- Market sizeThe volume of this code in the market for the year: an all-Medicare estimate scaled from the observed fee-for-service count where one can be drawn, otherwise the narrower count the row names. ~723,554 all-Medicare services · est. (350,918 observed FFS).
- Who bills itHow many named billing organizations and how many individual clinicians billed this code nationally. Billing that falls under CMS's 11-beneficiary disclosure floor is absent from the published record, so the smallest billers are missing. 51 billing groups and 353 clinicians bill A9577 nationally (at the ≥11-beneficiary disclosure floor).
- GrowthHow this code's volume changed year over year and over five years. A change between two years of the record, never a projection of what comes next. Down 19.3% year over year; -26.8% over five years (2020 → 2024). The five-year base year, 2020, is the pandemic year.
- Market structureThe share of this code's attributed national volume held by its five largest billing groups. The banded concentration read — fragmented through highly concentrated — is stated per state market, not nationally. The top five groups hold 47.8% of attributed national volume.
- Medicare paymentWhat Medicare paid for this code in the market over the year, and the payment per service. Observed fee-for-service payments only: Medicare Advantage is paid by capitation and is not counted.Medicare's payments for A9577 nationally in 2024, and the payment per service. Explore — see what Medicare pays for this →
- Leading marketsThe state markets with the most volume for this code, and the share of all state-market volume they hold between them. Territories and billing that names no state sit outside that share. FL, CO, NY, and SC lead the state markets — together 39% of state-market volume.
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