How much does Medicare pay for CPT 95708?

Medicare allowed an average of $218.43 per service and paid $172.83 of that, the balance being the patient's coinsurance and deductible (2024 data). Providers submitted an average of $1076.72, which is what they billed rather than what they received — Medicare pays its fee schedule regardless of the charge.

What is CPT code 95708?

Measurement of brain wave activity (eeg), 12-26 hours. It was billed 5,608 times to 2,754 Medicare beneficiaries by 96 providers in 2024.

Which specialty bills 95708 most?

Neurology, with 5,012 services from 92 clinicians. Next are Independent Diagnostic Testing Facility (IDTF), Internal Medicine.

CPT 95708

Measurement of brain wave activity (eeg), 12-26 hours

$218.43Medicare-allowed amount per service, averaged across 5,608 services

Providers submitted

$1076.72

Asking price, not received

Medicare allowed

$218.43

The fee schedule figure

Medicare paid

$172.83

Balance is patient coinsurance

Providers submitted an average of $1076.72 for this code and Medicare allowed $218.43 — 4.9× 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 $172.83 (79%); the rest is the patient’s coinsurance and deductible.

Services: 5,608
Beneficiaries: 2,754
Providers billing it: 96
Total allowed: $1,224,955

What Medicare pays for CPT 95708

Across 5,608 services billed by 96 providers to 2,754 beneficiaries, Medicare allowed an average of $218.43 per service. That is 2.0 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 95708

Specialty	Services	Beneficiaries	Avg allowed	Providers
Neurology	5,012	2,544	$225.72	92
Independent Diagnostic Testing Facility (IDTF)	456	167	$158.03	3
Internal Medicine	140	43	$154.17	1

95708 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	973	$201.93	$159.01	24
Arizona	901	$270.12	$221.58	14
Texas	761	$148.22	$120.86	7
California	758	$334.01	$268.82	12
Nevada	389	$288.06	$226.88	3
New Jersey	374	$164.71	$128.87	8
Florida	352	$158.51	$121.13	7
Maryland	227	$152.89	$121.89	5
District of Columbia	134	$154.43	$121.86	1
Illinois	130	$181.04	$141.30	1
Indiana	107	$167.97	$133.04	1
Ohio	100	$175.06	$138.78	2
Virginia	98	$148.78	$122.17	2
Massachusetts	84	$186.84	$157.41	2
Montana	71	$290.47	$227.00	1
Michigan	56	$172.09	$136.10	1
Delaware	28	$148.05	$123.08	1
Wisconsin	20	$159.54	$125.28	1
Rhode Island	17	$178.15	$133.55	1
Puerto Rico	14	$141.45	$121.47	1
South Carolina	14	$167.91	$139.13	1

Related codes

95720Measurement of brain wave activity$206.05
95718Measurement of brain wave activity$133.06
95715Measurement of brain wave activity$979.19
95700Measurement of brain wave activity (eeg)$249.73
95717Measurement of brain wave activity (eeg)$106.45
95716Measurement of brain wave activity$1217.54
95719Measurement of brain wave activity (eeg)$162.59
95724Measurement of brain wave activity$307.92
95713Measurement of brain wave activity$567.17
95714Measurement of brain wave activity$239.19
95709Measurement of brain wave activity (eeg)$791.85
95723Measurement of brain wave activity (eeg)$249.20

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.