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CPT 99211 Medicare Fee Schedule 2026

Medicare's 2026 national payment for CPT 99211 is $24.38 in a non-facility setting ($7.68 in a facility), up 7.7% from $22.64 in 2025.

National rate, October 2026

Non-facility: $24.38
Facility: $7.68
vs. 2025: +7.7%
Commercial national avg.: $27.09

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Physician Fee Schedule·99211·National·2026, 2025

Current non-facility rate

$24.38▲0.0%

Facility: $7.68

Recent trend

Code description

Office Or Other Outpatient Visit For The Evaluation And Management Of An Established Patient, That May Not Require The Presence Of A Physician Or Other Qualified Health Care Professional. Usually, The Presenting Problem(S) Are Minimal.

Code	Date	State	Non-Facility Fee	Facility Fee	Description
99211	10/2026	N/A	$24.38	$7.68	Office Or Other Outpatient Visit For The Evaluation And Management Of An Established Patient, That May Not Require The Presence Of A Physician Or Other Qualified Health Care Professional. Usually, The Presenting Problem(S) Are Minimal.
99211	7/2026	N/A	$24.38	$7.68	Office Or Other Outpatient Visit For The Evaluation And Management Of An Established Patient, That May Not Require The Presence Of A Physician Or Other Qualified Health Care Professional. Usually, The Presenting Problem(S) Are Minimal.
99211	4/2026	N/A	$24.38	$7.68	Office Or Other Outpatient Visit For The Evaluation And Management Of An Established Patient, That May Not Require The Presence Of A Physician Or Other Qualified Health Care Professional. Usually, The Presenting Problem(S) Are Minimal.
99211	1/2026	N/A	$24.38	$7.68	Office Or Other Outpatient Visit For The Evaluation And Management Of An Established Patient, That May Not Require The Presence Of A Physician Or Other Qualified Health Care Professional. Usually, The Presenting Problem(S) Are Minimal.
99211	10/2025	N/A	$22.64	$8.41	Office Or Other Outpatient Visit For The Evaluation And Management Of An Established Patient, That May Not Require The Presence Of A Physician Or Other Qualified Health Care Professional. Usually, The Presenting Problem(S) Are Minimal.
99211	7/2025	N/A	$22.64	$8.41	Office Or Other Outpatient Visit For The Evaluation And Management Of An Established Patient, That May Not Require The Presence Of A Physician Or Other Qualified Health Care Professional. Usually, The Presenting Problem(S) Are Minimal.
99211	4/2025	N/A	$22.64	$8.41	Office Or Other Outpatient Visit For The Evaluation And Management Of An Established Patient, That May Not Require The Presence Of A Physician Or Other Qualified Health Care Professional. Usually, The Presenting Problem(S) Are Minimal.
99211	1/2025	N/A	$22.64	$8.41	Office Or Other Outpatient Visit For The Evaluation And Management Of An Established Patient, That May Not Require The Presence Of A Physician Or Other Qualified Health Care Professional. Usually, The Presenting Problem(S) Are Minimal.

99211 national rate by year

Each row is the latest CMS file published that year. Change is against the year before.

CMS file	Non-facility	Facility	Change
October 2026	$24.38	$7.68	+7.7%
October 2025	$22.64	$8.41	-2.8%
March 2024	$23.30	$8.66	-0.3%
January 2023	$23.38	$8.81	-0.6%
July 2022	$23.53	$9.00	-

This is the national amount before geographic adjustment. Medicare multiplies each relative value unit by its locality's geographic practice cost index, so a practice's own allowed amount can be higher or lower; pick a state above to see its localities. The facility amount applies when the service is performed in a hospital or other facility setting.

99211: Medicare vs. commercial national average

The commercial national average for 99211, the mean of what BCBS, UnitedHealthcare, Aetna and Cigna publish nationwide, is $27.09, 111% of Medicare's $24.38.

BCBS $25.54
UnitedHealthcare $26.03
Aetna $24.39
Cigna $32.39

A national average, not a local rate: each payer's figure averages the unmodified, in-network professional rates it publishes for 99211 across the country in its transparency files. Contracted rates vary widely by market, provider and plan. Medicare's figure is its national non-facility amount before geographic adjustment.

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50 state Medicaid agencies publish their own physician fee schedule. The 99211 page shows real published rates for several of them free, with effective dates and official sources.

17,674 codes and 974,327 published rates, taken from the files the state agencies publish themselves.

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$117.57

99204Office O P New Mod 45 Min, Office Or Other Outpatient Visit For The Evaluation And Management Of A New Patient Which Requires A Medically Appropriate History And Or Examination And Moderate Level Of Medical Decision Making When Using Total Time On The Date Of The Encounter For Code Selection 45 Minutes Must Be Met Or Exceeded

$177.36

99205Office O P New Hi 60 Min, Office Or Other Outpatient Visit For The Evaluation And Management Of A New Patient Which Requires A Medically Appropriate History And Or Examination And High Level Of Medical Decision Making When Using Total Time On The Date Of The Encounter For Code Selection 60 Minutes Must Be Met Or Exceeded

$236.81

Methodology

Rates are sourced directly from CMS Physician Fee Schedule files, indexed quarterly. Non-facility and facility prices are calculated using the published GPCI for each locality and the year's conversion factor.

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