Medicare rate for CPT 99284 in 2026
Emergency department visit, moderate complexity
Medicare’s 2026 allowed amount for CPT 99284 is $118.24 when the service is performed in a physician’s office and $118.24 when it is performed in a hospital or other facility, which for this code are the same figure. Both are national amounts before geographic adjustment. What a specific provider is actually paid depends on the Medicare locality they practise in.
CMS short descriptor: Emergency dept visit mod mdm · Status A: Active, payable · Source: CMS 2026 July (RVU26C, non-QP conversion factor), effective 7/2026.
Emergency department codes carry the same practice-expense RVU in both settings, so unlike an office visit there is no office-versus-hospital split to argue about.
How the $118.24 is built
Work RVU 2.74, practice-expense RVU 0.45 in an office and 0.45 in a facility, malpractice RVU 0.35. Each is multiplied by its geographic index, added together, then multiplied by the 2026 conversion factor of $33.4009. With every index at 1.000 that gives $118.24 in an office and $118.24 in a facility.
This is the allowed amount for one unit, before the 2% sequestration reduction and before any multiple-procedure reduction. It is what Medicare allows, not what a commercial carrier or an auto policy allows, and not what the provider billed.
What CPT 99284 pays in New Jersey
New Jersey has 2 Medicare localities, so there is no single New Jersey rate. In an office the allowed amount runs from $124.42 to $127.20, a spread of 2.2% across the state.
| Locality | Office | Facility |
|---|---|---|
| Northern NJ | $127.20 | $127.20 |
| Rest Of New Jersey | $124.42 | $124.42 |
CPT 99284 by fee-schedule year, 2023 to 2026
A bill is priced under the schedule in force on its date of service, not the one in force when it is reviewed. Note that 2024 has two entries: Congress changed the conversion factor on 9 March 2024, so a January 2024 date of service and a June 2024 date of service price differently.
| Fee-schedule year | Conversion factor | Office | Facility |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | $33.4009 | $118.24 | $118.24 |
| 2025 | $32.3465 | $116.45 | $116.45 |
| 2024 (Mar 9 to Dec 31) | $33.2875 | $119.50 | $119.50 |
| 2024 (Jan 1 to Mar 8) | $32.7442 | $117.55 | $117.55 |
| 2023 | $33.8872 | $121.32 | $121.32 |
National amounts, every geographic index at 1.000, so the year-to-year movement here is the fee schedule changing and not a change of location.
CPT 99284 in every state
The office allowed amount in each state, highest locality to lowest. Where a state shows one figure it has a single Medicare locality.
| State | Highest | Lowest | Localities |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alaska | $159.73 | - | 1 |
| New York | $136.96 | $114.02 | 5 |
| Florida | $136.73 | $123.46 | 3 |
| Illinois | $134.09 | $123.51 | 4 |
| California | $129.53 | $115.81 | 29 |
| New Jersey | $127.20 | $124.42 | 2 |
| District of Columbia | $127.18 | - | 1 |
| Michigan | $125.73 | $118.44 | 2 |
| Washington | $124.09 | $117.43 | 2 |
| Connecticut | $123.68 | - | 1 |
| Massachusetts | $123.62 | $118.13 | 2 |
| Maryland | $123.57 | $118.38 | 2 |
| Texas | $123.26 | $116.06 | 8 |
| Pennsylvania | $122.76 | $116.36 | 2 |
| West Virginia | $121.31 | - | 1 |
| Georgia | $121.10 | $118.86 | 2 |
| New Mexico | $119.34 | - | 1 |
| Rhode Island | $119.21 | - | 1 |
| Louisiana | $118.94 | $116.02 | 2 |
| Oregon | $118.38 | $114.71 | 2 |
| Puerto Rico | $118.23 | - | 1 |
| Virgin Islands | $118.23 | - | 1 |
| Montana | $118.22 | - | 1 |
| Colorado | $117.74 | - | 1 |
| Missouri | $117.54 | $115.86 | 3 |
| New Hampshire | $117.39 | - | 1 |
| Delaware | $117.34 | - | 1 |
| Ohio | $117.03 | - | 1 |
| Nevada | $116.30 | - | 1 |
| Utah | $116.14 | - | 1 |
| Arizona | $116.09 | - | 1 |
| Kentucky | $115.58 | - | 1 |
| Hawaii / Guam | $115.38 | - | 1 |
| South Carolina | $115.34 | - | 1 |
| Wyoming | $115.20 | - | 1 |
| Virginia | $114.55 | - | 1 |
| Oklahoma | $114.02 | - | 1 |
| Maine | $113.79 | $112.62 | 2 |
| Mississippi | $113.10 | - | 1 |
| North Carolina | $113.01 | - | 1 |
| Vermont | $112.31 | - | 1 |
| Tennessee | $111.46 | - | 1 |
| North Dakota | $111.30 | - | 1 |
| Alabama | $111.29 | - | 1 |
| Indiana | $111.13 | - | 1 |
| Kansas | $111.00 | - | 1 |
| Idaho | $110.88 | - | 1 |
| South Dakota | $110.48 | - | 1 |
| Arkansas | $110.45 | - | 1 |
| Minnesota | $110.45 | - | 1 |
| Iowa | $109.91 | - | 1 |
| Nebraska | $109.81 | - | 1 |
| Wisconsin | $109.52 | - | 1 |
Checking a different code, state or year
The Medicare rate lookup prices all 17,000-plus codes in the Physician Fee Schedule for any state and any fee-schedule year from 2023 to 2026. Ambulance codes are priced separately on the ambulance fee schedule, because Medicare does not pay for ambulance transport under this schedule at all.
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Medicare rates are a benchmark, not an allowance. What a no-fault, workers’ compensation or commercial carrier owes for CPT 99284 is set by the fee schedule or policy that governs the claim, which is frequently a multiple of the figure above. Talk to us about pricing a bill against the schedule that actually applies to it.