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CPT 99441

Excluded from PFS

99441 · PFS Q4 2017 · Historical

Status N: non-covered. Medicare covers no part of this service, so the PFS produces no payment amount.

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CPT 99441 has no published national rate. It carries status N (non-covered) in the Q4 2017 release. Medicare covers no part of this service. The blank amount means unpriced, not $0.

PFS status evidence

Physician relative value file (Q4 2017) · rvu17d.zip (PPRRVU17_OCT.csv row 16,452)
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Code
99441
Release
Q4 2017, revision 1
Result
Excluded from PFS

Citations

  • Shows this code’s PFS status (N). Result: Excluded from PFS.

    Physician relative value file (PPRRVU)

    Q4 2017 · revision 1

    Latest revision of this release

    Release period: October 1 – December 31, 2017

    This PFS record alone does not establish a $0 allowance or a coverage determination. Any amount from another schedule needs its own evidence.

    Record details PPRRVU17_OCT.csv in rvu17d.zip (row 16,452)
    hcpcs (col 1)
    99441
    modifier (col 2)
    blank
    status_code (col 4)
    N

    SHA-256: 4ec25bedea18799c66d10002a3731757548ccfd70e37379c856bb8a1fafe8da4

    Original source file

Plain-text summary

Why is there no national PFS amount for 99441?

Its status indicator is N (non-covered). Medicare covers no part of this service. Status N: non-covered. Medicare covers no part of this service, so the PFS produces no payment amount.

Payment considerations Copy link

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Other payment indicators (10)

Facility/non-facility: Not determined, Professional/technical component: Does not apply, Bilateral adjustment: Does not apply, Multiple-procedure reduction: Does not apply, Assistant/co-surgeon treatment: Does not apply, Global surgery: Does not apply, NCCI same-day edits: Not determined, MUE behavior: Not determined, Other fee-schedule routing: Does not apply, Contractor pricing: Does not apply.

Why would a Medicare claim for 99441 be denied or paid less?

These come from CMS indicators on this page, not general billing advice.

  • Its status indicator is N (non-covered)—Medicare covers no part of this service. See status indicators

Payer-specific coverage and documentation rules live outside these files, so a claim that clears every check here can still be denied on other grounds.

Which billing rules and modifiers apply? Copy link

Global period: what 99441's fee already covers Copy link

XXX Does not apply

The global surgery concept does not apply to this code.

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How has it changed? Copy link

Rate history by release Copy link

National Office (non-facility) amount for 99441 across quarterly releases. +21.8% increase since Q2 2020 · peak $56.88 in Q1 2021

Q2 2020 · $46.19 Q3 2020 · $46.19 (0.0%) Q4 2020 · $46.19 (0.0%) Q1 2021 · $56.88 (+23.1%) Q2 2021 · $56.88 (0.0%) Q3 2021 · $56.88 (0.0%) Q4 2021 · $56.88 (0.0%) Q1 2022 · $56.75 (-0.2%) Q2 2022 · $56.75 (0.0%) Q3 2022 · $56.75 (0.0%) Q4 2022 · $56.75 (0.0%) Q1 2023 · $56.25 (-0.9%) Q2 2023 · $56.25 (0.0%) Q3 2023 · $56.25 (0.0%) Q4 2023 · $56.25 (0.0%) Q1 2024 · $55.34 (-1.6%) Q1 2024 · $56.26 (+1.7%) Q2 2024 · $56.26 (0.0%) Q3 2024 · $56.26 (0.0%) Q4 2024 · $56.26 (0.0%)
Office (non-facility) Facility
Release Status Office Facility
Q4 2024 Oct 1, 2024 – present A $56.26 (0.0% no change ) $34.62 (0.0% no change )
When does this rate change?

CMS publishes a fee schedule release every quarter (January, April, July, October), and each is versioned here. See what changed each release, or get an email when a new release moves rates.

The 99441 rate last moved in Q1 2024. See its rate history.

Sources: CMS Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Relative Value Files.

Usage and related codes Copy link

How often 99441 is billed Copy link

Across Original Medicare in CY2024, 99441 ranked #327 of the 7,879 CPT codes billed to Medicare that year, by patients served or total allowed dollars.

Beneficiaries
462,251
Office + facility beneficiaries combined
Services
609,109
Times it was billed
Allowed
$30.7M
Total Medicare allowed dollars

2024 Medicare fee-for-service national totals. They exclude Medicare Advantage, Medicaid and commercial volume, so real-world use runs higher. This is a calendar-year snapshot from the CMS Physician & Other Practitioners dataset, on a different cycle from the Q4 2017 fee schedule above.

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Source & method

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This page uses CMS's Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Q4 2017 release (effective October 2017). National baselines use GPCI 1.000 and exclude sequestration. Whether a national amount exists depends on the status and CMS’s payment instructions; blank RVUs are never treated as zero. Past releases are never edited, so these sources stay valid after CMS publishes a newer one. Our methodology explains sourcing, parsing, versioning, and how we cross-check claims before we publish them.

Physician relative value file (Q4 2017) · rvu17d.zip (PPRRVU17_OCT.csv row 16,452)

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CPT 99441 National PFS baseline: No national PFS rate (Q4 2017; participating; whole service; GPCI 1.000; sequestration excluded). Localis. https://localishealth.com/cpt/99441/2017/D