Office Visit (Established, Moderate-High) Cost in North Carolina
Office o/p est mod 30 min
$129.44North 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
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North Carolina Medicare physician rate (2026)
-4.5% 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-high) 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 $47.68.
National vs North Carolina
Where North Carolina ranks for this CPT
Office Visit (Established, Moderate-High) 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 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 North Carolina: questions
North Carolina is a single Medicare locality for this fee schedule. The 2026 physician rate for CPT 99214 is $129.44 in an office and $81.76 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 $26 for the office physician line or $16 for the hospital physician line in North Carolina. Medigap may cover that 20%. This is not the hospital facility fee.
No. $129.44 is the Medicare physician allowed amount for CPT 99214. 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 $135.61).