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Who bills 97162?

97162 is the CPT code for: Evaluation for physical therapy, typically 30 minutes. In 2024, 36,625 providers billed 97162 1,346,460 times, with an estimated $98.1M paid by Medicare.

$97.86
2026 PFS national rate (office)
36,625
Providers billing it (2024)
1,346,460
Services billed
$98.1M
Est. Medicare paid
The fee

What does Medicare pay for 97162?

Medicare's 2026 Physician Fee Schedule national rate for 97162 is $97.86 in the office setting. National amounts before geographic adjustment — your locality's rate differs slightly.

Office (non-facility) rate$97.86
Facility rateNo separate facility rate
Fee schedule2026 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule

What Medicare actually paid per service in 2024, on average: $72.84 (observed payment across all settings and modifiers — not a fee-schedule rate).

The list

Who bills 97162 the most.

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

#ProviderSpecialtyLocationServicesEst. Medicare paid
1Spencer ClarkPhysical Therapist in Private PracticeSalt Lake City, UT2,193$157K
2Ahson Mahfooz, PT, DPTPhysical Therapist in Private PracticeBrooklyn, NY821$73K
3Darrel ElwellPhysical Therapist in Private PracticeRoswell, NM671$49K
4Elizabeth Owens, DPTPhysical Therapist in Private PracticeColumbus, OH662$47K
5Tami Peavy, PTPhysical Therapist in Private PracticeAlhambra, CA589$37K

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The breakdown

Where 97162 gets billed.

Top states by volume

California160,298 services
New York104,391 services
Florida86,158 services
New Jersey65,177 services
Texas60,957 services
Illinois55,913 services
Pennsylvania49,473 services
Virginia44,467 services

About this code

CMS descriptionEvaluation for physical therapy, typically 30 minutes
Code typeCPT (Level I HCPCS)
Providers billing it (2024)36,625
Services billed (2024)1,346,460
Avg. Medicare payment per service (2024)$72.84
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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