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Market snapshot

Nationwide CY2024

Medicare Part B FFS · CY2024 · as published by CMS
84166 Protein measurement, body fluid CPT · General Laboratory test
Classification Test General Laboratory Clinical Chemistry (CMS RBCS)
First observed 2013 — start of our 12-year window; the code predates it
National scale 396,114 services · est. ▲ 2.0% YoY · 165,150 FFS beneficiaries (CY2024, all-Medicare estimate) — 194,516 observed fee-for-service services
CMS descriptor · RBCS classification · Medicare Part B physician/supplier claims, 12-year window
Data year CY2024 CY2023 CY2022 locked column CY2021 locked column CY2020 locked column
Market overview
Market Brief 84166
The whole of 84166, written up and sourced.

The Brief is a national document for 84166. Its findings page carries one finding per chapter, each opening the chapter that prints its figure and the table behind it — like these, from the United States, CY2024, the market on this page.

  1. 1Size and growth. The national market for 84166 ran ~396,114 all-Medicare services (estimated), 194,516 observed fee-for-service in CY2024. The market is roughly flat year over year. 207 billing groups and 741 clinicians bill it.
  2. 2Payment. Half the field lists between $49 and $82 per service; the median group lists $62. Submitted charges are provider-set list amounts, not payments.
  3. 3Geography. NJ, TX, CA and FL lead the state markets — together 41% of state-market volume.
Estimated all-Medicare volume estimate
FFS + estimated MA

~396,114 services

194,516 observed fee-for-service (49%) · ~201,598 estimated Medicare Advantage.

Scaled from the observed floor by each state’s fee-for-service share (FFS share as of 2024) — scaled estimate — assumes MA utilization mirrors FFS; not an observation; 1 state without payer-mix data excluded. How we scale
Average charge
per service, submitted list amounts — not payments · named-group basis, observed FFS
Average payment
per service, Medicare paid amounts — not charges · all disclosed claims, observed FFS basis
Charge-to-payment ratio
average list price vs average Medicare payment per service · named-group basis
What they charge

Half the field lists between $49 and $82

Submitted charges are provider-set list amounts, not payments · median $62 (named groups)
Every group, one dot207 billing groups · median $62

The same field as one dot per billing group: where the cluster sits, and how far the tail reaches

$0$75$150++5 groups list more, to $287 →average submitted charge per service, per billing groupmedian $62
One dot per billing group, 84166 nationwide CY2024 — average submitted charge per service, provider-set list amounts, not payments. The axis caps near the 95th percentile so the cluster is legible; groups beyond it draw at the cap in accent and are counted on the chart.
Where the market isobserved FFS services by state · CY2024
ME: 786MEVT: 16VTNH: 267NHWA: 2823WAID: 333IDMT: 76MTND: 434NDMN: 3981MNWI: 3342WIIL: 7459ILMI: 5099MINY: 7546NYMA: 8722MARI: 609RIOR: 561ORNV: 1157NVWYSD: 398SDIA: 1043IAIN: 1102INOH: 8449OHPA: 6060PANJ: 22174NJCT: 1814CTCA: 19549CAUT: 966UTCO: 1581CONE: 1089NEMO: 977MOKY: 339KYWV: 37WVVA: 2539VAMD: 3719MDDE: 446DEAZ: 4552AZNM: 519NMKS: 2824KSAR: 1155ARTN: 4678TNNC: 13456NCSC: 307SCDC: 141DCOK: 1351OKLA: 361LAMS: 82MSAL: 4551ALGA: 6069GAHI: 1065HIAKTX: 20046TXFL: 17562FL
Shaded low→high on observed fee-for-service services billed from each state · the /stats tile grid, at national scope. Shading ranks the states rather than spacing them along the range, so neighboring shades mean adjacent RANKS, not equal gaps — the key names the lowest and highest; each tile carries its own figure.
Which states movedservices per 1,000 FFS beneficiaries · CY2021 → CY2024
CY2021CY2024AL: 10 → 12AR: 4 → 4AZ: 7 → 7CO: 3 → 4CT: 4 → 7DC: 8 → 3GA: 10 → 8HI: 11 → 10IA: 2 → 3ID: 1 → 2IL: 6 → 6IN: 1 → 2KS: 8 → 8KY: 1 → 1LA: 1 → 1MA: 11 → 11MD: 5 → 5ME: 6 → 6MI: 6 → 7MN: 8 → 10MO: 2 → 2MS: 1 → 0MT: 2 → 0NC: 15 → 16ND: 7 → 5NE: 5 → 5NH: 1 → 1NM: 2 → 3NV: 4 → 5NY: 5 → 5OH: 8 → 9OK: 3 → 3OR: 2 → 2PA: 5 → 5RI: 8 → 8SC: 1 → 1SD: 3 → 4TN: 8 → 8UT: 3 → 5VA: 2 → 3VT: 0 → 0WA: 4 → 4WI: 6 → 7WV: 0 → 0CA: 7 → 7FL: 8 → 9NJ: 15 → 26TX: 9 → 11NJ 15TX 9FL 8CA 726 NJ11 TX9 FL7 CA
One line per state market, 48 drawn; the 4 leading states by volume are in accent, the rest are context lines. Both columns share one scale, so a slope is real change. A RATE against each state’s own fee-for-service population — assumption-free, and no all-Medicare estimate is used or implied. CY2021 is the left period because CY2020 is the pandemic year and a slope off it would read as growth almost everywhere. 1 state with a rate in only one of the two years is not drawn.

Open a state market: NJ · TX · CA · FL · NC · MA · OH · NY · IL · GA · PA · MI — the group ranking lives in the Provider groups tab. Territories bill too; the tile grid draws the 50 states and DC.

Every group in this market, placed by list charge against volume

This market’s groups, on one chart207 groups · bubble = services
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One mark per physician group, 84166 nationwide CY2024 — marks are unnamed here: a mark’s position is its average list charge, and that figure is part of the platform. Submitted charges are provider-set list amounts, not payments.

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