Office Visit (Established, Moderate-High) Cost in Montana
Office o/p est mod 30 min
$135.60Montana 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
Montana Medicare physician rate (2026)
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Your ZIP in Montana
Look up your ZIP for local context, whether you are in Billings, Missoula, Bozeman, Great Falls, Helena, Kalispell, or one of Montana's frontier counties.
What office visit (established, moderate-high) costs at hospitals near you
Everything above is a national average. The hospital you pick in Montana 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 Montana the office and hospital physician lines for this CPT differ by $51.11.
National vs Montana
Where Montana ranks for this CPT
Office Visit (Established, Moderate-High) and how Montana is priced
Montana runs on a single statewide locality with geographic indices near the bottom of the national range, so its published Medicare rates are uniform across nearly 150,000 square miles. Billings and a remote Hi-Line town share identical adjustment factors, a simplicity that belies the enormous distances involved in actually reaching care. CMS applies a rural floor to work adjustments that benefits frontier states like this one. For pricing purposes, Montana is one market; for access purposes, it is dozens of small ones.
Billings hosts the state's largest medical community and serves as a referral hub not just for Montana but for northern Wyoming and the western Dakotas, with Missoula, Great Falls, Bozeman, and Kalispell anchoring their own regions. Frontier counties may be hours from the nearest hospital that performs a given procedure. Some Montanans travel to Salt Lake City, Denver, or Seattle for highly specialized care.
This procedure: This is an established-patient office visit of moderate complexity, a step above the routine check-in: managing multiple chronic conditions at once, adjusting medications with real risk, or evaluating a new problem that needs a workup. Billed by time it represents 30 to 39 minutes on the visit date. Over the last decade it has overtaken the level-three visit as the most common established-patient code in primary care, reflecting more complex visits and better documentation.
What Is Office Visit (Established, Moderate-High)?
This is an established-patient office visit of moderate complexity, a step above the routine check-in: managing multiple chronic conditions at once, adjusting medications with real risk, or evaluating a new problem that needs a workup. Billed by time it represents 30 to 39 minutes on the visit date. Over the last decade it has overtaken the level-three visit as the most common established-patient code in primary care, reflecting more complex visits and better documentation.
What Affects the Cost
- –It reimburses meaningfully more than 99213, and which of the two your visit becomes depends on documented complexity you cannot see from the waiting room.
- –Multi-condition patients land here repeatedly through the year, compounding the higher per-visit rate.
- –Facility fees at hospital-owned practices add a second charge to every visit at any level.
- –In-office tests, injections, or procedures stack as separate lines.
- –Specialist follow-ups at this level are priced above primary care equivalents in most charge masters.
Questions to Ask Before Booking
- 1.What determines whether my visit bills as level three or four, and what is the price difference for me?
- 2.During my deductible phase, what is the negotiated rate for this level here?
- 3.Will medication changes today push the visit to a higher level?
- 4.Are any of today's services billed separately from the visit code?
- 5.Can complex medication reviews be split across telehealth check-ins at lower cost?
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Office Visit (Established, Moderate-High) in Montana: questions
Montana is a single Medicare locality for this fee schedule. The 2026 physician rate for CPT 99214 is $135.60 in an office and $84.49 in a hospital, statewide. A ZIP lookup still confirms the locality mapping.
Not on the physician fee schedule. Montana 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 $27 for the office physician line or $17 for the hospital physician line in Montana. Medigap may cover that 20%. This is not the hospital facility fee.
No. $135.60 is the Medicare physician allowed amount for CPT 99214. Anesthesia, facility fees, implants, and other CPT codes billed the same day are extra. Montana ranks #35 of 51 states on this physician line (within 2% of the national office rate of $135.61).