# CPT 97150

> Medicare paid $17.59 for CPT 97150 in the office (non-facility) setting and $17.59 in a facility under the Q2 2017 Physician Fee Schedule, effective April 2017. These are the national allowed amounts before the ~2% sequestration cut and before locality (GPCI) adjustment. This price has been unchanged since Q1 2017, when it increased 0.3%.

## What it is

A therapy session run with two or more patients at the same time. The therapist is present and directing the work throughout, but attention is divided across the group rather than given to one person continuously — that constant-attention difference is exactly what separates this from the one-on-one therapy codes. It is not a timed code, so a session counts as one unit for each patient no matter how long the group runs.

## Selected release

- Release: Q2 2017 (2017 B)
- Effective: April 1 – June 30, 2017
- Status indicator: A
- Office (non-facility) national allowed amount: $17.59
- Facility national allowed amount: $17.59
- Sequestration: not applied

## RVUs and formula

- Work RVU: 0.29
- Office (non-facility) practice expense RVU: 0.19
- Facility practice expense RVU: 0.19
- Malpractice RVU: 0.01
- Conversion factor: 35.8887
- Formula: `(work_rvu × work_gpci + pe_rvu × pe_gpci + mp_rvu × mp_gpci) × conversion_factor`

## Source and citation

- Source: Physician relative value file (Q2 2017)
- CMS file: https://www.cms.gov/medicare/medicare-fee-for-service-payment/physicianfeesched/downloads/rvu17b.zip
- Parsed file: PPRRVU17_V0209.csv, row 16,209
- Canonical page: https://localishealth.com/cpt/97150/2017/A
- Release-specific citation URL: https://localishealth.com/cpt/97150/2017/B
- Last significant update: 2026-08-04T03:07:42+00:00