How much does Medicare pay for CPT 98977?

Medicare allowed an average of $48.07 per service and paid $37.83 of that, the balance being the patient's coinsurance and deductible (2024 data). Providers submitted an average of $119.56, which is what they billed rather than what they received — Medicare pays its fee schedule regardless of the charge.

What is CPT code 98977?

Device supply with scheduled recording and transmission for remote monitoring of musculoskeletal system, per 30 days. It was billed 135,725 times to 50,762 Medicare beneficiaries by 643 providers in 2024.

Does 98977 pay differently in an office than a hospital?

Yes. The allowed amount averaged $48.06 in an office setting and $51.09 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 98977 most?

Geriatric Medicine, with 48,942 services from 1 clinicians. Next are Physical Therapist in Private Practice, Internal Medicine, Emergency Medicine.

CPT 98977

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

$48.07Medicare-allowed amount per service, averaged across 135,725 services

Providers submitted

$119.56

Asking price, not received

Medicare allowed

$48.07

The fee schedule figure

Medicare paid

$37.83

Balance is patient coinsurance

Providers submitted an average of $119.56 for this code and Medicare allowed $48.07 — 2.5× 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 $37.83 (79%); the rest is the patient’s coinsurance and deductible.

Office pays differently to hospital

Office / non-facility: $48.06
Hospital / facility: $51.09

The facility rate is higher for this code, which is unusual and generally means the service depends on equipment or staffing a hospital carries. 135,676 services were billed in an office setting and 49 in a facility.

Services: 135,725
Beneficiaries: 50,762
Providers billing it: 643
Total allowed: $6,524,301

What Medicare pays for CPT 98977

Across 135,725 services billed by 643 providers to 50,762 beneficiaries, Medicare allowed an average of $48.07 per service. That is 2.7 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 98977

Specialty	Services	Beneficiaries	Avg allowed	Providers
Geriatric Medicine	48,942	15,821	$47.54	1
Physical Therapist in Private Practice	28,677	17,870	$48.30	436
Internal Medicine	22,312	7,370	$49.27	5
Emergency Medicine	9,859	1,773	$51.89	7
Family Practice	5,525	886	$42.84	4
Orthopedic Surgery	4,172	1,817	$46.31	55
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation	2,582	787	$52.44	15
Nurse Practitioner	2,161	695	$40.27	24
Anesthesiology	2,045	740	$47.02	18
General Practice	1,756	316	$50.07	3
Pain Management	1,350	542	$46.85	19
Physician Assistant	895	375	$43.58	12
Nephrology	884	154	$48.44	2
Interventional Pain Management	853	336	$51.83	6
Obstetrics & Gynecology	779	145	$53.63	1

98977 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	55,401	$48.36	$37.01	14
California	16,022	$54.39	$36.52	82
Missouri	15,372	$46.64	$36.94	5
Texas	7,917	$44.92	$35.85	50
Florida	5,622	$43.58	$36.28	51
New York	3,396	$56.19	$36.64	26
Kansas	3,006	$42.16	$36.00	8
Oklahoma	2,809	$40.97	$36.14	1
Arizona	2,791	$45.66	$35.07	49
New Jersey	2,528	$52.75	$36.35	16
Washington	2,512	$48.20	$34.47	39
Georgia	2,489	$46.28	$36.45	19
Illinois	1,715	$47.87	$36.15	19
Oregon	1,683	$46.37	$35.25	29
Nevada	1,381	$50.12	$35.23	8
North Carolina	1,316	$44.22	$36.74	24
Pennsylvania	1,308	$44.03	$35.44	21
Virginia	1,038	$46.08	$35.07	18
Maryland	844	$46.67	$34.64	19
Delaware	828	$44.78	$35.30	16
Massachusetts	797	$50.53	$34.88	22
Michigan	586	$44.72	$34.94	4
South Carolina	527	$43.55	$36.84	8
Colorado	472	$48.27	$35.73	11
Arkansas	410	$37.55	$32.51	9
Ohio	385	$42.13	$34.98	5
New Hampshire	376	$45.72	$32.62	2
Wisconsin	335	$44.07	$35.70	7
Louisiana	270	$40.81	$36.18	6
Tennessee	256	$40.57	$34.25	11
Alabama	200	$37.51	$35.58	7
Alaska	190	$47.30	$31.60	3
Minnesota	185	$48.26	$34.32	9
Indiana	167	$40.83	$35.89	4
Hawaii	138	$52.63	$36.76	2
Nebraska	94	$40.55	$36.10	3
Iowa	89	$45.40	$35.79	4
New Mexico	78	$39.42	$33.48	3
Utah	61	$43.73	$36.47	2
Idaho	41	$41.95	$33.17	2
Kentucky	32	$42.67	$36.96	2
West Virginia	23	$40.11	$36.93	1
Rhode Island	18	$45.81	$35.19	1
District of Columbia	17	$55.44	$37.05	1

Related codes

98941Chiropractic manipulative treatment$38.12
98940Chiropractic manipulative treatment$26.75
98942Chiropractic manipulative treatment$49.84
98976Device supply$48.79
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.

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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.