CPT code 99001: Specimen handling, patient to laboratory2026 Medicare rate & RVUs in Alaska

CMS doesn’t publish a rate for 99001 in Alaska.

Check a contract rate as a % of Medicare · 99001 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 99001 covers

CPT 99001 identifies handling or conveyance of a specimen from a patient outside the physician’s office to a laboratory. It distinguishes this patient-to-laboratory service from 99000, which concerns specimen handling between a physician’s office and a laboratory. The code addresses the specimen’s preparation or movement for laboratory transfer, rather than laboratory analysis. It applies to the transfer of a patient specimen originating outside the office, not to a particular laboratory test.

Medicare assigns 99001 physician fee schedule status B (bundled). Medicare never pays it separately; its payment is included in payment for other services. Reporting 99001 does not create a separate Medicare payment for this specimen handling service. The payment status applies to the handling code, not the laboratory test.

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 Alaska compares for 99001

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99001 rates by state

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How the 99001 rate is calculated

Each of 99001’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 99001

99001 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 99001

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

How 99001 has changed in Alaska

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Where the Alaska rate applies

Alaska is a Medicare payment area, not a city. Our Census mapping connects it to 355 cities and communities in Alaska. Some span more than one payment area; confirm with the service ZIP.

• Adak
• Akhiok
• Akiachak
• Akiak
• Akutan
• Alakanuk
• Alatna
• Alcan Border

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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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