How much does Medicare pay for CPT 99424?

Medicare allowed an average of $79.94 per service and paid $62.18 of that, the balance being the patient's coinsurance and deductible (2024 data). Providers submitted an average of $168.69, which is what they billed rather than what they received — Medicare pays its fee schedule regardless of the charge.

Does 99424 pay differently in an office than a hospital?

Yes. The allowed amount averaged $80.97 in an office setting and $71.77 in a facility. The office rate is generally higher because the practice supplies the room, staff and equipment out of that single payment; in a hospital those are billed separately by the facility.

Which specialty bills 99424 most?

Internal Medicine, with 18,173 services from 39 clinicians. Next are Nurse Practitioner, Neurology, Physician Assistant.

CPT 99424

Principal care management services for a single high-risk disease, first 30 minutes provided personally by qualified health care professional, per calendar month.

$79.94Medicare-allowed amount per service, averaged across 82,718 services

Providers submitted

$168.69

Asking price, not received

Medicare allowed

$79.94

The fee schedule figure

Medicare paid

$62.18

Balance is patient coinsurance

Providers submitted an average of $168.69 for this code and Medicare allowed $79.94 — 2.1× less. That gap is normal and means nothing on its own: Medicare pays its fee schedule regardless of what is billed, so the submitted figure describes a hospital chargemaster, not a price anyone paid. Of the allowed amount Medicare paid $62.18 (78%); the rest is the patient’s coinsurance and deductible.

Office pays differently to hospital

Office / non-facility: $80.97
Hospital / facility: $71.77

The office rate is higher because the practice supplies the room, staff and equipment out of that payment. In a hospital the facility bills those separately, so the clinician's share is smaller — the total cost to Medicare is usually higher, not lower. 73,429 services were billed in an office setting and 9,289 in a facility.

Services: 82,718
Beneficiaries: 30,738
Providers billing it: 364
Total allowed: $6,612,477

What Medicare pays for CPT 99424

Across 82,718 services billed by 364 providers to 30,738 beneficiaries, Medicare allowed an average of $79.94 per service. That is 2.7 services per beneficiary, so this is a code patients typically receive more than once. The allowed amount is the figure that matters: it is what Medicare and the patient together owe, set by the fee schedule and adjusted for local practice costs. What a provider chose to submit has no bearing on it.

Who bills 99424

Specialty	Services	Beneficiaries	Avg allowed	Providers
Internal Medicine	18,173	5,733	$80.65	39
Nurse Practitioner	15,045	5,038	$67.32	62
Neurology	7,390	2,057	$86.54	14
Physician Assistant	6,271	3,052	$70.79	45
Endocrinology	5,934	1,692	$89.31	13
Cardiology	5,856	1,333	$85.53	25
Family Practice	5,412	1,975	$84.42	25
Orthopedic Surgery	5,170	4,920	$82.36	64
Hematology-Oncology	2,898	1,108	$84.91	8
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation	2,801	937	$89.13	12
Anesthesiology	1,562	560	$85.28	6
Pulmonary Disease	898	329	$83.73	5
General Practice	828	128	$71.52	3
Interventional Pain Management	757	412	$81.71	3
Nephrology	620	200	$79.91	7

99424 reimbursement by state

Two different numbers. Allowed is what Medicare actually allowed in that state, which includes the local practice-cost adjustment. Standardized strips that geographic adjustment out of the payment, so it is the column to use when comparing states — a difference there reflects how the code was billed, not what it costs to run a practice locally.

State	Services	Allowed	Standardized pmt	Providers
California	15,062	$87.44	$62.50	45
Illinois	9,771	$73.06	$57.73	22
Texas	7,908	$77.14	$61.56	28
New York	7,904	$87.47	$59.68	43
Florida	7,028	$83.48	$62.50	24
Missouri	5,523	$63.62	$54.75	7
New Jersey	4,910	$88.73	$61.75	17
Pennsylvania	4,825	$80.81	$59.56	23
Arizona	3,403	$71.09	$55.84	22
Georgia	2,965	$76.90	$59.62	13
North Carolina	2,062	$75.62	$59.41	24
Nevada	1,574	$71.00	$56.24	8
Virginia	1,235	$78.56	$60.60	12
Delaware	1,139	$76.03	$59.30	5
District of Columbia	1,139	$90.03	$58.74	2
Massachusetts	994	$79.48	$55.69	4
Michigan	828	$83.37	$57.87	7
Connecticut	585	$85.62	$63.91	4
Louisiana	568	$74.42	$63.71	5
Washington	426	$81.90	$57.79	4
Maryland	366	$84.81	$64.94	1
Oregon	291	$71.72	$54.94	8
Maine	279	$78.91	$60.64	3
Montana	243	$76.41	$58.22	2
Oklahoma	238	$67.28	$56.24	3
Ohio	231	$88.44	$63.90	3
Colorado	196	$78.21	$56.93	4
Indiana	164	$71.30	$58.22	3
Kentucky	147	$77.85	$64.71	2
Kansas	124	$66.70	$53.95	1
Hawaii	99	$85.73	$64.06	2
Arkansas	93	$64.18	$54.56	2
Wyoming	84	$68.10	$48.60	2
South Carolina	84	$66.16	$54.92	1
North Dakota	66	$70.59	$52.47	2
South Dakota	63	$66.97	$54.02	1
Tennessee	35	$64.81	$42.99	1
Alabama	27	$64.61	$50.12	2
Rhode Island	24	$68.85	$55.02	1
Puerto Rico	15	$82.66	$64.30	1

Related codes

99490Chronic care management services$59.70
99439Chronic care management services for two or more chronic conditions$46.13
99497Advance care planning$73.95
99457Management using the results of remote vital sign monitoring per calen$48.61
99458Management using the results of remote vital sign monitoring per calen$39.11
99454Remote monitoring of physiologic parameters$47.97
99489Complex chronic care management services for two or more chronic condi$67.00
99442Telephone medical discussion$83.84
99443Telephone medical discussion$120.39
99487Complex chronic care management services for two or more chronic condi$124.70
99496Transitional care management services for problem of high complexity$252.87
99426Principal care management services for a single high-risk disease$60.08

Billing this code is not the same as earning it

An allowed amount is revenue to a practice, not income to a clinician. It funds staff, premises, equipment and supplies before anyone is paid. What clinicians actually earn is published separately by the Department of Labor, and what industry pays them is published separately again by CMS — this site carries both.

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Where this comes from. CMS Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, by Provider and Service, 2024. It covers fee-for-service Original Medicare Part B only — not Medicare Advantage, not Medicaid, and not commercial insurance, which typically pays more for the same code.

How it is averaged. CMS publishes one average per provider per code. Every figure here is re-weighted by the number of services, so a clinician who billed the code 4,000 times counts 4,000 times more than one who billed it twice. CMS also suppresses any provider-code pair with fewer than 11 beneficiaries, so low-volume practice is missing from these totals by design.