Office Visit (New, Moderate-High) Cost in Rhode Island
Office o/p new mod 45 min
$180.87Rhode Island physician fee2026 Medicare office rate- ✓Your ZIP's wage-adjusted hospital and surgery centre rates
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- ✓The add-on codes that typically land on the bill
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Rhode Island Medicare physician rate (2026)
+2.0% vs nationalSingle statewide locality.
Your ZIP in Rhode Island
Enter a ZIP code for your part of Rhode Island, whether Providence and Pawtucket, Warwick and Cranston, Newport, or the South County shore towns.
What office visit (new, moderate-high) costs at hospitals near you
Everything above is a national average. The hospital you pick in Rhode Island 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 Rhode Island the office and hospital physician lines for this CPT differ by $62.46.
National vs Rhode Island
Where Rhode Island ranks for this CPT
Office Visit (New, Moderate-High) and how Rhode Island is priced
Rhode Island, the smallest state, is unsurprisingly a single payment locality, with geographic adjustments above the national average in line with southern New England's cost structure. Providence and the shoreline towns publish identical Medicare-approved amounts, and no point in the state is more than an hour from its main hospitals. The compact geography makes locality subdivision pointless. Pricing here reads as a slightly discounted echo of neighboring Boston's market.
Providence dominates Rhode Island care, with the state's teaching hospitals and academic affiliation concentrated there, and consolidation has left a small number of systems running most beds. Many Rhode Islanders, particularly in the northeast corner, use Boston hospitals for complex or specialized procedures, accepting metro Boston pricing when they do. South County residents have fewer local options and often travel to Providence.
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 Rhode Island: questions
Rhode Island is a single Medicare locality for this fee schedule. The 2026 physician rate for CPT 99204 is $180.87 in an office and $118.41 in a hospital, statewide. A ZIP lookup still confirms the locality mapping.
Not on the physician fee schedule. Rhode Island 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 $24 for the hospital physician line in Rhode Island. Medigap may cover that 20%. This is not the hospital facility fee.
No. $180.87 is the Medicare physician allowed amount for CPT 99204. Anesthesia, facility fees, implants, and other CPT codes billed the same day are extra. Rhode Island ranks #39 of 51 states on this physician line (within 2% of the national office rate of $177.36).