Office Visit (New, Moderate-High) Cost in Washington
Office o/p new mod 45 min
$189.95Washington 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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Washington Medicare physician rate (2026)
+7.1% vs nationalAverage of 2 localities. Office range $180.94–$198.96.
Your ZIP in Washington
Enter your ZIP code to see whether Seattle-area or rest-of-state pricing applies, from Seattle, Tacoma, and Everett to Spokane, the Tri-Cities, Vancouver, Bellingham, and the Olympic Peninsula.
What office visit (new, moderate-high) costs at hospitals near you
Everything above is a national average. The hospital you pick in Washington 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 Washington the office and hospital physician lines for this CPT differ by $68.92.
National vs Washington
Where Washington ranks for this CPT
CPT 99204 by Washington locality
| Locality | Office |
|---|---|
| seattle (king cnty) | $198.96 |
| rest of washington | $180.94 |
PE GPCI ranges from 1.053 to 1.227 in Washington. That index is why the same CPT is not one price statewide.
Office Visit (New, Moderate-High) and how Washington is priced
Washington divides into a Seattle-area locality and a rest-of-state locality, so Puget Sound's biggest market carries higher geographic adjustments than Spokane, the Tri-Cities, or the coast. The Seattle locality reflects some of the highest wages in the western United States, while everywhere else in the state shares one lower-cost set of factors. An identical procedure is therefore approved at more in Seattle than in Spokane, a two-tier pattern much like Oregon's. Rest-of-state Washington still prices respectably against national averages.
Seattle is the referral capital of the Pacific Northwest, with academic medicine that serves not just Washington but Alaska, Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming through long-standing regional arrangements. Spokane anchors the Inland Northwest, drawing patients from northern Idaho and beyond, while the Olympic Peninsula and southwest coast are comparatively underserved. Rapid consolidation has concentrated much of the state's care into a few large systems.
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 Washington: questions
The 2026 Medicare physician office rate for CPT 99204 averages $189.95 across 2 Washington localities, from $180.94 in REST OF WASHINGTON to $198.96 in SEATTLE (KING CNTY). The hospital physician rate averages $121.03. Enter a ZIP for the exact locality.
Yes. CMS splits Washington into 2 payment localities. For this CPT the office physician fee spans $18.02 from the lowest to highest locality. Enter your ZIP code to see whether Seattle-area or rest-of-state pricing applies, from Seattle, Tacoma, and Everett to Spokane, the Tri-Cities, Vancouver, Bellingham, and the Olympic Peninsula.
After the Part B deductible, coinsurance is usually 20% of the allowed amount: about $38 for the office physician line or $24 for the hospital physician line in Washington. Medigap may cover that 20%. This is not the hospital facility fee.
No. $189.95 is the Medicare physician allowed amount for CPT 99204. Anesthesia, facility fees, implants, and other CPT codes billed the same day are extra. Washington ranks #46 of 51 states on this physician line (7% above the national office rate of $177.36).