Office Visit (Established, Moderate) Cost in Colorado
Office o/p est low 20 min
$98.18Colorado physician fee2026 Medicare office rate- ✓Your ZIP's wage-adjusted hospital and surgery centre rates
- ✓Five nearby hospitals by name, with CMS star ratings
- ✓The add-on codes that typically land on the bill
- ✓A word-for-word script for asking for a good-faith estimate
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- ✓Everything in the Premium report
- ✓15 nearby hospitals instead of five
- ✓Filled good-faith-estimate request letter
- ✓Bill-negotiation letter
- ✓Printable PDF download
Colorado Medicare physician rate (2026)
+3.1% vs nationalSingle statewide locality.
Your ZIP in Colorado
Enter a ZIP code to compare your area of Colorado, from Denver, Boulder, Fort Collins, and Colorado Springs to Grand Junction, the mountain resort counties, and the Eastern Plains.
What office visit (established, moderate) costs at hospitals near you
Everything above is a national average. The hospital you pick in Colorado moves the bill more than anything else you control.
Rates for your ZIP, 5 named hospitals with CMS ratings, the add-on codes, and the scheduler script.
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What these numbers are
Every figure on this page is a 2026 Medicare allowed amount: the physician line comes from the Physician Fee Schedule adjusted by geographic practice-cost indices, and the facility totals come from the CMS hospital outpatient (OPPS) and ambulatory surgery centre rates. None of them is a hospital chargemaster price, your insurer's contracted rate, or a quote. Anesthesia, pathology, imaging reads and follow-up care are billed under their own codes when they apply, and an inpatient stay is paid a different way again. In Colorado the office and hospital physician lines for this CPT differ by $40.16.
National vs Colorado
Where Colorado ranks for this CPT
Office Visit (Established, Moderate) and how Colorado is priced
Colorado's physician fees are set through a single statewide locality, so the Front Range and the Western Slope share one set of geographic adjustments despite very different local economies. The state's indices run modestly above the national midpoint, reflecting Denver-area wages and rents averaged against lower-cost rural areas. Because the locality is unified, mountain resort towns do not carry a higher Medicare fee schedule even though their private-market prices are famously steep. That gap between Medicare's uniform pricing and wide private-price variation is a defining feature of the Colorado market.
Care is concentrated along the Front Range from Fort Collins through Denver to Colorado Springs and Pueblo, where several large systems and an academic medical center compete. Mountain and plains communities depend on smaller hospitals, and residents there commonly drive to Denver or Grand Junction for specialty procedures. Resort-area facilities can bill far above what the corridor cities charge, so location shopping pays off in this state.
This procedure: This is the routine follow-up appointment of American medicine: an established-patient office visit of low-to-moderate complexity, such as a blood pressure check with a medication refill, a stable chronic condition review, or a minor new complaint. Billed by time it covers 20 to 29 minutes on the visit date. It is among the most frequently billed codes in the entire healthcare system, the standard quick-but-real doctor visit.
What Is Office Visit (Established, Moderate)?
This is the routine follow-up appointment of American medicine: an established-patient office visit of low-to-moderate complexity, such as a blood pressure check with a medication refill, a stable chronic condition review, or a minor new complaint. Billed by time it covers 20 to 29 minutes on the visit date. It is among the most frequently billed codes in the entire healthcare system, the standard quick-but-real doctor visit.
What Affects the Cost
- –Established-patient status keeps the price below any new-patient visit; this level is typically the cheapest substantive visit on a fee schedule after the minimal 99212.
- –Hospital-owned clinics attach facility fees that can exceed the visit fee itself, turning a modest checkup into a two-part bill.
- –In-visit extras like rapid tests, ECGs, or injections each bill on top.
- –Chronic disease management means this visit recurs several times a year indefinitely, so its price is a recurring subscription in practice.
- –Telehealth versions bill the same code, sometimes with different plan cost sharing than in-person.
Questions to Ask Before Booking
- 1.What is my copay or the negotiated rate for a level-three established visit here?
- 2.Will anything done today, tests or injections, be billed on top of the visit?
- 3.Does this clinic charge a facility fee on office visits?
- 4.How many follow-ups per year should I expect for my condition, and can any be telehealth?
- 5.Is a telehealth visit cheaper under my plan than coming in?
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Office Visit (Established, Moderate) in Colorado: questions
Colorado is a single Medicare locality for this fee schedule. The 2026 physician rate for CPT 99213 is $98.18 in an office and $58.02 in a hospital, statewide. A ZIP lookup still confirms the locality mapping.
Not on the physician fee schedule. Colorado uses one locality, so the Medicare physician rate is the same from one end of the state to the other. What still changes is site of service (office vs hospital) and any facility fee the hospital bills on its own claim.
After the Part B deductible, coinsurance is usually 20% of the allowed amount: about $20 for the office physician line or $12 for the hospital physician line in Colorado. Medigap may cover that 20%. This is not the hospital facility fee.
No. $98.18 is the Medicare physician allowed amount for CPT 99213. Anesthesia, facility fees, implants, and other CPT codes billed the same day are extra. Colorado ranks #42 of 51 states on this physician line (3% above the national office rate of $95.19).