How much does Medicare pay for HCPCS Q3014?

Medicare allowed an average of $28.75 per service and paid $20.97 of that, the balance being the patient's coinsurance and deductible (2024 data). Providers submitted an average of $58.08, which is what they billed rather than what they received — Medicare pays its fee schedule regardless of the charge.

What is HCPCS code Q3014?

Telehealth originating site facility fee. It was billed 99,434 times to 43,526 Medicare beneficiaries by 817 providers in 2024.

Does Q3014 pay differently in an office than a hospital?

Yes. The allowed amount averaged $28.85 in an office setting and $22.69 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 Q3014 most?

Nurse Practitioner, with 39,223 services from 373 clinicians. Next are Psychiatry, Internal Medicine, Family Practice.

HCPCS Q3014

Telehealth originating site facility fee

$28.75Medicare-allowed amount per service, averaged across 99,434 services

Providers submitted

$58.08

Asking price, not received

Medicare allowed

$28.75

The fee schedule figure

Medicare paid

$20.97

Balance is patient coinsurance

Providers submitted an average of $58.08 for this code and Medicare allowed $28.75 — 2.0× 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 $20.97 (73%); the rest is the patient’s coinsurance and deductible.

Office pays differently to hospital

Office / non-facility: $28.85
Hospital / facility: $22.69

The office rate is higher because the practice supplies the room, staff and equipment out of that payment. In a hospital the facility bills those separately, so the clinician's share is smaller — the total cost to Medicare is usually higher, not lower. 97,878 services were billed in an office setting and 1,556 in a facility.

Services: 99,434
Beneficiaries: 43,526
Providers billing it: 817
Total allowed: $2,858,728

What Medicare pays for HCPCS Q3014

Across 99,434 services billed by 817 providers to 43,526 beneficiaries, Medicare allowed an average of $28.75 per service. That is 2.3 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 Q3014

Specialty	Services	Beneficiaries	Avg allowed	Providers
Nurse Practitioner	39,223	16,737	$28.78	373
Psychiatry	19,805	6,075	$28.27	137
Internal Medicine	11,876	7,527	$29.22	33
Family Practice	6,531	3,808	$27.81	88
Licensed Clinical Social Worker	6,218	1,430	$28.84	53
Physician Assistant	5,651	2,089	$29.23	46
Emergency Medicine	2,228	1,956	$29.47	3
Psychologist, Clinical	1,495	387	$29.07	14
Neurology	1,028	506	$29.52	3
Pulmonary Disease	697	479	$29.39	7
Cardiology	661	503	$29.43	5
Pain Management	534	286	$29.52	4
Clinic or Group Practice	463	158	$28.63	4
Anesthesiology	427	238	$29.48	3
Licensed Professional Counselor	405	145	$28.69	7

Q3014 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
Texas	12,685	$28.88	$20.59	83
New York	12,448	$29.47	$23.34	20
Nevada	12,394	$28.38	$21.74	37
California	5,700	$29.49	$22.17	34
Wisconsin	5,248	$28.96	$20.01	49
West Virginia	4,151	$27.85	$17.95	38
Iowa	3,657	$29.00	$19.98	43
Washington	3,503	$28.82	$21.42	27
Georgia	3,345	$28.28	$18.85	38
Pennsylvania	2,941	$29.45	$22.42	23
North Carolina	2,870	$27.18	$19.17	51
Illinois	2,727	$29.12	$20.12	26
Ohio	1,988	$24.74	$17.32	13
Alabama	1,911	$27.88	$19.20	24
New Mexico	1,731	$26.52	$18.30	24
Kentucky	1,407	$29.45	$20.49	14
Minnesota	1,397	$29.14	$20.41	18
Florida	1,355	$29.02	$21.99	17
Virginia	1,355	$28.86	$20.29	20
New Jersey	1,323	$29.48	$23.28	10
Mississippi	1,289	$29.02	$22.23	12
Maryland	1,239	$29.50	$22.72	12
Montana	1,122	$28.51	$20.60	16
Arizona	1,011	$29.16	$21.27	12
Michigan	921	$28.71	$21.56	14
Massachusetts	883	$29.45	$22.85	16
North Dakota	859	$29.41	$21.03	18
Louisiana	852	$29.54	$20.43	2
Indiana	705	$29.47	$22.74	16
Nebraska	691	$27.89	$19.05	10
South Carolina	674	$29.57	$18.04	8
Arkansas	603	$28.19	$20.07	11
Tennessee	578	$28.61	$19.84	7
South Dakota	504	$29.17	$21.14	7
Idaho	497	$29.43	$21.71	8
Delaware	489	$29.51	$22.12	3
Oregon	469	$29.50	$22.41	5
Alaska	391	$29.41	$22.36	6
Kansas	325	$29.39	$20.41	4
Colorado	255	$28.91	$21.86	3
Oklahoma	212	$27.20	$20.66	7
Vermont	158	$29.48	$23.49	1
District of Columbia	138	$29.48	$23.32	1
Missouri	107	$26.61	$22.13	2
Puerto Rico	88	$29.44	$22.38	1
Hawaii	72	$29.58	$18.80	2
Wyoming	69	$29.29	$18.68	2
Connecticut	49	$29.48	$23.49	1
Utah	48	$29.48	$23.49	1

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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.