# CPT 96521

> Medicare paid $123.83 for CPT 96521 in the office (non-facility) setting and $123.83 in a facility under the Q1 2024 Physician Fee Schedule, effective January 2024. These are the national allowed amounts before the ~2% sequestration cut and before locality (GPCI) adjustment. This is a 3.1% decrease from the previous quarter.

## Selected release

- Release: Q1 2024 (2024 A)
- Effective: January 1 – March 31, 2024
- Status indicator: A
- Office (non-facility) national allowed amount: $123.83
- Facility national allowed amount: $123.83
- Sequestration: not applied

## RVUs and formula

- Work RVU: 0.21
- Office (non-facility) practice expense RVU: 3.44
- Facility practice expense RVU: 3.44
- Malpractice RVU: 0.07
- Conversion factor: 33.2875
- Formula: `(work_rvu × work_gpci + pe_rvu × pe_gpci + mp_rvu × mp_gpci) × conversion_factor`

## Source and citation

- Source: Physician relative value file (Q1 2024)
- CMS file: https://www.cms.gov/files/zip/rvu24ar-posted-04/01/2024.zip
- Parsed file: PPRRVU24_JAN.csv, row 18,163
- Canonical page: https://localishealth.com/cpt/96521/2024/A
- Release-specific citation URL: https://localishealth.com/cpt/96521/2024/A
- Last significant update: 2026-08-04T03:13:31+00:00