# CPT 97150

> Medicare paid $18.72 for CPT 97150 in the office (non-facility) setting and $18.72 in a facility under the Q1 2018 Physician Fee Schedule, effective January 2018. These are the national allowed amounts before the ~2% sequestration cut and before locality (GPCI) adjustment. This is a 6.4% increase from the previous quarter.

## 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: Q1 2018 (2018 A)
- Effective: January 1 – March 31, 2018
- Status indicator: A
- Office (non-facility) national allowed amount: $18.72
- Facility national allowed amount: $18.72
- Sequestration: not applied

## RVUs and formula

- Work RVU: 0.29
- Office (non-facility) practice expense RVU: 0.22
- Facility practice expense RVU: 0.22
- Malpractice RVU: 0.01
- 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 (Q1 2018)
- CMS file: https://www.cms.gov/medicare/medicare-fee-for-service-payment/physicianfeesched/downloads/rvu18ar1.zip
- Parsed file: PPRRVU18_JAN.csv, row 16,367
- Canonical page: https://localishealth.com/cpt/97150/2018/A
- Release-specific citation URL: https://localishealth.com/cpt/97150/2018/A
- Last significant update: 2026-08-04T03:08:09+00:00