# CPT 96132

> Medicare paid $133.29 for CPT 96132 in the office (non-facility) setting and $106.08 in a facility under the Q3 2021 Physician Fee Schedule, effective July 2021. 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 2.3%.

## What it is

The professional time a psychologist or physician spends making sense of a neuropsychological test battery: pulling the scores together with the patient's history, medical records and interview, deciding what the pattern means, planning treatment, writing the formal report, and going through the findings with the patient or family. It covers the thinking and reporting rather than the sitting-with-the-patient administration of the tests, which is recorded under different codes. This entry covers the first hour of that professional work.

## Selected release

- Release: Q3 2021 (2021 C)
- Effective: July 1 – September 30, 2021
- Status indicator: A
- Office (non-facility) national allowed amount: $133.29
- Facility national allowed amount: $106.08
- Sequestration: not applied

## RVUs and formula

- Work RVU: 2.56
- Office (non-facility) practice expense RVU: 1.16
- Facility practice expense RVU: 0.38
- Malpractice RVU: 0.10
- Conversion factor: 34.8931
- Formula: `(work_rvu × work_gpci + pe_rvu × pe_gpci + mp_rvu × mp_gpci) × conversion_factor`

## Source and citation

- Source: Physician relative value file (Q3 2021)
- CMS file: https://www.cms.gov/files/zip/rvu21c-updated-6302021.zip
- Parsed file: PPRRVU21_JUL.csv, row 17,009
- Canonical page: https://localishealth.com/cpt/96132/2021/A
- Release-specific citation URL: https://localishealth.com/cpt/96132/2021/C
- Last significant update: 2026-08-04T03:10:45+00:00