How much does Medicare pay for CPT 97032?

Medicare allowed an average of $11.47 per service and paid $8.88 of that, the balance being the patient's coinsurance and deductible (2024 data). Providers submitted an average of $40.47, which is what they billed rather than what they received — Medicare pays its fee schedule regardless of the charge.

What is CPT code 97032?

Application of electrical stimulation with therapist present, each 15 minutes. It was billed 431,028 times to 45,745 Medicare beneficiaries by 1,308 providers in 2024.

Does 97032 pay differently in an office than a hospital?

Yes. The allowed amount averaged $11.47 in an office setting and $9.42 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 97032 most?

Physical Therapist in Private Practice, with 271,660 services from 897 clinicians. Next are Occupational Therapist in Private Practice, Family Practice, Podiatry.

CPT 97032

Application of electrical stimulation with therapist present, each 15 minutes

$11.47Medicare-allowed amount per service, averaged across 431,028 services

Providers submitted

$40.47

Asking price, not received

Medicare allowed

$11.47

The fee schedule figure

Medicare paid

$8.88

Balance is patient coinsurance

Providers submitted an average of $40.47 for this code and Medicare allowed $11.47 — 3.5× 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 $8.88 (77%); the rest is the patient’s coinsurance and deductible.

Office pays differently to hospital

Office / non-facility: $11.47
Hospital / facility: $9.42

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. 430,864 services were billed in an office setting and 164 in a facility.

Services: 431,028
Beneficiaries: 45,745
Providers billing it: 1,308
Total allowed: $4,943,891

What Medicare pays for CPT 97032

Across 431,028 services billed by 1,308 providers to 45,745 beneficiaries, Medicare allowed an average of $11.47 per service. That is 9.4 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 97032

Specialty	Services	Beneficiaries	Avg allowed	Providers
Physical Therapist in Private Practice	271,660	30,902	$11.29	897
Occupational Therapist in Private Practice	20,900	2,918	$11.28	85
Family Practice	20,766	1,477	$11.79	36
Podiatry	20,444	1,413	$11.87	43
Nurse Practitioner	16,936	1,941	$9.87	51
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation	14,879	1,554	$11.95	45
Internal Medicine	14,712	1,400	$11.85	29
Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine	11,174	574	$13.10	8
Neurology	7,792	522	$11.98	13
Interventional Pain Management	7,483	455	$11.53	7
Cardiology	6,524	107	$14.11	2
Orthopedic Surgery	3,724	343	$11.59	11
Obstetrics & Gynecology	3,579	612	$12.79	21
General Practice	1,776	174	$12.05	5
Urology	1,633	497	$13.17	19

97032 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
California	80,552	$12.22	$8.91	157
Florida	50,600	$11.02	$8.33	122
New York	48,882	$12.41	$8.81	127
Louisiana	16,830	$10.83	$8.69	55
New Jersey	15,901	$12.20	$8.72	45
Puerto Rico	15,774	$10.78	$8.27	61
Texas	14,630	$11.04	$9.05	69
Illinois	12,993	$11.62	$8.85	51
Nevada	11,797	$11.01	$8.84	16
Pennsylvania	11,489	$12.01	$9.50	18
Georgia	11,003	$10.90	$8.72	29
Massachusetts	10,583	$11.70	$8.59	29
Utah	8,866	$10.98	$8.68	11
Arizona	8,723	$10.94	$8.73	25
Maryland	7,834	$12.21	$8.97	23
Virginia	7,734	$10.75	$8.68	32
Michigan	7,133	$11.18	$8.72	34
Wyoming	7,000	$10.82	$8.37	33
Washington	6,345	$10.91	$8.34	21
Idaho	6,108	$10.80	$8.69	12
Mississippi	6,041	$10.72	$8.74	17
North Carolina	5,336	$10.93	$8.66	20
Arkansas	5,285	$10.51	$8.72	16
Ohio	4,678	$11.02	$8.71	26
Iowa	3,877	$10.39	$8.56	17
South Carolina	3,836	$10.52	$8.36	21
Tennessee	3,665	$10.57	$8.47	12
Alabama	3,120	$10.72	$8.81	11
New Hampshire	3,024	$11.12	$8.91	12
Kansas	2,647	$10.83	$8.72	9
New Mexico	2,400	$11.18	$8.43	8
Montana	2,333	$11.15	$8.43	3
Wisconsin	2,310	$10.84	$8.65	17
Vermont	2,238	$10.33	$8.36	7
Indiana	2,157	$11.08	$8.56	13
Colorado	2,059	$10.91	$8.25	18
Minnesota	2,037	$10.54	$8.42	17
West Virginia	1,849	$10.79	$8.72	4
Oregon	1,566	$11.10	$8.76	7
Missouri	1,547	$10.63	$8.56	11
Delaware	1,357	$11.30	$8.78	5
Kentucky	1,136	$10.59	$8.34	14
South Dakota	1,029	$10.90	$8.48	12
Nebraska	961	$10.53	$8.47	12
Rhode Island	959	$11.53	$8.56	7
Hawaii	864	$10.71	$8.77	3
Connecticut	770	$13.11	$9.76	2
Maine	587	$11.40	$8.73	7
North Dakota	340	$10.59	$8.46	6
Oklahoma	124	$10.93	$9.01	1
Alaska	119	$15.04	$8.88	3

Related codes

97016Application of blood vessel compression device$8.54
97035Application of ultrasound$10.55
97012Application of mechanical traction$10.73
97018Application of hot wax bath$4.04
97022Application of whirlpool therapy$11.83
97026Application of low energy heat$4.88
97033Application of medication$13.40
97024Application of heat wave therapy$4.77
97028Application of ultraviolet light$6.47
97034Application of hot and cold baths$10.76

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.