CPT code 99002: Device handling, physician or QHP service2026 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 99002 covers

99002 identifies physician or qualified health care professional work performed in connection with carrying out an order involving a device. The work may involve handling or conveying the device, or another service that helps implement the order; examples include designing, fitting, or packaging a device. It describes the professional service around the order, rather than the device item itself. Physicians and other qualified health care professionals report the service for work they perform in implementing the device order.

For Medicare, 99002 has physician fee schedule status B. Medicare never pays this code separately; payment is included in payment for other services. This status means the code does not generate separate payment for device-order handling.

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 99002 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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99002 rates by state

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

How the 99002 rate is calculated

Each of 99002’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 99002

99002 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.

99002 compared with similar codes

How to choose

99000Specimen handlingOffice-to-lab transfer

99000 concerns handling or conveying a specimen from an office or other facility to a laboratory. 99002 concerns work connected with implementing an order involving a device.

99001Specimen handlingPatient to laboratory

99001 concerns specimen handling or conveyance from a patient to a laboratory. 99002 concerns device-order handling work.

99070Special suppliesBeyond usual service

99070 concerns special supplies or materials provided by a physician or qualified health care professional. 99002 concerns work connected with implementing an order involving a device.

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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