How much does Medicare pay for HCPCS G2078?

Medicare allowed an average of $39.17 per service and paid $38.61 of that, the balance being the patient's coinsurance and deductible (2024 data). Providers submitted an average of $52.99, which is what they billed rather than what they received — Medicare pays its fee schedule regardless of the charge.

Which specialty bills G2078 most?

Opioid Treatment Program, with 264,874 services from 524 clinicians.

HCPCS G2078

Take-home supply of methadone; up to 7 additional day supply (provision of the services by a medicare-enrolled opioid treatment program); list separately in addition to code for primary procedure

$39.17Medicare-allowed amount per service, averaged across 264,874 services

Providers submitted

$52.99

Asking price, not received

Medicare allowed

$39.17

The fee schedule figure

Medicare paid

$38.61

Balance is patient coinsurance

Providers submitted an average of $52.99 for this code and Medicare allowed $39.17 — 1.4× 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 $38.61 (99%); the rest is the patient’s coinsurance and deductible.

Services: 264,874
Beneficiaries: 15,159
Providers billing it: 524
Total allowed: $10,375,115

What Medicare pays for HCPCS G2078

Across 264,874 services billed by 524 providers to 15,159 beneficiaries, Medicare allowed an average of $39.17 per service. That is 17.5 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 G2078

Specialty	Services	Beneficiaries	Avg allowed	Providers
Opioid Treatment Program	264,874	15,159	$39.17	524

G2078 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	40,739	$39.35	$38.81	80
Maryland	32,225	$39.78	$39.14	51
Massachusetts	20,640	$39.81	$38.98	10
New York	17,691	$37.56	$37.26	32
New Jersey	15,639	$39.53	$38.57	28
Connecticut	8,497	$39.63	$38.84	8
New Mexico	7,548	$35.93	$35.76	7
Florida	7,056	$39.90	$39.74	19
Tennessee	7,040	$39.85	$39.77	14
Washington	6,993	$39.36	$38.62	15
Georgia	6,774	$39.78	$39.37	16
Kentucky	6,685	$39.86	$39.44	16
Michigan	6,224	$39.63	$39.07	14
Virginia	5,681	$39.80	$39.36	18
Minnesota	5,101	$39.20	$38.74	11
Oregon	5,031	$39.49	$38.75	12
North Carolina	4,625	$39.52	$39.17	13
Texas	4,529	$28.20	$27.72	7
Oklahoma	4,252	$39.85	$39.33	3
Pennsylvania	4,219	$39.65	$38.83	16
Illinois	3,743	$39.73	$39.30	9
Vermont	3,730	$39.59	$38.92	7
New Hampshire	3,435	$39.90	$39.62	8
Alabama	3,429	$39.27	$39.06	13
South Carolina	3,334	$39.87	$39.40	9
West Virginia	3,140	$39.91	$39.51	6
Louisiana	2,851	$39.89	$39.84	7
Maine	2,621	$39.68	$38.77	7
Delaware	2,609	$37.46	$36.60	5
Indiana	2,336	$39.67	$39.53	7
Colorado	2,234	$39.88	$39.40	8
Rhode Island	1,918	$39.30	$38.54	6
Ohio	1,669	$39.93	$38.52	5
Nevada	1,521	$39.78	$38.55	6
Missouri	1,336	$39.90	$39.90	6
Arkansas	1,273	$38.91	$38.66	2
District of Columbia	846	$39.88	$39.74	2
Mississippi	806	$39.90	$39.90	2
Alaska	744	$38.23	$37.16	3
Montana	695	$39.92	$39.04	2
Iowa	662	$39.91	$39.55	2
Wisconsin	624	$39.93	$38.62	2
Hawaii	573	$39.91	$39.42	2
Utah	492	$38.72	$36.98	3
Arizona	383	$39.18	$37.80	2
Nebraska	316	$39.88	$39.84	1
Kansas	217	$39.90	$39.90	1
Idaho	148	$39.13	$39.13	1

Related codes

G2067Medication assisted treatment$225.81
G2012Brief communication technology-based service$13.77
G2077Periodic assessment; assessing periodically by qualified personnel to$121.19
G2074Medication assisted treatment$204.11
G2083Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of$1215.85
G2011Alcohol and/or substance (other than tobacco) misuse structured assess$15.58
G2087Office-based treatment for opioid use disorder$367.01
G2068Medication assisted treatment$281.73
G2080Each additional 30 minutes of counseling in a week of medication assis$35.16
G2088Office-based treatment for opioid use disorder$49.83
G2076Intake activities$195.81
G2010Remote evaluation of recorded video and/or images submitted by an esta$11.93

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.