Medicare rates by code

These pages give Medicare’s national physician fee schedule amount for each billing code, from the CMS 2026 October release, effective Oct 1, 2026. Every figure comes from CMS’s own relative value files, which are archived and listed with their checksums in the release catalog. Each figure is a national amount before geographic adjustment, shown for an office and for a facility. Each code page also shows the localities in New Jersey, every state, and the code’s history by fee-schedule year.

Code families

1,000 codes with a national amount are grouped into 9 families by the kind of service. Each family page lists its codes with their national amounts, and each code links to its own page.

Office and outpatient visits 9 codes
Emergency department visits 5 codes
Imaging (X-ray, CT, MRI, ultrasound) 406 codes
Injections and nerve blocks 105 codes
Physical medicine and rehabilitation 49 codes
Chiropractic manipulation 3 codes
Nerve conduction and EMG 25 codes
Spine surgery 202 codes
Orthopedic surgery 196 codes

Codes with a written explanation

These 28 pages also say, in our own words, what the code is and how it shows up on a bill.

Office visits

CPT 99213 Established patient office visit, low complexity
CPT 99214 Established patient office visit, moderate complexity
CPT 99204 New patient office visit, moderate complexity
CPT 99203 New patient office visit, low complexity
CPT 99205 New patient office visit, high complexity

Emergency department

CPT 99284 Emergency department visit, moderate complexity
CPT 99283 Emergency department visit, low complexity

MRI and CT

CPT 72148 MRI, lumbar spine, without contrast
CPT 72141 MRI, cervical spine, without contrast
CPT 70450 CT, head or brain, without contrast
CPT 73721 MRI, knee, ankle or hip joint, without contrast

Injections

CPT 64483 Epidural steroid injection, lumbar, first level
CPT 20610 Joint injection or aspiration, major joint, without ultrasound
CPT 64484 Epidural steroid injection, lumbar, each additional level

Physical therapy

CPT 97110 Therapeutic exercise, each 15 minutes
CPT 97140 Manual therapy, each 15 minutes
CPT 97010 Hot or cold packs

Chiropractic

CPT 98940 Chiropractic manipulation, one to two regions
HCPCS S9090 Spinal decompression traction

Surgery

CPT 29881 Knee arthroscopy with meniscectomy
CPT 63030 Lumbar laminotomy and discectomy, one level
CPT 22551 Anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF), one level
CPT 22633 Lumbar fusion, combined posterior technique, one level
CPT 22856 Cervical artificial disc replacement, one level
CPT 27130 Total hip replacement

Ambulance

HCPCS A0427 Ambulance, advanced life support, emergency (ALS1)
HCPCS A0425 Ground ambulance mileage, per mile

Anesthesia

CPT 00630 Anesthesia for lower-back procedures

Checking a figure or another code

The release catalog lists every physician fee schedule release we archive, with the CMS files and checksums behind it and the formula that turns them into a dollar amount. For any other code, state or date of service, use the Medicare rate lookup, which prices a bill under the release in force on its date of service.