CPT 83788
No national payment amount
Status X is not separately payable under the PFS.
Did Medicare pay separately for CPT 83788 in Q2 2014?
Not at a published national rate. CPT 83788 carries status X (statutory exclusion) in the Q2 2014 release. The statutory definition of physician services does not include this item. Treat the blank amount as unpriced, not as $0.
Source: Physician relative value file (Q2 2014) · effective April 2014 · materially updated Aug 4, 2026 · compact facts
Common questions
Why is there no payment amount for 83788?
Its status indicator is X (statutory exclusion). The statutory definition of physician services does not include this item. 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 83788 be denied or paid less?
Each item below comes from a CMS indicator on this page — not general billing advice.
- Its status indicator is X (statutory exclusion) — The statutory definition of physician services does not include this item. See status indicators
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. See 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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What is a 83788 visit in patient-friendly terms?
We haven't written the plain-language description for CPT 83788 yet — ask your provider's billing office what service it covers in the meantime.
How this amount is computed
amount = (work RVU × work GPCI + PE RVU × PE GPCI + MP RVU × MP GPCI) × conversion factor. National amounts use GPCI = 1.000. To price an RVU figure of your own, use the RVU-to-dollars converter.
| Component | RVU |
|---|---|
| Work RVU | blank |
| Practice expense RVU (non-facility) | blank |
| Practice expense RVU (facility) | blank |
| Malpractice RVU | blank |
Every rate combines three parts: work (the clinician’s time, skill and effort), practice expense (office overhead — higher when the service is done in a doctor’s own office), and malpractice (the share of liability-insurance cost). A blank means CMS publishes no national number for that part. Read it as unknown, and never as zero.
Rate history by release
National non-facility amount for 83788 across quarterly releases.
| Release | Status | Non-facility | Facility |
|---|---|---|---|
| Q4 2015 Oct 2, 2015 – present | X | — | — |
| Q3 2015 May 15, 2015 – Oct 1, 2015 | X | — | — |
| Q2 2015 Feb 13, 2015 – May 14, 2015 | X | — | — |
| Q1 2015 Dec 23, 2014 – Feb 12, 2015 | X | — | — |
| Q4 2014 Aug 19, 2014 – Dec 22, 2014 | X | — | — |
| Q3 2014 May 15, 2014 – Aug 18, 2014 | X | — | — |
| Q2 2014 Mar 24, 2014 – May 14, 2014 | X | — | — |
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This is computed from CMS's Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Q2 2014 release (schedule pfs, effective April 2014). 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.
Conversion factor $35.8228 read from the same file, row 11, column 25.
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Cite this rate
This link keeps pointing at the Q2 2014 figures, even after a newer release lands.
CPT 83788 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule rate (Q2 2014). Localis. https://localishealth.com/cpt/83788/2014/B