare allowed an average of $109.19 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 92524

Specialty	Services	Beneficiaries	Avg allowed	Providers
Speech Language Pathologist	17,426	15,456	$108.55	395
Otolaryngology	4,752	4,036	$111.84	115
Physician Assistant	53	44	$85.09	3
Audiologist	20	20	$102.81	1
Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine	15	15	$105.98	1

92524 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	3,406	$115.74	$83.46	58
New York	2,425	$117.40	$81.34	57
Florida	1,734	$106.82	$82.94	52
Texas	1,318	$106.79	$83.51	29
Maryland	1,165	$111.36	$82.96	21
Pennsylvania	1,092	$108.44	$83.00	24
North Carolina	966	$102.62	$82.30	19
Washington	950	$104.29	$79.88	16
Minnesota	918	$108.67	$80.86	18
Massachusetts	804	$112.36	$83.62	17
Ohio	801	$106.76	$83.10	22
Missouri	783	$105.16	$80.59	11
New Jersey	760	$111.72	$81.50	23
Georgia	596	$108.56	$83.31	10
South Carolina	489	$101.74	$81.91	10
Arizona	444	$104.53	$80.90	10
Illinois	349	$109.02	$84.03	8
Indiana	322	$102.82	$80.93	7
Colorado	283	$107.26	$83.01	10
Kansas	270	$100.63	$81.21	7
Kentucky	231	$101.34	$82.50	5
Utah	217	$100.05	$80.43	8
Tennessee	182	$101.19	$82.20	4
Wisconsin	151	$105.60	$79.65	7
Michigan	149	$109.59	$81.21	4
Arkansas	146	$96.09	$80.33	7
Virginia	137	$102.95	$74.27	7
Iowa	134	$105.87	$83.12	6
Nebraska	127	$103.39	$82.65	3
Oregon	117	$109.00	$77.58	3
Oklahoma	115	$101.59	$80.11	4
Nevada	107	$106.29	$81.14	2
Connecticut	103	$111.42	$77.50	4
Montana	91	$106.51	$83.12	4
Idaho	86	$94.66	$76.62	3
Delaware	83	$114.21	$82.84	3
Alabama	56	$98.82	$84.00	3
Hawaii	51	$105.62	$77.28	2
Mississippi	41	$100.75	$79.93	3
Maine	26	$87.22	$69.89	1
New Hampshire	15	$108.86	$84.63	1
Wyoming	13	$107.09	$69.65	1
West Virginia	13	$107.50	$85.75	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.