CPT code 95706: EEG monitoring, 2–12 hours, intermittent2026 Medicare rate & RVUs

Medicare allowed amount for participating (non-QP) physicians, before deductible, coinsurance and claim adjustments. Not a patient’s bill or a hospital charge.

What 95706 covers

Long-term electroencephalographic recording without synchronized video is performed with EEG staff checking the recording intermittently during a 2–12-hour period. Clinicians use this approach for evaluations such as seizure monitoring when they need EEG data over a longer period than a routine study provides. EEG technologists typically perform the recording and monitoring; the code does not represent the physician’s or qualified health care professional’s interpretation and report.

Medicare assigns this CPT Category I code physician fee schedule status C, or carrier priced. CMS publishes no national payment amount; the Medicare Administrative Contractor sets payment for each claim. Report it for the applicable 2–12-hour period when monitoring is intermittent and no video is used. Select a different code when the recording is unmonitored, continuously monitored, or includes video. The separate professional interpretation code is selected according to the service performed.

This summary was written with AI assistance from CMS physician fee schedule data and checked against the CMS billing rules shown here. Rates on this page come directly from CMS files.

Where 95706 pays more and less

The same RVUs, adjusted for each area’s costs. Open a locality for its calculation, history and nearby areas.

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95706 rates by state

Office rate range in each state. Select a state to see its payment localities.

How the 95706 rate is calculated

Each of 95706’s three RVUs is multiplied by a geographic index (GPCI) for the payment locality, added up, and multiplied by the conversion factor. Drag the indexes or enter a ZIP to see what moves the rate.

Payment rules and modifiers for 95706

95706 has no global surgery period, no multiple-procedure, bilateral or assistant-at-surgery adjustment, and no professional/technical split. What changes the payment is where the service happens: the place of service on the claim decides whether Medicare pays the office or the facility rate.

95706 compared with similar codes

How to choose

95705EEG recordingUnmonitored, 2–12 hours

Use 95705 for a 2–12-hour recording without video when it is unmonitored; 95706 requires intermittent monitoring.

95707EEG monitoring2–12 Hours, Continuous

Both describe EEG without video for 2–12 hours. Choose 95707 for continuous monitoring and 95706 for intermittent monitoring.

95712Video EEGIntermittent, 2-12 hours

Both describe intermittent monitoring over 2–12 hours, but 95712 is for video EEG; 95706 is without video.

Codes related to 95706

Related codes aren’t interchangeable: bill the code that matches the service performed.

Where these rates come from

FeeBase calculates base physician payments from CMS work, practice-expense and malpractice RVUs, adjusted by each locality’s geographic indexes and the conversion factor. Services without a published rate are labeled, never given a made-up amount. Amounts are Medicare allowed amounts before claim adjustments: not a patient’s bill or a commercial rate.

CMS RVU26D · effective Oct 1, 2026 through the day before Jan 1, 2027

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