# CPT 98940

> Medicare paid $28.25 for CPT 98940 in the office (non-facility) setting and $22.53 in a facility under the Q2 2015 Physician Fee Schedule, effective April 2015. These are the national allowed amounts before the ~2% sequestration cut and before locality (GPCI) adjustment. This price has been unchanged since Q1 2015, when it decreased 0.2%.

## What it is

Manual adjustment of the spine by a chiropractor, applied to one or two of the five recognised spinal regions: neck, upper back, mid back, lower back, and the pelvis and sacrum. The number of regions treated is the only thing that separates this code from its two siblings — the technique itself is not the distinguishing factor. A brief pre-manipulation assessment of the patient is considered part of the service.

## Selected release

- Release: Q2 2015 (2015 B)
- Effective: April 1 – June 30, 2015
- Status indicator: A
- Office (non-facility) national allowed amount: $28.25
- Facility national allowed amount: $22.53
- Sequestration: not applied

## RVUs and formula

- Work RVU: 0.46
- Office (non-facility) practice expense RVU: 0.32
- Facility practice expense RVU: 0.16
- Malpractice RVU: 0.01
- Conversion factor: 35.7547
- Formula: `(work_rvu × work_gpci + pe_rvu × pe_gpci + mp_rvu × mp_gpci) × conversion_factor`

## Source and citation

- Source: Physician relative value file (Q2 2015)
- CMS file: https://www.cms.gov/medicare/medicare-fee-for-service-payment/physicianfeesched/downloads/rvu15b.zip
- Parsed file: PPRRVU15_V0213_Current.csv, row 15,865
- Canonical page: https://localishealth.com/cpt/98940/2015/A
- Release-specific citation URL: https://localishealth.com/cpt/98940/2015/B
- Last significant update: 2026-08-04T03:05:48+00:00