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Who bills 99222?

99222 is the CPT code for: Initial hospital care with straightforward or low-level medical decision making, if using time, at least 55 minutes. In 2024, 115,957 providers billed 99222 5,366,122 times, with an estimated $528.3M paid by Medicare.

$116.90
2026 PFS national rate (facility)
115,957
Providers billing it (2024)
5,366,122
Services billed
$528.3M
Est. Medicare paid
The fee

What does Medicare pay for 99222?

Medicare's 2026 Physician Fee Schedule national rate for 99222 is $116.90 in the facility setting. National amounts before geographic adjustment — your locality's rate differs slightly.

Office (non-facility) rateNo separate office rate
Facility rate$116.90
Fee schedule2026 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule

What Medicare actually paid per service in 2024, on average: $98.44 (observed payment across all settings and modifiers — not a fee-schedule rate).

The list

Who bills 99222 the most.

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

#ProviderSpecialtyLocationServicesEst. Medicare paid
1Christopher Chu, MDCardiologyLos Angeles, CA2,642$283K
2Keshwar Ramkissoon, MDInternal MedicineBrooklyn, NY1,867$203K
3Geoff Weikle, DOInternal MedicineSan Antonio, TX1,575$153K
4Konstantinos Kallinikos, DPMPodiatryBrooklyn, NY1,574$179K
5Manish Trivedi, M.D.Infectious DiseasePomona, NJ1,501$174K

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The breakdown

Where 99222 gets billed.

Top states by volume

Florida556,852 services
New York413,419 services
Texas378,587 services
California358,015 services
Pennsylvania330,721 services
Illinois276,289 services
New Jersey270,752 services
Michigan227,504 services

About this code

CMS descriptionInitial hospital care with straightforward or low-level medical decision making, if using time, at least 55 minutes
Code typeCPT (Level I HCPCS)
Providers billing it (2024)115,957
Services billed (2024)5,366,122
Avg. Medicare payment per service (2024)$98.44
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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