How much does Medicare pay for CPT 93882?

Medicare allowed an average of $89.81 per service and paid $66.34 of that, the balance being the patient's coinsurance and deductible (2024 data). Providers submitted an average of $283.72, which is what they billed rather than what they received — Medicare pays its fee schedule regardless of the charge.

What is CPT code 93882?

Ultrasound of one side of head and neck blood flow. It was billed 16,969 times to 16,003 Medicare beneficiaries by 485 providers in 2024.

Does 93882 pay differently in an office than a hospital?

Yes. The allowed amount averaged $113.05 in an office setting and $23.16 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 93882 most?

Vascular Surgery, with 7,229 services from 253 clinicians. Next are Diagnostic Radiology, Family Practice, Cardiology.

CPT 93882

Ultrasound of one side of head and neck blood flow

$89.81Medicare-allowed amount per service, averaged across 16,969 services

Providers submitted

$283.72

Asking price, not received

Medicare allowed

$89.81

The fee schedule figure

Medicare paid

$66.34

Balance is patient coinsurance

Providers submitted an average of $283.72 for this code and Medicare allowed $89.81 — 3.2× 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 $66.34 (74%); the rest is the patient’s coinsurance and deductible.

Office pays differently to hospital

Office / non-facility: $113.05
Hospital / facility: $23.16

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. 12,581 services were billed in an office setting and 4,388 in a facility.

Services: 16,969
Beneficiaries: 16,003
Providers billing it: 485
Total allowed: $1,523,986

What Medicare pays for CPT 93882

Across 16,969 services billed by 485 providers to 16,003 beneficiaries, Medicare allowed an average of $89.81 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 93882

Specialty	Services	Beneficiaries	Avg allowed	Providers
Vascular Surgery	7,229	6,626	$87.33	253
Diagnostic Radiology	2,639	2,627	$59.20	84
Family Practice	1,783	1,759	$120.76	33
Cardiology	1,439	1,393	$107.65	20
Internal Medicine	1,267	1,248	$123.51	27
Neurology	841	712	$67.51	11
General Surgery	529	483	$102.73	22
Thoracic Surgery	356	307	$83.80	8
Interventional Cardiology	180	165	$100.55	5
Interventional Radiology	173	172	$34.86	7
Nurse Practitioner	113	111	$97.12	2
Cardiac Surgery	109	102	$67.29	4
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation	98	98	$120.30	1
Infectious Disease	47	47	$116.57	1
Peripheral Vascular Disease	40	40	$32.70	2

93882 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	2,739	$109.47	$80.06	68
New York	1,644	$83.30	$55.56	20
Texas	1,323	$78.37	$57.73	48
California	1,060	$128.31	$81.87	24
Virginia	1,010	$49.55	$36.03	30
Colorado	824	$116.47	$81.91	11
South Carolina	821	$88.68	$68.18	12
Maryland	769	$120.88	$79.73	27
Louisiana	705	$107.26	$85.09	12
Arkansas	586	$102.39	$84.65	3
Arizona	473	$87.00	$65.34	13
Indiana	456	$68.64	$53.16	21
New Jersey	447	$118.94	$73.51	13
North Carolina	431	$84.53	$69.25	16
Alabama	351	$56.54	$48.39	14
Massachusetts	280	$48.44	$33.31	7
Georgia	274	$59.56	$45.00	16
Washington	263	$66.79	$43.13	9
West Virginia	254	$23.65	$15.78	3
Oklahoma	228	$79.08	$64.18	9
Michigan	224	$113.70	$87.93	11
New Hampshire	187	$62.73	$45.79	9
Pennsylvania	171	$88.43	$65.52	10
Illinois	153	$78.24	$54.74	9
Kentucky	135	$57.52	$44.52	8
Tennessee	134	$81.42	$65.01	7
Minnesota	124	$70.65	$49.95	6
Iowa	114	$26.82	$21.03	7
New Mexico	111	$99.04	$83.65	2
Kansas	88	$21.73	$14.74	6
Delaware	69	$41.49	$29.52	4
Mississippi	65	$102.31	$78.43	4
Maine	54	$61.14	$37.95	3
Vermont	53	$21.91	$15.57	4
Missouri	48	$106.83	$87.38	3
Nebraska	45	$125.71	$90.29	1
Idaho	43	$27.70	$22.30	2
Nevada	41	$23.00	$16.34	2
Ohio	40	$22.76	$15.03	3
South Dakota	32	$58.83	$44.09	2
Wisconsin	29	$22.58	$13.20	2
Utah	24	$112.86	$69.30	1
Alaska	18	$134.47	$94.56	1
Oregon	16	$120.08	$92.66	1
Montana	13	$121.52	$87.61	1

Related codes

93880Ultrasound of both sides of head and neck blood flow$124.56
93886Complete ultrasound of within the brain blood flow$242.67
93892Ultrasound of within the brain blood flow for blood clots$163.38
93890Ultrasound of within the brain blood flow following medication$249.23
93888Ultrasound of within the brain blood flow$100.38
93893Ultrasound of within the brain blood flow for blood clots$108.15

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.