CPT code 97552: Caregiver training, group, per 15 minutes2026 Medicare rate & RVUs in Utah

In Utah, Medicare pays $21.17 for 97552 in the office and $9.24 when it’s performed in a hospital or facility.

Check a contract rate as a % of Medicare · 97552 nationwide

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

What 97552 covers

A qualified health professional trains two or more caregivers together in strategies that support a patient’s functional performance at home or in the community. Instruction may address practical caregiving tasks such as mobility, transfers, daily activities, communication, feeding, problem-solving, or safety. The patient is not present during the training. The service is distinct from treating the patient directly or giving one caregiver individual instruction.

Report this code for each 15 minutes of qualifying group training. Documentation should identify the caregivers, the patient’s need for caregiver assistance, the skilled strategies taught, and the face-to-face training time. CMS assigns the service work and practice-expense values, with separate practice-expense inputs for office and facility settings. The code is part of the caregiver-training family; individual caregiver instruction is reported with the corresponding individual-training codes.

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.

How Utah compares for 97552

Across 109 of 109 payment localities, the office rate for 97552 runs from $19.90 in Arkansas to $28.94 in San Benito County, CA. Utah pays $21.17. The RVUs are the same everywhere; the geographic indexes change the dollars.

Every other payment area

97552 rates by state

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

See 97552 in every payment locality

How the 97552 rate is calculated

Each of 97552’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 97552

97552 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.

Codes related to 97552

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

How 97552 has changed in Utah

Price 97552 for an earlier date of service

Where the Utah rate applies

Utah is a Medicare payment area, not a city. Our Census mapping connects it to 334 cities and communities in Utah. Some span more than one payment area; confirm with the service ZIP.

• Alpine
• Alta
• Altamont
• Alton
• Amalga
• American Fork
• Aneth
• Annabella

Browse all communities in Utah

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

Open CMS sourceHow we calculate rates