Medicare rates for Emergency department visits
5 codes in this family have a rate page here. Each figure below is Medicare’s national allowed amount for one unit, in an office and in a facility, from the CMS 2026 October release, effective Oct 1, 2026. They are national amounts before geographic adjustment, taken from CMS’s own relative value files, which the release catalog lists with their checksums.
Emergency department visits, by code
Each code links to its own page, which shows the arithmetic, the New Jersey localities, every state and the history by fee-schedule year. A figure marked * is the same in both columns: either the office and facility amounts are equal, or CMS prices the code in one setting only and the other column repeats it. The code’s page says which. The facility figure is the doctor’s fee in a facility, not the hospital’s own payment.
| Code | Office | Facility |
|---|---|---|
| CPT 99281 | $11.02 * | $11.02 * |
| CPT 99282 | $40.42 * | $40.42 * |
| CPT 99283 | $69.47 * | $69.47 * |
| CPT 99284 | $118.24 * | $118.24 * |
| CPT 99285 | $171.35 * | $171.35 * |
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Other codes and other dates
Go back to the list of code families, or use the Medicare rate lookup to price any code, state and date of service under the release in force on that date.