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Who bills 99223?

99223 is the CPT code for: Initial hospital care with moderate level of medical decision making, if using time, at least 75 minutes. In 2024, 140,980 providers billed 99223 9,607,216 times, with an estimated $1.3B paid by Medicare.

$156.32
2026 PFS national rate (facility)
140,980
Providers billing it (2024)
9,607,216
Services billed
$1.3B
Est. Medicare paid
The fee

What does Medicare pay for 99223?

Medicare's 2026 Physician Fee Schedule national rate for 99223 is $156.32 in the facility setting. National amounts before geographic adjustment — your locality's rate differs slightly.

Office (non-facility) rateNo separate office rate
Facility rate$156.32
Fee schedule2026 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule

What Medicare actually paid per service in 2024, on average: $130.71 (observed payment across all settings and modifiers — not a fee-schedule rate).

The list

Who bills 99223 the most.

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

#ProviderSpecialtyLocationServicesEst. Medicare paid
1Jacob Ahdoot, M.D.NephrologyLos Angeles, CA3,190$454K
2Ravinder Singh, MDNeurologyBeverly Hills, CA1,761$251K
3Ghulam Anwar, M.DFamily PracticeMount Dora, FL1,643$210K
4Mordo Suchov, MDGastroenterologyMonterey Park, CA1,587$205K
5David Wholey, M.D.Internal MedicineBel Air, MD1,578$219K

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The breakdown

Where 99223 gets billed.

Top states by volume

California1,083,027 services
Florida1,050,070 services
Texas762,343 services
New York538,674 services
Illinois469,656 services
New Jersey430,834 services
Pennsylvania426,217 services
Ohio332,098 services

About this code

CMS descriptionInitial hospital care with moderate level of medical decision making, if using time, at least 75 minutes
Code typeCPT (Level I HCPCS)
Providers billing it (2024)140,980
Services billed (2024)9,607,216
Avg. Medicare payment per service (2024)$130.71
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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