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Who bills 66821?

66821 is the CPT code for: Removal of recurring cataract in lens capsule using a laser. In 2024, 10,031 providers billed 66821 989,295 times, with an estimated $190.4M paid by Medicare.

$335.35
2026 PFS national rate (office)
10,031
Providers billing it (2024)
989,295
Services billed
$190.4M
Est. Medicare paid
The fee

What does Medicare pay for 66821?

Medicare's 2026 Physician Fee Schedule national rate for 66821 is $335.35 in the office setting and $275.22 in a facility. National amounts before geographic adjustment — your locality's rate differs slightly.

Office (non-facility) rate$335.35
Facility rate$275.22
Fee schedule2026 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule

What Medicare actually paid per service in 2024, on average: $192.46 (observed payment across all settings and modifiers — not a fee-schedule rate).

The list

Who bills 66821 the most.

The top 5 billers nationally, ranked by 2024 Medicare service volume.

#ProviderSpecialtyLocationServicesEst. Medicare paid
1Jason Kvitle, O.D.OptometryQuincy, IL9,982$5K
2John Paulsen, O.D.OptometrySturgeon Bay, WI4,676$3K
3Rachelle Penka, ODOptometrySpartanburg, SC4,363$2K
4Elissa Harvey, O.D.OptometrySalem, IL3,954$2K
5Alan Montgomery, ODOptometrySalem, IL3,693$2K

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The breakdown

Where 66821 gets billed.

Top states by volume

Illinois82,387 services
Florida76,401 services
California66,785 services
Texas59,124 services
Tennessee39,872 services
North Carolina37,671 services
South Carolina36,393 services
Ohio33,747 services

About this code

CMS descriptionRemoval of recurring cataract in lens capsule using a laser
Code typeCPT (Level I HCPCS)
Providers billing it (2024)10,031
Services billed (2024)989,295
Avg. Medicare payment per service (2024)$192.46
Where these numbers come from. Rates are CMS's own public fee-schedule files — the Physician Fee Schedule, Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule, ASP drug pricing, DMEPOS, and the OPPS/ASC addenda — each labeled with its file year on this page; national amounts are shown before geographic adjustment. Codes with no separate rate render the fee schedule's own status in words, never a fake $0. Utilization comes from CMS's public Medicare Provider Utilization & Payment data for 2024, the most recent year released. It covers traditional Medicare fee-for-service only (no commercial insurance, no Medicare Advantage), and CMS suppresses any provider-and-code line with fewer than 11 beneficiaries before publishing, so low-volume billers don't appear at all. "Est. Medicare paid" is each billing line's average Medicare payment times its service count, summed — actual per-claim payment varies by setting and modifiers. For drug and supply codes, a "service" is a billed unit (a milligram, a milliliter, a square centimeter), not a patient visit. Code descriptions are CMS's own, from the utilization files. Prospect 811 organizes public data; it doesn't add to or alter it. Not affiliated with or endorsed by CMS. Full detail on the data page.

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