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Who bills 88342?

88342 is the CPT code for: Special stained specimen slides to examine tissue, initial procedure. In 2024, 11,517 providers billed 88342 2,417,798 times, with an estimated $111.8M paid by Medicare.

$110.22
2026 PFS national rate (office)
11,517
Providers billing it (2024)
2,417,798
Services billed
$111.8M
Est. Medicare paid
The fee

What does Medicare pay for 88342?

Medicare's 2026 Physician Fee Schedule national rate for 88342 is $110.22 in the office setting. National amounts before geographic adjustment — your locality's rate differs slightly.

Office (non-facility) rate$110.22
Facility rateNo separate facility rate
Fee schedule2026 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule

What Medicare actually paid per service in 2024, on average: $46.24 (observed payment across all settings and modifiers — not a fee-schedule rate).

The list

Who bills 88342 the most.

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

#ProviderSpecialtyLocationServicesEst. Medicare paid
1Advanced Pathology Solutions, PLLCClinical LaboratoryNorth Little Rock, AR20,316$1.5M
2Annapath, IncClinical LaboratoryBowie, MD17,494$1.2M
3Inform Diagnostics, Inc.Clinical LaboratoryCoppell, TX15,541$953K
4Texas Digestive Disease Consultants, PLLCClinical LaboratoryBedford, TX15,386$1.3M
5Cohen Dermatopathology, P.C.Clinical LaboratoryNeedham, MA14,339$955K

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The breakdown

Where 88342 gets billed.

Top states by volume

Florida241,696 services
California228,017 services
New York182,882 services
Texas181,357 services
Pennsylvania111,808 services
Illinois108,230 services
Maryland96,020 services
Massachusetts95,126 services

About this code

CMS descriptionSpecial stained specimen slides to examine tissue, initial procedure
Code typeCPT (Level I HCPCS)
Providers billing it (2024)11,517
Services billed (2024)2,417,798
Avg. Medicare payment per service (2024)$46.24
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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