CPT code 95716: Video EEG, continuous, 12–26 hours2026 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 95716 covers

Code 95716 represents the technical service of recording EEG activity with video while the study is continuously monitored. Neurology practices, hospitals, and EEG laboratories use this service to capture and assess suspected seizures or other episodic neurologic events over an extended recording period. The video helps clinicians compare observed behavior with the corresponding brain-wave activity.

The service is selected when the recording lasts 12–26 hours and receives continuous monitoring; shorter recordings and unmonitored or intermittently monitored studies have distinct codes. Report one service for the applicable recording period. Physician or other qualified health care professional review and interpretation are reported separately when performed, using the code appropriate to the recording duration and video use. For Medicare, 95716 has Physician Fee Schedule status C, carrier priced: CMS publishes no national payment, and the Medicare Administrative Contractor sets payment for each claim.

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 95716 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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95716 rates by state

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How the 95716 rate is calculated

Each of 95716’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 95716

95716 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.

95716 compared with similar codes

How to choose

95715Video EEG monitoringIntermittent, 12–26 hours

Both include video and cover a 12–26-hour recording. Choose 95716 for continuous monitoring and 95715 for intermittent monitoring.

95714Video EEG12–26 hours, unmonitored

Both cover video EEG recordings of 12–26 hours, but 95714 is for an unmonitored study; 95716 is continuously monitored.

95710EEG monitoringNo video, continuous

Both describe continuous monitoring for 12–26 hours. Code 95716 includes video; 95710 is the corresponding recording without video.

95720Video EEG interpretationEach duration increment

Code 95716 reports the monitored video EEG recording service. Code 95720 reports professional review and interpretation for a 12–26-hour recording with video.

Codes related to 95716

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.

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