# CPT 98941

> Medicare paid $41.17 for CPT 98941 in the office (non-facility) setting and $35.09 in a facility under the Q2 2016 Physician Fee Schedule, effective April 2016. These are the national allowed amounts before the ~2% sequestration cut and before locality (GPCI) adjustment. This price has been unchanged since Q1 2016, when it decreased 0.4%.

## What it is

Manual chiropractic adjustment of the spine covering three or four of the five recognised spinal regions: neck, upper back, mid back, lower back, and the pelvis and sacrum. It is the middle rung of a three-code family graded purely by how many regions the chiropractor treats, and it is much the most commonly reported of the three. The record has to show a problem in each region treated, not just one adjustment that happened to be felt in several places.

## Selected release

- Release: Q2 2016 (2016 B)
- Effective: April 1 – June 30, 2016
- Status indicator: A
- Office (non-facility) national allowed amount: $41.17
- Facility national allowed amount: $35.09
- Sequestration: not applied

## RVUs and formula

- Work RVU: 0.71
- Office (non-facility) practice expense RVU: 0.42
- Facility practice expense RVU: 0.25
- Malpractice RVU: 0.02
- Conversion factor: 35.8043
- Formula: `(work_rvu × work_gpci + pe_rvu × pe_gpci + mp_rvu × mp_gpci) × conversion_factor`

## Source and citation

- Source: Physician relative value file (Q2 2016)
- CMS file: https://www.cms.gov/medicare/medicare-fee-for-service-payment/physicianfeesched/downloads/rvu16b.zip
- Parsed file: PPRRVU16_April_V0202.csv, row 16,078
- Canonical page: https://localishealth.com/cpt/98941/2016/A
- Release-specific citation URL: https://localishealth.com/cpt/98941/2016/B
- Last significant update: 2026-08-04T03:06:42+00:00