RxDoctor Payments Data

HCPCS J1335

Injection, ertapenem sodium, 500 mg

$11.23Medicare-allowed amount per service, averaged across 92,228 services
Providers submitted
$88.49

Asking price, not received

Medicare allowed
$11.23

The fee schedule figure

Medicare paid
$8.90

Balance is patient coinsurance

Providers submitted an average of $88.49 for this code and Medicare allowed $11.237.9× 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 $8.90 (79%); the rest is the patient’s coinsurance and deductible.

Services
92,228

Medicare Part B, 2024

Beneficiaries
8,841
Providers billing it
308
Total allowed
$1,035,720

Services × allowed amount

What Medicare pays for HCPCS J1335

Across 92,228 services billed by 308 providers to 8,841 beneficiaries, Medicare allowed an average of $11.23 per service. That is 10.4 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.

This is a drug or supply code rather than a service. The unit is usually a dose or a milligram, so the per-service figure is small by construction and the total is what carries meaning — read it alongside the service count rather than on its own.

Who bills J1335

SpecialtyServicesBeneficiariesAvg allowedProviders
Infectious Disease74,4865,915$11.25198
Internal Medicine6,722702$11.1821
Nurse Practitioner3,877614$11.3429
Urology2,051830$11.2327
Rheumatology1,338166$11.303
Pulmonary Disease930100$11.303
Hospitalist77570$11.423
Family Practice501130$10.259
Physician Assistant41876$11.154
Podiatry41444$11.711
Medical Oncology24245$11.363
Hematology-Oncology14635$11.912
Hospice and Palliative Care13141$5.901
Emergency Medicine8932$5.902
Pediatric Medicine7223$11.331

J1335 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
Florida29,417$11.30$9.0455
Texas12,645$11.26$8.9034
Colorado8,689$11.27$8.9921
Georgia8,265$11.17$8.9814
Illinois5,184$11.25$8.9330
New Jersey5,143$11.27$8.9833
Michigan3,003$11.06$8.7315
California2,904$11.07$8.7612
Kansas2,268$11.27$8.8912
New York2,052$10.58$8.3914
Kentucky1,630$11.18$8.8810
Oregon1,552$11.41$8.985
Alabama1,471$11.27$8.8815
Oklahoma1,446$10.13$9.265
Virginia1,280$11.32$9.157
Tennessee1,250$11.74$9.313
Nevada953$11.49$8.961
Missouri786$11.35$8.963
Wyoming750$11.28$8.943
Pennsylvania386$11.51$9.225
West Virginia269$11.43$9.181
Arizona220$11.41$8.871
Ohio179$11.44$9.111
North Carolina155$11.13$8.872
South Carolina100$12.23$9.751
Delaware72$11.33$9.321
Massachusetts46$11.42$8.751
Mississippi41$11.12$8.861
Indiana38$11.32$7.381
AP34$5.90$4.701

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.