How much does Medicare pay for CPT 99446?

Medicare allowed an average of $17.25 per service and paid $12.54 of that, the balance being the patient's coinsurance and deductible (2024 data). Providers submitted an average of $61.81, which is what they billed rather than what they received — Medicare pays its fee schedule regardless of the charge.

Does 99446 pay differently in an office than a hospital?

Yes. The allowed amount averaged $17.25 in an office setting and $17.24 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 99446 most?

Cardiology, with 622 services from 15 clinicians. Next are Neurology, Physician Assistant, Internal Medicine.

CPT 99446

Telephone, internet, or electronic health record assessment and management with verbal and written report by consulting physician, 5-10 minutes

$17.25Medicare-allowed amount per service, averaged across 3,186 services

Providers submitted

$61.81

Asking price, not received

Medicare allowed

$17.25

The fee schedule figure

Medicare paid

$12.54

Balance is patient coinsurance

Providers submitted an average of $61.81 for this code and Medicare allowed $17.25 — 3.6× 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 $12.54 (73%); the rest is the patient’s coinsurance and deductible.

Office pays differently to hospital

Office / non-facility: $17.25
Hospital / facility: $17.24

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. 1,732 services were billed in an office setting and 1,454 in a facility.

Services: 3,186
Beneficiaries: 2,945
Providers billing it: 115
Total allowed: $54,959

What Medicare pays for CPT 99446

Across 3,186 services billed by 115 providers to 2,945 beneficiaries, Medicare allowed an average of $17.25 per service. 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 99446

Specialty	Services	Beneficiaries	Avg allowed	Providers
Cardiology	622	562	$17.28	15
Neurology	618	607	$18.08	27
Physician Assistant	312	309	$15.00	16
Internal Medicine	283	217	$17.97	8
Interventional Cardiology	283	261	$16.79	5
Nurse Practitioner	137	118	$14.63	4
Orthopedic Surgery	132	132	$18.15	4
Gastroenterology	119	91	$18.28	1
Neurosurgery	103	101	$18.00	7
Emergency Medicine	79	79	$16.96	5
Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology	60	58	$16.28	2
Endocrinology	60	59	$18.44	2
Interventional Radiology	57	55	$16.48	1
Diagnostic Radiology	36	35	$16.46	1
Geriatric Psychiatry	36	31	$17.40	1

99446 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	747	$18.66	$12.21	25
Mississippi	487	$16.38	$12.71	10
Texas	423	$17.48	$12.79	13
North Carolina	222	$15.44	$12.17	9
Massachusetts	139	$15.88	$11.84	8
Maryland	123	$18.39	$12.12	4
Wisconsin	107	$16.74	$12.69	3
New York	99	$18.86	$13.20	5
Ohio	92	$16.95	$10.21	6
Colorado	81	$16.82	$12.58	5
Louisiana	80	$14.68	$11.08	2
New Jersey	79	$19.14	$11.47	3
West Virginia	70	$17.55	$12.86	2
Connecticut	69	$16.07	$13.37	1
Florida	62	$17.01	$12.80	4
Arizona	58	$15.13	$11.95	2
Virginia	43	$17.83	$12.22	3
Michigan	36	$17.40	$13.39	1
Pennsylvania	34	$15.10	$11.07	2
Nebraska	33	$16.22	$11.08	1
Arkansas	30	$16.20	$13.83	1
Georgia	23	$17.84	$11.85	2
District of Columbia	19	$16.90	$11.72	1
Illinois	16	$18.87	$13.79	1
Montana	14	$18.38	$13.77	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.