Office Visit (New, Moderate-High) Cost in New Hampshire
Office o/p new mod 45 min
$179.74New Hampshire 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
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- ✓15 nearby hospitals instead of five
- ✓Filled good-faith-estimate request letter
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New Hampshire Medicare physician rate (2026)
+1.3% vs nationalSingle statewide locality.
Your ZIP in New Hampshire
Check your ZIP for local context, whether you are in Manchester, Nashua, Concord, the Seacoast around Portsmouth, the Lakes Region, or the North Country.
What office visit (new, moderate-high) costs at hospitals near you
Everything above is a national average. The hospital you pick in New Hampshire 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 New Hampshire the office and hospital physician lines for this CPT differ by $62.94.
National vs New Hampshire
Where New Hampshire ranks for this CPT
Office Visit (New, Moderate-High) and how New Hampshire is priced
New Hampshire is priced as one statewide locality with geographic indices above the national average, keeping company with its high-cost New England neighbors. From Nashua to the North Country, the fee schedule applies identical adjustments, even though the southern tier is economically an extension of greater Boston. CMS has never split the state, so the Massachusetts border is also a pricing border: cross it southbound and the metro Boston locality takes over. That makes New Hampshire a clear example of how locality lines, not just providers, shape what Medicare approves.
Southern New Hampshire residents routinely use Boston hospitals for complex care, accepting metro pricing in exchange for academic-center depth, while the state's own tertiary referral center sits in the west near the Vermont border. The Lakes Region and North Country rely on small rural hospitals with limited procedure menus. No state income or sales tax attracts retirees, steadily raising Medicare demand.
This procedure: This is a new-patient office visit of moderate to high complexity: your first visit to a practice in three years for a problem with real depth, such as multiple symptoms needing workup, a new chronic disease like diabetes, or several interacting conditions. When billed by time it represents 45 to 59 minutes on the visit date. It is the most commonly billed new-patient level in the United States, the default for a substantive first specialist or primary care appointment.
What Is Office Visit (New, Moderate-High)?
This is a new-patient office visit of moderate to high complexity: your first visit to a practice in three years for a problem with real depth, such as multiple symptoms needing workup, a new chronic disease like diabetes, or several interacting conditions. When billed by time it represents 45 to 59 minutes on the visit date. It is the most commonly billed new-patient level in the United States, the default for a substantive first specialist or primary care appointment.
What Affects the Cost
- –As the workhorse new-patient code, it prices well above 99203, and the level is set by the visit's complexity, not by what you expected walking in.
- –Specialist consultations commonly bill at this level, and specialist charge rates exceed primary care for the same code.
- –Diagnostic workups launched at this visit, labs, imaging referrals, and tests, are where the episode's real spending usually begins.
- –Facility fees at hospital-owned clinics inflate this visit substantially compared with independent offices.
- –Prolonged-service add-on codes can stack on top if the visit runs well past an hour.
Questions to Ask Before Booking
- 1.Does my plan require a referral for this specialist before the visit is covered?
- 2.What is the negotiated or cash price for a level-four new-patient visit here?
- 3.Which tests are you likely to order, and which of those need prior authorization?
- 4.Is there a facility fee because this clinic is hospital-owned?
- 5.If the visit runs long, could additional prolonged-service charges apply?
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Office Visit (New, Moderate-High) in New Hampshire: questions
New Hampshire is a single Medicare locality for this fee schedule. The 2026 physician rate for CPT 99204 is $179.74 in an office and $116.80 in a hospital, statewide. A ZIP lookup still confirms the locality mapping.
Not on the physician fee schedule. New Hampshire 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 $36 for the office physician line or $23 for the hospital physician line in New Hampshire. Medigap may cover that 20%. This is not the hospital facility fee.
No. $179.74 is the Medicare physician allowed amount for CPT 99204. Anesthesia, facility fees, implants, and other CPT codes billed the same day are extra. New Hampshire ranks #37 of 51 states on this physician line (within 2% of the national office rate of $177.36).