# CPT 99283

> Medicare paid $62.57 for CPT 99283 in the office (non-facility) setting and $62.57 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 increased 1.0%.

## What it is

A moderate-complexity emergency department visit — for example, a laceration needing layered repair, a moderate asthma flare, or abdominal pain that needs basic labs or imaging to rule out something serious. Unlike office visits, ED visit levels are not timed and are not split into new versus established patients; the level depends on the complexity of the medical decision-making documented — the number of problems addressed, the data reviewed, and the risk of the work-up or treatment.

## Selected release

- Release: Q2 2015 (2015 B)
- Effective: April 1 – June 30, 2015
- Status indicator: A
- Office (non-facility) national allowed amount: $62.57
- Facility national allowed amount: $62.57
- Sequestration: not applied

## RVUs and formula

- Work RVU: 1.34
- Office (non-facility) practice expense RVU: 0.29
- Facility practice expense RVU: 0.29
- Malpractice RVU: 0.12
- 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 15,959
- Canonical page: https://localishealth.com/cpt/99283/2015/A
- Release-specific citation URL: https://localishealth.com/cpt/99283/2015/B
- Last significant update: 2026-08-04T03:05:48+00:00