How much does Medicare pay for CPT 93702?

Medicare allowed an average of $118.63 per service and paid $89.80 of that, the balance being the patient's coinsurance and deductible (2024 data). Providers submitted an average of $329.89, which is what they billed rather than what they received — Medicare pays its fee schedule regardless of the charge.

What is CPT code 93702?

Measurement of lymphedema extracellular fluid. It was billed 7,181 times to 5,610 Medicare beneficiaries by 121 providers in 2024.

Which specialty bills 93702 most?

General Surgery, with 2,947 services from 49 clinicians. Next are Diagnostic Radiology, Surgical Oncology, Nurse Practitioner.

CPT 93702

Measurement of lymphedema extracellular fluid

$118.63Medicare-allowed amount per service, averaged across 7,181 services

Providers submitted

$329.89

Asking price, not received

Medicare allowed

$118.63

The fee schedule figure

Medicare paid

$89.80

Balance is patient coinsurance

Providers submitted an average of $329.89 for this code and Medicare allowed $118.63 — 2.8× 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 $89.80 (76%); the rest is the patient’s coinsurance and deductible.

Services: 7,181
Beneficiaries: 5,610
Providers billing it: 121
Total allowed: $851,882

What Medicare pays for CPT 93702

Across 7,181 services billed by 121 providers to 5,610 beneficiaries, Medicare allowed an average of $118.63 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 93702

Specialty	Services	Beneficiaries	Avg allowed	Providers
General Surgery	2,947	2,109	$117.87	49
Diagnostic Radiology	1,343	1,150	$121.25	3
Surgical Oncology	871	736	$119.62	21
Nurse Practitioner	778	684	$109.83	20
Physician Assistant	303	238	$134.66	6
Vascular Surgery	263	217	$116.33	2
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation	253	142	$135.31	5
Obstetrics & Gynecology	157	144	$75.87	4
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery	65	56	$163.87	2
Hematology-Oncology	45	36	$110.80	2
Physical Therapist in Private Practice	40	12	$114.32	1
Medical Oncology	33	26	$105.49	2
Family Practice	31	14	$131.12	1
Internal Medicine	20	20	$140.84	1
Emergency Medicine	17	15	$117.25	1

93702 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
Texas	1,526	$114.19	$87.12	13
New York	962	$137.72	$88.52	14
California	523	$144.30	$83.06	8
Louisiana	489	$111.71	$91.32	2
Tennessee	473	$108.16	$83.60	12
Pennsylvania	452	$116.77	$85.33	12
New Mexico	413	$79.75	$84.22	9
New Jersey	338	$132.11	$89.25	7
Michigan	308	$118.75	$88.33	3
Massachusetts	229	$127.67	$85.03	3
Arkansas	191	$102.73	$94.49	4
Florida	188	$121.75	$88.30	8
Utah	166	$111.94	$85.07	1
Alaska	165	$125.58	$84.19	2
Missouri	126	$111.10	$86.85	4
Kentucky	102	$83.37	$90.68	2
Georgia	98	$107.20	$88.20	2
Virginia	92	$125.87	$94.48	3
Wisconsin	87	$115.90	$87.56	4
Maryland	75	$130.12	$78.71	2
South Carolina	63	$116.44	$93.74	1
Minnesota	62	$128.64	$91.90	1
Connecticut	16	$130.73	$81.18	1
Nebraska	15	$110.07	$95.57	1
Arizona	11	$117.13	$95.77	1
North Carolina	11	$104.27	$95.78	1

Related codes

93793Anticoagulant management of patient taking warfarin$10.67
93798Outpatient heart rehabilitation$21.02
93750Evaluation of lower heart chamber assist device$39.06
93797Outpatient heart rehabilitation$13.89
93790Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring$17.75
93784Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring$46.29
93701Measurement of heart blood flow and respiration$29.65

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.