How much does Medicare pay for CPT 92571?

Medicare allowed an average of $29.99 per service and paid $21.47 of that, the balance being the patient's coinsurance and deductible (2024 data). Providers submitted an average of $53.83, which is what they billed rather than what they received — Medicare pays its fee schedule regardless of the charge.

What is CPT code 92571?

Test to assess by hearing by examining the repetition of real words versus nonsense words. It was billed 6,013 times to 5,879 Medicare beneficiaries by 67 providers in 2024.

Which specialty bills 92571 most?

Audiologist, with 5,380 services from 63 clinicians. Next are Otolaryngology.

CPT 92571

Test to assess by hearing by examining the repetition of real words versus nonsense words

$29.99Medicare-allowed amount per service, averaged across 6,013 services

Providers submitted

$53.83

Asking price, not received

Medicare allowed

$29.99

The fee schedule figure

Medicare paid

$21.47

Balance is patient coinsurance

Providers submitted an average of $53.83 for this code and Medicare allowed $29.99 — 1.8× 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 $21.47 (72%); the rest is the patient’s coinsurance and deductible.

Services: 6,013
Beneficiaries: 5,879
Providers billing it: 67
Total allowed: $180,330

What Medicare pays for CPT 92571

Across 6,013 services billed by 67 providers to 5,879 beneficiaries, Medicare allowed an average of $29.99 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 92571

Specialty	Services	Beneficiaries	Avg allowed	Providers
Audiologist	5,380	5,318	$30.39	63
Otolaryngology	633	561	$26.59	4

92571 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
Florida	1,597	$29.82	$21.95	13
California	959	$35.05	$21.94	7
New York	944	$28.86	$23.33	8
Colorado	487	$29.99	$20.39	5
Arkansas	360	$25.71	$21.70	3
Utah	344	$28.69	$21.61	5
Illinois	314	$31.50	$22.12	3
New Mexico	232	$26.32	$21.51	5
Nevada	204	$30.39	$20.82	1
Tennessee	135	$27.18	$20.67	4
North Carolina	127	$28.08	$22.15	1
Washington	65	$25.59	$23.49	1
Pennsylvania	64	$28.18	$22.07	4
Massachusetts	39	$34.55	$23.64	1
Oregon	38	$29.80	$20.48	1
Oklahoma	37	$27.11	$22.03	1
Indiana	35	$26.53	$23.11	2
Missouri	18	$26.11	$21.94	1
Louisiana	14	$25.52	$24.27	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.