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Market snapshot

Nationwide CY2024

Medicare Part B FFS · CY2024 · as published by CMS
88387 Pathologist examination, dissection, and preparation of tissue CPT · Anatomic Pathology test
Classification Test Anatomic Pathology Surgical Pathology Examination (CMS RBCS)
First observed 2013 — start of our 12-year window; the code predates it
National scale 2,692 services · est. · 1,263 FFS beneficiaries (CY2024, all-Medicare estimate) — 1,455 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 88387
The whole of 88387, written up and sourced.

The Brief is a national document for 88387. 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 88387 ran ~2,692 all-Medicare services (estimated), 1,455 observed fee-for-service in CY2024. The market is down 82.8% year over year. 5 billing groups and 16 clinicians bill it.
  2. 2Payment. Half the field lists between $142 and $151 per service; the median group lists $151. Submitted charges are provider-set list amounts, not payments.
  3. 3Geography. IL, NY, MA and CA lead the state markets — together 89% of state-market volume.
Estimated all-Medicare volume estimate
FFS + estimated MA

~2,692 services

1,455 observed fee-for-service (54%) · ~1,237 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. 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 $142 and $151

Submitted charges are provider-set list amounts, not payments · median $151 (named groups)
Every group, one dot5 billing groups · median $151

Each dot is one billing group — 5 of them list this code

$0$150$300average submitted charge per service, per billing groupmedian $151
One dot per billing group, 88387 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
MEVTNHWAIDMTNDMNWIIL: 521ILMINY: 358NYMA: 324MARIORNVWYSDIAINOHPA: 15PANJCT: 81CTCA: 88CAUT: 16UTCONEMOKYWVVA: 17VAMDDEAZNMKSARTNNCSCDCOKLAMSALGAHIAKTX: 35TXFL
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
CY2021CY2024CT: 0 → 0PA: 0 → 0TX: 0 → 0IL: 4 → 0MA: 0 → 0NY: 0 → 0IL 4NY 0MA 00 IL0 MA0 NY
One line per state market, 6 drawn; the 3 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. 4 states with a rate in only one of the two years are not drawn. CA leads on volume but has no rate at both endpoints, so it is not drawn here.

Open a state market: IL · NY · MA · CA · CT · TX · VA · UT · PA — 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 chart5 groups · bubble = services
100One billing groupOne billing groupOne billing groupOne billing groupOne billing group$50$125$250$375$500+Average submitted charge per service — list amounts, not paymentsServices per group — 88387, CY2024
One mark per physician group, 88387 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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