CPT code 99473: BP device training, education and calibration2026 Medicare rate & RVUs

Medicare pays $15.36 for 99473 nationally in the office. Local office rates run $13.08–$21.85.

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

What 99473 covers

This service covers educating a patient to measure blood pressure at home with a device validated for clinical accuracy, along with calibrating that device. In primary care or hypertension management, office staff may teach cuff placement and proper measurement technique and check the home monitor against the practice’s equipment. The work prepares the patient to collect self-measured readings; it is not the ongoing review of a month of readings.

Report 99473 when the training and calibration are performed, and document the device, education provided, and calibration. Distinguish this setup service from 99474, which concerns analysis and reporting of qualifying self-measured readings. The CMS RVU profile assigns no physician-work RVU and assigns practice-expense and malpractice RVUs. Select the service based on the work actually furnished, not simply because a patient owns a home blood pressure monitor.

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 99473 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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99473 rates by state

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

How the 99473 rate is calculated

Each of 99473’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 99473

99473 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.

99473 compared with similar codes

How to choose

99474Blood pressure monitoring30-day data review and plan

Choose 99473 for patient training and device calibration. Choose 99474 for analysis and reporting of qualifying self-measured readings.

93784Blood pressure monitoringComplete service

93784 is for ambulatory blood pressure monitoring with a monitor worn to collect readings. 99473 is for training and calibration of a home self-measurement device.

99457RPM managementFirst 20 minutes per month

99457 describes remote physiologic monitoring treatment management. It does not represent the education and calibration work captured by 99473.

Codes related to 99473

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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