# CPT 90836

> Medicare paid $89.98 for CPT 90836 in the office (non-facility) setting and $80.29 in a facility under the Q2 2022 Physician Fee Schedule, effective April 2022. These are the national allowed amounts before the ~2% sequestration cut and before locality (GPCI) adjustment. This price has been unchanged since Q1 2021, when it decreased 2.6%.

## What it is

Talk therapy provided in the same appointment as a medical evaluation, with the therapy portion lasting roughly 45 minutes. The clinician documents the medical work, such as symptom review and medication decisions, and the therapy time separately, since only the therapy minutes count toward this code. It sits between the shorter band of about 30 minutes and the longest band of about an hour. Like the others in the family, it is reported together with a visit code rather than by itself.

## Selected release

- Release: Q2 2022 (2022 B)
- Effective: April 1 – June 30, 2022
- Status indicator: A
- Office (non-facility) national allowed amount: $89.98
- Facility national allowed amount: $80.29
- Sequestration: not applied

## RVUs and formula

- Work RVU: 1.90
- Office (non-facility) practice expense RVU: 0.62
- Facility practice expense RVU: 0.34
- Malpractice RVU: 0.08
- Conversion factor: 34.6062
- Formula: `(work_rvu × work_gpci + pe_rvu × pe_gpci + mp_rvu × mp_gpci) × conversion_factor`

## Source and citation

- Source: Physician relative value file (Q2 2022)
- CMS file: https://www.cms.gov/files/zip/rvu22b.zip
- Parsed file: PPRRVU22_APR.csv, row 16,036
- Canonical page: https://localishealth.com/cpt/90836/2022/A
- Release-specific citation URL: https://localishealth.com/cpt/90836/2022/B
- Last significant update: 2026-08-04T03:11:36+00:00