Database of US Medicare CPT billing codes

[Guest Ian Wong]

Here's an interesting section of the AMA website, which deals with the CPT billing codes used by each specialty to get reimbursement for their procedures/visits. ie: you can figure out what a US physician would make if they performed an appendectomy on you, and were then reimbursed through Medicare.

 

Of note is that private insurance fees are usually a fair bit higher than the fees paid through Medicare, which I believe is federally-regulated.

 

Just select "Keyword(s) in descriptor", and enter in a keyword to look up the corresponding fee for that procedure/visit. Click on the bottom link below to access the site (the links are a little finicky.)

 

https://webstore.ama-assn.org/search/CptLookup.jhtml

/webstore.ama-assn.org/se...okup.jhtml

 

 

Ian