Office Visit (Established, Moderate) Cost in North Carolina
Office o/p est low 20 min
$90.84North Carolina 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
- ✓A private link you can reopen and share
- ✓Everything in the Premium report
- ✓15 nearby hospitals instead of five
- ✓Filled good-faith-estimate request letter
- ✓Bill-negotiation letter
- ✓Printable PDF download
North Carolina Medicare physician rate (2026)
-4.6% vs nationalSingle statewide locality.
Your ZIP in North Carolina
Check your ZIP code for your region of North Carolina, whether Charlotte, Raleigh-Durham and the Triangle, the Triad, Asheville and the mountains, or Wilmington and the coastal east.
What office visit (established, moderate) costs at hospitals near you
Everything above is a national average. The hospital you pick in North Carolina 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 North Carolina the office and hospital physician lines for this CPT differ by $35.21.
National vs North Carolina
Where North Carolina ranks for this CPT
Office Visit (Established, Moderate) and how North Carolina is priced
North Carolina's Medicare physician pricing comes from one statewide locality with indices just under the national average, so Charlotte, the Research Triangle, and the rural east and mountain west all share the same approved amounts. For a state with several fast-growing metros, the single-locality approach keeps the fee schedule simple even as local economies diverge. Nothing in the geographic adjustments distinguishes a Raleigh procedure from one in Boone or Greenville. As elsewhere, the office-versus-hospital setting decision moves prices more than geography within the state does.
North Carolina is unusually rich in academic medicine, with multiple nationally known university medical centers clustered in the Triangle and Winston-Salem, plus a major hospital system anchored in Charlotte that has grown across the Southeast. The rural east and the mountain counties are much thinner markets, and hospital consolidation has been reshaping who owns local care. Patients near the borders sometimes use Virginia or South Carolina providers.
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 North Carolina: questions
North Carolina is a single Medicare locality for this fee schedule. The 2026 physician rate for CPT 99213 is $90.84 in an office and $55.63 in a hospital, statewide. A ZIP lookup still confirms the locality mapping.
Not on the physician fee schedule. North Carolina 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 $18 for the office physician line or $11 for the hospital physician line in North Carolina. Medigap may cover that 20%. This is not the hospital facility fee.
No. $90.84 is the Medicare physician allowed amount for CPT 99213. Anesthesia, facility fees, implants, and other CPT codes billed the same day are extra. North Carolina ranks #13 of 51 states on this physician line (5% below the national office rate of $95.19).