How much does Medicare pay for CPT 99491?

Medicare allowed an average of $79.68 per service and paid $61.26 of that, the balance being the patient's coinsurance and deductible (2024 data). Providers submitted an average of $142.72, which is what they billed rather than what they received — Medicare pays its fee schedule regardless of the charge.

Does 99491 pay differently in an office than a hospital?

Yes. The allowed amount averaged $80.46 in an office setting and $71.31 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 99491 most?

Nurse Practitioner, with 101,068 services from 611 clinicians. Next are Internal Medicine, Family Practice, Physician Assistant.

CPT 99491

Chronic care management services for two or more chronic conditions, first 30 minutes provided personally by health care professional, per calendar month

$79.68Medicare-allowed amount per service, averaged across 275,177 services

Providers submitted

$142.72

Asking price, not received

Medicare allowed

$79.68

The fee schedule figure

Medicare paid

$61.26

Balance is patient coinsurance

Providers submitted an average of $142.72 for this code and Medicare allowed $79.68 — 1.8× 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 $61.26 (77%); the rest is the patient’s coinsurance and deductible.

Office pays differently to hospital

Office / non-facility: $80.46
Hospital / facility: $71.31

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. 251,600 services were billed in an office setting and 23,577 in a facility.

Services: 275,177
Beneficiaries: 104,296
Providers billing it: 1,405
Total allowed: $21,926,103

What Medicare pays for CPT 99491

Across 275,177 services billed by 1,405 providers to 104,296 beneficiaries, Medicare allowed an average of $79.68 per service. That is 2.6 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 99491

Specialty	Services	Beneficiaries	Avg allowed	Providers
Nurse Practitioner	101,068	38,299	$71.27	611
Internal Medicine	83,332	30,233	$86.60	340
Family Practice	46,448	16,709	$83.42	215
Physician Assistant	11,251	6,235	$71.39	71
Geriatric Medicine	4,722	1,434	$82.55	14
Pulmonary Disease	4,294	1,373	$83.50	10
General Practice	3,940	1,929	$87.52	21
Hospitalist	3,209	901	$78.40	10
Cardiology	2,979	1,046	$86.06	19
Critical Care (Intensivists)	1,671	400	$95.30	1
Emergency Medicine	1,542	531	$83.91	7
Nephrology	1,462	563	$89.62	13
Anesthesiology	1,380	730	$87.92	5
Rheumatology	1,269	768	$87.54	9
Hematology-Oncology	1,089	624	$86.81	15

99491 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	46,199	$87.07	$61.87	162
New York	45,557	$86.25	$60.68	216
Florida	29,478	$79.34	$59.49	116
Georgia	19,884	$72.31	$57.18	84
Texas	16,465	$74.04	$58.02	124
Illinois	13,414	$79.42	$59.38	68
Virginia	12,190	$75.86	$59.29	44
Arizona	8,651	$72.28	$55.32	45
Ohio	8,591	$80.06	$57.92	35
New Jersey	6,101	$88.42	$61.48	49
Maryland	5,637	$79.79	$57.91	33
Nevada	5,608	$77.18	$60.34	19
Indiana	5,552	$71.52	$58.26	28
Connecticut	4,839	$81.68	$57.50	23
Pennsylvania	4,790	$72.02	$56.24	31
Kansas	4,591	$69.94	$55.45	17
Washington	3,839	$75.91	$55.77	27
Mississippi	3,453	$67.78	$54.66	7
Arkansas	2,765	$77.21	$62.00	12
Missouri	2,704	$69.21	$54.84	13
Nebraska	2,595	$76.85	$63.82	5
Delaware	2,295	$73.91	$57.46	24
South Carolina	2,158	$75.87	$58.33	30
Michigan	2,072	$78.78	$57.63	28
Alabama	1,779	$74.27	$61.28	13
North Carolina	1,712	$71.90	$56.64	24
Tennessee	1,707	$74.55	$60.42	14
Oklahoma	1,694	$74.49	$61.60	19
Louisiana	1,621	$70.96	$56.96	10
Kentucky	1,306	$75.21	$60.79	11
Colorado	942	$79.08	$58.67	12
Massachusetts	936	$74.20	$48.55	10
Utah	866	$69.49	$54.53	5
Minnesota	631	$77.86	$59.44	15
Oregon	618	$73.97	$55.27	5
Hawaii	595	$85.64	$62.45	2
Montana	390	$72.49	$53.46	2
North Dakota	178	$71.15	$55.39	4
ZZ	115	$68.00	$54.40	1
West Virginia	108	$67.99	$53.00	1
Idaho	103	$75.86	$60.33	3
Rhode Island	99	$82.49	$63.19	3
Wyoming	89	$88.00	$63.83	2
Iowa	67	$78.74	$66.29	1
New Mexico	46	$81.25	$66.13	2
Maine	39	$67.58	$50.71	1
Alaska	39	$72.36	$54.90	1
Wisconsin	33	$78.18	$66.29	2
District of Columbia	20	$91.86	$65.85	1
New Hampshire	16	$71.32	$56.34	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.