How much does Medicare pay for CPT 92587?

Medicare allowed an average of $21.99 per service and paid $16.03 of that, the balance being the patient's coinsurance and deductible (2024 data). Providers submitted an average of $113.46, which is what they billed rather than what they received — Medicare pays its fee schedule regardless of the charge.

What is CPT code 92587?

Placement of ear probe for computerized measurement of sound with interpretation and report. It was billed 34,063 times to 32,563 Medicare beneficiaries by 395 providers in 2024.

Does 92587 pay differently in an office than a hospital?

Yes. The allowed amount averaged $22.10 in an office setting and $17.30 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 92587 most?

Audiologist, with 15,279 services from 202 clinicians. Next are Otolaryngology, Internal Medicine, Family Practice.

CPT 92587

Placement of ear probe for computerized measurement of sound with interpretation and report

$21.99Medicare-allowed amount per service, averaged across 34,063 services

Providers submitted

$113.46

Asking price, not received

Medicare allowed

$21.99

The fee schedule figure

Medicare paid

$16.03

Balance is patient coinsurance

Providers submitted an average of $113.46 for this code and Medicare allowed $21.99 — 5.2× 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 $16.03 (73%); the rest is the patient’s coinsurance and deductible.

Office pays differently to hospital

Office / non-facility: $22.10
Hospital / facility: $17.30

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. 33,302 services were billed in an office setting and 761 in a facility.

Services: 34,063
Beneficiaries: 32,563
Providers billing it: 395
Total allowed: $749,045

What Medicare pays for CPT 92587

Across 34,063 services billed by 395 providers to 32,563 beneficiaries, Medicare allowed an average of $21.99 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 92587

Specialty	Services	Beneficiaries	Avg allowed	Providers
Audiologist	15,279	14,981	$21.53	202
Otolaryngology	9,847	8,959	$21.90	90
Internal Medicine	5,534	5,397	$23.40	53
Family Practice	2,279	2,123	$23.33	24
Nurse Practitioner	493	484	$19.04	11
Physician Assistant	365	362	$17.79	10
Ophthalmology	129	127	$19.97	1
Neurology	88	88	$23.81	2
Cardiology	32	26	$24.05	1
Pediatric Medicine	17	16	$22.56	1

92587 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
New York	15,456	$23.53	$15.43	131
New Jersey	3,239	$20.75	$14.68	27
California	1,706	$22.37	$15.45	24
Texas	1,365	$19.17	$13.49	27
Pennsylvania	1,347	$21.19	$15.23	20
Maryland	1,311	$22.47	$14.37	25
Florida	1,244	$20.90	$15.00	27
North Carolina	803	$17.46	$12.00	7
Kansas	764	$19.66	$16.14	2
South Carolina	597	$20.31	$15.09	3
Ohio	577	$20.26	$14.83	7
Connecticut	561	$21.67	$14.49	9
Illinois	483	$21.62	$15.55	4
Oklahoma	445	$19.52	$14.91	7
Alabama	406	$19.18	$15.07	4
Massachusetts	405	$22.12	$13.72	9
Virginia	404	$20.88	$14.50	7
Indiana	335	$20.18	$15.36	4
Georgia	295	$20.50	$15.27	5
Tennessee	288	$19.74	$13.41	4
Michigan	254	$20.92	$14.90	6
Hawaii	254	$21.81	$14.01	1
Arizona	233	$20.61	$15.53	4
Kentucky	187	$19.70	$13.44	5
Utah	149	$20.34	$13.26	3
Arkansas	149	$19.40	$14.11	1
Guam	142	$22.01	$13.50	1
Mississippi	129	$19.97	$14.19	1
Louisiana	101	$20.38	$16.06	4
Rhode Island	95	$21.34	$15.31	2
Washington	61	$21.42	$13.48	4
Wisconsin	53	$20.14	$15.05	1
Colorado	52	$20.41	$14.58	2
Missouri	44	$17.51	$10.18	1
U.S. Virgin Islands	37	$21.04	$12.34	2
District of Columbia	30	$22.11	$14.51	1
New Mexico	29	$20.26	$14.47	1
New Hampshire	22	$23.47	$14.79	1
Iowa	11	$19.94	$16.67	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.