# CPT 90833

> Medicare paid $69.12 for CPT 90833 in the office (non-facility) setting and $66.60 in a facility under the Q3 2018 Physician Fee Schedule, effective July 2018. These are the national allowed amounts before the ~2% sequestration cut and before locality (GPCI) adjustment. This price has been unchanged since Q1 2018, when it increased 3.6%.

## What it is

A block of talk therapy delivered during the same appointment as a medical evaluation, most often a medication-management visit with a psychiatrist. The therapy time is counted separately from the medical work and runs roughly half an hour. This is the shortest of the three therapy-with-visit time bands; the longer ones cover roughly 45 and 60 minutes of therapy. It is always reported alongside the visit code, never on its own.

## Selected release

- Release: Q3 2018 (2018 C)
- Effective: July 1 – September 30, 2018
- Status indicator: A
- Office (non-facility) national allowed amount: $69.12
- Facility national allowed amount: $66.60
- Sequestration: not applied

## RVUs and formula

- Work RVU: 1.50
- Office (non-facility) practice expense RVU: 0.35
- Facility practice expense RVU: 0.28
- Malpractice RVU: 0.07
- Conversion factor: 35.9996
- Formula: `(work_rvu × work_gpci + pe_rvu × pe_gpci + mp_rvu × mp_gpci) × conversion_factor`

## Source and citation

- Source: Physician relative value file (Q3 2018)
- CMS file: https://www.cms.gov/medicare/medicare-fee-for-service-payment/physicianfeesched/downloads/rvu18c1.zip
- Parsed file: PPRRVU18_JUL.csv, row 15,137
- Canonical page: https://localishealth.com/cpt/90833/2018/A
- Release-specific citation URL: https://localishealth.com/cpt/90833/2018/C
- Last significant update: 2026-08-04T03:08:27+00:00