CPT 66983

No national payment amount

Your Medicare Administrative Contractor prices this code case by case, usually after reviewing documentation.

Contractor-published range

$603.98–$782.56

Enter your ZIP below for the exact amount. Contractor files on record cover 18 of 119 payment localities — a locality we don't hold means our coverage is incomplete, not that Medicare pays $0.

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CPT 66983 carries status C (carrier-priced) in the Q4 2024 release, so there is no single national rate — Medicare contractors publish their own amounts. Your Medicare Administrative Contractor prices this code case by case, usually after reviewing documentation. Contractor-published amounts on file range $603.98–$782.56 across 18 localities; enter a ZIP for the exact local amount.

Source: Physician relative value file (Q4 2024) · effective October 2024 · materially updated Aug 11, 2026 · compact facts

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Medicare sets this price locally

66983 has no single national Physician Fee Schedule amount. Enter the service ZIP to match it to a Medicare locality and the contractor amount we have on file.

Your practical estimate will appear here

We hold files from First_coast and Novitas across JH and JN, most recently effective Mar 1, 2024. A missing locality means our contractor coverage is incomplete—not that Medicare pays $0.

This is the published amount for this code—not necessarily the entire visit or procedure. A hospital may bill a separate facility charge, and other services, drugs, or supplies can add to the total.

Contractor-published source figures, not a national rate. Par = participating-provider amount Non-par = nonparticipating-provider amount C = technical component capped at the OPPS amount # = facility-setting amount

View all 18 published fee rows

Jurisdiction / locality	Modifier	Note	Par	Non-par	Limiting charge	Effective	Source
JH · Arkansas, Area 13 CMS 07102-13	—	—	$603.98	$573.78	$659.85	Mar 1, 2024	Contractor file
JH · Colorado, Area 01 CMS 04112-01	—	—	$674.15	$640.44	$736.51	Mar 1, 2024	Contractor file
JH · Louisiana, Area 01 CMS 07202-01	—	—	$640.43	$608.41	$699.67	Mar 1, 2024	Contractor file
JH · Louisiana, Area 99 CMS 07202-99	—	—	$619.79	$588.80	$677.12	Mar 1, 2024	Contractor file
JH · Mississippi, Area 00 CMS 07302-00	—	—	$606.34	$576.02	$662.42	Mar 1, 2024	Contractor file
JH · New Mexico, Area 05 CMS 04212-05	—	—	$632.13	$600.52	$690.60	Mar 1, 2024	Contractor file
JH · Oklahoma, Area 00 CMS 04312-00	—	—	$619.66	$588.68	$676.98	Mar 1, 2024	Contractor file
JH · Texas, Area 09 CMS 04412-09	—	—	$660.45	$627.43	$721.54	Mar 1, 2024	Contractor file
JH · Texas, Area 11 CMS 04412-11	—	—	$661.43	$628.36	$722.61	Mar 1, 2024	Contractor file
JH · Texas, Area 15 CMS 04412-15	—	—	$659.72	$626.73	$720.74	Mar 1, 2024	Contractor file
JH · Texas, Area 18 CMS 04412-18	—	—	$671.56	$637.98	$733.68	Mar 1, 2024	Contractor file
JH · Texas, Area 20 CMS 04412-20	—	—	$626.12	$594.81	$684.03	Mar 1, 2024	Contractor file
JH · Texas, Area 28 CMS 04412-28	—	—	$659.05	$626.10	$720.02	Mar 1, 2024	Contractor file
JH · Texas, Area 31 CMS 04412-31	—	—	$671.07	$637.52	$733.15	Mar 1, 2024	Contractor file
JH · Texas, Area 99 CMS 04412-99	—	—	$639.26	$607.30	$698.40	Mar 1, 2024	Contractor file
JN · Florida, Area 03 CMS 09102-03	—	—	$758.42	$720.50	$828.58	Jan 1, 2024	Contractor file
JN · Florida, Area 04 CMS 09102-04	—	—	$782.56	$743.43	$854.94	Jan 1, 2024	Contractor file
JN · Florida, Area 99 CMS 09102-99	—	—	$727.48	$691.11	$794.78	Jan 1, 2024	Contractor file

The authenticated MAC fees API returns the same source rows. ZIP5s that span localities are flagged and use only the crosswalk's dominant locality until ZIP+4 overrides are available.

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How often 66983 is billed Copy link

Across Original Medicare in CY2024, 66983 ranked #6,367 of the 7,879 CPT codes billed to Medicare that year, ranked by patients served or total allowed dollars. Patients who received it in 2024 were billed for it an average of 2.5 times that year — more than once per patient.

Beneficiaries

Office + facility patients combined

Services

167

Times it was billed

Allowed

$52,617

Total Medicare allowed dollars

Compare: ↑ #6,360 more popular · 27538 ↓ #6,368 less popular · 25645

2024 Medicare fee-for-service only, national totals — Medicare Advantage, Medicaid and commercial volume are excluded, so real-world use runs higher. This is a calendar-year snapshot from the CMS Physician & Other Practitioners dataset, on a different cycle from the Q4 2024 fee schedule the rates above come from.

Global period: what 66983's fee already covers Copy link

090 90-day follow-up

Major surgery. The fee covers the day before surgery, the day of surgery, and the 90 days after it. Related follow-up care inside that window is not billed separately.

Billing a related follow-up visit inside the 90-day window is the most common way this code gets denied — the payment for that care is already inside the 66983 fee.

Modifiers that report work outside 66983's global period
Modifier	Reports
-25	A significant, separately identifiable E/M on the same day as the procedure, beyond its usual pre- and post-operative care.
-57	The E/M at which the decision to operate was made. Major surgery only — a minor procedure has no day-before pre-operative period.
-24	An E/M during the follow-up window that is unrelated to this surgery, so it is paid separately.
-58	A staged or more extensive follow-on procedure during the window. Starts a new follow-up period.
-78	An unplanned return to the operating room for a related procedure during the window. Does not start a new follow-up period.
-79	An unrelated procedure by the same physician during the window. Starts a new follow-up period.

A modifier reports what happened; it does not by itself make a service payable. Documentation has to support it.

Common questions Copy link

Why is there no payment amount for 66983?

Its status indicator is C (carrier-priced). Your Medicare Administrative Contractor prices this code case by case, usually after reviewing documentation. The blank is deliberate: the amount is either unknown or paid under another provision, so reading it as $0 would be wrong.

Why would a Medicare claim for 66983 be denied or paid less?

Each item below comes from a CMS indicator on this page — not general billing advice.

Its status indicator is C (carrier-priced) — Your Medicare Administrative Contractor prices this code case by case, usually after reviewing documentation. See status indicators
66983 carries a 90-day global period — routine post-operative care within that window is included in the surgical payment rather than paid on its own claim. See how it's computed
Assistant at surgery: never separately payable. See billing policy
Co-surgeons: not permitted. See billing policy
Team surgery: not permitted. See billing policy
Multiple procedures: standard reduction applies. See billing policy

Payer-specific coverage and documentation rules live outside these files, so a claim that clears every check here can still be denied on other grounds.

When does this rate change?

CMS publishes a fee schedule release every quarter (January, April, July, October), and each is versioned here. The 66983 rate last moved in Q1 2019 (-0.6% non-facility) — see its rate history or what changed each release, or get an email when a new release moves rates.

Sources: CMS Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Relative Value Files.

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For patients

What does CPT code 66983 mean?

We haven't written the plain-language description for CPT 66983 yet — ask your provider's billing office what service it covers in the meantime.

Computation & policy

Billing policy Copy link

What 66983's billing-policy indicators mean. These show for every code, priced or not: a restriction like "bilateral not allowed" still matters on a carrier-priced code.

Policy	Value	What it means
Bilateral surgery	1	150% bilateral adjustment applies. Billed bilaterally (modifier 50, or on both sides), Medicare pays 150% of the single-side fee schedule amount.
Assistant at surgery	1	Never separately payable. An assistant at surgery may never be separately paid for this procedure — a statutory restriction.
Co-surgeons	0	Not permitted. Medicare does not recognize co-surgeons (modifier 62) for this procedure.
Team surgery	0	Not permitted. Medicare does not recognize a surgical team (modifier 66) for this procedure.
Multiple procedures	2	Standard reduction applies. The same standard ranking-and-reduction rule as indicator 1 applies to this procedure when billed with others on the same date.
Professional/technical split	0	No PC/TC split. This is a physician service code; the professional/technical split does not apply, and the code is billed as a single service.

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Source & method

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This is computed from CMS's Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Q4 2024 release (schedule pfs, effective October 2024). National amounts apply a GPCI of 1.000 and leave sequestration off. The status indicator decides payability, never the RVU values, so a blank RVU stays blank. Releases are immutable: a rate retrieved for a past quarter always reflects that release. Commercial and cash-pay figures anywhere on this page are arithmetic on the Medicare amount, using commonly cited reimbursement ranges. They're illustrative, and no nationwide claims database stands behind them. Our methodology covers all of this in depth — sourcing, parsing, versioning, and how claims are cross-checked before they ship.

Physician relative value file (Q4 2024) · rvu24d.zip (PPRRVU24_OCT.csv row 13,005)

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Cite this rate

This link keeps pointing at the Q4 2024 figures, even after a newer release lands.

CPT 66983 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule rate (Q4 2024). Localis. https://localishealth.com/cpt/66983/2024/D