How much does Medicare pay for CPT 98976?

Medicare allowed an average of $48.79 per service and paid $38.51 of that, the balance being the patient's coinsurance and deductible (2024 data). Providers submitted an average of $124.69, which is what they billed rather than what they received — Medicare pays its fee schedule regardless of the charge.

What is CPT code 98976?

Device supply with scheduled recording and transmission for remote monitoring of respiratory system, per 30 days. It was billed 132,638 times to 46,373 Medicare beneficiaries by 71 providers in 2024.

Which specialty bills 98976 most?

Geriatric Medicine, with 49,804 services from 2 clinicians. Next are Family Practice, Internal Medicine, Emergency Medicine.

CPT 98976

Device supply with scheduled recording and transmission for remote monitoring of respiratory system, per 30 days

$48.79Medicare-allowed amount per service, averaged across 132,638 services

Providers submitted

$124.69

Asking price, not received

Medicare allowed

$48.79

The fee schedule figure

Medicare paid

$38.51

Balance is patient coinsurance

Providers submitted an average of $124.69 for this code and Medicare allowed $48.79 — 2.6× 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 $38.51 (79%); the rest is the patient’s coinsurance and deductible.

Services: 132,638
Beneficiaries: 46,373
Providers billing it: 71
Total allowed: $6,471,408

What Medicare pays for CPT 98976

Across 132,638 services billed by 71 providers to 46,373 beneficiaries, Medicare allowed an average of $48.79 per service. That is 2.9 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 98976

Specialty	Services	Beneficiaries	Avg allowed	Providers
Geriatric Medicine	49,804	17,109	$46.86	2
Family Practice	25,825	9,422	$50.31	8
Internal Medicine	21,996	8,221	$49.80	8
Emergency Medicine	18,282	6,820	$50.16	9
Neurology	7,328	2,072	$55.12	2
Pulmonary Disease	6,864	1,751	$44.37	11
Sleep Medicine	615	237	$49.16	4
General Practice	471	120	$49.13	2
Nurse Practitioner	292	120	$41.45	6
Physical Therapist in Private Practice	278	127	$46.92	3
Obstetrics & Gynecology	254	52	$53.49	1
Hematology-Oncology	233	157	$40.25	8
Pediatric Medicine	195	62	$43.90	1
Hospitalist	81	32	$42.96	1
Medical Oncology	70	55	$40.25	4

98976 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
Connecticut	66,383	$47.74	$36.99	4
California	16,305	$52.69	$36.26	7
Missouri	12,306	$46.75	$36.99	2
New Jersey	9,791	$51.91	$36.24	2
Nevada	5,710	$54.96	$36.74	2
Michigan	4,716	$49.07	$36.94	2
Georgia	3,731	$42.28	$36.79	11
Arizona	3,054	$43.84	$36.92	5
Washington	3,027	$49.34	$36.49	3
Texas	1,905	$46.00	$36.81	4
New York	1,878	$57.10	$36.88	3
Oregon	1,751	$49.28	$36.52	1
South Carolina	512	$43.39	$37.06	1
Florida	449	$44.45	$37.05	4
Arkansas	275	$40.03	$36.90	11
Rhode Island	264	$43.92	$36.92	1
Indiana	124	$43.73	$34.30	1
Pennsylvania	113	$65.68	$37.06	1
Illinois	102	$47.81	$36.69	1
North Carolina	100	$41.89	$36.56	2
New Hampshire	81	$45.39	$33.24	1
Ohio	49	$44.61	$36.36	1
Colorado	12	$48.70	$36.91	1

Related codes

98941Chiropractic manipulative treatment$38.12
98940Chiropractic manipulative treatment$26.75
98942Chiropractic manipulative treatment$49.84
98977Device supply$48.07
98980Remote therapeutic monitoring treatment management services by physici$49.72
98929Osteopathic manipulative treatment$83.31
98928Osteopathic manipulative treatment$70.48
98926Osteopathic manipulative treatment$43.00
98927Osteopathic manipulative treatment$57.47
98981Remote therapeutic monitoring treatment management services by physici$38.72
98975Set-up and patient education for remote monitoring of therapy$20.19
98925Osteopathic manipulative treatment$30.48

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.

What doctors are paid →·Look up a clinician →·All procedure codes →

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.