Specialty rate rollup
Orthopedics
Joint injections, arthroscopy, and major joint replacement, the common procedural mix for an orthopedic practice.
This is a curated starter set for comparison. It doesn't claim that every specialty bills every code, and it isn't a utilization-weighted average.
At a glance
Q4 2024 compared with the prior available PFS release.
Conversion factor: 0.0% no change
Payable codes
8 / 8
Changed this release
0
Largest increase
None
Largest decrease
None
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Current national rates Copy link
Q4 2024 releaseOffice (non-facility) and facility professional amounts, GPCI 1.000, before sequestration.
| Code and service | Status | Office (non-facility) | Facility |
|---|---|---|---|
| Visits and evaluation | |||
| 99213 Routine Follow-Up Office Visit | Active |
$90.87
No price history
|
$65.24
No price history
|
| 99214 Long Follow-Up Office Visit | Active |
$128.16
No price history
|
$96.20
No price history
|
| Office and procedural services | |||
| 20610 Major Joint Injection or Aspiration | Active |
$65.24
No price history
|
$45.27
No price history
|
| 20550 | Active |
$57.92
No price history
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$38.61
No price history
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| Surgical and endoscopic procedures | |||
| 29881 | Active |
$549.24
No price history
|
$549.24
No price history
|
| 29826 | Active |
$169.77
No price history
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$169.77
No price history
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| 27447 Knee Replacement | Active |
$1,283.90
No price history
|
$1,283.90
No price history
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| 27130 Total Hip Arthroplasty | Active |
$1,285.90
No price history
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$1,285.90
No price history
|
Every code links to its contracted-rate (% of Medicare) table and a full RVU breakdown, plus billing-policy context and rate history.
How often these codes appear in Medicare Copy link
Across Original Medicare nationally in CY2024, the covered codes on this page accounted for the activity below. It counts use by clinicians of every specialty, not just Orthopedics, and CMS publishes it on a different cycle from the fee schedule.
Services
179.7M
Times these codes were billed
Allowed dollars
$19.7B
Across covered Medicare FFS services
Most used in this set
99214
103.7M services
Coverage: 8 of 8 displayed codes. HCPCS Level II and excluded drug codes may not appear in this utilization dataset.
What this specialty actually bills Medicare
Observed CY2024 Medicare fee-for-service billing by Orthopedic Surgery clinicians, grouped by CMS rendering-provider specialty. That grouping differs from this page's Orthopedics label, so treat it as context for the curated list above.
| Top codes by allowed dollars | Share of allowed | Allowed |
|---|---|---|
| 99214 | 13.1% | $408.3M |
| 27447 | 11.7% | $365.1M |
| 99213 | 11.7% | $364.9M |
| 27130 | 6.5% | $203.0M |
| 99204 not in the list above | 5.9% | $184.6M |
| 20610 | 5.2% | $162.3M |
| 99203 not in the list above | 3.4% | $104.8M |
| 23472 not in the list above | 2.9% | $91.3M |
| 20611 not in the list above | 1.6% | $49.7M |
| 27245 not in the list above | 1.4% | $42.2M |
| Top codes by services | Share of services | Services |
|---|---|---|
| J1010 not in the list above | 39.5% | 31.4M |
| J3301 not in the list above | 9.3% | 7.4M |
| 99213 | 5.2% | 4.2M |
| J7328 not in the list above | 4.8% | 3.9M |
| 99214 | 4.1% | 3.3M |
| 20610 | 3.0% | 2.4M |
| J7318 not in the list above | 2.6% | 2.1M |
| J7329 not in the list above | 2.2% | 1.7M |
| J7325 not in the list above | 2.2% | 1.7M |
| J3304 not in the list above | 1.9% | 1.5M |
Localis can price 29% of this cohort's observed services (92% of allowed dollars) under the Q4 2024 release. The rest is clinical lab, drugs, or services paid outside the PFS under other fee schedules, not $0.
Established patient office visits—Office (non-facility)
Visit levels as shares of the 2024 services observed in this family, across 21,987 clinicians.
New patient office visits—Office (non-facility)
Visit levels as shares of the 2024 services observed in this family, across 20,361 clinicians.
Also high-volume for this cohort (observed, not yet in the curated list above)
This is observed billing only. The curated table above is still this page's rate list.
CY2024 Medicare fee-for-service only. Codes billed by fewer than 30 observed clinicians in a single setting are not shown, so shares may not total 100%. CMS publishes only a facility vs non-facility split, not exact places of service. Observed use adds context to the curated table above. It doesn't weight or change any rate on this page.
Turn the list into contract math
Analyze a payer offer using these Orthopedics codes
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Get notified when Orthopedics rates change
Medicare updates the fee schedule every quarter. We'll email you only when a release moves one of the 8 Orthopedics codes on this page.
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Source & method Copy link
Amounts are computed from the CMS Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Q4 2024 release, GPCI 1.000, before the ~2% sequestration cut. The grouping by common clinical scenario is our own, not the AMA’s code-family taxonomy, and it’s a curated starter set, not a utilization-weighted specialty mix. A code with no amount is either not separately payable under the PFS or absent from the release. It never means $0.