# CPT 97113

> Medicare paid $37.72 for CPT 97113 in the office (non-facility) setting and $37.72 in a facility under the Q3 2022 Physician Fee Schedule, effective July 2022. These are the national allowed amounts before the ~2% sequestration cut and before locality (GPCI) adjustment. This price has been unchanged since Q1 2022, when it decreased 1.7%.

## What it is

Prescribed therapeutic exercise carried out in a pool, with the therapist working directly with the patient. Water carries much of the body's weight off painful joints while still giving gentle resistance in every direction, so patients can move further and start earlier than they could on land. The setting is the whole distinction from land-based exercise therapy — it has to be a supervised session with specific exercises, not simply time spent swimming. Time is counted in 15-minute blocks of direct one-on-one work.

## Selected release

- Release: Q3 2022 (2022 C)
- Effective: July 1 – September 30, 2022
- Status indicator: A
- Office (non-facility) national allowed amount: $37.72
- Facility national allowed amount: $37.72
- Sequestration: not applied

## RVUs and formula

- Work RVU: 0.48
- Office (non-facility) practice expense RVU: 0.59
- Facility practice expense RVU: 0.59
- Malpractice RVU: 0.02
- 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 (Q3 2022)
- CMS file: https://www.cms.gov/files/zip/rvu22c-updated-06172022.zip
- Parsed file: PPRRVU22_JUL.csv, row 17,385
- Canonical page: https://localishealth.com/cpt/97113/2022/A
- Release-specific citation URL: https://localishealth.com/cpt/97113/2022/C
- Last significant update: 2026-08-04T03:11:49+00:00