# CPT 95819

> Medicare paid $432.36 for CPT 95819 in the office (non-facility) setting and $432.36 in a facility under the Q2 2018 Physician Fee Schedule, effective April 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 2.6%.

## What it is

An electroencephalogram, the recording of the brain's electrical activity through electrodes pasted to the scalp, captured in both the waking and the sleeping state during the same session. Sleep is included deliberately because some abnormal electrical patterns only surface as the brain drifts down, so a waking-only trace can miss them. Standard activation steps such as deep rapid breathing and a flashing strobe light are usually included. What sets this study apart from its siblings is the requirement that both states actually be recorded, not just attempted.

## Selected release

- Release: Q2 2018 (2018 B)
- Effective: April 1 – June 30, 2018
- Status indicator: A
- Office (non-facility) national allowed amount: $432.36
- Facility national allowed amount: $432.36
- Sequestration: not applied

## RVUs and formula

- Work RVU: 1.08
- Office (non-facility) practice expense RVU: 10.83
- Facility practice expense RVU: 10.83
- Malpractice RVU: 0.10
- 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 (Q2 2018)
- CMS file: https://www.cms.gov/medicare/medicare-fee-for-service-payment/physicianfeesched/downloads/rvu18b.zip
- Parsed file: PPRRVU18_APR.csv, row 16,074
- Canonical page: https://localishealth.com/cpt/95819/2018/A
- Release-specific citation URL: https://localishealth.com/cpt/95819/2018/B
- Last significant update: 2026-08-04T03:08:19+00:00