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Nationwide CY2024

Medicare Part B FFS · CY2024 · as published by CMS
29882 Repair of inside or outside knee joint cartilage using an endoscope CPT · Musculoskeletal procedure
Classification Procedure › Musculoskeletal › Arthroscopy - Lower Extremity (CMS RBCS)
First observed 2014
National scale 311 services · est. ▲ 20.5% YoY · 148 FFS beneficiaries (CY2024, all-Medicare estimate) — 149 observed fee-for-service services
Medicare paid $278K · est. · $886.29 avg / service, national — $132K observed FFS
CMS descriptor · RBCS classification · Medicare Part B physician/supplier claims, 12-year window
Billing groups

2

Named groups billing this code
Named-group all-Medicare svcs · est.

70

Scaled from 35 observed FFS services.
FFS of Medicare

49%

Payer-mix frame
Services · year over year
Services YoY

+20.1%

All-Medicare est. · observed FFS +8.0%
Volume, not care. A shrinking fee-for-service denominator is not a shrinking market.
Estimated all-Medicare volume estimate
FFS + estimated MA

~70 services

35 observed fee-for-service (50%) · ~35 estimated Medicare Advantage.

Billing for this code concentrates in one state — scaled by the national payer mix (FFS share as of 2024) — scaled estimate — assumes MA utilization mirrors FFS; not an observation. How we scale
Top states — 29882 (CY2024)
HI 97 CA 61 OH 32 FL 30 NV 28

Est. all-Medicare services by billing state (scaled estimate — assumes MA utilization mirrors FFS); open a bar for that state's ranked market.

Billed → allowed → paid
Named-group submitted charges
$103K
Named-group allowed amount
$24K
Named-group Medicare payments
$38K · est.
— $19K observed FFS
Avg charge / svc
$2,943
Avg allowed / svc
$677
Avg payment / svc
$536
Totals are named-group (attributable) sums. Allowed is Medicare’s fee-schedule recognized price — what CMS recognizes, before the 80% Medicare pays.
Average charge per group
$1,372 2 groups · avg submitted charge / service $5,300
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Data year: CY2024 CY2023 CY2022  CY2021  CY2020 
# Physician group City St Specialty Providers 29882 svcs Submitted charges Avg charge Medicare $ Share of state* Phone
1 ALL ACCESS ORTHO OAHU LLC HONOLULU HI PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT 18 21 $28,805 $1,372 46.7% (808) 356-5699
2 DESERT ORTHOPAEDIC CENTER LTD LAS VEGAS NV PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT 102 14 $74,200 $5,300 100.0% (702) 731-1616

*Share of the state's disclosed Medicare-FFS services for the primary code, counted once per clinician. "St" is the state the volume was billed from: a group appears in each state where its clinicians bill Medicare, with that state's volume and share ("City" is the group's registered location). Group figures sum clinicians affiliated with exactly one group; clinicians in several groups are listed in each group's drill-down but not volume-attributed to any single group, so shares reflect attributable volume. See Methods.

Comparing against an all-payer estimate?

These are exact counts from Medicare fee-for-service claims — roughly a third to half of most procedure markets, depending on payer mix — and the observed foundation every market figure here builds on. Market totals anchor on a labeled all-Medicare estimate scaled from that foundation, with the observed count disclosed beside it — Medicare only, never all-payer. Modeled all-payer databases project every payer statistically and typically run higher. Same market, different denominator. How the numbers reconcile →