# CPT 90833

> Medicare paid $72.90 for CPT 90833 in the office (non-facility) setting and $66.40 in a facility under the Q4 2020 Physician Fee Schedule, effective October 2020. These are the national allowed amounts before the ~2% sequestration cut and before locality (GPCI) adjustment. This price has been unchanged since Q1 2020, when it increased 2.7%.

## 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: Q4 2020 (2020 D)
- Effective: October 1 – December 31, 2020
- Status indicator: A
- Office (non-facility) national allowed amount: $72.90
- Facility national allowed amount: $66.40
- Sequestration: not applied

## RVUs and formula

- Work RVU: 1.50
- Office (non-facility) practice expense RVU: 0.46
- Facility practice expense RVU: 0.28
- Malpractice RVU: 0.06
- Conversion factor: 36.0896
- Formula: `(work_rvu × work_gpci + pe_rvu × pe_gpci + mp_rvu × mp_gpci) × conversion_factor`

## Source and citation

- Source: Physician relative value file (Q4 2020)
- CMS file: https://www.cms.gov/files/zip/rvu20d-updated-11232020.zip
- Parsed file: PPRRVU20_OCT.csv, row 15,766
- Canonical page: https://localishealth.com/cpt/90833/2020/A
- Release-specific citation URL: https://localishealth.com/cpt/90833/2020/D
- Last significant update: 2026-08-04T03:10:00+00:00