CPT 99489

Did Medicare pay separately for CPT 99489 in Q4 2014?

Not at a published national rate. CPT 99489 carries status B (bundled) in the Q4 2014 release. Medicare folds payment for this code into the service it is incident to, never onto its own line. Treat the blank amount as unpriced, not as $0.

Source: Physician relative value file (Q4 2014) · effective October 2014 · materially updated Aug 4, 2026 · compact facts

How often 99489 is billed

Across Original Medicare in CY2024, 99489 ranked #220 of the 7,879 CPT codes billed to Medicare that year, ranked by patients served or total allowed dollars. Patients who received it in 2024 were billed for it an average of 10.7 times that year — more than once per patient.

2024 Medicare fee-for-service only, national totals — Medicare Advantage, Medicaid and commercial volume are excluded, 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 2014 fee schedule the rates above come from.

Common questions

How this amount is computed

amount = (work RVU × work GPCI + PE RVU × PE GPCI + MP RVU × MP GPCI) × conversion factor. National amounts use GPCI = 1.000. To price an RVU figure of your own, use the RVU-to-dollars converter.

Every rate combines three parts: work (the clinician’s time, skill and effort), practice expense (office overhead — higher when the service is done in a doctor’s own office), and malpractice (the share of liability-insurance cost). A blank means CMS publishes no national number for that part. Read it as unknown, and never as zero.

Rate history by release

National non-facility amount for 99489 across quarterly releases. Up 66.3% since Q1 2017 · high $78.16 in Q1 2026

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