HCPCS G2023
Specimen collect covid-19
No national payment amount
Status X is not separately payable under the PFS.
Did Medicare pay separately for HCPCS G2023 in Q2 2021?
Not at a published national rate. HCPCS G2023 carries status X (statutory exclusion) in the Q2 2021 release. The statutory definition of physician services does not include this item. Treat the blank amount as unpriced, not as $0.
Source: Physician relative value file (Q2 2021) · effective April 2021 · materially updated Aug 4, 2026 · compact facts
Common questions
Why is there no payment amount for G2023?
Its status indicator is X (statutory exclusion). The statutory definition of physician services does not include this item. The blank is deliberate: the amount is either unknown or paid under another provision, so reading it as $0 would be wrong.
Why would a Medicare claim for G2023 be denied or paid less?
Each item below comes from a CMS indicator on this page — not general billing advice.
- Its status indicator is X (statutory exclusion) — The statutory definition of physician services does not include this item. 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.
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.
Sources: CMS Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Relative Value Files.
Saw this code on your bill?
What is a G2023 visit in patient-friendly terms?
In plain terms: Specimen collect covid-19 You'll typically see HCPCS G2023 on a bill or explanation of benefits (EOB) when a clinician performs or bills for this service.
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.
| Component | RVU |
|---|---|
| Work RVU | blank |
| Practice expense RVU (non-facility) | blank |
| Practice expense RVU (facility) | blank |
| Malpractice RVU | blank |
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 G2023 across quarterly releases.
| Release | Status | Non-facility | Facility |
|---|---|---|---|
| Q4 2023 Aug 1, 2023 – present | I | — | — |
| Q3 2023 May 10, 2023 – Jul 31, 2023 | I | — | — |
| Q2 2023 Feb 3, 2023 – May 9, 2023 | X | — | — |
| Q1 2023 Jan 30, 2023 – Feb 2, 2023 | X | — | — |
| Q4 2022 Jul 29, 2022 – Jan 29, 2023 | X | — | — |
| Q3 2022 Jun 17, 2022 – Jul 28, 2022 | X | — | — |
| Q2 2022 Feb 14, 2022 – Jun 16, 2022 | X | — | — |
| Q1 2022 Dec 15, 2021 – Feb 13, 2022 | X | — | — |
| Q4 2021 Aug 3, 2021 – Dec 14, 2021 | X | — | — |
| Q3 2021 Jun 10, 2021 – Aug 2, 2021 | X | — | — |
| Q2 2021 Feb 26, 2021 – Jun 9, 2021 | X | — | — |
| Q1 2021 Dec 29, 2020 – Feb 25, 2021 | X | — | — |
| Q4 2020 Oct 21, 2020 – Dec 28, 2020 | X | — | — |
| Q3 2020 Jun 18, 2020 – Oct 20, 2020 | X | — | — |
| Q2 2020 Apr 30, 2020 – Jun 17, 2020 | X | — | — |
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This is computed from CMS's Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Q2 2021 release (schedule pfs, effective April 2021). National amounts apply a GPCI of 1.000 and leave sequestration off. The status indicator decides payability, never the RVU values, so a blank RVU stays blank. Releases are immutable: a rate retrieved for a past quarter always reflects that release. CMS owns the code description shown for HCPCS Level II codes. Commercial and cash-pay figures anywhere on this page are arithmetic on the Medicare amount, using commonly cited reimbursement ranges. They're illustrative, and no nationwide claims database stands behind them. Our methodology covers all of this in depth — sourcing, parsing, versioning, and how claims are cross-checked before they ship.
Conversion factor $34.8931 read from the same file, row 11, column 25.
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Cite this rate
This link keeps pointing at the Q2 2021 figures, even after a newer release lands.
HCPCS G2023 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule rate (Q2 2021). Localis. https://localishealth.com/hcpcs/G2023/2021/B