RxDoctor Payments Data

HCPCS G0123

Screening cytopathology, cervical or vaginal (any reporting system), collected in preservative fluid, automated thin layer preparation, screening by cytotechnologist under physician supervision

$19.83Medicare-allowed amount per service, averaged across 42,090 services
Providers submitted
$75.11

Asking price, not received

Medicare allowed
$19.83

The fee schedule figure

Medicare paid
$19.83

Balance is patient coinsurance

Providers submitted an average of $75.11 for this code and Medicare allowed $19.833.8× 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 $19.83 (100%); the rest is the patient’s coinsurance and deductible.

Services
42,090

Medicare Part B, 2024

Beneficiaries
42,090
Providers billing it
167
Total allowed
$834,645

Services × allowed amount

What Medicare pays for HCPCS G0123

Across 42,090 services billed by 167 providers to 42,090 beneficiaries, Medicare allowed an average of $19.83 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 G0123

SpecialtyServicesBeneficiariesAvg allowedProviders
Clinical Laboratory26,01226,012$19.83109
Pathology16,07816,078$19.8358

G0123 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.

StateServicesAllowedStandardized pmtProviders
Pennsylvania9,271$19.84$19.855
California6,083$19.84$19.8523
New Jersey4,139$19.85$19.859
New York2,814$19.80$19.8211
Florida2,516$19.85$19.859
Tennessee1,972$19.85$19.855
Texas1,919$19.85$19.8518
North Carolina1,858$19.84$19.854
West Virginia1,021$19.85$19.851
Virginia803$19.85$19.852
Arizona786$19.85$19.853
Alabama766$19.85$19.853
South Carolina742$19.85$19.853
Kansas704$19.85$19.856
Minnesota683$19.56$19.854
Georgia674$19.85$19.854
Maryland491$19.85$19.853
Connecticut460$19.68$19.853
Colorado455$19.83$19.855
Massachusetts441$19.85$19.853
Hawaii436$19.80$19.852
Oregon361$19.44$19.853
Illinois348$19.85$19.852
Missouri330$19.85$19.851
Oklahoma289$19.85$19.854
Washington286$19.78$19.853
Mississippi270$19.85$19.852
Iowa258$19.85$19.855
Michigan211$19.85$19.853
Nevada189$19.74$19.852
Nebraska183$19.85$19.852
Arkansas61$19.60$19.852
Louisiana42$19.85$19.851
New Mexico38$19.85$19.852
Puerto Rico36$19.85$19.851
Wisconsin34$19.85$19.851
New Hampshire31$19.85$19.851
Kentucky27$19.85$19.852
Ohio26$19.85$19.852
Indiana25$19.85$19.851
Montana11$19.85$19.851

Related codes

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.