How much does Medicare pay for CPT 92588?

Medicare allowed an average of $33.35 per service and paid $24.23 of that, the balance being the patient's coinsurance and deductible (2024 data). Providers submitted an average of $138.24, which is what they billed rather than what they received — Medicare pays its fee schedule regardless of the charge.

What is CPT code 92588?

Placement of ear probe for computerized measurement of repeated sounds with interpretation and report. It was billed 83,771 times to 80,554 Medicare beneficiaries by 1,017 providers in 2024.

Does 92588 pay differently in an office than a hospital?

Yes. The allowed amount averaged $33.36 in an office setting and $31.43 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 92588 most?

Audiologist, with 58,381 services from 750 clinicians. Next are Otolaryngology, Internal Medicine, Physician Assistant.

CPT 92588

Placement of ear probe for computerized measurement of repeated sounds with interpretation and report

$33.35Medicare-allowed amount per service, averaged across 83,771 services

Providers submitted

$138.24

Asking price, not received

Medicare allowed

$33.35

The fee schedule figure

Medicare paid

$24.23

Balance is patient coinsurance

Providers submitted an average of $138.24 for this code and Medicare allowed $33.35 — 4.1× 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 $24.23 (73%); the rest is the patient’s coinsurance and deductible.

Office pays differently to hospital

Office / non-facility: $33.36
Hospital / facility: $31.43

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. 83,208 services were billed in an office setting and 563 in a facility.

Services: 83,771
Beneficiaries: 80,554
Providers billing it: 1,017
Total allowed: $2,793,763

What Medicare pays for CPT 92588

Across 83,771 services billed by 1,017 providers to 80,554 beneficiaries, Medicare allowed an average of $33.35 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 92588

Specialty	Services	Beneficiaries	Avg allowed	Providers
Audiologist	58,381	57,267	$33.28	750
Otolaryngology	21,685	19,968	$33.79	211
Internal Medicine	1,548	1,517	$34.92	19
Physician Assistant	974	817	$27.96	15
Nurse Practitioner	640	471	$28.86	7
Family Practice	274	250	$34.16	5
Neurology	96	96	$32.35	5
Speech Language Pathologist	67	66	$33.70	2
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery	48	45	$31.55	1
General Practice	35	34	$31.34	1
General Surgery	23	23	$34.38	1

92588 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	17,470	$32.35	$23.52	199
California	16,343	$34.70	$23.49	127
New York	13,674	$35.19	$24.37	152
New Jersey	6,908	$34.75	$23.57	69
Texas	4,291	$31.56	$22.96	68
Georgia	2,852	$31.81	$23.57	37
Pennsylvania	2,041	$33.25	$23.60	51
Maryland	2,034	$34.27	$22.73	37
Colorado	1,778	$32.11	$22.85	19
Arizona	1,234	$32.03	$21.92	12
Virginia	1,167	$31.45	$21.68	15
Oklahoma	1,142	$30.29	$22.42	11
Tennessee	1,122	$30.31	$22.22	22
Puerto Rico	951	$32.43	$22.66	27
Louisiana	875	$30.61	$22.92	19
Illinois	779	$33.01	$23.26	7
Massachusetts	767	$33.41	$22.40	8
Hawaii	763	$33.14	$23.95	6
Utah	758	$31.63	$23.72	9
New Mexico	673	$30.48	$22.94	9
Wyoming	578	$32.05	$22.73	6
Michigan	547	$32.38	$23.69	8
South Carolina	497	$30.92	$22.43	6
Missouri	494	$30.86	$23.82	14
Ohio	490	$32.58	$23.90	9
Washington	396	$33.17	$22.75	11
Arkansas	380	$29.79	$22.53	3
Kansas	375	$30.99	$22.29	8
Connecticut	308	$33.11	$23.09	11
Idaho	288	$30.77	$23.47	3
Alaska	269	$36.19	$20.90	2
Delaware	255	$33.96	$23.96	4
Kentucky	226	$30.88	$23.79	4
North Carolina	195	$30.30	$22.25	3
Nevada	162	$29.92	$23.90	3
Oregon	149	$32.21	$23.99	3
Maine	133	$32.47	$25.12	1
Alabama	104	$30.27	$23.57	2
Mississippi	85	$30.19	$24.34	3
Indiana	63	$31.16	$24.94	2
North Dakota	45	$32.07	$18.98	1
Rhode Island	44	$31.54	$25.17	1
West Virginia	31	$29.91	$23.71	2
New Hampshire	24	$32.82	$20.87	2
Vermont	11	$31.94	$22.72	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
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
92587Placement of ear probe for computerized measurement of sound$21.99

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.